EXCLUSIVE: Edward Snowden Tells Brian Williams: 'I Was Trained as a Spy'

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25. The 1997 Gingrich mobile phone call was captured on an ordinary police scanner; in the conversation

between Charles and Camilla in 1989, she was also using a mobile phone; similarly, Nuland's 2014 conversation was conducted on an unsecured cell phone. Such technology has long been known to be easily captured

Reagan had access to encrypted voice communications, and Airforce One then and has since had both encrypted and non-encrypted communications. There's always a large volume of ordinary communication between the White House and external entities, for which there is no guarantee that the outside party is using a landline, so in principle it is frequently possible to capture some White House communication, if one is in the right place in the country and in possession of the right equipment

Snowden's claim, however, was different: it was that he had the ability to wiretap the President from the computer at his desk. It's bullshit, for the reasons I stated earlier