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“The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare.” — Glenn Greenwald, July 13. | AP Photos Greenwald: Snowden asylum 'unlikely' to stop me from publishing leaks

By seeking protection in Russia, NSA leaker Edward Snowden seems to have acknowledged that he is willing to stop leaking U.S. secrets -- a precondition for asylum, according to Russian president Vladimir Putin.

But Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who first published reports based on Snowden's leaks, says such an asylum agreement would not stop him from publishing reports on the many confidential documents he has already received from Snowden.

"Given everything I know, I'd be very shocked if he ever asked me that," Greenwald told POLITICO on Friday. "I'd deal with that hypothetical only in the extremely unlikely event that it ever happened, but I can't foresee anything that would or could stop me from further reporting on the NSA documents I have."

President Putin has said that Snowden will have to stop leaking U.S. secrets if he wants to get asylum in Russia. Snowden did not address these conditions in his public statement on Friday, but a Russian lawmaker is reported to have said that the former security contractor was willing to stop sharing information in exchange for Russia's protection.

Earlier this week, Greenwald told POLITICO that he had "many more" forthcoming reports about the NSA's surveillance program based on Snowden's leaks.

"There are many more domestic stories coming, and big ones, and soon," he wrote in an email.