The Guardian Newspaper: Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden: Glenn Greenwald, a columnist with the Guardian newspaper who first reported on the intelligence leaks, told The Associated Press that disclosure of the information in the documents "would allow somebody who read them to know exactly how the NSA does what it does, which would in turn allow them to evade that surveillance or replicate it." Read why the U.S. hasn't nabbed Edward Snowden yet, according to CBC. "In order to take documents with him that proved that what he was saying was true he had to take ones that included very sensitive, detailed blueprints of how the NSA does what they do," the journalist said Sunday in a Rio de Janeiro hotel room and Edward Snowden has highly sensitive documents on how the National Security Agency is structured and operates that could harm the U.S. government, but has insisted that they not be made public, a journalist close to the NSA leaker said. He said the "literally thousands of documents" taken by Snowden constitute "basically the instruction manual for how the NSA is built." 'It would be harmful to the U.S. government if the details of those programs were revealed.' Glenn Greenwald, Guardian reporter (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.