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I wish news sites would stop omitting that in addition to the information he leaked about what was going on in the USA, he also leaked a lot of classified information that had nothing to do with the USA. I don't know how he'd argue that providing classified intelligence about China to the Chinese government is in the public interest.

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Can you be more specific, or provide a citation?

Here's a news article where they say that he showed them classified information about computers in China that the NSA had access to.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1260306/edward-s...

That seems related to the US. Is there anything where he leaked memos between other countries, etc? I faintly remember something like ambassador of A stationed in country B reporting that the government of B had a problem with country C.

By "had nothing to do with the USA", I meant things related to collection in the USA. It's not like he needed to leak information that the NSA was spying on other countries, that's pretty much their entire job. I don't see how he could argue that leaking classified information about NSA operations in China is in the public interest.

No, that was Chelsea Manning.

He pretty much leaked all of the TAO operations in Asia didn’t he?

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