Posted on 06/09/2013 1:29:40 PM PDT by An Old Man
Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former undercover CIA employee, unmasked himself Sunday as the principal source of recent Washington Post and Guardian disclosures about top-secret National Security Agency programs.
Snowden, who has contracted for the NSA and works for the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, denounced what he described as systematic surveillance of innocent citizens and said in an interview that “it’s important to send a message to government that people will not be intimidated.”
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This man should be given a medal—I am surprised he wasn’t taken out before he could speak up. Watch as the MSM destroy the man as Child abuser, red neck KKK member.
Yep, I’m sure he and I disagree politically but that does not lessen the bravery he showed here. He knows he’s in for a world of pain and did it anyway.
What ... exactly ... did Snowden leak? Is it limited to just saying that the NSA got phone records from Verizon? Is there more? How much info did he spill?
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