Snowden: NSA hurts our country
The National Security Agency whistleblower, Edward Snowden, has said that the mass surveillance programmes used by the US to tap into phone and internet connections around the world is making people less safe. ● In short video clips posted by the WikiLeaks website on Friday, Snowden said that the NSA's mass surveillance, which he disclosed before fleeing to Russia, "puts us at risk of coming into conflict with our own government". A US court has charged Snowden with violating the Espionage Act, for disclosing the programmes which he described as a "dragnet mass surveillance that puts entire populations under sort of an eye that sees everything even when it's not needed". "They hurt our economy. They hurt our country. They limit our ability to speak and think and live and be creative, to have relationships and to associate freely," Snowden said.
PressTV: US spying defies our humanity: Snowden (Video) ● US 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 US National Security Agency (NSA) employee, made the remarks in one of the short video clips posted on the WikiLeaks website on Friday night that the whistle-blowing organization said were filmed on Wednesday. "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," said Snowden, who was granted asylum in Russia on August 1. Snowden said the US 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."