By Noel Young

From his temporary home in Moscow, Edward Snowden, who leaked details of massive US intelligence-gathering programmes, has said in a US TV interview that he “was trained as a spy.”

He worked undercover overseas for US government agencies, he told Brian Williams of “NBC Nightly News”.

In an advance excerpt of his interview last night , Snowden rejected comments by critics that he was a low-level analyst.

“Well, it’s no secret that the US tends to get more and better intelligence out of computers nowadays than they do out of people,”

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Source: The Drum