This year's old contractors who claim to have a job in the national security agency and the cia to allow themselves to be found on Sunday as the government secret surveillance program disclosure of sources, risking prosecution by the U.S. government.
Leakage has reopened after September. 11 debate about privacy concerns and the height of the measures, in order to prevent terrorist attacks, leading to the national security agency asked the justice department for criminal investigation.
"The guardian", according to documents of the first paper, said it was published by Edward snowden identity for the cia and defense contractor booz Allen Hamilton employees, technical assistant, before his request.
"My only motive is to inform the public, this is doing to them in their name, this is done," snowden told our correspondent.
In "the guardian" and "Washington post" published in last week's story reveals two monitoring program, with the snowden interview published on Sunday.
One of them is a telephone recording monitoring program, the national security agency to collect millions of American mobile phone records of every day, create a database, through it can understand whether terrorist suspects had contacts, said the Obama administration in the United States, the national security agency program does not listen to actual conversation.
In addition, the Internet search application, code, called prism, allowing the national security agency and federal bureau of investigation (fbi) directly touch is divided into nine U.S. Internet companies to collect all the Internet use - audio, video, photo, email and search. Try to detect suspicious behavior, is the purpose of overseas.
Snowden said, is not really a claim for compensation scheme is secure.
"Any analyst can at any time for anyone, any option. Anywhere. Where is the communication will be picking up to within the scope of the sensor network and authority, the analyst is authorized and rely on," snowdon said that in the attached video on the guardian website. "Not all analysts shall have the right to any goal. And I, sitting on my desk, there is hacking anyone's authority, you or your accountant, a federal judge even the President, if I have a personal email."
He told the morning papers, he would "asylum request free speech in any country that opposed" in Hong Kong, when accepting a reporter to interview in his privacy victims around the world.
"I'm not going to hide," snowden told the morning paper. "Allow the U.S. government to threatening retaliation against illegal behavior person is contrary to the public interest."
Postal snowden refused to expound its report.
U.S. director of national intelligence, shawn Turner's spokesman said the intelligence officials to review the damage at present, has been through these recently disclosed, "added:" anyone who has a security pass knows that he or she has the responsibility to protect confidential information, and comply with the law. "
He also noted that the U.S. justice department comment.
Ray, ntu, the ministry of justice spokesman said: "the justice department is the unauthorized disclosure of the confidential information authorized to access personal early stage of the investigation". "With long-term department policies and procedures, ensure the integrity of the investigation, we have to declined further comment."
In a statement, booz Allen has confirmed that snowden "has been our company's employees less than 3 months, assigned to a team in Hawaii." What statement said, he is out, if the news was proved to be accurate, "on behalf of the action code of behavior a serious breach of the", and promised to closely cooperate with the authorities survey company.
U.S. director of national intelligence James clapper to denigrate the inspirations of reckless intelligence collection plan, and that it has done "huge, severe damage." In recent days, he took the rare step of revocation of classified them some details, in response to media reports on counter-terrorism technology employed by the government.
Snowden told "the guardian", without a high-school diploma, he enlisted in the U.S. armed forces, until the hospital because of his injury, and later served as security guards and the NSA.
Later he worked for the cia information technology staff, and was stationed in Geneva, Switzerland in 2007, where his access to the confidential documents.
During that time, he considered the public's understanding of state secret plan, but told our reporter, he decided against it, because he doesn't want to put anyone in danger of, he hopes the election of barack Obama will reduce some secret plan.
He said he was disappointed, Mr Obama did not control in monitoring applications.
"Most of what I see really disillusioned in Geneva I how my government function, what is its influence in the world," he told "the guardian". "I realized that I am a part of things to do far more harm than good."
Snowdon left the agency in 2009 to join the private contractors, spent the past four years in the United States and the national security agency, as a contractor booz Allen consulting giant, before this, dell.
"The guardian" reported that snowden national security agency's office in Hawaii is working, copy the last file, he plans to disclose, and told he must leave a few weeks to accept treat epilepsy supervisors.
He left Hong Kong on May 20th, and remained so far, according to the newspaper. Snowdon was quoted as saying. He chose the city, because "they have a vibrant right of free speech and dissent" commitment, because he believed it was on the spot between the world and will boycott the U.S. government.
"I was satisfied, it is all worth it, I have no regrets," snowden told "the guardian", he after days of interview requests is identified.
Snowden decades in the United States could face a prison disclosed confidential information, if he is successful, mark's extradition from Hong Kong, said the national security law on behalf of the whistleblowing. Hong Kong, is now a semi-autonomous region, have an extradition treaty, China and the United States power in 1998, according to the U.S. department of state website. A message, the state department confirmed that the treaty is still a military force is not immediately answered.
Zaidman, said, "if it is a confidential information leakage, the government could make his 10 years or 20 years every fine counts," each leaked documents as a separate charge.
Snowden told our reporter, he thinks, the government can try according to "spy" accused him of treason, but he said, this will require the government to prove that he has betrayed America's intentions, and he made it clear that he'd been trying to stimulate debate.
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