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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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Views Tuesday, May 03, 2016 Whistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking — It’s an Act of Political Resistance "I've been waiting 40 years for someone like you.” Those were the first words Daniel Ellsberg spoke to me when we met last year. Dan and I felt an immediate kinship; we both knew what it meant to risk so much — and to be irrevocably changed — by revealing secret truths. One of the challenges of... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 05, 2014 How the National Security State Kills a Free Society What follows is the content of an email ACLU supporters received from Edward Snowden this morning, one year to the day since The Guardian broke the first in a series of revelations exposing the breathtaking scope of U.S. government surveillance. It's been one year. Technology has been a liberating... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 18, 2014 Vladimir Putin Must Be Called to Account on Surveillance Just Like Obama On Thursday, I questioned Russia's involvement in mass surveillance on live television. I asked Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, a question that cannot credibly be answered in the negative by any leader who runs a modern, intrusive surveillance program: "Does [your country] intercept, analyze or... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 07, 2014 What Europe Should Know about US Mass Surveillance Common Dreams editor's note: What follows is a statement addressed to an investigative panel of the European Parliament looking into the nature and scope of U.S. surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency and its partner agencies in Europe. Subsequent to the statement are specific answers to written questions posed by the panel to Mr. Snowden. The original statement from which this was reproduced is available here as a pdf. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 17, 2013 NSA Surveillance Is about Power, Not "Safety" The following letter was published today in the Brazilian newspaper A Folha in Portuguese and this original text was provided via the Facebook page of Glenn Greenwald's husband David Miranda: Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 01, 2013 The Work of a Generation NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's words were entered as testimony at the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee in Brussels on Monday. Jesselyn Radack of the US Government Accountability Project (GAP) and a former whistleblower and ethics adviser to the US Department of Justice, read Snowden's statement into the record. Read more |
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Views Friday, July 12, 2013 What I Have Done Is Costly, But It Was the Right Thing To Do Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 02, 2013 Letter to the President and People of Ecuador The following is the full text of a letter by Edward Snowden to the President of Ecuador , Rafael Correa . Read more |
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Views Monday, July 01, 2013 Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably never will. I trusted them with my life and they returned that trust with a faith in me for which I will always be thankful. Read more |