Tuesday, June 18, 2013

SNOWDEN: The Truth Is Coming, And The Government Can’t Stop It By Murdering Me

Avoiding a specific question on the scope of documents he obtained about the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden suggested Monday that he believes the federal government wants to either jail or murder him.

“How many sets of the documents you disclosed did you make, and how many different people have them? If anything happens to you, do they still exist?” a questioner asked Greenwald in a livechat on the website of The Guardian, to whom Snowden has provided some of the documents.

Here is his answer:

“All I can say right now is the US Government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.”

Many members of Congress have suggested that Snowden is a “traitor” or committed an “act of treason.”

In the chat, Snowden also said that he fled to Hong Kong over Iceland — his preferred destination for asylum — because of travel restrictions for NSA employees.

Full article: http://www.businessi … enn-greenwald-2013-6



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