Snowden: "I Had No Contact with the Chinese Government," "Predictable Smear." [View all]
He said he has “had no contact with the Chinese government” and speculation that he would provide classified information to foreign governments in exchange for asylum is “a predictable smear” that he anticipated.
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Snowden Says Leaks Didn’t Disclose U.S. Military Targets
By Phil Mattingly and Chris Strohm
June 17, 2013 1:25 PM EDT
Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked classified documents about government surveillance programs, said he didn’t reveal any U.S. operations “against legitimate military targets.”
“I pointed out where the NSA has hacked civilian infrastructure such as universities, hospitals, and private businesses because it is dangerous,” Snowden said during an Internet question-and-answer session today on the website of U.K.’s Guardian newspaper.
Snowden’s identity on the chat couldn’t be independently verified.
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“These nakedly, aggressively criminal acts are wrong no matter the target,” Snowden said on the website. Snowden added that after his leak, the government “immediately and predictably destroyed any possibility of a fair trial at home, openly declaring me guilty of treason and that the disclosure of secret, criminal and even unconstitutional acts is an unforgivable crime.”
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He said he has “had no contact with the Chinese government” and speculation that he would provide classified information to foreign governments in exchange for asylum is “a predictable smear” that he anticipated.
“Just like with the Guardian and the Washington Post, I only work with journalists,” Snowden said.
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