Here's Why Snowden Plea Negotiations Are Going Nowhere [View all]
Michael B. Kelley
Jun. 10, 2014, 1:21 PM
... It is unclear when or if the former NSA systems administrator gave up access to the cache of up to 1.5 million documents, which is suspected to contain military intel. Snowden recently told NBC that he "destroyed" them but had previously told the New York Times that he gave them all to journalists he met in Hong Kong ...
"To a foreign intelligence service, Snowden is priceless," Robert Caruso, a former assistant command security manager in the Navy and a consultant, told Business Insider recently. "He can be exploited again and again" ...
“If he came back and told everything he knows, then perhaps some accommodation could be reached,” a senior U.S. intelligence official told The Post, noting that plea negotiations "are difficult if you start by saying you’re a hero and wanting a parade" ...
That question of when/if Snowden gave up access to the largest cache is critical to any deal. It is also crucial to understanding Snowden as either a true whistleblower for the global privacy rights or an indiscriminate leaker who also took more than a million documents and defected in Russia.
http://www.businessinsider.com/obstacles-to-any-snowden-plea-deal-2014-6
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