NEWS 409 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Booz Allen Hamilton, Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg
26 Feb 2019
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Snowden will go down in history as one of america"s most consequential whistleblowers, alongside daniel ellsberg and bradley manning. He is responsible for handing over material from one of the world"s most secretive organizations the nsa. Fox news: nsa whistle-blower who sought to inform the public" in massive surveillance leak faces decades in jail . Npr: who is edward snowden, the nsa leaker? . The atlantic: meet edward snowden, the nsa whistleblower associated press: the leaker: A 29-year-old high school dropout who worked for consulting giant booz allen hamilton has claimed responsibility for disclosing the programs to the guardian and the washington post. Snowden told the guardian that he enlisted in the army, was dismissed after breaking both legs during a training exercise and later got a job as a security guard at a covert intelligence facility in maryland.
