Russian President Vladimir Putin exploited President Barack Obama’s weak foreign policy in granting asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, according to Josef Joffe, who teaches U.S. foreign policy at Stanford University.
“Washington is now looking at the greatest counter-intelligence failure since the Rosenbergs betrayed nuclear know-how to Stalin some 60 years ago,” he writes in The Wall Street Journal.
And all that the White House could muster in response was, “We are extremely disappointed,” in the words of White House press secretary Jay Carney, Joffe says.
“A nice understatement. Now the Russians have Mr. Snowden’s hard disks to unearth more U.S. secrets than could be stolen by a battalion of spies,” Joffe says. “President Vladimir Putin has it in his hands to endlessly embarrass the U.S. by releasing choice bits and pieces from the Snowden trove, or to threaten to do so to keep Washington on its best behavior.”
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