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Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era, we're not going to be able to put the security back in the NSA.

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Edward Snowden
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 21
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Elizabeth City
North Carolina
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