'Traitor Snowden put us in danger,' says former Royal Navy chief

A former head of the Royal Navy has branded Edward Snowden a “traitor” and “irresponsible” after the US whistleblower declined to reveal if he had read every document he leaked to the press.

Lord West, a former First Sea Lord and security minister, said the ex-National Security Agency (NSA) worker had made the UK public “less safe” as a result of the revelations he made about government-level monitoring of online communications.