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Update: DannyB adds: United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/edward-snowden-nsa-cbs-this-morning-interview-today-2019-09-16/
When pressed on whether he considers what he did unlawful, Snowden refused to take a position but said "it's not hard to make the argument that I broke the law." He went on to say that the government continues to allege that his disclosures caused harm but, according to Snowden, has yet to show evidence of that harm.
"They never show evidence for it even though we're now more than 6 years on, it would be the easiest thing in the world to show. We've never heard that story," he said. "If they had some classified evidence that a hair on a single person's head was harmed, you know as well as I do, it would be on the front page of The New York Times by the end of the day."
Snowden also took issue with the common refrain that leaking classified documents violated the oath of secrecy he took upon entering the CIA. He said an oath of secrecy does not exist.
"One of the common misconceptions in one of the earlier attacks, that we heard in 2015, that we don't hear of so much anymore is that I violated this oath of secrecy. That does not exist. There is a secrecy agreement, but there is also an oath of service. An oath of service is to support and defend, not an agency, not even the president, it is to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies – direct quote – foreign and domestic. And this begs the question, what happens when our obligations come into conflict."
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 17 2019, @05:04PM (3 children)
At this point what difference does it make
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday September 17 2019, @05:19PM (2 children)
It continues to demonstrate what massive hypocrites these folks are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 17 2019, @05:32PM (1 child)
If Pompeo got a call at 2am that an embassy was under attack he wouldn't have gone back to sleep. I am not a fan of the guy but he seems to actually do his job, as disagreeable a job as it is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @12:57AM
If he were doing his job, he would be defending the US Constitution against enemies, foreign or domestic. These authoritarian goons are not doing that, and in fact actively oppose the highest law of the land, as we see with the whole Snowden situation.