The 29-year-old former CIA-employee Edward Snowden is the source behind the leaked information about Prism and other secret aftapprojecten of the NSA. The British newspaper The Guardian Sunday, at the request of Snowden revealed.
Snowden, a former CIA employee, 29 years old, would have requested for his identity to make it public. In an interview with the British newspaper says he decided to have NSA secrets to the media because he was not a society wants to live where everything anyone does is logged. According to Snowden destroys the US at this time with secret programs the online privacy and civil rights.
The whistleblower currently resides in Hong Kong and has his girlfriend and family in the U.S. left. He hopes that Hong Kong does not meet the U.S. will extradite, and would love to go to Iceland want to go because this country promises to whistleblowers, far-reaching protection to offer. The American fear, however, the CIA, and a possible imprisonment. Also would the Chinese secret service on him can reach him to hear.
Although he whistleblowers as Bradley Manning and Daniel Ellsberg says to admire, claims to Snowden that he has accurately checked to see which data is in the public interest for publication and which are not. This would he in particular, along with journalists, have looked at whether the information a person in danger could bring. Further he says himself, no hero to be found, and therefore his identity public. Snowden also believes that his disclosures in his eyes until now for enough fuss ensure.
The 29-year-old American wanted in 2003 for the U.s. army in Iraq to fight, but got a job at the NSA as a security guard. Then he got a job at the CIA and because Snowden had experience with computers, he went to work for the CIA in it security. During this function, he would begin to doubt the justice of the work of the secret services which he received during his work on large scale access to topgeheimen. In 2009 he left and he started on behalf of the company Booz Allen Hamilton as a contractor for the NSA. There he would with his own eyes have seen how extensive the American aftapprogramma’s were, and then he would finally have decided to make a number of secrets publicly.
Consultancy firm Booz Allen Hamilton shows in a statement to know that it is ‘shocked’ about the possible role of Snowden in the leaking of secret government information. He would the rules of conduct and the core values of the company have severely harmed. Booz Allen Hammilton acknowledge that Snowden works for them, though that would be just a few months. It also says the company that it will fully contribute to an examination of the authorities.