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So when they say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading.

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Edward Snowden
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 21
Computer Scientist
Dissident
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System Administrator
Whistleblower
Elizabeth City
North Carolina
Edward Joseph Snowden
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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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If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage, we, the people, will have to put forth our own extra governmental models and methods of trying to restore the balance of liberty to the liberal tradition of Western society.
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If you seek to help, join the open source community and fight to keep the spirit of the press alive and the internet free. I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.
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