(Born June 21, 1983) is an American IT specialist and a former employee of defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton (a contractor for the National Security Agency). In June 2013 Snowden revealed the mass domestic surveillance program known as “PRISM,”. This is an internet snooping program run by the National Security Agency after passage of the Patriot Act and Amendments. He explained to shocked Americans that the National Security Agency had in effect built a dossier on every man, woman and child in the United States of America, and probably beyond borders.
The revelations made Snowden the intelligence community nemesis.
After leaking the information in question, Snowden stayed in Hong Kong for a while; he then left China and went to Russia en route to seeking asylum in Ecuador. Snowden was apparently travelling on a passport that had been revoked. The Wikileaks organization has helped Snowden to stay ahead of Obama’s grasp. The president of Ecuador Rafael Correa explained that Snowden cannot go to Ecuador. At one point, Obama had Evo Morales, the prime minister of Bolivia detained in an inept attempt to intercept Snowden. As of July 6, 2013, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had offered asylum to Snowden.
Snowden is a Libertarian and a Buddhist. Although he has claimed to have fought for freedom of speech, he nonetheless ignored that Ecuador was also practicing massive surveillance measures. He was alleged to be a Russian agent. The Russian government granted Snowden asylum for three years in Russia.
In 2020, many Americans called for Edward Snowden’s pardon by President Trump (along with Julian Assange) following the pardons of 26 victims of injustice and targeting by the corrupt DOJ.
Edward Snowden exposed the worst 4th Amendment violations in US history: the unlawful collection of data on millions of Americans.
Snowden released information on the theft of data and the NSA’s plans to release use it for their own purposes:
The illegal collection of metadata of millions of Americans
NSA plans to “Collect it All” and “Exploit it All”
Economic espionage and the abuse of private data
Snowden’s information showed the Deep State is spying on everyone and then using it for their own purposes – perhaps even selling the data to thugs around the world for personal gain:
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Edward Snowden is a patriot. He is not a traitor. He is a legitimate whistleblower and, in a surprising decision today (Thursday), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit: Said the warrantless telephone dragnet that secretly collected millions of Americans’ telephone records violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and may well have been unconstitutional. This comes seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward ...
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The government is entitled to any money former National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden makes from his memoir and paid speeches because he disclosed classified information without approval, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Snowden has been charged with espionage since 2013, when he exposed top-secret surveillance documents in what may have been the biggest security breach in U.S. history. The former contractor sees himself as a whistleblower compelled to reveal ...
Perhaps in an attempt to refute recurring allegations that it has traditionally focused on exposing only US state secrets, if not being an outright covert and subversive Moscow front, today Wikileaks released a new cache of documents which it claims detail surveillance apparatus used by the Russian state to spy on Internet and mobile users. It’s the first time the organization has leaked material directly pertaining ...
RESEARCHERS WORKING with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Intercept. The security researchers presented their latest tactics and achievements at a secret annual gathering, called the “Jamboree,” where attendees discussed strategies for exploiting security flaws in household and commercial electronics. The conferences have spanned nearly a ...
HOW COVERT AGENTS INFILTRATE THE INTERNET TO MANIPULATE, DECEIVE, AND DESTROY REPUTATIONS Glenn Greenwald (writing for TheIntercept.com) Feb. 24 2014, 4:25 p.m. One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It’s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with ...
NSA Whistleblower, Edward Snowden, revealed that most large online data services providers participate in an NSA program to sweep up all user data into NSA computers for "Big Data" analysis and data mining. The companies revealed are Microsoft (9/11/07), Yahoo (3/12/08), Google (1/14/09), Facebook (6/3/09), Paltalk (12/7/09), YouTube (9/24/10), Skype (2/6/11), AOL (3/31/11), Apple (added Oct, 2012—one year after Steve Jobs died, replaced by former IBMer ...
On Jun. 06, 2013, thanks to NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden, we learned that all the large online "social" providers were creations and certainly tools of their U.S. government spy state cronies in a program called PRISM. This strategy was hatched during the Clinton administration by his spy master advisor, Harvard law professor James P. Chandler, later Leader Technologies' patent attorney. AT&T played too. What is Prism? ...
Edward Snowden is an American computer professional from N.C., a former Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) employee, and former contractor for the United States government who copied and leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 without prior authorization. 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. (1) ...
On Mar. 12, 2013, NSA Director James R. Clapper lied to Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore) and Congress: Sen. Wyden: "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions, of Americans?" Gen. Clapper replied untruthfully: "No, sir," rubbing his head. Sen. Wyden asked, "It does not?" Still rubbing his head, Clapper hedged, knowing the NSA was engaged in high crimes ...
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