Former CIA employee Edward Snowden has come
forward as the whistleblower behind the explosive revelations about the
National Security Agency and the U.S. surveillance state. Three weeks
ago the 29-year-old left his job inside the NSA’s office in Hawaii where
he worked for the private intelligence firm Booz Allen Hamilton. Today
he is in Hong Kong–not sure if he will ever see his home again. In a
video interview with the Guardian of London, Snowden says he exposed top
secret NSA surveillance programs to alert
Americans of expansive government spying on innocents. "Even if you’re
not doing anything wrong, you’re being watched and recorded," Snowden
says. "And the storage capability of these systems increases every year,
consistently, by orders of magnitude, to where it’s getting to the
point you don’t have to have done anything wrong, you simply have to
eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call, and
then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every
decision you’ve ever made, every friend you’ve ever discussed something
with, and attack you on that basis, to sort of derive suspicion from an
innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer... The
public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or
wrong."
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