With that simple message, sent in december 2012 from former nsa contractor edward snowden to guardian reporter glenn greenwald, the biggest leak of government secrets in history was set in motion. Edward snowden stole hundreds of thousands of highly classified secrets and handed them to journalists while holed up in a hong kong hotel room. Since the first leak from mr Snowden certainly did the latter, though not as the nsa intended it, sharing with the press top secret documents about the degree to which telecoms and internet companies pass along customers. When did edward snowden leak the revelations made by edward snowden in 2013 sent shockwaves around the world, exposing the extent of global surveillance by intelligence agencies Snowden, a former cia employee and nsa contractor, leaked a trove of classified documents to journalists, sparking a global debate on privacy, security, and government transparency
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