Avoiding a specific question on the scope of documents he obtained about
the National Security Agency's surveillance programs, former NSA
contractor Edward Snowden suggested Monday that he believes the federal
government wants to either jail or murder him.
"How many sets of the documents you disclosed did you make, and how
many different people have them? If anything happens to you, do they
still exist?" a questioner asked Greenwald in a livechat on the website of The Guardian, to whom Snowden has provided some of the documents.
Here is his answer:
"All I can say right now is the US
Government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or
murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped."
Many members of Congress have suggested that Snowden is a "traitor" or committed an "act of treason."
In the chat, Snowden also said that he fled to Hong Kong over Iceland
— his preferred destination for asylum — because of travel restrictions
for NSA employees.
"Leaving the US was an incredible risk, as NSA employees must
declare their foreign travel 30 days in advance and are monitored,"
Snowden wrote.
"There was a distinct possibility I would be interdicted en
route, so I had to travel with no advance booking to a country with the
cultural and legal framework to allow me to work without being
immediately detained. Hong Kong provided that. Iceland could be pushed
harder, quicker, before the public could have a chance to make their
feelings known, and I would not put that past the current US
administration."
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