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Am I missing something? What motive would the US have for raiding his house? It's not like the US is desperate to know what's in the documents. They already kn
by SEMW 13y ago
Am I missing something? What motive would the US have for raiding his house?
It's not like the US is desperate to know what's in the documents. They already know what's in them. They're the US's own documents. They just want to stop them being published. Raiding Schneier wouldn't do anything to help with that, it'd just mean he has to go over to the Guardian's offices to do the analyzing - it's not like the copies he has are the only ones.
The Guardian's already confirmed that they have copies at at least their New York and Brazil offices, and you can bet they have plans in case those are raided. (Last resort, they're almost certainly part of the august 2013 Wikileaks insurance release, which someone just needs to tweet the password for if somehow all the guardians' copies are simultaneously destroyed).
- minor_nitwit 13y agoThe US actually does not know the specific documents that Snowden took, or how much he took, because he was able to bypass their security. This is suspected to be the reason that Miranda was detained in the UK.
- junto 13y agoWhich is the reason that they now know what Snowden took.