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The interview would've probably been a lot more fruitful if questions centered around what he knows about the surveillance capabilities of the agencies he was involved with, in technical detail, than asking for his opinions on technology policy, an area where he is admittedly not an expert.

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Occams razor would conclude that he doesn't know. He ripped a ton of documents off multiple servers because he was an IT admin and had access, and rolled out.

Other people came away with similar thoughts. Perhaps we'll hear more about that from him in other channels.

I thought that Snowden stated that he's not going to leak anything further? He handed it off to the journalists and he's done. I remember this being part of his conditions for asylum in Russia, but I could be mistaken.

I wouldn't expect him to leak anything or discuss government capabilities beyond what has already been leaked. That was never his stated intention. Involving journalists was deliberate on his part to remove himself from being final decision-maker about what to publish.

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