The US is secretly spying on people/Citizen 4 (Edward Snowden)

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In January 2013, Laura Poitras began receiving anonymous encrypted emails from a man named "CITIZENFOUR" who claimed to have evidence of the existence of illegal covert surveillance programs conducted by the NSA in collaboration with other intelligence agencies around the world.

Five months later, she and journalists Glenn Greenwald and Evan MacAskill flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with this man. It turned out to be Edward Snowden.

Citizen four - (part.1) - HD: https://rutube.ru/video/60bb4b5258fa...7c8ffff93febc/
Citizen four - (part.2) - HD: https://rutube.ru/video/50ed0a3bfec3...bb9f9b69c72ba/

LONDON, September 15 — RIA Novosti, Maria Tabak. Former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden explained the reasons that prompted him to publish secret US intelligence documents in his memoirs, Permanent Record. RIA Novosti has a copy of the book, which will go on sale on September 17.

"The constitutional system only functions as a whole if all three of its branches are working as they should. When all three not only stop working, but stop working consciously and in a coordinated manner, the result is a culture of impunity. I realized that I was crazy to imagine that the Supreme Court, or Congress, or President Obama, distancing himself from the George W. Bush administration, would ever hold the intelligence community accountable — for anything," Snowden writes.

"It's time to accept that the intelligence community is above the law, and given how broken the system is, they are right to do so. The intelligence community understood the rules of our system better than the people who created it, and they used that knowledge to their advantage. They hacked the Constitution," Snowden is convinced.

In his opinion, the only adequate response to a crime of this scale was to make secret programs public.

"Full disclosure of the mass surveillance apparatus, not by me, but by the media — essentially the fourth branch of American government, protected by the Bill of Rights — was the only response adequate to the scale of the crime," Snowden explained his decision.

In June 2013, Snowden leaked classified materials about US and UK intelligence agencies' internet surveillance programs to the Washington Post and Guardian. He flew to Hong Kong and then to Moscow, where he spent some time in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo Airport. Russia granted Snowden temporary asylum for a year on the condition that he cease his activities against the United States. In August 2014, Snowden received a three-year residence permit, which allows him to travel not only within Russia but also abroad. In January 2017, Snowden's residence permit was extended until 2020.

Source: https://ria.ru/20190915/1558700615.html