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I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.

Edward Snowden

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Edward Snowden
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 21
Computer Scientist
Dissident
Intelligence Analyst
Intelligence Officer
Security Guard
System Administrator
Whistleblower
Elizabeth City
North Carolina
Edward Joseph Snowden
Ed Snowden
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The courts were afraid to challenge executive declarations of what would happen. Now, over the last year, we have seen - in almost every single court that has had this sort of national-security case - that they have become markedly more skeptical.
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The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do about it?
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If I am traitor, who did I betray? I gave all my information to the American public, to American journalists who are reporting on American issues. If they see that as treason, I think people really need to consider who they think they're working for. The public is supposed to be their boss, not their enemy.
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Extremists are not going to disappear.
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Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.
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I'm still working for the government.
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The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.
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What we're really debating is not security versus liberty, it's security versus surveillance. When we talk about electronic interception, the way that surveillance works is it preys on the weakness of protections that are being applied to all of our communications. The manner in which they're protected.
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I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose.
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You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.
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There were no whistleblower protections that would've protected me - and that's known to everybody in the intelligence community. There are no proper channels for making this information available when the system fails comprehensively.
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We have to confront the reality of our world, and make the hard decisions about which way we want to move forward.
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[Occupy Wall Street] had an impact on consciousness. It was not effective in realizing change.
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Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on.
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We have to be able to ask questions in order to answer them.
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We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of their own values.
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It is interesting that so many people who become disenchanted, who protest against their own organizations, are people who contributed something to them and then saw how it was misused.
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It's fascinating to see how things have changed. Basically, every time the US government gets off the soapbox of the Sunday-morning talk shows, the average American's support for the surveillance revelations grows.
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When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.
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That's the key - to maintain the garden of liberty, right? This is a generational thing that we must all do continuously. We only have the rights that we protect. It doesn't matter what we say or think we have. It's not enough to believe in something it matters what we actually defend.
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