“The quite unnecessary damage caused by Snowden makes it hard to believe that his aim was solely to expose wrongdoing. It looks far more likely that he was trying to cripple the NSA and its allies, and to hurt America's… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“More importantly in my view, the Obama administration has treated whistleblowers with scandalous harshness, especially those from inside the intelligence community. The hardest point… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“The single biggest lesson of the whole Snowden fiasco is that America's own sloppiness made it vulnerable: whether to misguided whistleblowers, saboteurs or foreign… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“The Snowden revelations have also exposed the fact that senior officials, particularly America's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, have not been fully frank… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“The idea that the material is safe because it is encrypted is shockingly naïve: it is child's play for a sophisticated adversary to place… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“The Kremlin also is determined, along with China, to wrest control of the internet from the American-based committees which run it now. It wants… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“It is only a mild caricature to say that the presumption behind the leaks is that the intelligence agencies in the West are the… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“It is important not to concentrate the defence case too narrowly on terrorism. That is a grave threat, but not the only one. Invoking… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“Relationships have decayed; trust has ebbed. This is not a new problem. George W Bush's administration made a bonfire of American soft power with… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“The Snowdenistas' exaggeration stems from a conflation of self-criticism with self-hatred. In their eyes, democracy, the rule of law and constitutional government have been… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“Rahul Sagar, a professor at Princeton, has defined these well in his new book Secrets and Leaks:73 First, a whistleblower must have clear and… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“I freely admit that it is possible that Snowden conceived his plan on his own, and with honourable if mistaken motives. It may well… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the gravest charge was that America conflated commercial espionage with statecraft. That would be shocking if true. It would be illegal under American… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
