Laptops Snowden took to Hong Kong, Russia were a 'diversion'
Source: Reuters
By Mark Hosenball
WASHINGTON | Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:45pm EDT
(Reuters) - The four laptop computers that former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden carried with him to Hong Kong and Moscow were a "diversion" and contained no secrets, according to an ex-CIA official who met with Snowden in Russia this week.
The classified documents that Snowden had downloaded from the U.S. National Security Agency were stored on smaller devices, such as hard drives and thumb drives, and they have not been turned over to the Russian or Chinese authorities, said Ray McGovern, a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst.
On Wednesday, Snowden held a six-hour meeting in Moscow with McGovern and three other former U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials who have all become critics of government surveillance programs.
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Terabite USB flash drives being a lot lot smaller.
He's been awake every second since he got on that plane to Hong Kong?
He has no IDEA how good those guys are. If they wanted to copy his thumb drives, they copied 'em. And he likely never knew what they did. He just woke up after a refreshing sleep, and never realized a thing....
Of course, I suspect Snowden had "no regrets at all" because he planned all along to defect to Russia. I think the "diversions" included the Iceland, Venezuela, South Americans stuff he was tossing out. After all, he stayed in the Russian consulate while he was in Hong Kong--how amazing that the Russians, who dragged their feet and pretended that Snowden was wandering around like Tom Hanks in "The Terminal," were able to arrange a place for him to stay in their protected spaces so quickly and with so little fuss--AND they managed to keep quiet about it for some time.
I'd be interested in learning if he met with the Russians during his previous vacations to Hong Kong and/or Thailand. I would not be at all surprised if that were the case.
What a life!
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