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Young whistleblower standing up against might of USA government

whistleblowerNSA spy scandal whistleblower refuses to be bullied by U.S. EXAMINER JUNE 9, 2013 BY:  Edward Snowden, a young former CIA employee, leaked this week’s spy intelligence and says he refuses to be bullied into hiding. “I’m not going to hide,” Snowden, 29, said Sunday afternoon after news reports of his being the whistleblower of America’s spy scandal, a major rights violation.

“Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest,” he asserted.

Snowden has been identified as the source who leaked the information to the Guardian‘s Glenn Greenwald this week, according him and Greenwald and confirmed by The Washington Post.

In a Guardian story posted Sunday afternoon, Greenwald and two other reports revealed Snowden as the whistleblower, who works for the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton but has contracted for years with the NSA.The Guardian named Snowden at his own request, the article said.

Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. announced Saturday that the NSA launched a Justice Department investigation into who leaked the information……. http://www.examiner.com/article/nsa-spy-scandal-whistleblower-refuses-to-be-bullied-by-u-s?CID=examiner_alerts_article

June 10, 2013 - Posted by | general

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