The chairman of the UK House Intelligence Committee is sure that Al Qaeda has changed the way it communicates after Edward Snowden’s leaks. He said that Edward disclosed classified data which has allowed 3 different terrorist organizations, affiliates of Al Qaeda, to change the way it communicates.



This statement was evidently referring to an intelligence analysis of the impact of the former NSA agent’s leaks. Snowden leaked to the press and to the foreign governments plenty of NSA files, along with descriptions of their surveillance programs.

So far intelligence officials have differed in their assessments of the damage done by the former contractor, with respect to the fight against terrorism and Al Qaeda in particular. For example, Matthew Olsen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Centre, believes that al Qaeda has been adapting to the Snowden’s revelations, while others guess that the release of sensitive communications between Al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahri and his subordinates three months ago has done more damage.

The suspicion is that the terror group has been tracking the leaks of classified data very closely and must be thinking a lot of it. Some experts insist that Al Qaeda has changed the way it behaved after Osama bin Laden’s lair was raided.

Thousands of previously classified US intelligence reports from the battlefields of Afghanistan were found in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Either way it seems that the chairman of the UK House Intelligence Committee is trying to turn public opinion against Edward by pulling out an old bug-bear. At the moment, Edward Snowden leaks haven’t actually covered Al Qaeda, as they mostly deal with the National Security Agency snooping on its own citizens and allies.