Edward Snowden Interview [Live Leak]

A quick repost of NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden’s interview with German channel NDR.

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[dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]A[/dropcap] quick repost of NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden’s interview with German channel NDR.

Guardian Profile Edward Snowden:
“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.” He added: “My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.”

He has had “a very comfortable life” that included a salary of roughly $200,000, a girlfriend with whom he shared a home in Hawaii, a stable career, and a family he loves. “I’m willing to sacrifice all of that because I can’t in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building.”

Guardian Link

Wikipedia Profile Edward Snowden:
“I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things [surveillance on its citizens]… I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded… My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.”

Snowden said in a later interview that his “mission’s already accomplished” and that he had already won. He declared:

“For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself. All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed.”

Wikipedia

 

Liveleak Link
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f93_1390833151#KTv4V78Jqh34Ohlf.01

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