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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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One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going to be a drunk and I'm never going to do anything. I don't drink. I've never been drunk in my life. And they talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great.
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The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.
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All I was was a mechanism.
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People in both parties from the congressional intelligence committees - all these co-opted officials who play cheerleader for spy agencies - go on these Sunday shows and they say: Snowden was a traitor. He works against Americans. He works for the Chinese. Oh, wait, he left Hong Kong - he works for the Russians.
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The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.
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[Brazil] went to the UN and said, We need new standards for this. We need to take a look at what they're calling data sovereignty.
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I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not have the tools to provide an answer. We do have the tools and I have maps showing where people have been scrutinised most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.
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How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and is more and more difficult to check?
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I love my country. I love my family. And I have dedicated my life to both of them.
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Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I realised that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good.
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The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.
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I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.
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There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.
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I wasn't trying to change the laws or slow down the machine. Maybe I should have. My critics say that I was not revolutionary enough. But they forget that I am a product of the system. I worked those desks, I know those people and I still have some faith in them, that the services can be reformed.
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You don't need to justify your rights as a citizen - that inverts the model of responsibility. The government must justify its intrusion into your rights. If you stop defending your rights by saying, I don't need them in this context or I can't understand this, they are no longer rights.
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We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence.
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I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.
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The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.
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You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.
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The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.
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