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Edward Snowden

Whistleblower Edward Joseph Snowden is a US former technical contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who leaked details of top-secret US and British government mass surveillance programs to the press.

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Whistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking — It’s an Act of Political Resistance

Inside the Assassination Complex

Edward Snowden · May 3, 2016

Portrait detail of Edward Snowden. (Credit: Robert Shetterly / americanswhotellthetruth.org)

How the National Security State Kills a Free Society

The NSA has taken the beauty and power of digital technology and turned it against us

Edward Snowden · Jun 5, 2014

Vladimir Putin during the nationwide phone-in in Moscow. (Photograph: RIA Novosti/Reuters)

Vladimir Putin Must Be Called to Account on Surveillance Just Like Obama

I questioned the Russian president live on TV to get his answer on the record, not to whitewash him

Edward Snowden · Apr 18, 2014

What Europe Should Know about US Mass Surveillance

Whistleblower delivers written testimony to European Parliament

Edward Snowden · Mar 7, 2014

NSA Surveillance Is about Power, Not "Safety"

An open letter to the people of Brazil

Edward Snowden · Dec 17, 2013

The Work of a Generation

Edward Snowden · Oct 1, 2013

What I Have Done Is Costly, But It Was the Right Thing To Do

NSA Whistleblower asks for support from international community and human rights campaigners

Edward Snowden · Jul 12, 2013

Letter to the President and People of Ecuador

Edward Snowden · Jul 2, 2013

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