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Today Snowden says, "I did not partner with any foreign government" -- but there was this:
... Snowden asked for a guarantee that The Washington Post would publish — within 72 hours — the full text of a PowerPoint presentation ... He also asked that The Post publish online a cryptographic key that he could use to prove to a foreign embassy that he was the document’s source ... I told him we would not make any guarantee about what we published or when. Snowden replied succinctly, “I regret that we weren’t able to keep this project unilateral.” Shortly afterward he made contact with Glenn Greenwald ...Code name ‘Verax’: Snowden, in exchanges with Post reporter, made clear he knew risks
By Barton Gellman,June 09, 2013
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-09/world/39856622_1_intelligence-powers-single-point
So when he first provided material to the Post, he was expecting the Post to help him somehow establish his bona-fides with a foreign embassy
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"prove to a foreign embassy that he was the document’s source." The fact that he wanted to prove to a foreign embassy that he was the source of the data does not prove that he aided that country or partnered with that country in any way. Most likely, he was asking that country for shelter. Said country probably denied his request for shelter unless he could prove he was the source of the leak.
-Laelth
