Edward Snowden Says U.S. Spying Limits Freedom

Edited by Juan Leandro
2013-10-14 13:20:03

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Moscow, October 14 (RHC)-- U.S. surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden says Washington's spy programs are limiting people's ability to speak and think freely, diminishing their creativity and making their lives insecure.

Snowden, a former U.S. National Security Agency employee, made the remarks in one of the short video clips posted on the WikiLeaks website that the organization said were filmed last week.

Granted asylum in Russia on August 1st, Edward Snowden said: "People all over the world are realizing that these programs don't make us more safe, they hurt our economy, they hurt our country, they limit our ability to speak and think and live and be creative, to have relationships, to associate freely."

The former U.S. intelligence analyst said the U.S. government was "unwilling to prosecute high officials who lied to Congress and the country on camera, but they'll stop at nothing to persecute someone who told them the truth."

Snowden underlined the dangers of NSA spy programs, saying: "It's a sort of dragnet mass surveillance that puts entire populations under a sort of eye that sees everything, even when it's not needed."

In June, Snowden leaked two top secret U.S. government spying programs under which the NSA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are eavesdropping on millions of American and European phone records and the Internet data from major Internet companies such as Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Apple, and Microsoft.



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