Edward Snowden on exposing NSA surveillance: 'I had produced a system that spied on everyone'

In his new memoir "Permanent Record," whistleblower Edward describes what he learned from within the American intelligence apparatus that convinced him to blow the whistle on unchecked government surveillance. While working as a contractor for the CIA and NSA, Snowden laid the groundwork for many of the cybersecurity protocols under which the agencies currently operate. Eventually, Snowden came to believe the NSA's surveillance practices were betraying public trust in the government and violating the constitution. "When you think about what the NSA doe … you're at least supposed to think that they spy on bad guys," he says. He later came to the realization that "the systems that I built, the systems that my generation had built, I had produced a system that instead spied on everyone."

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[ohmyblindman]

He is so smart, so earnestly patriotic; I hope he gets to have a minimum of happiness going forward.

[curtcoller]

I must add: I admire this man and know what he's going through, because I did the same. At the end of my attempts to help the people I noticed
there is no way, because they don't trust you. Trust is the only motor for good relationships. If you trust me, we find a way for you to live in your place of origin, Edward. But how you establish trust is beyond me. I can help but I can't make you trust me.

[sunnywakefield]

THANK YOU EDDIE !!! EVERY ONE LOVES YOU !!!!....WE ARE ALL SO ASHAMED OF THE UNITED STATES !!!!...LOVE FROM HOLLY KELLEY AKA " BING" !!!

[Theonegov]

All Americans Spied On - NSA Remote Neural Monitoring - Covert Invasive Surveillance - 1980

[miaash]

He is really smart, and he would NEVER sell his soul to the devil, unlike Bill Gates!

[Acuity-]

0:09 0:13 0:18 0:23 0:25 0:28 0:31 0:43 1:33 1:46 1:49 1:53 1:55 1:57 1:58 1:59 3:01 4:15 4:23 4:41 4:43 4:44 4:45 4:46 4:49 4:53

4:13 He mentions cogs, Definition: copy (someone else's work) illicitly or without acknowledgement.

0:45 He mentioned the U.S. stopped caring about what they should do.

0:17-0:19 Mentions indiscriminate programs. 0:24-0:28-0:30 0:31 0:44 0:46

0:36-0:39-0:40 Unconstitutional Pre-crime laws.

0:45 He mentions the Agencies and Judicial system stopped caring about what they should do and instead started pursuing as aggressively as possible what they could do.

Examples of Unconstitutional laws: The Courts Revoking Peoples Concealed Carry Permits after self-defense incidents when their lives could still be on the line, The ATF going after disabled people as pawns(news article) and mining their data and telling us what guns we can legally buy or not.
News Article(The ATF wants to Massive online database to find out who your friends are April 5th 2013 Snowden whistle blower occurrence "2013")

DHS data mining sparks more controversy(news article from "2007 before Election")

1.6 Billion rounds for Homeland Security "2013" news article

!-Allegations Against the ATF: Using The Mentally Disabled as Pawns(News-The Atlantic/December 11, " 2013")
(Massive Data Repository Mentioned)(ATF's Gun Registry database)

!-YouTube video - Snowden: They Are Watching You | Learn Liberty (six:fifty two)-Mentions Massive Data Repository/NSA/CIA.


Report Details ATF's Use Of Mentally Disabled In Gun Stings(npr/December 8, "2013")

ATF Agents Lured Mentally Disabled as Bait(newser/December 8, 2013)

In this case the Justice Department failed to comply with legal obligations for people with disabilities, ATF use of people with disabilities showed the law was not being followed(milwaukee journal sentinel/September 18, 2016)

3:56 4:01(Keyboard search warrants, data brokers and predictive policing are most likely what he warned of/assumptions based on internet comments/indirect Court surveillance)4:19 4:36 4:43 4:46 0:15 0:23 0:31 0:38

[ANHTUAN_ART]

E.Snowden and J.Assange are international heroes. They are a symbol of humanity, honestly standing up for justice. Snowden has a great faithful wife and they deserve a happy life in beautiful Russia. They have helped the world avoid many dirty and cruel tricks of the U.S. Although the U.S. and its Western European vassals have always invaded or harmed countries around the world in the name of freedom and democracy.
I wish President V. Putin good health, enthusiasm and wisdom to help Russia have enough strength and truth to protect this world.

[GustavoMorales-mzwx]

My own family is also involved in this crime and 24/7 surveillance on me and abuse I've been a victim of abuse for several years suffering in silence it's murder

[benreaction]

His acting coach definitely was working over time. I know it took practice sessions to perfect it.

[stevekalan]

Work on the Moscow Idaho case Edward Snowden 😢

[vs]

How did he get so much media training? For real, he’s a professional but this wasn’t his profession before, people aren’t born with media training like him but he seems like the last person who would have access to something like that

[pohakumana]

One reason I've never bought a "Can you hear me now, how about now? now? hello? hello? fuck! phone/tracking device" for a $1K.

[rickrolledtruth]

the originator of putting the tape over the cam on computers.

[Badger]

What does he know about Remote Neutral Monitoring and Synthetic Telepathy

[randomenvelope]

I want games to stop holding the game hostage unless I accept their privacy policy

[WeaponizedPanda]

"The systems that I have built, spied on everyone." - My, God what have we done?

[MichaelSkinner-ej]

The added problem to that, is that people can hack the NSA or whatever Network or people in that organization can play favorites and disseminate information to private citizens and facilitate crime.

The reason why you don’t spy on everyone, is that the person in the agency can essentially handed off to a hacker and give them the keys.

It’s the old saying, who watches the watchers?
They can be just as crooked as hackers, and be motivated by money. Not ethics

[StepSeven]

the fact russia took him in, and the US govenment hates him. I love this guy

[shannonchuprevich]

Ed if my comment could trigger a formal petition, that you may be restored to your status as a free and law abiding citizen of the United States of America, here is my voucher.

This war on terror must come to an end sooner than later.

[Solisium-Channel]

Nvidia just made mass surveillance 13 times more efficient and 75 times cheaper