One new allegation (as far as I know) in this article is this: "Obama also knows that NSA documents Snowden copied and removed but did not give to those journa

One new allegation (as far as I know) in this article is this: "Obama also knows that NSA documents Snowden copied and removed but did not give to those journalists in Hong Kong were used to embarrass America’s allies in NATO well after he arrived in Moscow. For example, the explosive revelation that the NSA targeted the cellphone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel was released in September [2013]. In June 2015, NSA documents stolen by Snowden on WikiLeaks caused further trouble by revealing that the phones of three presidents of France—Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande—had also been targeted. These embarrassing revelations—made long after Snowden claimed he had no more documents—put Obama in a very bad spot with America’s European allies." It's an important part of Snowden's history that he gave all the documents he had to Glenn Greenwald, and didn't keep access himself. Bruce Schneier believes that Snowden was not the source of the September 2013 leak,[1] and I can't find anyone (before this article) even suggesting that Snowden was the source of the June 2015 leak. There's no source for the claim in this article, other than "Obama knows." So that seems significant if true, but it's a pretty nasty smear if not -- I hope it doesn't stand as an unsourced rumor. [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/08/the_us_intellig.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/08/the_us_intell...