Spy chief: Snowden killed 'important' spy program in Afghanistan

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Edward Snowden’s leaks about American spy powers directly led to the end of a key program in Afghanistan, the nation’s top spy said on Wednesday.

 

By forcing the end of the program that recorded practically every cellphone call in the country — as well as scuttling other efforts — the government leaker “has done untold damage” to U.S. intelligence, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said.

 

“Terrorists, particularly, have gone to school on the revelations caused by Snowden,” Clapper said at the Intelligence and National Security Summit.

 

“Particularly a program in Afghanistan, which he exposed and Glenn Greenwald wrote about, and the day after he wrote about it, the program was shut down by the government of Afghanistan,” Clapper said.

 

The spy chief appeared to be referring to a May 2014 story on The Intercept — the online news outlet spearheaded by Greenwald — outlining how the National Security Agency (NSA) was “secretly intercepting, recording and archiving the audio of virtually every cellphone conversation” in two nations around the world.

[Valin]

I say we return the favor and kill him. I'll pay for the bullets.