Sunday, October 20, 2013
Snowden says he took no secret files to Russia
A picture of Edward Snowden, a contractor at the NSA, is seen on a computer screen displaying a page of a Chinese news website, in Beijing.
Snowden told The New York Times that he gave all the documents to journalists he met in Hong Kong before flying to Moscow and did not keep copies for himself.
WASHINGTON - Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said he did not bring any of the documents he took from the agency with him to Russia, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
Snowden told the newspaper he gave all the documents to journalists he met in Hong Kong before flying to Moscow and said he did not keep copies for himself. Taking the files to Russia "wouldn't serve the public interest," Snowden said in an interview with the newspaper.
Snowden, who worked for a contractor as a systems administrator at an NSA facility in Hawaii, was the source of disclosures that included details about programs under which the government collects vast amounts of information such as telephone and Internet records.
He has polarized opinion in the United States, where many have been outraged by the extent of government snooping.
But others have labeled him a traitor for stealing information from the NSA after vowing to respect its secrecy policies and fleeing first to China and then to Russia with classified U.S. data.
Russia has granted Snowden a year's asylum. U.S. authorities want him to return to the United States to face espionage charges.
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