Yep. What's amazing is I work on government computers and thumb-drives are verboten. If we plug one in, the network geeks know about it immediately. I wonder how lax the NSA is with its networked computers to allow this to occur. And some tell us we're supposed to trust and have trust in their abilities and motives. Someone should lose their job for allowing this to happen. All the same, I'm glad he was able to let us know what most of us already suspected - the Patriot Act part about being able to spy on those who were persons of interest and who were communicating with terrorist cells was not a secret; the secret seems to be that they were revving it up to include everything about all of us - that's why they are so pi$$ed about him "destroying National Security".
IMHO, in this age of networked systems and the ease of file transfer and movement between PCs with a CAC there should be no need to use any external drive. Ever.
He revealed no secrets, the only people that didn’t know this were the Low Information Voters, our enemies and our friends already know we spy on them.