Biography
Edward Snowden - American Technical Assistant, known to the whole world by publishing a number of sensational exposures of the US Securities relative to mass surveillance for citizens. Since 2013, his name appeared on the first lanesses of the media, as information on violations by the National Security Agency (ANB) of the rights and freedoms of millions of Americans and Europeans struck the world community.
Recently, Snowden lives in Russia, where he was given political asylum, as the United States declared him to international wanted list, contributing to the accusations of the embezzlement and disclosure of state secrets, which is regarded as a threat to the country's security.
Childhood and youth
Edward Snowden was born on June 21, 1983 in Elizabeth City, located in North Carolina. His parents - the guard of the Lohn Coast Service and the lawyer Elizabeth Snowden - divorced. In the family, Edward is a youngest child, he has an older sister of Jessica, who works as a lawyer in a federal judicial center in Washington.
Childhood and youth Snowden passed in their hometown, where the future employee of the CIA and the USA Academy of Sciences received secondary education. In 1999, Snowden's family moved to Maryland. There Edward entered the College of Ann Erandel, in which the preparatory courses were held for admission to the university.
Nevertheless, as a state of health, he did not finish the course of study - he had to remotely continue his studies that Snowden did not prevent Snowden in 2011 to receive a master's degree in Liverpool University.
In 2004, Edward Snowden went to serve as a reservist's armed forces from where a few months later, after receiving a serious injury of both legs, a female was commissioned. From this point on, the Snowden biography was directly related to computer science, programming and IT technologies in which the guy showed professionalism and special talent, despite the lack of formal confirmation of the skill of the specialist.
Service in the CIA
The rise in the career ladder at Edward Snowden was confident and rapid. The first professional skills specialist received in the National Science, working in the security structure of the secret object in the University of Maryland. A few years later, Snowden was adopted in the CIA service and under the diplomatic cover sent to Geneva in the post office of the United States in the UN. There in the range of his duties included the implementation of computer networks. According to Edward, work in Switzerland opened his eyes to the fact that he is a special link in the US intelligence services, bringing more harm to people than good.
In 2009, the programmer quit from the CIA and began working in the Dell and Booz Allen Hamilton cooperating with the Academy of Sciences of Consulting companies, fulfilling the obligations of an external contractor.
Snowden did not approve the activities of the US National Security Agency, in the future, in the future, having saved the US public from illusions about government's legitimate actions against the whole world. In this regard, in 2013, the Special Institution of the NSA decided to act at the destruction of his heart and to reveal to people who exposing the American intelligence services in a mass surveillance of people.
Snowden has repeatedly noted that he wanted to declassify the unlawful actions of the NSB and the CIA in 2008, but it was hoping that with the arrival of Barack Obama, the situation in the US secret services will change. Soon for a programmer, it became obvious that the US President continues the policy of his predecessors and does not intend to impede the activities of "spies."
Exposure and criminal prosecution
Snowden's work to declassify the crimes of American special services started in 2013. Then the former CIA and the Nambian agent contacted the film generator Laura Pootras, an American journalist Glen Greenwald and Publicist Barton Gellman, who was reported that he was ready to provide secret information.
Communication Snowden occurs through encrypted e-mail messages, through which the IT officer merged with reporters 200 thousand secret documents. Their secrecy status exceeded the previously published materials on WikiLeaks regarding conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. After that, the scandal broke out, and the declared compromise received the effect of the thermonuclear bomb in the press. In the future, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, will declare that, thanks to the International Non-Profit Organization, Snowden remains free.
The exposure of Edward Snowden contained facts regarding surveillance of US intelligencers for the population in 60 countries of the world and 35 government departments throughout Europe. The programmer has declassified information about the Prism program, with which the specialists led the mass surveillance for the negotiations of Americans and foreign citizens through the Internet and mobile communications.
According to Edward, the Prism program allowed the NAM to listen to voice and video sits, view email and photos, track forward files and own all information users of social networks. A large number of popular services participated in this program: Microsoft (Hotmail), Facebook, Google (Gmail), Skype, Yahoo!, Aol, YouTube, Apple and Paltalk.
Also, the secret decree of the FISC court was also a sensational exposure of Snowden, according to which the largest cellular operator Verizon is obliged to transmit all calls to the NSB every day, carried out within the United States. Against this ruling, journalists suggested that other American cellular operators could be attracted to such obligations.
In addition, thanks to Snowden, it became aware of the existence of the TEMPORA tracking program, which is being intercepted by Internet traffic and telephone conversations, and about the integrated iPhone software, which allows you to follow the user's actions.
One of the most resonant exposures of Snowden was the disclosure of the fact of intercepting the US intelligence officers of telephone conversations of foreign politicians and officials participating in the G20 summit held in 2009 in London. The USA's victims suffered from unlawful actions have entered many well-known politicians from around the world.
According to Pentagon, Snowden owns 1.7 million secret documents, most of which relate to vital information about the operations of the American Army and Fleet, marines and air force. This information, according to journalists, will be gradually disclosed in order to damage the national interests of the United States and the NSA.
After making a decision, to reveal his identity Edward Snowden, realizing that he would have to pay expensive for this act, went to run.
First, the programmer was hiding in Hong Kong, where he planned to get political asylum. After declaring the official accusation by the American authorities in the embezzlement and disclosure of the secret state mystery, what happened on the day of the 30th anniversary of Edward, the spy for unknown reasons appeared in Moscow at Sheremetyevo airport, but, without having a Russian visa, was forced to stay in the airport transit zone .
According to the media, in Russia, the programmer met a car with the diplomatic numbers of Venezuela, who took Snowden in an unknown direction. Presumably, Edward intended to go to South America through Moscow.
On June 30, 2013, he asked him to provide him with political asylum in Russia, and the next day the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin allowed the programmer to remain in the country under the condition that he would stop the subversive work of the American special services.
At the same time, Edward Snowden filed the American authorities about pardon, referring to the fact that there is nothing bad and unlawful in their actions. The American authorities have contradictory attitude towards the exposure of Snowden, considering that the programmer is obliged to appear before the court, since it issued US state secrets. American scouts consider the act of a former employee of the CIA and the NSA toughest and illegal, who put the intelligence service of the United States irreparable damage.
In turn, in the European Union, it is categorically related to the issue of the pursuit of Snowden. The European Parliament has repeatedly urged the EU to refuse to appoint punishment for an American, to provide him with protection, which will make it impossible to extradite it in the United States or returning to a third party.
In July 2016, the director of the CIA of the United States John Brennan said that Snowden should return to the United States and to appear before the court. Then the head of American foreign intelligence was not supported by the position of the former US Prosecutor General Eric Herder, who called Snowden's Activities "Service Society". The CIA head does not believe that thanks to Edward in the country began a discussion of socially significant issues.
In 2016, the ex-employee of the National Security Agency told in an interview with FINANCIAL Times about his life in the Russian capital. Snowden admitted that his knowledge of the Russian language is enough only to make the order in the restaurant. Snowden added that he lives in the North American oriental time and spends most of the time on the Internet, but "it always has always been in his life."
Snowden has repeatedly expressed the opinion on Russian anti-terrorist laws. Former employee of American special services criticized in his microblog in his microblog in the Twitter social network, the package of laws ("Summer Package"), which introduce a life imprisonment for international terrorism and oblige communication operators, messengers and social networks to keep information about the facts of conversations and user correspondence and their content.
"Mass surveillance does not work. This law is selected from each Russian money and freedom without improving security. Do not sign it, "says Snowden.In 2017, the former employee of the American special services invite the former employee of many countries of the world to speak in a number of issues, as well as to make lectures.
Films
"The most wanted person in the world" Edward Snowden after the publication and publication of the secret information of the American special services became one of the main persons for writers and cinematographers who thought to make it part of their creations. He was the main character of the documentary film "Citizen Four" ("Citizenfour"), filmed by Laura Porates based on an interview with an ex-officer of the CIA and the NSA.
The film about Edward Snowden won the prestigious Oscar Award as the best documentary picture with a bold plot, which from the first to last seconds carries the sensational information of an exposure nature.
In 2016, the world saw a new project of the famous director of Oliver Stone called "Snowden", dedicated to the history of the US intelligent American government of the former Aytichnik. The main roles in the film were performed by the actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sheilly Woodley and Zakari Quinto.
Personal life
The personal life of Edward Snowden after his loud exposures in mind the precautionary measures taken was a secret for society. He mentioned a family life once casual - in 2013 said that he had a wife and children. It is known that since 2009, his girl was the dancer Lindsser Mills, with which he lived in a civil marriage in the Hawaiian Island Vaipakh.
There were rumors that in the 2013th pair broke up. But the director Oliver Stone, the author of the Snowden film, denied this information. The American spy still lives together with the parent in Russia. This fact is the evidence of their joint photos that appear on the personal account of Lindsay in "Instagram".
In 2013, the former employee of the Russian special services Anna Chapman invited Edward Snowden to marry her. She wrote about this in Twitter, but users called such a step with PR.
According to journalists whoighing Edward interviews in Hong Kong, Snowden remains a good-natured and smart person, in whose character is traced by romance and idealism. The programmer leads a quiet and healthy lifestyle, practicing Buddhism, spends a lot of time at the computer and is fond of reading books on the history of Russia. At the same time, the "exposer" of the NSA and the CIA adheres to a vegetarian diet, does not drink coffee and does not drink alcohol.
Edward Snowden now
A programmer has repeatedly stated that it was ready to move to the United States, subject to an open trial with a presence on the jury. But no head of state has not yet given Snowden such guarantees. In 2017, journalists put forward the assumption that Moscow will not more hide Edward on the territory of Russia, and gives him a new US president to Donald Trump, but the programmer once again managed to extend the residence permit.
In 2018, the American stopped public relations for a period of six months. In the fall with his participation, a video station was held with the University of Management of the Austrian City of Innsbruck. Edward reported that he was managing the American Fund for the Protection of Freedom of Journalists.
As part of its activities, Snowden is developing a program that protects the sources of information from external threats. According to the former CIA officer, it is worried, first of all, the problems of the American society, with whom he continues to fight. At the same time, Edward does not stop criticizing the Russian government and reform.
In November, Snowden held a lecture for the leadership of Mossad, providing them with the video conference of evidence of the introduction of the NSA in the actions of Israelic intelligence. On new speeches in 2019, Snowden does not provide information yet, but it is assumed that the programmer will continue to expose the American special services.
Quotes
Snowden himself talks about his revelations like this:
"I carefully studied every document to make sure that his disclosure would serve to legitimate the interests of society. There are documents of all types, the disclosure of which would have great consequences, but I do not pass them, because my goal is openness, and not causing harm to people. "Commenting on the facts of control by the authorities of the communications authorities, Snowden noted that such a situation will lead in the future to the catastrophe:
"These activities in the future may be incorrectly interpreted, incorrectly interpreted, and used to you to the detriment of as a person. Even without any direct intention from the government to create you some kind of trouble. Security status is only where the security priority is over all other considerations. "
On the use of Google and Skype:
"I do not use Google and Skype. These are excellent services, but completely unreliable in the data security plan. We should not trust them, and certainly these programs should not be used for personal communication. "American officials have repeatedly called on the informant "to recognize the circumstances as they are," to accept the fact that he is threatened with a significant prison sentence in the United States, but Snowden was always categorical:
"Circumstances are not an open court and not fair trial"