Edward Snowden is a ’traitor’ and possible spy for China – Dick Cheney | World news | theguardian.com
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16 JUIN 2013
Dick Cheney, vice-president under George W Bush and a key figure in the post-September 11 revamping of US national security, also defended the system. He told Fox News Sunday that it was needed to “gather intelligence on your enemies and stop the attack before it is launched”. He went on to condemn the man behind the series of explosive leaks regarding. Having described Edward Snowden as a “traitor”, Cheney went on to cast aspersions over the 29-year-old’s decision to travel to Hong Kong, suggesting that he could be a spy for China.
“I’m suspicious because he went to China. That’s not a place where you would ordinarily want to go if you are interested in freedom, liberty and so forth,” Cheney said, adding: “It raises questions whether or not he had that kind of connection before he did this.” Cheney suggested that Snowden could still be in possession of confidential data and that the Chinese would “probably be willing to provide immunity for him or sanctuary for him in exchange for what he presumably knows or doesn’t know”.