‘Nothing similar’: Ukraine whistleblower lawyer rejects Edward Snowden comparison

By Jerry Dunleavy

Published October 17, 2019 4:00am ET

‘Nothing similar’: Ukraine whistleblower lawyer rejects Edward Snowden comparison — FILE - A Sunday, June 9, 2013, file photo provided by The Guardian newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the U.S. National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. The U.S. governmentâs efforts to determine which highly classified materials Snowden took from the National Security Agency have been frustrated by Snowdenâs sophisticated efforts to cover his digital trail by deleting or bypassing electronic logs, government officials tell the AP. Such logs would have showed what information Snowden viewed or downloaded. (AP Photo/The Guardian, File) | AP

Edward Snowden, who leaked highly classified information and fled the United States in 2013, compared himself to the Ukraine whistleblower while promoting his new book.

But the lawyer for the whistleblower whose report sparked impeachment proceedings said Snowden is wrong.

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