If anything, the caliphate appears to have had a significant military upgrade, judging from reports of the quantity of US-made equipment captured from the fleeing Iraqi government forces.
His WikiLeaks website has published a huge quantity of US diplomatic and military cables, and his lawyers say that if he goes to Sweden he risks extradition to the US on espionage charges for which the penalty can be death.
He said 12 new Iraqi brigades were being trained for the battlefield while a shipment of a large quantity of US M16 rifles would arrive "very, very shortly" to replace the AK-47 assault rifles the army was using.
The idea of "spare time," a quantity most of us lust after continuously, is for her an alien concept.
Mr Snowden, a former CIA and NSA contract worker, has admitted giving the newspapers information about NSA programmes that seize vast quantities of data from US internet and telephone companies.
Interestingly, the release also provides a little more detail on Levchin's stealthy new startup, HVF: "His latest undertaking, HVF, is focused on solving big problems and improving lives by extracting insights from the vast quantities of data around us".
As companies collect ever-increasing quantities of data about us, and as AI programs get faster and more sophisticated at analyzing that data, our information can become both a commodity for business and a liability for us.
