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I know almost no one on HN wants to hear anything bad about Snowden, but Greenwald has stated that Snowden has leaked some information out of self preservation.

• YinglingLight 6y ago
  >be Snowden >be ex-CIA >be so concerned with privacy rights, sacrifices everything >flee to bastions of privacy rights (China, Russia) >hurt NSA immensely through PR >be ex-CIA
• dTal 6y ago
  Maybe the State Department should have thought of that before cancelling his passport while he was in Moscow.
  • slg 6y ago
    You are maybe right on process being misguided, but you are factually wrong on the timing. Snowden was in Hong Kong when his passport was revoked. https://apnews.com/article/587786e6e63b4dc2b70c471606d7f584 https://apnews.com/article/587786e6e63b4dc2b70c471606d7f584
    • ikt 6y ago
      Interesting, looks like he got out by the skin of his teeth as the US was on him hard but at the same time: In October 2013, Snowden said that before flying to Moscow, he gave all the classified documents he had obtained to journalists he met in Hong Kong, and kept no copies for himself.[126] In January 2014, he told a German TV interviewer that he gave all of his information to American journalists reporting on American issues.[77] During his first American TV interview, in May 2014, Snowden said he had protected himself from Russian leverage by destroying the material he had been holding before landing in Moscow.[35]