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NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Not on Cuba Flight But 'In a Safe Place'

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What a horrible piece of biased "journalism".

"High school drop-out" = Trying to disregard his intelligence

"Abandonend his Country" , "Leaked government secrets" ... sure, that is a totally neutral way of describing what he did.

And where did they get this Emily Brandwin. That surely must be a joke?

And what is it ith the narrow-eyed TV announcer in the beginning? Is he supposed to look non-threatening to people of lesser intelligence?

"wanted for leaking some of America's most confidential information"

You can't make that up haha.

I especially liked "the man who claims to have leaked a trove of classified information" -- maybe he's really just a fake!

Thanks for posting this. I had a difficult time understanding why my family and friends back in the States have such a problem with Snowden until I saw the tone of this article. Every topic in the story digs the knife a little deeper: did Hong Kong screw us with red tape? Have the Russians and the Chinese copied his hard drives (with their 'pilfered files') already? Did he set out to conduct espionage from the get-go? Find out at 11, viewers, and don't touch that dial.

Classic linkbaiting. The outrage!

Some of the U.S. officials [...] told ABC News that the Hong Kong government was playing a double-game [...], which has raised fears that Chinese intelligence operatives had more time and opportunity to copy Snowden's four laptop hard drives – a feat that wouldn't be too difficult for the Russian intelligence service to do as well.

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"It's fairly easy to do with right equipment," the official explained. "They get you when you leave it in your hotel room or even at the airport when they get you in an interrogation room at immigration."

Did they just imply they are not using full disc encryption on NSA laptops?

I thought he was working for a contractor for the NSA.

Of course, but does that make the situation any better? I don't know if the laptops are NSA or Booz Allen property but neither unencrypted NSA laptops nor allowing contractors to use unencrypted laptops to access systems with top secret information seems a good idea.

Speaking of cutting up a video recording to skew or amend facts to mislead the viewers. I am reminded again why I don't really read/watch mainstream media.

Please remove this garbage from HN. Terrible biased article.

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