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| | [[File:Snowden HK.jpg|thumb|250px|Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden, Garden Road, Central, [[Hong Kong]], June 15, 2013.]] | | [[File:Snowden HK.jpg|thumb|250px|Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden, Garden Road, Central, [[Hong Kong]], June 15, 2013.]] |
| − | '''Edward J. Snowden''' (Born June 21, 1983) is an American [[IT]] specialist and a former employee of defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton (a contractor for the [[National Security Agency]]). In June 2013 Snowden embarrassed [[Barack Obama]] by revealing the mass domestic surveillance program known as "[[PRISM]],". This is an internet snooping program run by the National Security Agency, as constituted by former [[George W. Bush|President George W. Bush]]. He explained to shocked Americans that the National Security Agency had in effect built a dossier on every man, woman and child in the [[United States of America]], and probably beyond borders, | + | '''Edward J. Snowden''' (Born June 21, 1983) is an American [[IT]] specialist, [[video game]] player[http://www.viralread.com/2013/06/15/who-is-edward-snowden-background-on-nsa-leaker-emerges/] and a former employee of defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton (a contractor for the [[National Security Agency]]). In June 2013 Snowden embarrassed [[Barack Obama]] by revealing the mass domestic surveillance program known as "[[PRISM]],". This is an internet snooping program run by the National Security Agency, as constituted by former [[George W. Bush|President George W. Bush]]. He explained to shocked Americans that the National Security Agency had in effect built a dossier on every man, woman and child in the [[United States of America]], and probably beyond borders, |
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| | The revelations made Snowden Obama's nemesis, and Obama has neglected most other issues, notably the downfall of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] government in [[Egypt]] in his pursuit of the young man. At one point, Obama had [[Evo Morales]], the president of [[Bolivia]] detained in an inept attempt to intercept Snowden. | | The revelations made Snowden Obama's nemesis, and Obama has neglected most other issues, notably the downfall of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] government in [[Egypt]] in his pursuit of the young man. At one point, Obama had [[Evo Morales]], the president of [[Bolivia]] detained in an inept attempt to intercept Snowden. |
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| − | Snowden is a [[video game]] player[http://www.viralread.com/2013/06/15/who-is-edward-snowden-background-on-nsa-leaker-emerges/]
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| | Snowden told the British left wing newspaper [[The Guardian]]: | | Snowden told the British left wing newspaper [[The Guardian]]: |