In conversations with The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden emphatically denied that he provided information to the Russian and Chinese governments — contradicting previous media reports suggesting he had.
“I never gave any information to either government, and they never took anything from my laptops,” Snowden said.
Greenwald communicated with Snowden on Saturday and Tuesday on an online chat. Moments after his chat Tuesday, Greenwald, who broke the stories on the NSA’s surveillance programs based on information leaked by Snowden, told Reuters that he thinks the 30-year-old former government contractor will accept Venezuela’s asylum offer.
