> In January 2014, he told a German TV interviewer that he gave all of his information to American journalists reporting on American issues.[56] During his first American TV interview, in May 2014, Snowden said he had protected himself from Russian leverage by destroying the material he had been holding before landing in Moscow [0]

Also, please refer to a reply to a similar comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781990

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Hong_Kong