#INN’s 2013 Person of the Year: Edward Snowden

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He pulled off the year’s most spectacular heist. Exiled from his country, the 30-year-old computer whiz has become the doomsayer of the information age

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Wikipedia Founder: Snowden is a Hero

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Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has called on Barack Obama to rein in the National Security Agency as he described the whistleblower Edward Snowden as “a hero” whom history will judge “very favourably”.

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Encryption Email Service Founder: ‘My own tax dollars are being used to spy on me’

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The Obama administration has created a surveillance state on a scale not seen since senator Joe McCarthy’s infamous 1950s crackdown on suspected communists, according to the tech executive caught up in crossfire between the NSA and whistleblower Edward Snowden

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Jailed for Exposing Turth

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Sentenced to 35 years in jail, Bradley Manning uncovered U.S. torture, abuse, soldiers laughing as they killed innocent civilians and journalists

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NSA Calls Secret Emergency Briefing to Protect its Powers

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The National Security Agency called for a “top secret” meeting with members of the House on Tuesday to lobby against the first House amendment to challenge the agency’s authority to cull broad swaths of communications data

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Snowden Fears Torture, Execution by U.S.

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Following the official asylum petition by Edward Snowden to the Russian authorities, RT interviewed Lawyer Anatoly Kucherena who consults Snowden

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Heroic Effort at Great Personal Cost

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A Swedish sociology professor has nominated Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize. He says the NSA whistleblower could help “save the prize from the disrepute incurred by the hasty and ill-conceived decision” to give the 2009 award to Barack Obama

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Edward Snowden Interview Pt. II

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Edward Snowden predicted more than a month ago while still in hiding in Hong Kong that the US government would seek to demonise him, telling the Guardian that he would be accused of aiding America’s enemies

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Demonized for Challenging Excessive Government Power

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What a disgrace. The U.S. government, cheered on by much of the media, launches an international manhunt to capture a young American whose crime is that he dared challenge the excess of state power.

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Apple Comes to Snowden’s Defense

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The Apple cofounder tells Lloyd Grove why he supports the NSA leaker, how the agency hasn’t ‘done one thing valuable for us’—and why the Internet wasn’t supposed to be this way

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