14 DAY TRIAL // The United States has been issuing various statements about the NSA surveillance, and every once in a while they make sure to throw in an accusation towards Edward Snowden, saying he surely must have shared his files with China or Russia since he spent time in these countries.
Of course, even they admitted at one point that they actually had no proof in one direction or another, but it didn’t stop them from making these statements.
Now, the whistleblower has taken a step forward to clear the issue. “There’s a zero percent chance the Russians or Chinese have received any documents,” Snowden told the New York Times. Furthermore, he’s certain of this because he had even taught a course on the Chinese cyber counterintelligence.
Since he had access to every target and every active operation that the NSA levied against the Chinese, it seemed unlikely that if the documents had fallen into the wrong hands, he wouldn’t have heard about it.
“If that was compromised, NSA would have set the table of fire from slamming it so many times in denouncing the damage it had caused. Yet NSA has not offered a single example of damage from the leaks. They haven’t said boo about it except ‘we think,’ ‘maybe,’ ‘have to assume’ from anonymous and former officials. Not ‘China is going dark.’ Not ‘the Chinese military has shut us out.’”
Snowden once more says that he has no copies of the documents he passed on to the journalists, claiming there’s no value in carrying another copy of the materials.
And despite what the US and UK keep saying, Snowden continues to believe that he did the right thing, claiming that the secret continuance of the programs that have been uncovered is a far greater danger than their disclosure.