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Snowden hid copies of secret NSA documents in case something happens to him
http://rt.com/usa/snowden-greenwald-encrypted-copies-227/ ^

Posted on 06/25/2013 3:58:07 PM PDT by kronos77

A trove of classified documents supplied to The Guardian newspaper by NSA leaker Edward Snowden has been copied and shared with several people around the globe, journalist Glenn Greenwald told The Daily Beast on Tuesday.

Greenwald, the Guardian reporter who first began publishing National Security Agency documents earlier this month after meeting with the former intelligence contractor, told journalist Eli Lake that Snowden made arrangements to ensure others around the world have encrypted copies of that information should any circumstances allow the data or its source to be compromised.

Snowden “has taken extreme precautions to make sure many different people around the world have these archives to insure the stories will inevitably be published,” Greenwald said. He added that the files are “highly encrypted” and corresponding passwords to render them readable have not yet been distributed.

According to Lake, Greenwald said, “if anything happens at all to Edward Snowden, he told me he has arranged for them to get access to the full archives.” Greenwald previously claimed that Snowden provided him with the archives of "thousands" of documents, dozens of which he considered to be newsworthy. Revelations published thus far by The Guardian and attributed to Snowden have generated international headlines and responses from presidential administrations worldwide.

The latest news from Greenwald comes in the midst of an international manhunt for Snowden that has made awkward the relations between the United States and other nations around the globe. The US unsealed an indictment against Snowden on Friday, but has been unable to extradite him to the country where he faces charges of espionage.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: nsa; putin; russia; snowden; sourcetitlenoturl
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To: Sacajaweau

I wonder if he listened to Axlerod/Obama conversations regarding his nationality, education, and his total commitment to communism.


41 posted on 06/25/2013 11:31:49 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (')
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To: Bobalu

Could Snowden actually have Obama by the balls?


42 posted on 06/25/2013 11:36:06 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (')
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To: kronos77
Some serious stuff in those files, this one is big as Kim Philby

Do you think Eddie will end up on a postage stamp?

Kind of funny: if you put words at the top into Google Translate, it comes back as "Soviet Scout". But if you then add Ким Филби, the output changes to "the Soviet spy Kim Philby".

43 posted on 06/25/2013 11:37:54 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Texas Songwriter

Yes!

If Snowden plays his hand smartly he will have them by the short hairs.

The NSA’s reputation is in the gutter while Snowden’s is rising.

At a certain point the NSA will be totally unable to disprove anything Snowden presents as data supposedly gleaned from NSA data stores. As long as the data is plausible and delivered smartly any attempt to discount it will just lend more credence to it. The NSA is not in a enviable position at all in this mess of their own making.


44 posted on 06/25/2013 11:47:36 PM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: little jeremiah

My guess on that: he has a “timebomb” program running SOMEWHERE, hidden again, that requires him to connect and enter a password or somesuch every “x” days. No check in after “x” days ? Triggers a telnet session over port 25 (SMTP) and dumps the passwords to email to selected people.

And my NEXT guess is he set THAT up sometime before he moved to the job at Booz Allen . . .


45 posted on 06/26/2013 1:31:03 AM PDT by Salgak (http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
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To: Logical me
It looks like he was planning this for a long time. Time will tell but from where I stand I would like to know what really the NSA was and is doing. With our government under the control of King Obama and his communists empire, it is scary.

Your fellow FReepers were keeping tabs on this stuff over 10 years ago.

Total Information Awareness (TIA) System - Nov 25, 2002 (Free Republic)

EPIC.org Total Information Awareness (TIA) News Nov 25, 2002 (Free Republic)

Critics say Defense 'Total Information Awareness' Impractical - Dec 12, 2002 (Free Republic)

TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS (TIA) UPDATE - Feb 7, 2003 (Free Republic)

Pentagon spy database funding revealed (Total Information Awareness ) - Feb 27, 2003 (Free Republic)

Total Information Awareness - Mar 8, 2007 (Free Republic)

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U.S. Pressing for High-Tech Spy Tools (Total Information Awareness) - Feb 22, 2004 (Free Republic)

U.S. Still Mining Terror Data (Total Information Awareness Program) - Feb 23, 2004 (Free Republic)


46 posted on 06/27/2013 7:01:23 AM PDT by af_vet_rr
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