WASHINGTON: Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked as many as 200,000 classified US documents to the media, according to little-noticed public remarks by the eavesdropping agency's chief late last month.
In a question-and-answer session following a speech to a foreign affairs group in Baltimore on Oct 31, NSA Director General Keith Alexander was asked by a member of the audience what steps US authorities were taking to stop Snowden from leaking additional information to journalists.
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