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The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.

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Edward Snowden
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 21
Computer Scientist
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Elizabeth City
North Carolina
Edward Joseph Snowden
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I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.
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I read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion.
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I was living a charmed life.
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And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.
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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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The [Barack] Obama administration almost appears as though it is afraid of the intelligence community. They're afraid of death by a thousand cuts - you know, leaks and things like that.
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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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