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A new leader will be elected they'll flip the switch say that becaus of the crisis because of the dangers that we face in the world you know some some new and unpredicted threat we need
And the more you talk about it the more you're ignored the more you told it's not a problem
Anybody in the positions of access with the technical capabilities that I had could suck out secrets
Even if you're not doing anything wrong you're being watched and recorded and the storage capability of these systems increases every year consistently by orders of magnitude
Go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made every friend you've ever discussed something with and attack you on that basis to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life and p...
Government is going to grant themselves powers unilateral E to create greater control over american society and global society
I could be rendered by the sea I could have people come after me or any of their their third party partners you know they work closely with a number of other nations
I had access to you know the full rosters of everyone working at the NSA the entire intelligence community and undercover assets all around the world
I sit in my desk certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone from you or your account into a federal judge to even the president if I had a personal email
I've been a systems engineer systems administrator senior adviser for the central intelligence agency solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems
If I had just wanted to harm the US you know that you could shut down the surveillance system in an afternoon but that's not my intention
If they want to get you they'll get you in time
It collects the minutes system in it filters the minute analyzes the minute measures them and it stores them
It'll kind of give it its officials a mandate to go hey you know tell the press about this thing and that thing so the public is on our side
It's going to get worse with the next generation of the next generation who extend the capabilities of this sort of architecture of oppression
It's only going to get worse until eventually there will be a time where policies will change because the only thing that restricts the activities of the surveillance state our policy
My name is ed snowden i'm twenty nine years old I work for booz allen hamilton as an infrastructure analyst for NSA in hawaii
NSA in the intelligence community in general is focused on getting intelligence wherever it can by any means possible
Overtime that awareness of wrongdoing sort of builds up
So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government or someone that they suspected terrorism they're collecting your communications to do so
The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for america of these disclosures is that nothing will change
The NSA specifically targets the communications of everyone it ingests them by default
These things need to be determined by the public not by somebody who is simply hired by the government
They could pay off the triads or you know any any if their agents are assets
This is something that's not our place to decide the public needs to decide whether these programs are policies are right or wrong
This is the truth this is what's happening you should decide whether we need to be doing this
When you're in positions of privileged access like a systems administrator for these sort of intelligence community agencies you're exposed to a lot more information on a broader scale than the ave...
You don't have to have done anything wrong you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call
You realize that you might be willing to accept any risk and it doesn't matter what the outcome is so long as the public gets to make their own decisions about how that supplied
You recognize that some of these things are actually abuse is an when you talk to people about them in a place like this where this is the normal state of business people tend not to take them very...
You you're living in hawaii in paradise and making a ton of money what would it take to make you leave everything behind

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