Kuala Lumpur: Edward Snowden does not appear to have taken as much as originally thought from NSA files, The Washington Post reported late Thursday. <\/p>\n
The damage is still \"profound\" from the former NSA contractor who blew the cover on vast US surveillance programs of everything from everyday people's phone calls to intrusions into high-tech companies' servers, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said, according to the Post. <\/p>\n
Still, \"it doesn't look like he took as much\" as first thought, Clapper was quoted as saying in what the Post called a rare interview Tuesday. <\/p>\n
\"We're still investigating, but we think that a lot of what he looked at, he couldn't pull down,\" Clapper said. <\/p>\n
\"Some things we thought he got he apparently didn't,\" the director was quoted as saying. <\/p>\n
The Post said this view contrasts with the initial worse-case scenario in which the US intelligence community assumed that Snowden, who faces espionage charges, \"compromised the communications networks that make up the military's command and control system.\" <\/p>\n
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