Edward Snowden, who is believed to be still stuck in the transit area in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport and pending asylum approval from Venezuela, has denied accusations that he was providing secrets to the Chinese and Russian governments, British paper the Guardian reported.
The United States National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower in two separate interviews vigorously denied that he had either purposefully or unknowingly leaked classified information to both governments from his hideouts in Hong Kong and Moscow.
The Guardian gave no information regarding how and where the two interviews, respectively on last Saturday and Tuesday, took place.
"I never gave any information to either government, and they never took anything from my laptops," Snowden said, in an effort to clarify himself from being called traitor in his home country.
Earlier in a June 24 story, the New York Times published an ungrounded article with no identified sources, claiming Chinese intelligence agencies had succeeded in pulling contents from Snowden’s laptop that he brought to Hong Kong.
The New York Times only quoted two anonymous sources who said they "believed" such things happened.
There has no updated information regarding Snowden’s whereabouts since he arrived at Sheremetyevo Airport on June 27, flying from Hong Kong. Out of the world’s anticipation, he failed to show up on the scheduled flight bound for the Cuban capital of Havana.