The Patriot Post® · Did Snowden's Leaks Help ISIL?

Former NSA deputy director Chris Inglis says ISIL has benefited from the documents stolen and released by former contractor Edward Snowden. Inglis says Snowden “went way beyond disclosing things that bore on privacy concerns. ‘Sources and methods’ is what we say inside the intelligence community – the means and methods we use to hold our adversaries at risk, and ISIL is clearly one of those.” He added, “Having disclosed all of those methods, or at least some degree of those methods, it would be impossible to imagine that, as intelligent as [ISIL is] in the use of technology, in the employment of communications for their own purposes, it’s impossible to imagine that they wouldn’t understand how they might be at risk to intelligence services around the world, not the least of which is the U.S.” There are legitimate concerns regarding NSA surveillance, but this doesn’t reflect well on Snowden’s claim of patriotic motives. More…