Snowden documents could be 'worst nightmare' for U.S.: journalist
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(Reuters) - Fugitive former U.S. spy
contractor Edward Snowden controls dangerous information that could
become the United States' "worst nightmare" if revealed, a journalist
familiar with the data said in a newspaper interview.Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who first published the documents Snowden leaked, said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday that the U.S. government should be careful in its pursuit of the former computer analyst.
"Snowden has enough information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had," Greenwald said in an interview in Rio de Janeiro with the Argentinean daily La Nacion.
"The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare."
Snowden, who is sought by Washington on espionage charges after revealing details of secret surveillance programs, has been stranded at a Moscow airport since June 23 and is now seeking refuge in Russia until he can secure safe passage to Latin America, where several counties have offered him asylum.
Greenwald told Reuters on Tuesday that Snowden would likely accept asylum in Venezuela, one of three Latin American countries that have made that offer.
Snowden's leaks on U.S. spying secrets, including eavesdropping on global email traffic, have upset Washington's friends and foes alike.
Latin American leaders lashed out at the United States after Greenwald reported in a Brazilian newspaper that the U.S. targeted most of the region with spying programs that monitored Internet traffic.
Washington has urged nations not to give Snowden safe passage.
Greenwald said in his interview with La Nacion that documents Snowden has tucked away in different parts of the world detail which U.S. spy programs capture transmissions in Latin America and how they work.
"One way of intercepting communications is through a telephone company in the United States that has contracts with telecommunications companies in most Latin American countries," Greenwald said, without specifying which company.
(Writing by Mitra Taj; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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Even trying to share this information with you appears to be interfered with. This is a lot like what I have been saying all along regarding Snowden. The information he carries could not only bring down the U.S. government but directly and indirectly ALL Governments. This is why even Russia is leery about Snowden. They can't have him killed and wouldn't really want to anyway because they are enjoying the U.S. Government squirming. But, this is also about Globalization and how it IS destroying all governments on earth and simultaneously destroying all rights and privileges of everyone on Earth.
For people to economically and physically survive all this a new system must be developed. Globalization is only destroying nations and individual rights. Maybe we need to create a new system that works both for Governments and the people of the World. Otherwise, Chaos awaits us all?
If you want to watch a movie that illustrates some of these problems watch "V for Vendetta"
V for Vendetta (2005) - IMDb
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Rating: 8.2/10 - 474022 votes
Directed
by James McTeigue. With Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea,
Rupert Graves. A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terroristV for Vendetta (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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V for Vendetta
is a 2005 British action thriller film directed by James McTeigue and
written by the Wachowski Brothers, based on the 1982 comic book of the ...
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