Whistleblower Edward Snowden explains why he leaked in new memoir

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Edward Snowden says his six years working for the NSA and CIA led him to conclude the U.S. intelligence community 'hacked the Constitution' and put everyone’s liberty at risk and that he had no choice but to turn to journalists to reveal it to the world.

His decision to turn from obscure IC wonk to whistleblower in 2013 set off a national debate about the extent of government surveillance by intelligence agencies desperate to avoid a repeat of the Sept. 11 attacks. The story traces Snowden’s evolution from childhood, from growing up in the 1980s in North Carolina and suburban Washington, where his mother worked as a clerk at the NSA and his father served in the Coast Guard.

He struggled to share his concerns with the girlfriend, who joined him in Russia and is now his wife. Snowden, 36, lives in Moscow, where he remains outside the reach of a U.S. Justice Department that brought Espionage Act charges just weeks after the disclosures. He spends many of his days behind a computer and participating in virtual meetings with fellow board members at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. “I beam myself onto stages around the world” to discuss civil liberties, he writes.

Was the memoir leaked? If not, no fair 😝

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