Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, who revealed Edward Snowden’s leaks, is hitting back at a Reuters article he says is aimed at distracting attention from revelations about the National Security Agency’s massive, secret spying at home and abroad. The article quotes Greenwald in an interview with the Argentinean daily La Nación saying, “Snowden has enough information to cause [more] harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had,” and that, “The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare.” In a piece for The Guardian, Greenwald says the quotes were taken out of context and misconstrued as threats. Greenwald wrote, “My point in this interview was clear … had [Snowden] wanted to harm the U.S. government, he easily could have, but hasn’t. … That demonstrates how irrational is the claim that his intent is to harm the U.S.” Greenwald went on: “I’m reporting what documents he says he has and what precautions he says he has taken to protect himself from what he perceives to be the threat to his well-being. That’s not a threat. Those are facts.”