The most likely already had a significant portion of the data, especially the chinese.
Are you saying this whole event didn’t help China and Russia even without the data?
They certainly do now.
Are you saying this whole event didn’t help China and Russia even without the data?
Not enough to do it without a quid pro quo. But let me ask you. Snowden admits that he left with a couple of laptops crammed with sensitive intelligence data. Are you saying he's just sitting on it? Why?