Edward Snowden, a former Central Intelligence Agency system analyst who in June 2013 leaked classified information from the National Security Agency, is often called a coward, a traitor, a criminal, etc. Snowden is definitely guilty – of disclosing the truth to fellow Americans, of revealing that Americans were being lied to and for showing them that the government was stealing from the citizens it was meant to protect.

This patriot’s words are dangerous to the institutions that withhold people from moving in a progressive direction. His words threaten the very system that places these institutions on top and the general public at the bottom. The US government has done its best to keep whistleblower Snowden from communicating with the Americans for ‘obvious reasons’. He is often silenced and the Obama administration wants to keep him as quiet as possible.

Watch this interview (which originally aired in January 2014) – the government will not be happy with you though. Watch Snowden explain what prompted him to become a whistleblower and to release the classified intelligence documents…

He says, “I would say sort of the breaking point is seeing the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, directly lie under oath to congress… There’s no saving an intelligence community that believes it can lie to the public and the legislatures who need to be able to trust it and regulate its actions…

…Beyond that, it was the creeping realization that no one else was going to do this. The public had a right to know about these programs. The public had a right to know that which the government is doing in its name and that which the government is doing against the public. But neither of these things we were allowed to discuss; we were allowed to know. Even the wider body of our elected representatives were prohibited from knowing or discussing these programs, and that’s a dangerous thing.”

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