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Edward Snowden on Why He Exposed the NSA

The Booz Allen Hamilton whistleblower talks to the Guardian‘s Glenn Greenwald about why he revealed the NSA’s voracious gathering of Americans’ data, and what he expects the consequences will be: Meanwhile, making the rounds on Facebook is this clip of then-Senator Obama renouncing spying on American citizens who aren’t suspected of crime—though in fact, in […]

The Booz Allen Hamilton whistleblower talks to the Guardian‘s Glenn Greenwald about why he revealed the NSA’s voracious gathering of Americans’ data, and what he expects the consequences will be:

Meanwhile, making the rounds on Facebook is this clip of then-Senator Obama renouncing spying on American citizens who aren’t suspected of crime—though in fact, in praising FISA and only criticizing “illegal” wiretaps, he was already signalling more support for a national-security dragnet than his admirers may have realized:

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