We now know a lot more about Edward Snowden's epic heist -- and it's troubling

While Snowden can legitimately claim to be a whistleblower based on the tier 1 and 2 material he gave to Poitras, Greenwald, and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post, the larger cache of information about America’s cyberintelligence capabilities and activities around the world is another story.

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Snowden’s audacious theft of tier 3 documents, which included acquiring colleagues’ passwords that gave him access to secret files, could potentially put him in another category altogether. Taking that information would in theory make him a renegade spy — and possessing it would make him an especially welcome guest of the Kremlin.

“These secrets he took from [from Booz Allen] are of value to no one but Russia, China, and maybe North Korea, because these secrets are basically the lists of computers in Russia, China, and North Korea which [the U.S.] managed to compromise and tap into,” Epstein asserted to Powerline. “And not only that, … it would take a very sophisticated counterintelligence service to reverse engineer and to figure out where all of the pieces of the puzzle fit together.

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Snowden visited Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre in early August, his first public appearance since arriving in Russia last year.

“So the strange thing about what he did at the National Threat [Operations] Center is what he took is … only of use to two countries. Have they made use of them? I don’t know. But they are of no use to journalists. If he supplied these to journalists, they would have nothing to publish [besides lists of compromised computers].”

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