NSA Director: Snowden Leaked Up To 200,000 Secret Documents

Fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden's new refugee documents granted by Russia is seen during a news conference in Moscow August 1, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Maxim Shemetov

NSA Chief Says Snowden Leaked Up To 200,000 Secret Documents -- Reuters

(Reuters) - Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked as many as 200,000 classified U.S. documents to the media, according to little-noticed public remarks by the eavesdropping agency's chief late last month.

In a question-and-answer session following a speech to a foreign affairs group in Baltimore on October 31, NSA Director General Keith Alexander was asked by a member of the audience what steps U.S. authorities were taking to stop Snowden from leaking additional information to journalists.

"I wish there was a way to prevent it. Snowden has shared somewhere between 50 (thousand) and 200,000 documents with reporters. These will continue to come out," Alexander said.

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More News On Reports That Edward Snowden Leaked 200,000 NSA Documents

Snowden Took As Many As 200,000 NSA Documents, And That's Very Troubling -- Michael Kelly, Business Insider
Leaks Unbound: NSA Admits Snowden Took Up To 200K Documents -- Tech Crunch
Snowden May Have Leaked Up to 200,000 Documents -- Time
NSA Admits That Edward Snowden Stole Up to 200,000 Documents -- Gizmodo
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My Comment: And I suspect that less than 1% has been released to the public. This is a scandal and leak that will keep on coming.