American - Activist | June 21, 1983 -
Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I'm no longer alone.
Edward Snowden
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You could watch entire villages and see what everyone was doing. I watched NSA tracking people's Internet activities as they typed. I became aware of just how invasive U.S. surveillance capabilities had become. I realized the true breadth of this system. And almost nobody knew it was happening.
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There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.
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The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history... The real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable.
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I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.
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I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.
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I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.
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The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison.
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The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.
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When people say, 'Why don't you face the music?' I say, 'You have to understand the music is not an open court and a fair trial.'
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I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn't turn over, because harming people isn't my goal. Transparency is.
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I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.
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