Yahoo News: Exclusive: Snowden says Petraeus disclosed ‘far more highly classified information than I ever did’
In an exclusive interview with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric, Edward Snowden says that former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus — under consideration to be President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state — disclosed “information that was far more highly classified than I ever did” and yet never “spent a single day in jail.”
The fugitive former NSA contractor told Couric that Petraeus’ case is evidence that “we have a two-tiered system of justice in the United States, where people who are either well connected to government or they have access to an incredible amount of resources get very light punishments.”
Snowden’s comments came in an exclusive interview with Couric in Moscow at a crucial moment for him. His lawyers in the United States, fearing that a Trump administration will take an unyielding hard line against him, are seeking either to get him a last-minute pardon from President Obama or to negotiate a plea bargain that would allow him to return to the country without spending a significant amount of time in federal prison for disclosing tens of thousands of classified government documents.
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WNU Editor: I doubt that David Petraeus disclosed far more information than Edward Snowden. But Edward Snowden does have a point that there is a perception that people in power with privilege are treated differently by the law when it comes to disclosing classified information. Case in point .... here are some cases of people who are in jail right now who have done far less than what former CIA Director Petraeus did .... U.S. Navy Sailor Pleads Guilty For Mishandling Classified Information That Will Put Him In Jail. Comparisons To Hillary Clinton Are Being Made (May 27, 2016). More here .... Different Laws For Different U.S. Government Officials Who Mishandle Classified Information? (October 19, 2016).
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