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If he hasn't released anything of use, why is he being charged with espionage?

• XorNot 13y ago
  Just because you failed to release interesting classified materials doesn't mean you weren't trying to. Just because you didn't kill anybody doesn't mean you don't get charged with attempted murder.
  • narcissus 13y ago
    Sorry. I guess I presumed that your very first statement of "Snowden didn't circumvent anything" meant that he had nothing interesting in the first place. Which implies that he has nothing to release even if he wanted to. So if he's charged with espionage, even if he hasn't released anything, does that mean he has circumvented something? Or that access to that information didn't actually require being circumvented in the first place?
  • rhizome 13y ago
    Which of the publicized charges against Snowden deal with attempted espionage, or even an attempted release of classified materials?