adminnewspaper. “I never gave any information to either government, and they never took anything from my laptops,” Snowden said as part of interviews conducted on Tuesday and Saturday with the Guardian.
The comments from Snowden are the first time the fugitive intelligence contractor has spoken publicly since he arrived in Moscow on a June 30 flight from Hong Kong. The interviews with Snowden were conducted online via a “secured chat channel,” Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist, said. Greenwald is closely linked with Snowden, and was one of the original few journalists to whom Snowden leaked information.
The presence of Snowden in both Hong Kong, a part of China, and Russia has prompted much speculation that he may be co-operating with the security services of the two countries. President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia’s intelligence agencies never worked with Snowden and were not working with him during his stay at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport.
WikiLeaks, whose representative Sarah Harrison is reportedly accompanying Snowden, has also denied that Snowden was giving information to Russian officials. — RIA Novosti.
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