Officials Worried Snowden Will Pass Secrets to Chinese

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 06/13/2013 | Bill Gertz

[SeekAndFind]

The Pentagon is concerned that a former National Security Agency contractor who is now in Hong Kong will compromise top-secret electronic intelligence programs targeted against China, according to a defense official.

Edward Snowden, the former NSA technician who surfaced in Hong Kong Sunday, worked on highly classified electronic intelligence programs targeting China at the NSA’s Kunia facility in Hawaii.

Snowden’s exact whereabouts are not known. He told the South China Morning Post in an interview published Wednesday that he plans to remain in the former British colony, something that likely would upset U.S.-China relations. “My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate,” he was quoted as saying.

Hong Kong is led by a chief executive who follows Beijing’s dictates on all security and foreign policy matters.

Snowden also provided documents to the newspaper showing that NSA has been hacking into computers in Hong Kong and in mainland China since 2009. None revealed data on Chinese military systems, he said.

According to the report, Snowden claimed there were “hundreds” of NSA intelligence targets in Hong Kong and the mainland.

“We hack network backbones—like huge internet routers, basically—that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one,” he said.

[CityCenter]

This is why I believe he’s a traitor and not a hero. He fled to a communist country.

[Political Junkie Too]

It sounds like "officials" are setting up their justification for a "Wanted: Dead Or Alive" scenario?

-PJ

[cripplecreek]

Just a few years ago we were ready to nail a Chinese national for stealing secrets from Los Alamos National Laboratory where he worked.

He turned out to be innocent (as far as we know) but the fact that a foreign national worked there is more than a little problematic.

[cripplecreek]

Notice that Leaky Leahy got a pass for telling an enemy something they didn’t already know.

Ted Kennedy also got a pass for passing secrets to the Soviets in the 80s.

[hoosiermama]

Feel free to share.

[FreeAtlanta]

yeah, right. Like he has anything they don’t already have.

[FreeAtlanta]

I am sure they and every other nation that is blackmailing the big eared little sissy boy already has that evidence.

[American Constitutionalist]

Just like how the IRS director or someone in the last few weeks in one of those Congressional hearings tried to put the blame on the Tea Party.
They tried to make it look like the Tea Party and Conservatives were at fault because they were audited and other nefarious deeds.
This regime with the IRS, NSA targeting and going after those people who are in the Tea party for audits and other nefarious deeds because they belonged to the Tea Party.
In other words ? if they weren't protesting and conservative they would not have been audited or harassed.






Carnac says " Top officals protested to much and it's to late to stop the horses after the barn door has been left open "

[LilAngel]

What secrets? I thought he lied about spying on us.

[familyop]

I doubt that he has anything that “officials” haven’t already given to the Chinese for those “officials’” politicians’ favored constituents.

[bgill]

Were they worried when Bubba did?

[JimRed]

What he has done so far is patriotic and a public service. Aiding and abetting China would be treason.

[Old Yeller]

Pass secrets to China? You mean like Clinton and Barry have done?

[bravo whiskey]

why should he be any different from democrat traitor bastard politicians?