NEWSMAX: Edward Snowden says he has nothing against “secrecy and spying,” insists that he is not an agent for any “foreign government,” and describes his politics as “moderate,” according to Vanity Fair…
Snowden says that he did protest NSA policies while he worked as a contractor at the agency. He made his concerns known to NSA lawyers including by email. Reports that he is holding 1.7 million secret documents are untrue and intended as a government scare tactic, he told the magazine.
“What senior official is going to go in front of Congress and say, ‘We have no idea what he has, because the NSA’s auditing of systems holding hundreds of millions of Americans’ data is so negligent that any high-school dropout can walk out the door with it?'” … (more)
