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Edward Snowden
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Who Is Edward Snowden?
Edward Snowden (born June 21, ) is a computer programmer who worked as a subcontractor for the National Security Agency (NSA). Snowden collected top-secret documents regarding NSA domestic surveillance practices that he found disturbing and leaked them. After he fled to Hong Kong, he met with journalists from The Guardian and filmmaker Laura Poitras. Newspapers began printing the documents that he had leaked, many of them detailing the monitoring of American citizens. The U.S. has charged Snowden with violations of the Espionage Act, while many groups call him a hero. Snowden has found asylum in Russia and continues to speak about his work. Citizenfour, a documentary by Laura Poitras about his story, won an Oscar in He is also the subject of Snowden, a biopic directed by Oliver Stone and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and has published a memoir, Permanent Record.
Family & Early Life
Snowden was born in Elizabeth City, Nor
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Edward Snowden
On July 8, , the Sam A. Adams Association for Integrity in Intelligence, an organization made up of former American intelligence officials, announced that their annual Corner-Brightener Candlestick Award would go to a thirty-year-old man residing in the territory-neutral &#;transit zone&#; of Moscow&#;s Sheremetyevo Airport.
Thomas Drake, the recipient of the Candlestick and another former employee of the National Security Agency (NSA), had this to say about Edward Snowden, who continues to evade the U.S. authorities that have charged him beneath the Espionage Act with revealing intelligence secrets:
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Edward Snowden
American whistleblower and former NSA contractor (born )
Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, ) is an American former NSA intelligence contractor and whistleblower[4] who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs. He became a naturalizedRussian citizen in
In , while working as a government contractor, Snowden leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA). He was indicted for espionage.[5]His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments and prompted a cultural discussion about national security and individual privacy.
In , Snowden was hired by an NSA contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton, after previous employment with Dell and the CIA.[6] Snowden says he gradually became disillusioned with the programs with which