A classified Defense Department report said that former...
A classified Defense Department report said that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden managed to download 1.7 million intelligence files before leaving the country, top House Intelligence Committee leaders said Thursday in a news release (http://1.usa.gov/19Vr7om). They slammed Snowden…
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for what the report found. The revelations in the files kicked off the ongoing debate surrounding U.S. phone and Internet surveillance practices and the number of files stolen has been contested. “Snowden’s disclosures have already tipped off our adversaries to the sources and methods of our defense, and hurt U.S. allies helping us with counter terrorism, cyber crime, human and narcotics trafficking, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,” the report said, according to House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and ranking member Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md.