Has China And Russia Gained Access To Snowden’s NSA's Secrets?

Breach -- Washington Examiner

U.S. officials: China, Russia gained access to Snowden’s secrets

Intelligence agencies in China and Russia gained access to highly classified U.S. intelligence and military information contained on electronic media held by renegade former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, according to U.S. officials.

The exact compromise of the secret data held on Snowden’s laptop computers remains unknown but is the subject of an ongoing damage assessment within NSA and other intelligence agencies, said officials familiar with the case.

One of the biggest fears about the compromise is whether Snowden, an NSA contractor and former CIA technician who hacked into classified intelligence networks, gained access to new U.S. nuclear war plans, the officials said.

The nuclear war plans, among the most closely guarded U.S. secrets, were recently modified as a result of President Barack Obama’s shift in U.S. nuclear strategy.

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My Comment: Publicly .... no one is going to answer with any authority on how much access Edward Snowden has given to China and Russia in seeing his classified NSA documents and files .... and if we are told it will probably be edited and presented in a manner that will give us little if any details. As to what is my take .... bottom line .... he has been in their custody and they know who he is and what is holding .... and if my understanding of how these governments and their intelligence agencies operate is correct, it would not surprise me if the contents of his computers have already been copied and are being analyzed right now. As intelligence failures go .... the NSA has to assume the worse .... and in this case this is a mega-disaster. As for Edward Snowden .... it looks like he is going to stay in Moscow longer than what he had expected .... which means that he will be receiving even more pressure from Russian authorities to divulge information and intelligence that is not in his computers.

Update #1: Russian press is reporting that President Putin is denying claims that the FSB (Russia's intelligence services) has questioned Snowden.

Update #2: Snowden Not Being 'Debriefed' by FSB – WikiLeaks -- RIA Novosti