Born in 1983 in elizabeth city, north carolina, he attended a community college and later enrolled at a masters programme of the university of liverpool without finishing it. The guardian reveals edward snowden as the source of the nsa leaks This time last year, no one knew edward snowden
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But by the end of 2013, his name was on every top 10 list, and the revelations contained with the nsa documents he leaked have inspired today's.
With that simple message, sent in december 2012 from former nsa contractor edward snowden to guardian reporter glenn greenwald, the biggest leak of government secrets in history was set in motion.
Edward snowden stole hundreds of thousands of highly classified secrets and handed them to journalists while holed up in a hong kong hotel room. At the time, snowden worked as an. Intelligence chiefs say revelations from the trove of classified documents disclosed by national security agency contractor edward snowden are still trickling out five years later. A breakdown of the informative leaks provided by the former cia employee, edward snowden, who spent time working with the nsa and shared highly classified information.
Snowden certainly did the latter, though not as the nsa intended it, sharing with the press top secret documents about the degree to which telecoms and internet companies pass along customers.
