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Edward Joseph Snowden is an American computer professional, former Central Intelligence Agency employee, and former contractor for the United States government who copied and leaked classified information to some news reporters and then the Russians in late 2013. He did this because he wanted to let the American people know what the government is doing behind there back and what there doing with the money. He worked at the NSA and when he saw what they where doing he leaked there files. After he leaked the files he went to the airport and took a plane to Russia where he remained in the Russian terminal for over a month. After that he was granted an asylum in Russia for over five years.

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Edward Snowden was a former NSA employee. He revealed many classified US documents. This is a large federal crime. He released it through an article in "The Guardian." When the US found out they charged him with crimes and he fled to Russia where he is living. He has said that he doesn't think that what he did was wrong and that he also has to regrets.

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Edward Snowden is a 34 year old American computer professional and former Intelligence Community Officer. He made history when he copied and leaked very classified N.S.A. information without the correct authorization in the year 2013. To this day he is living in plain sight in Russia waiting

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Edward Joseph Snowden is an American computer professional, former Central Intelligence Agency employee, and former contractor for the United States government. He made national history when he copied and leaked classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 without authorization.

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Edward Snowden is a 34 year old former Intelligence Community officer and whistleblower. The document he revealed to the public provided a window into the NSA's secret mass surveillance program and capabilities. These revelations generated unprecedented attention around the world on privacy intrusions and digital security, leading to a global debate on the issue. Snowden worked in various roles within the US Intelligence Community, he most recently worked as an infrastructure analyst at the NSA, through a Booz Allen Hamilton contract. After traveling to Hong Kong, Snowden revealed documents to the American public on the NSA’s mass surveillance programs, which were shown to be operating without any public oversight and outside the limits of the US Constitution. The US government has charged Snowden with theft of government property, and two further charges under the 1917 Espionage Act , along with the charges the penalties are ten years in prison .Snowden is now in Russia, where he was formally granted three years’ residency from 1 August 2014.

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Edward Joseph Snowden is an American computer professional, former Central Intelligence Agency employee, and former contractor for the United States government who copied and leaked classified information. His actions scarred the reputation of the NSA as well as his own career because of espionage charges. He now lives in plain sight of American officials in Russia. He is still waiting for official charges.

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Edward Snowden is a former Central Intelligence Agency employee and former contractor for the United States government who copied and leaked classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 without authorization. Snowden went from working in IT for the CIA to making national history by leaking classified information. Government officials estimated that he released about 1.7 million files. He told The Guardian in his first interview, "My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them."

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Edward Snowden was a man who went to work for the CIA and NSA. During his time there he uncovered shocking top secret information regarding the NSA's domestic surveillance. He went to Hong Kong, China to talk to journalists where he leaked the information on how the NSA monitored its citizens. Many newspapers like The Guardian published this newly found information. In return Snowden was charged with accusations of being spy and became a wanted man. A lot of people consider him a hero but nonetheless he had to flea the U.S  or else he would be sentenced to years in prison. Edward now had been living in Russia as an asylum.

Here is an Edward Snowden quote, "You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk."

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Edward Snowden is a former CIA/NSA employee, he then revealed many classified US documents. he than was charged with many crimes by the US and had to flee to an asylum in Russia where he has been for many years. He has said that he doesn't think that just because what he did was illegal doesn't make it wrong, he also stated that he has no regrets of what he did and would do it again.

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Edward Snowden, a 34-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and is the individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history. Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors.

Snowden will go down in history as one of America's most consequential whistleblowers, alongside Daniel Ellsberg and Bradley Manning. He is responsible for handing over material from one of the world's most secretive organisations – the NSA.

Despite his determination to be publicly unveiled, he repeatedly insisted that he wants to avoid the media spotlight. "I don't want public attention because I don't want the story to be about me. I want it to be about what the US government is doing."

He does not fear the consequences of going public, he said, only that doing so will distract attention from the issues raised by his disclosures. "I know the media likes to personalise political debates, and I know the government will demonise me."

Despite these fears, he remained hopeful his outing will not divert attention from the substance of his disclosures. "I really want the focus to be on these documents and the debate which I hope this will trigger among citizens around the globe about what kind of world we want to live in."

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Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American computer professional, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, and former contractor for the United States government who copied and leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 without authorization. His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments.

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Edward Snowden is a 34 year old US citizen, former Intelligence Community officer and whistleblower. The documents he revealed provided a vital public window into the NSA and its international intelligence partners’ secret mass surveillance programs and capabilities. These revelations generated unprecedented attention around the world on privacy intrusions and digital security, leading to a global debate on the issue. Snowden worked in various roles within the US Intelligence Community, including serving undercover for the CIA overseas. He most recently worked as an infrastructure analyst at the NSA, through a Booz Allen Hamilton contract, when he left his home and family in Hawaii to leak secret information in May 2013. After traveling to Hong Kong, Snowden revealed documents to the American public on the NSA’s mass surveillance programs, which were shown to be operating without any public oversight and outside the limits of the US Constitution. The US government has charged Snowden with theft of government property, and two further charges under the 1917 Espionage Act. Each charge carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence. With the US pursuing his extradition, Snowden is now in Russia, where he was formally granted three years’ residency from August 1, 2014, after a year of temporary asylum in Russia ended on July 31, 2014. Journalists continue to publish documents from Snowden that reveal the secret and unaccountable systems of modern global surveillance.

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Edward Snowden is an ex Central Intelligence Agency employee who is known for the unbeknownst leakage and release of restricted National Security Agency documents. Snowden originally worked for Dell and later the Central Intelligence Agency, but was hired by Booz Allen Hamilton to work for the National Security Agency. On June 21, 2013, Snowden was charged by the United States Department of Justice for violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and for theft of government property. Days later, he traveled to Moscow to avoid arrest, but Russian authorities noted that his passport had been cancelled, so he was stuck inside of an airport terminal for a month. The Russians soon granted him the right of asylum for one year, which means that a person being persecuted by their country may be protected by another sovereign nation, and extensions made by the government allow him to stay until 2020.
Snowden has been remarked as both a patriotic hero and a traitor.

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Edward Snowden is a 34 year old former CIA intelligence agent and former NSA agent. He revealed hundreds of classified documents from the NSA and CIA to the U.K. newspaper, The Guardian. He dropped out of high school and went to Anne Arundel Community College from 1999 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2005. He joined the Army in 2004 and subsequently left after getting shin splints. His first job was a security guard at the University of Maryland. The job was connected to the NSA and he got a job there in 2006. On May 20, 2013, Snowden took a flight to Hong Kong. During this time, he stole valuable documents from the government and The Guardian posted them the next day. He now lives in exile in a disclosed hiding place in Moscow, Russsia.

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Edward Snowden, a former CIA and NSA employee went on to make history when he revealed hundreds of thousands of classified US documents. These documents were more specifically related to surveillance programs. Snowden used to work for the CIA as a computer expert and did many undercover work overseas. He also worked for the NSA afterwards and was disappointed to learn about all these secret government programs. During his work in the NSA he began to copy all these classified documents. He then went to Hong Kong where he met up with many famous journalist and released the information to them. He currently lives n Russia as in asylum because of the crimes he committed towards the US.

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Edward Snowden was a former NSA subcontractor who leaked top secret information about NSA surveillance activities.  In 2013, when he found things disturbing there, he fled to Hong Kong and met up with writers from The Guardian, as well as journalist, Laura Poitras. The U.S. citizens have been monitored by the NSA.  The U.S. charged him with federal crimes, while some call him a hero.  He was in Russia, in an asylum where he is safe.  He is now in Russia, living with residency.  The journalist, Laura Poitras published a book called Citzenfour.  It was about his findings and how he did it.

"I'm willing to sacrifice because I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building."

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Edward Snowden is former Intelligence Community officer. He revealed documents that provided a public window into what the NSA and its international intelligence partners’ have collected in their secret mass surveillance programs. This generated attention around the world on the topic of privacy intrusions and digital security.

Snowden worked in various parts of the US Intelligence Community, even being undercover for the CIA overseas. Most recently he worked as an infrastructure analyst at the NSA. He left his home and family in Hawaii when he was about to release the secret documents. After he went to Hong Kong, Snowden revealed documents to the public on the NSA’s mass surveillance programs. These were shown to be operating with the absence of any public oversight as well as being outside the limits of the US Constitution. The US government responded by charging Snowden with theft of government property and espionage. Snowden is now in Russia where he received temporary asylum.

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Edward Snowden of a former CIA employee, who leaked confidential information from the CIA. The confidential files contained information regarding domestic surveillance practice upheld by the NSA. These files upset Snowden so much, he leaked them to the public.The U.S. has charged Snowden with violations of the Espionage Act while many groups call him a hero. Snowden has found asylum in Russia and continues to speak about his work.

During his years of IT work, Snowden had noticed the far reach of the NSA's everyday surveillance. Snowden began copying top-secret NSA documents, of practices that he found invasive and disturbing. These documents were teeming with details of what the NSA sees within our lives.

After he had compiled a large store of documents, Snowden told his NSA supervisor that he needed a leave of absence. His excuse was being diagnosed as a recent epileptic and needing treatment. On May 20, 2013, Snowden took a flight to Hong Kong, China, where he remained as he organized a meeting with journalists from the U.K. publication The Guardian as well as filmmaker Laura Poitras. On June 5, The Guardian released secret documents obtained from Snowden. In these documents, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court implemented an order that required Verizon to release information to the NSA on an "ongoing, daily basis" culled from its American customers' phone activities.

The following day, The Guardian and The Washington Post released Snowden's leaked information on PRISM, an NSA program that allows real-time information collection electronically. The result was a global debate.

Through his illegal actions, Snowden made national history by leaking NSA files and exposing just how much the NSA knows about us. This caused him to make headlines and change U.S.