government considered him a traitor in violation of the Espionage Act.Īfter meeting with the journalists, Snowden intended to leave Hong Kong and travel - via Russia - to Ecuador, where he would seek asylum. To Snowden, the classified information he shared with the journalists exposed privacy abuses by government intelligence agencies. intelligence agencies' surveillance of American citizens.
In 2013, Edward Snowden was an IT systems expert working under contract for the National Security Agency when he traveled to Hong Kong to provide three journalists with thousands of top-secret documents about U.S. Reflecting on his decision to go public with classified information, Edward Snowden says, "The likeliest outcome for me, hands down, was that I'd spend the rest of my life in an orange jumpsuit, but that was a risk that I had to take."
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