A picture of Edward Snowden, a contractor at the National Security Agency (NSA), is seen on a computer screen displaying a page of a Chinese news website, in Beijing in this June 13, 2013 photo illustration. (Reuters/Jason Lee)
Greenwald: Snowden’s Files Are Out There if ‘Anything Happens’ to Him -- Eli Lake, Daily Beast
Snowden has shared encoded copies of all the documents he took so that they won’t disappear if he does, Glenn Greenwald tells Eli Lake.
As the U.S. government presses Moscow to extradite former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, America’s most wanted leaker has a plan B. The former NSA systems administrator has already given encoded files containing an archive of the secrets he lifted from his old employer to several people. If anything happens to Snowden, the files will be unlocked.
Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who Snowden first contacted in February, told The Daily Beast on Tuesday that Snowden “has taken extreme precautions to make sure many different people around the world have these archives to insure the stories will inevitably be published.” Greenwald added that the people in possession of these files “cannot access them yet because they are highly encrypted and they do not have the passwords.” But, Greenwald said, “if anything happens at all to Edward Snowden, he told me he has arranged for them to get access to the full archives.”
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My Comment: This tells everyone that Edward Snowden has more intel to leak .... and he will release it if he wants to and/or if something happens to him. Talk about giving a warning to U.S. authorities on what would be the consequences if they should detain him against his wishes .... or what to expect to be released in the future.
Update: U.S. officials don't know how much secret material Snowden took -- Reuters
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