“Everybody is currently calling at the Russians,” Mr. Snowden, 33, told Germany’s, Der Spiegel. “They apparently did hack the operations of Hillary Clinton’s Democratic Party, but we should have evidence of that.”
The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence has decided that Russia hindered in last year’s election race by applying state-sponsored hackers and propagandists to target Mrs. Clinton’s campaign in an effort to cut her odds of winning the White House.
But Mr. Snowden, a network expert who beforehand worked for the National Security Agency and CIA, said the U.S. administration isn’t being expected with respect to supporting its claims, especially when linked to another recent security breach associated with state actors.
“In the case of the hacking intrusion on Sony, the FBI gave evidence that North Korea was behind it. In this case, they didn’t, although I am persuaded that they do have evidence. The question is why?” Mr. Snowden asked.
“I think the NSA almost absolutely saw who the invaders were. Why wouldn’t they? But I am also satisfied that they saw a lot of other attackers on there, too,” Mr. Snowden added.
As usual, as six or seven separate actors may have infiltrated the DNC, Mr. Snowden proposed, calling it a “big target” with seemingly lax security.
“I think the fact here was the historical shaping about the Russians,” added Mr. Snowden, who obtained political asylum from Moscow in 2013 and currently lives in the country as a lawful permanent resident.
Russian President Vladimir Putin clearly agrees with Mr. Snowden’s last point on the statement of previously labeling charges of election hacking “hysteria” lashed up by Washington.
“Does anyone seriously think Russia can anyhow influence the choice of the U.S. people? Is the U.S. some kind of banana republic?” Mr. Putin said last year. “The United States is a great power. Please change me if I’m wrong.”
Mr. Snowden admittedly dripped a trove of classified intelligence in 2013 concerning the NSA and its global surveillance operations. He was consequently charged with violations of the U.S. Espionage Act and theft by the Justice Department but has escaped prosecutions by residing in Russia ever since.
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