Aww…man! Sh*t is getting real.
Fugitive former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden controls dangerous information that could become the United States’ “worst nightmare” if revealed, according to a newspaper interview with a journalist familiar with the data.
Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who first published the documents Snowden leaked, said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday that the U.S. government should be careful in its pursuit of the so called “whistleblower.”
Greenwald said in an interview in Rio de Janeiro with the Argentinian daily La Nacion:
“Snowden has enough information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had,”
He adds:
“The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare.”
Huffington Post reports:
Greenwald said in his interview with La Nacion that documents Snowden has tucked away in different parts of the world detail which U.S. spy programs capture transmissions in Latin America and how they work.
“One way of intercepting communications is through a telephone company in the United States that has contracts with telecommunications companies in most Latin American countries,” Greenwald said, without specifying which company. (Writing by Mitra Taj; Editing by Sandra Maler)
Snowden, who is being hunted by Washington on espionage charges, has been stranded at a Moscow airport since June 23 and is now seeking refuge in Russia until he can secure safe passage to Latin America, where several counties have offered him asylum.
It sounds like the government needs to play their cards right.
SOURCE Huffington Post
