US Congress Classified Report On Snowden

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Thu Dec 22 16:44:13 PST 2016


https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/12/22/2040202/congressional-report-claims-snowden-in-contact-with-russian-intelligence
http://intelligence.house.gov/UploadedFiles/HPSCI_Snowden_Review_Declassified.pdf
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-12-22/in-declassified-edward-snowden-report-committee-walks-back-claims-about-intentional-lying
https://tcf.org/content/commentary/house-intelligence-committees-terrible-horrible-bad-snowden-report/
https://twitter.com/Snowden

Edward Snowden has been in contact with Russian intelligence officials
since arriving in Russia in 2013, according to a new report from
Congress. "Since Snowden's arrival in Moscow, he has had, and
continues to have, contact with Russian intelligence services," the
33-page report, issued Thursday by the bipartisan House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence, said. Snowden, the former National
Security Agency contractor who leaked volumes of information on
American intelligence and surveillance operations to the media,
settled in Moscow after initially traveling to Hong Kong following his
2013 public disclosure of classified information. The Russian
government granted asylum to Snowden shortly thereafter. Large
portions of the pertinent section, entitled "foreign influence," are
redacted, but one paragraph reveals the Russian link, saying that
Frants Klintsevich, the deputy chairman of the Russian parliament's
defense and security committee, "publicly conceded that 'Snowden did
share intelligence' with his government." Snowden immediately took to
Twitter following the report's release to dispute the accusations,
writing "they claim without evidence that I'm in cahoots with the
Russians." The report cites classified material in the section linking
Snowden to Russian intelligence. The investigation also noted that
Snowden left encrypted hard drives containing classified information
in Hong Kong and that the CIA had refused to grant Snowden access to
sensitive information years before he began working with the NSA,
documenting numerous issues that Snowden had with supervisors and
co-wokers during his various jobs in the intelligence community.


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