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Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia
By JAMES RISEN
Mr. Snowden said he gave all of the classified documents he had obtained to journalists he met in Hong Kong, before flying to Moscow, and did not keep any copies for himself. He did not take the files to Russia “because it wouldn’t serve the public interest,” he said. “What would be the unique value of personally carrying another copy of the materials onward?” he added.
He also asserted that he was able to protect the documents from China’s spies because he was familiar with that nation’s intelligence abilities, saying that as an N.S.A. contractor he had targeted Chinese operations and had taught a course on Chinese cybercounterintelligence.
“There’s a zero percent chance the Russians or Chinese have received any documents,” he said.
American intelligence officials have expressed grave concern that the files might have fallen into the hands of foreign intelligence services, but Mr. Snowden said he believed that the N.S.A. knew he had not cooperated with the Russians or the Chinese. He said he was publicly revealing that he no longer had any agency documents to explain why he was confident that Russia had not gained access to them. He had been reluctant to disclose that information previously, he said, for fear of exposing the journalists to greater scrutiny.
In a wide-ranging interview over several days in the last week, Mr. Snowden offered detailed responses to accusations that have been leveled against him by American officials and other critics, provided new insights into why he became disillusioned with the N.S.A. and decided to disclose the documents, and talked about the international debate over surveillance that resulted from the revelations. The interview took place through encrypted online communications.
Mr. Snowden, 30, has been praised by privacy advocates and assailed by government officials as a traitor who has caused irreparable harm, and he is facing charges under the Espionage Act for leaking the N.S.A. documents to the news media. In the interview, he said he believed he was a whistle-blower who was acting in the nation’s best interests by revealing information about the N.S.A.’s surveillance dragnet and huge collections of communications data, including that of Americans. He argued that he had helped American national security by prompting a badly needed public debate about the scope of the intelligenc effort. “The secret continuance of these programs represents a far greater danger than their disclosure,” he said. He added that he had been more concerned that Americans had not been told about the N.S.A.’s reach than he was about any specific surveillance operation.
“So long as there’s broad support amongst a people, it can be argued there’s a level of legitimacy even to the most invasive and morally wrong program, as it was an informed and willing decision,” he said. “However, programs that are implemented in secret, out of public oversight, lack that legitimacy, and that’s a problem. It also represents a dangerous normalization of ‘governing in the dark,’ where decisions with enormous public impact occur without any public input.”
Mr. Snowden said he had never considered defecting while in Hong Kong, nor in Russia, where he has been permitted to stay for one year. He said he felt confident that he had kept the documents secure from Chinese spies, and that the N.S.A. knew he had done so. His last target while working as an agency contractor was China, he said, adding that he had had “access to every target, every active operation” mounted by the N.S.A. against the Chinese. “Full lists of them,” he said.
“If that was compromised,” he went on, “N.S.A. would have set the table on fire from slamming it so many times in denouncing the damage it had caused. Yet N.S.A. has not offered a single example of damage from the leaks. They haven’t said boo about it except ‘we think,’ ‘maybe,’ ‘have to assume’ from anonymous and former officials. Not ‘China is going dark.’ Not ‘the Chinese military has shut us out.’ ”
An N.S.A. spokeswoman did not respond Thursday to a
request for comment on Mr. Snowden’s assertions.
Disponível em: http://www.nytimes.com / Acesso: 23 out. 2013
UFGD 2014 - QUESTÃO 43
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(A) Membros da Inteligência Americana expressaram sérias preocupações de que os arquivos pudessem ter caído nas mãos dos serviços de inteligência estrangeiros, pois a Agência de Segurança Nacional recebeu informações de fontes seguras de que Snowden havia cooperado com os Russos e Chineses.
(B) Snowden disse que entregou todos os documentos secretos que obtivera aos jornalistas com quem se reuniu em Hong Kong antes de voar para Moscou, e manteve uma cópia para si mesmo.
(C) O ex-técnico da CIA disse que nunca pensou em desertar, nem em Hong Kong, nem na Rússia, onde foi autorizado a permanecer por um ano. Ele está seguro de que os espiões chineses tiveram acesso aos documentos e a NSA sabe disso.
(D) Edward Snowden afirmou considerar-se um herói e mártir que estava agindo no melhor interesse do país. Ele acredita que ajudou a segurança nacional dos EUA ao promover um debate público muito necessário sobre o escopo do esforço de inteligência.
(E) Snowden ofereceu em uma longa entrevista realizada na semana passada respostas detalhadas às acusações que foram feitas contra ele por autoridades norte-americanas e outros críticos; O ex-técnico da CIA explicou a razão de ter se desiludido com a NSA e decidiu divulgar os documentos; e discorreu sobre o debate internacional em torno da vigilância, gerado pelas revelações.
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(E) Snowden ofereceu em uma longa entrevista realizada na semana passada respostas detalhadas às acusações que foram feitas contra ele por autoridades norte-americanas e outros críticos; O ex-técnico da CIA explicou a razão de ter se desiludido com a NSA e decidiu divulgar os documentos; e discorreu sobre o debate internacional em torno da vigilância, gerado pelas revelações.
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