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Fast Walker 52
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Fast Walker 52's Journal
January 2, 2017
Does anyone still trust Edward Snowden?
I don't think he's going to get an Obama pardon...
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fable-of-edward-snowden-1483143143
Mr. Snowdens narrative also includes the assertion that he was neither debriefed by nor even met with any Russian government official after he arrived in Moscow. This part of the narrative runs counter to findings of U.S. intelligence. According to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence report, Mr. Snowden, since he arrived in Moscow, has had, and continues to have, contact with Russian intelligence services. This finding is consistent with Russian debriefing practices, as described by the ex-KGB officers with whom I spoke in Moscow
Mr. Snowden also publicly claimed in Moscow in December 2013 to have secrets in his head, including access to every target, every active operation. Full lists of them. Could Mr. Snowdens Russian hosts ignore such an opportunity after Mr. Putin had authorized his exfiltration to Moscow? Mr. Snowden, with no exit options, was in the palm of their hands. Under such circumstances, as Mr. Klintsevich pointed out in his June NPR interview: If theres a possibility to get information, they [the Russian intelligence services] will get it.
The transfer of state secrets from Mr. Snowden to Russia did not occur in a vacuum. The intelligence war did not end with the termination of the Cold War; it shifted to cyberspace. Even if Russia could not match the NSAs state-of-the-art sensors, computers and productive partnerships with the cipher services of Britain, Israel, Germany and other allies, it could nullify the U.S. agencys edge by obtaining its sources and methods from even a single contractor with access to Level 3 documents.
Russian intelligence uses a single umbrella term to cover anyone who delivers it secret intelligence. Whether a person acted out of idealistic motives, sold information for money or remained clueless of the role he or she played in the transfer of secretsthe provider of secret data is considered an espionage source. By any measure, it is a job description that fits Mr. Snowden.
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