Edward Snowden Automated His NSA File Download With A Tool Similar To Google's Web Crawler

Fugitive ex-contractor Edward Snowden took at least 200,000 top-secret documents from NSA servers using a process that was "quite automated," according to a new report from David Sanger and Eric Schmitt of The New York Times. From The Times: Using “web crawler” software designed to search, index and back up a website, Mr. Snowden “scraped data out of our systems” while he went about his day job, according to a senior intelligence official. “We do not believe this was an individual sitt...