"The truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped" - Ed Snowden, June 2013

Saturday, June 22, 2013

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things".

Here's Ed talking to the Guardian, with the full transcript here

This is what courage looks like folks.  




"But over time that awareness of wrongdoing sort of builds up and you feel compelled to talk about. And the more you talk about the more you're ignored. The more you're told its not a problem until eventually you realize that these things need to be determined by the public and not by somebody who was simply hired by the government."

"Any analyst at any time can target anyone, any selector, anywhere. Where those communications will be picked up depends on the range of the sensor networks and the authorities that analyst is empowered with. Not all analysts have the ability to target everything. But I sitting at my desk certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a Federal judge to even the President if I had a personal e-mail."

"You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk because they're such powerful adversaries. No one can meaningfully oppose them. If they want to get you, they'll get you in time."

"The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change."


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