Meanwhile. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has criticized Clinton’s exclusive reliance on a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state, saying the idea her server was more secure than government channels is “completely ridiculous.”

Edward Snowden: “If an ordinary worker at the State Department or the Central Intelligence Agency, or anything like that, were sending details about the security of embassies, which is alleged to be in her emails, meetings with private government officials, foreign government officials, and the statements that were made to them in confidence over unclassified email systems, they would not only lose their job and lose their clearance, they would very likely face prosecution. … When the unclassified systems of the United States government, which has a full-time information security staff, regularly get hacked, the idea that someone keeping a private server in the renovated bathroom of a server farm in Colorado is more secure is completely ridiculous.”

Edward Snowden speaking in an interview with Al Jazeera. On Saturday, Snowden was awarded the Bjornson Prize for freedom of speech by the Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression.