Gen Dempsey: 'Two years' to overcome Snowden leak

6 March 2014 Last updated at 19:07

... "We're working our way through that which we believe he has exfiltrated," Gen Dempsey said. "And we have, I think, a fairly significant amount of knowledge in that regard.

"The vast majority of <the pilfered documents> were related to our military capabilities, operations, tactics, techniques and procedures."

Gen Dempsey said the "magnitude of this challenge" suggested the task force would need to run for about two years.

"I suspect it could cost billions of dollars to overcome the loss of security that has been imposed on us," he said ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26476079

This suggests there may be considerable evidence to support the 18 U.S. Code § 793(d) charges against Snowden -- and it unfortunately casts a different light on Snowden's claim that his leaks benefited "every society in the world," because §793(d) refers to Whoever, lawfully having .. access to .. information relating to the national defense which .. could be used .. to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully .. delivers .. the same to any person not entitled to receive it ... without regard to the question of provable harm done, the reason being, of course, that because foreign allegiances are not necessarily permanent, the present "advantage of any foreign nation" may translate into future "injury of the United States"