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'''Edward Snowden''' (born [[Born on::21 June 1983]]) is an American computer specialist and former [[CIA]] employee and [[NSA]] contractor who in 2013 disclosed [http://freesnowden.is/category/revealed-documents/index.html classified details of top-secret US mass surveillance programmes] to the press. These included [[PRISM]], [[NSA call database]], and [[Boundless Informant]]. He also revealed details of [[Tempora]], a British black-ops surveillance program run by the NSA's British partner, [[GCHQ]], and a classified decryption program code named [[Bullrun]]. Snowden's identity was made public by The Guardian at his request on June 9, 2013. He explained: ''"I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong."''
 
'''Edward Snowden''' (born [[Born on::21 June 1983]]) is an American computer specialist and former [[CIA]] employee and [[NSA]] contractor who in 2013 disclosed [http://freesnowden.is/category/revealed-documents/index.html classified details of top-secret US mass surveillance programmes] to the press. These included [[PRISM]], [[NSA call database]], and [[Boundless Informant]]. He also revealed details of [[Tempora]], a British black-ops surveillance program run by the NSA's British partner, [[GCHQ]], and a classified decryption program code named [[Bullrun]]. Snowden's identity was made public by The Guardian at his request on June 9, 2013. He explained: ''"I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong."''
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Edward Snowden (born 21 June 1983) is an American computer specialist and former CIA employee and NSA contractor who in 2013 disclosed classified details of top-secret US mass surveillance programmes to the press. These included PRISM, NSA call database, and Boundless Informant. He also revealed details of Tempora, a British black-ops surveillance program run by the NSA's British partner, GCHQ, and a classified decryption program code named Bullrun. Snowden's identity was made public by The Guardian at his request on June 9, 2013. He explained: "I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong."

 

Quotes by Edward Snowden

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Nieuwsuur“The AIVD and MIVD are subordinates of the Americans. The Dutch work for the Americans. They do what we tell them to do. They aren't valued because of their capacity, but just because they give us a free passage, that's what the NSA uses them for. (...) Look what France is doing and even they couldn't stop all those terror attacks”Nieuwsuur
Privacy“Privacy is the right from which all others are derived. Without privacy there is only society, only the collective, which makes them all be and think alike. You can’t have anything yourself, you can’t have your own opinions, unless you have a space that belongs only to you. Arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say...”Medium

 

Related Quotations

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Ron Johnson“We met delegation after delegation of European representatives. Basically the entire conversation was about Edward Snowden, about tapping Angela Merkel's phone. But then Charlie Hebdo happened. I haven't heard a word about Edward Snowden or what the American security services were trying to do. What I'm hearing now is 'Where's America?'”Ron Johnson2017
Nieuwsuur“The AIVD and MIVD are subordinates of the Americans. The Dutch work for the Americans. They do what we tell them to do. They aren't valued because of their capacity, but just because they give us a free passage, that's what the NSA uses them for. (...) Look what France is doing and even they couldn't stop all those terror attacks”Edward Snowden
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UFO“So, are Unacknowledged Special Access Programs out of control in the United States? Good question. The term "Special Access Program", let alone "Unacknowledged Special Access Program", is only very seldom mentioned in the media. For example, these terms have not been mentioned at all in relation to the NSA spy revelations in recent years of William Binney and Edward Snowden, even though one would expect that many of the NSA spy programs as PRISM, Stellar Wind, Boundless Informant and JTRIG fell into this category. The term "Special Access Program" did recently surface with regard to the Hillary Clinton email scandals. As Obama's secretary of state, Clinton, against protocol, maintained a private mailbox full of information on all kinds of Special Access Programs. No details on these programs have been provided.”Joël van der Reijden

 

Related Documents

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:Checkbook Journalism & Leaking to the Highest Biddersarticle8 December 2013Sibel EdmondsA hard-hitting article on the Edward Snowden affair. Its author speaks with considerable authority on matters concerning intel/security whistle-blowing matters in the USA
Document:Cryptome’s searing critique of Snowden Incarticle13 February 2016Tim ShorrockCommentary on an interview with John Young and his wife Deborah Natsios by Pit Schultz of reboot.fm at the 'Transmedia 2016' event in Berlin on 6 February 2016
Document:GCHQ and Me: My Life Unmasking British EavesdroppersArticle3 August 2015Duncan CampbellNo one at the May 2015 conference on intelligence, security and privacy argued against greater openness. Thanks to Edward Snowden and those who courageously came before, the need for public accountability and review has become unassailable.
Document:Greenwald-Omidyar Joint Venture: The Blurring Lines Between Being A Source & Being A Journalistarticle13 December 2013Sibel Edmonds
Document:Mr Snowden, It’s Time to Come Out and Take a Stand Publicly as to Your Intentionsarticle15 December 2013Sibel Edmonds
Document:Omidyar’s PayPal Corporation Said To Be Implicated in Withheld NSA Documentsarticle11 December 2013Sibel Edmonds
Document:Saving Agent Snowden From His Handlers Greenwald & Omidyararticle24 October 2013Yoichi ShimatsuA long article on the Edward Sowden affair and the proposed 'alternative news' and whistleblowing-transparency initiative recently announced by Glenn Greenwald of Edward Snowden and Wikileaks revelations fame. It also contains plausible information about SIS involvement during the flight of Edward Snowden to Moscow via Hong Kong.
Document:Selling Secrets?article1 December 2013Glenn GreenwaldGlenn Greenwald's personal apologia - cum - mia-culpa. Written in response to devastating criticism of his motives and actions in the Edward Snowden affair to date.
Document:The Doomsday Insurance Cache That Was, and Then Never Wasarticle3 January 2014Sibel EdmondsPart 1 of a promised series of articles dissecting the published statements of the principal characters in what has become known as the Edward Snowden Affair. It highlights some glaring inconsistencies between those of Greenwald and Snowden and puts a shrewd question-mark over corporate media coverage of them.
Document:Vladimir Putin Interviewinterview5 September 2013Vladimir PutinPress interview with Vladimir Putin ahead of the September 2013 G20 meeting in St Petersburg
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