Government releases completely censored pages as 'proof' Snowden damaged national security

The pages released by the DIA are full of redacted information — (Image credit: Vice News)

In response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit from Vice requesting proof that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden caused tangible damage to national security, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has released pages upon pages of completely redacted material.

You can scroll through this "proof" of Snowden's recklessness here, or you can simply watch this handy gif made by Gizmodo:

(Gizmodo)

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As Gizmodo comments, "It is awfully strange that absolutely none of the specific ways that Snowden has damaged national security can even be summarized without fueling terrorists."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.