Snowden has enough information to cause more 'damage' to US: Journalist

MOSCOW: Edward Snowden has information that much more "harmful" to the U.S. government could, but the leaker refugee has decided not to publish it, said a journalist who first broke the story.
Glenn Greenwald told the newspaper La Nacion Argentina, that of Snowden, who is currently stranded in Moscow, had been trying over the information that they thought was private was used by the U.S. intelligence agencies warn.
"Snowden has enough information to further damage to the U.S. government in a minute alone anyone ever had cause in the history of the United States," he told the newspaper in an interview published on Saturday.
"But that's not their goal," Greenwald, who published a series of reports in the British newspaper The Guardian on the basis of top-secret documents about U.S. surveillance programs spacious leaked by Snowden said.
His comments came as Russia on Sunday for a promised asylum Snowden expected.
U.S. wants the former contractor of the National Security Agency (NSA) turned to them for trial in the exhaust. Moscow has so far rejected that demand.
Snowden, 30, has been in the transit area of ​​the airport Sheremetyevo was abandoned after the U.S. pulled out his passport upon arrival in Hong Kong three weeks ago.
Snowden on Friday called his Russian activists temporarily dramatic, to say that he wanted to seek asylum in Russia until he could safely travel to Latin America for a permanent sanctuary.
A first application was withdrawn earlier this month, after Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had to stop to embarrassing revelations for Washington if he wanted to stay.
After Snowden made his statement by Amnesty International reiterated its support for him and denounced what he did. Described as persecution by the U.S. government from him
Human Rights Watch Washington to try to attempt to seek asylum and Snowden said he was accused of blocking in violation of their rights under international law.
Representatives from both organizations attended the presentation by Snowden.
But on Saturday, the Moscow authorities said they were still waiting for the request for Snowden.
Mercosur, defends the rights of the applicant
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Snowden should submit an application to the Federal Migration Service (FMS) submit, Russian news agencies reported.
The head of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) Konstantin Romodanovsky Russia, said on Saturday they would get nothing. If they did, he added, would be considered in accordance with standard procedures into account.
Washington has strongly reacted to the possibility that Moscow could offer a safe haven Snowden.
"We urge the Russian government to pay human rights organizations the opportunity to do their work in Russia by Russia, not only in the transit lounge of Moscow," said White House spokesman Jay Carney.
"Providing a platform for propaganda contradicts previous statements Snowden Russian government neutrality of Russia," he added.
U.S. President Barack Obama spoke by telephone on Friday, Putin on issues such as subject Snowden, the Kremlin and the White House both said, but details were not provided.
The United States and China have been reprimanded to stop for as Snowden to Russia from Hong Kong.
In his meeting with activists, Snowden swore he did not want to hurt the United States.
It was unclear whether that meant that he is willing to let intelligence leak to was to remain in Russia.
The leftist governments in Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua have offered asylum, but all Snowden Snowden said that Western governments to prevent him from traveling to the region.
A summit of Latin American trade bloc Mercosur in a statement Friday reaffirmed the right of asylum and rejected "any attempt to pressure, harassment or punishment of a State or of third parties."
The block in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, reported four European countries that rejected the airspace of a plane with President Evo Morales returning from Moscow earlier this month.
Apparently, it is assumed that Snowden was aboard.
Mercosur leaders said they would their ambassadors from Spain, France, Italy and Portugal recall for consultations in protest against the incident.
In a statement had "any attempt to pressure, harassment or punishment of a State or of a third party", in response to the decision to grant asylum