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| CHAPTER 13 |
| The Great Divide |
| That moral decision to tell the public about spying that affects all |
| of us has been costly, but it was the right thing to do and I have |
| no regrets. |
| —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2013 |
| IN THE TWELVE-MINUTE VIDEO on The Guardian's website |
| L Snowden correctly identified himself as an infrastructure analys |
| at a regional base of the National Security Agency in Oahu, Hawaii. |
| He also revealed in a calm, unemotional voice that he had been the |
| source for the stories in both The Guardian and The Washington |
| Post. He said that he had supplied the secret, classified documents |
| that the two newspapers had used in their scoops about domestic |
| surveillance being conducted by the NSA, America's enormous elec- |
| tronic surveillance agency. These sensational revelations had been, |
| literally, the talk of the world, and now, in another major news event, |
| the boyish-looking Snowden took responsibility for what would |
| turn out to be the largest theft of top secret documents in the his- |
| tory of U.S. intelligence. |
| In the video, it will be recalled, Glenn Greenwald, who had bro- |
| ken the NSA story in The Guardian, questioned Snowden. What |
| was his motive? Greenwald asked. Why did he do it? Snowden |
| replied that he had become horrified by the NSA's secret operations, |
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