Journalist: Edward Snowden has 'blueprints' to NSA
Source: Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Edward Snowden has highly sensitive documents on how the National Security Agency is structured and operates that could harm the U.S. government, but has insisted that they not be made public, a journalist close to the NSA leaker said.
Glenn Greenwald, a columnist with The Guardian newspaper who first reported on the intelligence leaks, told The Associated Press that disclosure of the information in the documents "would allow somebody who read them to know exactly how the NSA does what it does, which would in turn allow them to evade that surveillance or replicate it."
He said the "literally thousands of documents" taken by Snowden constitute "basically the instruction manual for how the NSA is built."
"In order to take documents with him that proved that what he was saying was true he had to take ones that included very sensitive, detailed blueprints of how the NSA does what they do," the journalist said Sunday in a Rio de Janeiro hotel room. He said the interview was taking place about four hours after his last interaction with Snowden.
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I think they're doing exactly what needs to be done, in just the right way to maximize its impact.
I think letting TPTB know what kind of stuff they're sitting on is a very good move. I also think that Greenwald's approach feeding the material out slowly to the affected regions (as with the S. American release to Oglobo) is masterful.
It does make some "patriots" uncomfortable, of course. For me that's the icing on the cake.
Good luck Glenn and Edward! 
srsly. 
