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Snowden: My Leak Has Benefited 'Every Society In The World'
At the conclusion of his appearance Monday at SXSW Interactive, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said he would do it all over again.
Asked if leaking the top secret NSA documents to the public was worth the personal price he has paid, Snowden said that he didn't leak the documents "so I could sort of singlehandedly change the government, tell them what they should do. What I wanted to do was inform the public."
"The result has been that the public has benefited, the government has benefited, and every society in the world has benefited," Snowden said. "Would I do this again? The answer is absolutely yes."
Snowden was speaking via satellite video with Christopher Soghoian, the American Civil Liberties Unions principal technologist. The conversation was moderated by Ben Wizner, the director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project and Snowdens legal advisor.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/snowden-sxsw-benefit-of-leak
At the conclusion of his appearance Monday at SXSW Interactive, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said he would do it all over again.
Asked if leaking the top secret NSA documents to the public was worth the personal price he has paid, Snowden said that he didn't leak the documents "so I could sort of singlehandedly change the government, tell them what they should do. What I wanted to do was inform the public."
"The result has been that the public has benefited, the government has benefited, and every society in the world has benefited," Snowden said. "Would I do this again? The answer is absolutely yes."
Snowden was speaking via satellite video with Christopher Soghoian, the American Civil Liberties Unions principal technologist. The conversation was moderated by Ben Wizner, the director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project and Snowdens legal advisor.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/snowden-sxsw-benefit-of-leak
Snowden's leak swayed the outcome of the North Korean election: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024638329
Voters broke into song: "I don't how to love him"
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He's now the front runner for the O'Reilly Prize, awarded annualy to the most self-important ...
11 Bravo
Mar 2014
#6
Well, he's certainly provided for a lot of amusement at the way the regime playing CYA about the NSA
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2014
#7
I'm guessing this is directly relevant to the topic of the NSA and its over-reach
LanternWaste
Mar 2014
#12
I keep forgetting the person is more important than than the policy to far too many of the dogmatic
LanternWaste
Mar 2014
#25
If that isn't true, why do people get so upset when anyone criticizes Snowden?
ProSense
Mar 2014
#29
He's still trying for clemency and needs to tell everyone how important he is.
ProSense
Mar 2014
#32
Obsessive desire to be seen as a hero, i.e.: Narcissism and/or Megalomania nt
stevenleser
Mar 2014
#46
It doesn't suggest any such thing. I already believed this from prior statements of his. This just
stevenleser
Mar 2014
#51
+1, this is the biggest tell tale of GG assholeness level... Snowden in the lurch GG raking it in
uponit7771
Mar 2014
#59
Winner of the Sam Adams award, Germany's Whistleblower Prize, elected to serve as Rector at the
Luminous Animal
Mar 2014
#60