US whistleblower Edward Snowden denies taking classified government documents with him to Russia — Transcript
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- 0:00us whistleblower edward snowden has
- 0:02insisted he took no classified documents
- 0:05to russia when he fled to moscow from
- 0:07hong kong in june he told the new york
- 0:09times he had given all the papers to
- 0:11journalists in hong kong and had kept no
- 0:13copies snowden who worked for the
- 0:15national security agency also said no
- 0:17confidential information had been passed
- 0:20to china snowden also told the newspaper
- 0:22that he had no faith in the intelligence
- 0:25community which dated back to his work
- 0:27for the cia in geneva the u.s wants him
- 0:30extradited to face trial but russia has
- 0:32refused to hand him over the russian
- 0:34authorities gave him a one-year visa in
- 0:36july after he applied for asylum
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