Former U.S. intelligence employee Edward Snowden is granted a Russian residency permit that may even lead towards citizenship. Andrew Kuchins, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joins the News Hub with Sara Murray. Photo: Getty Images.
NSA leaker Edward Snowden has been photographed holding an American flag to his chest as he explains why he decided to leak confidential material.
The image, which appears in the September issue of WIRED magazine, is likely to offend Americans who believe Snowden put lives at risk.
In an interview, Snowden said dishonest comments to Congress by the US chief of national intelligence pushed him over the edge and prompted him to leak a trove of national security documents.
Snowden said he had been troubled for years by the activities of the National Security Agency but that national intelligence chief James Clapper's testimony prompted him to act.
The former NSA contractor said he made his decision after reading in March 2013 about Clapper telling a Senate committee that the NSA does "not wittingly" collect information on millions of Americans.
"I think I was reading it in the paper the next day, talking to coworkers, saying, can you believe this...?"
Snowden told journalist James Bamford he had been troubled by other discoveries, including NSA spying on the pornography-viewing habits of political radicals.
"It's much like how the FBI tried to use Martin Luther King's infidelity to talk him into killing himself," he said. "We said those kinds of things were inappropriate back in the '60s. Why are we doing that now?"
Snowden also was disturbed by the NSA's effort to massively speed up data collection with a secret data storage facility in Bluffdale, Utah, which scanned billions of phone calls, faxes, emails, computer-to-computer data transfers, and text messages from around the world.
He said the US still has no idea how much classified information he swiped — and then slammed the NSA for "negligent auditing" of its massive inventory.
Cover boy ... Edward Snowden appears on the cover of WIRED. Source: Supplied
The NSA told The New York Post that if Snowden has something to say, officials there would be happy to talk to him — in the United States.
"If Mr. Snowden wants to discuss his activities, that conversation should be held with the US Department of Justice," said NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines.
Snowden made off with tens of thousands of stored US intelligence documents in 2013, when he boarded a plane to Hong Kong and later made his way to Russia. He has been indicted for violations of the Espionage Act for what has been called the largest intelligence leak in history.
Even as he's ducking American authorities, Snowden claimed, "I care more about the country than what happens to me."
Yet, before the interview, he removed the battery from his Russian cellphone, in case it was being monitored.
In one of the few new revelations, Snowden told how NSA hackers trying to tap into Syria's internet ended up knocking out the country's entire system.
At the end of the interview and photo shoot, the WIRED photographer said he hoped to see Snowden back in the US someday.
"You probably won't," Snowden replied.
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