About Edward Snowden

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About

Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American former technical contractor and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), before disclosing details of classified NSA mass surveillance programs to the press.


Snowden shared classified material on top-secret NSA programs including the PRISM surveillance program with The Guardian and The Washington Post, both of whom published their first exposés in June 2013.

 Snowden said his disclosure of PRISM and FISA orders related to NSA data capture efforts was an effort "to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them."

The Truth

In 2002, Snowden was working for Ryuhana Press, a now-defunct start-up that sold anime art.

On May 7, 2004, Snowden enlisted in the United States Army with the hope of eventually joining the Special Forces. 

He said, "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" but was discharged just months later on September 28 after, he said, breaking both of his legs in a training accident. 

His next employment was as a National Security Agency (NSA) security guard for a covert facility at the University of Maryland, before joining the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to work on IT security.

In 2007, the CIA stationed him with diplomatic cover in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was responsible for maintaining computer network security.

 Snowden left the agency in 2009 for a private contractor inside an NSA facility on a United States military base in Japan.

At the time of his departure from the US in May 2013, he had been working for consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton for less than three months as a system administrator inside the NSA in Hawaii.

He described his life as "very comfortable," earning a salary of "roughly US$200,000", although his employer disputed this claim on June 10, when he was fired "for violations of the firm's code of ethics and firm policy." 

Glenn Greenwald, a journalist who initially interviewed Snowden and reported Snowden's revelations, later wrote, “It's possible Booz Allen is using a pro-rated figure, or it's possible Snowden talked about his salary at his prior NSA job at Dell.”