According to court documents, he provided "blatantly false and implausible information".
Watch Mr. Cohen's testimony live and see the documents he provided to Congress here.
According to court documents, he provided "blatantly false and implausible information". But, in conversations with his parents particularly his father, who visited frequently—he started to feel remorse.
The documents he provided allege that Mr. Verma was involved in a series of payments made by foreign defense companies to Indian government officials.
The Buildings Department first brought administrative charges against Mr. Scarano in 2008 based on what it said were misleading documents he provided on two projects.
When he gave us the documents he provided, he repeatedly insisted that we exercise rigorous journalistic judgment in deciding which documents should be published in the public interest and which ones should be concealed on the ground that the harm of publication outweighs the public value.
In a note accompanying the first set of documents he provided, he wrote: "I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions," but "I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant".
In "No Place to Hide," Mr. Greenwald recounts the story of how he and Ms. Poitras, a documentary filmmaker, traveled to Hong Kong to meet with Mr. Snowden and the race to publish articles based on the documents he provided, all the while fearful of authorities' closing in.
In the hour-long interview, Snowden made a headline-grabbing claim -- that there have been 61,000 NSA hacking operations worldwide, including with targets in Hong Kong and mainland China –- and spoke of his decision to head to Hong Kong on May 20, a couple weeks before The Guardian and Washington Post broke major stories related to NSA documents he provided.
In this unique historical document, he provides detailed recollections of his work on behalf of a democratic Iraq that reflect the hopes and frustrations of the Iraqi people.
