MYRE: When Snowden felt he was about to be detained in Hong Kong, he flew to Russia. And I suppose Snowden either doesn't care or just doesn't think about it. JAMES WOOLSEY: When you make a decision - and Snowden did - that you're going to take the place of the president and the Congress, you are undertaking an action that could very well get people killed. Former CIA Director James Woolsey spoke with Fox News in 2013. MYRE: However, many people in the national security community then and now regard Snowden as a traitor. He wants there to be a debate triggered around the policies that are very consequential and yet very secret - or at least were secret until he helped begin to expose them. GLENN GREENWALD: Because he feels like he did the right thing, he doesn't want to hide in shame or try and evade public detection. One was Glenn Greenwald, speaking here to NPR in 2013. MYRE: Snowden copied files of the NSA's top-secret surveillance programs and fled - first to Hong Kong, where he provided details to several Western journalists. And this was not something that affected just people far away in places like Indonesia. SNOWDEN: We had stopped watching specific terrorists, and we had started watching everyone just in case they became a terrorist. Here's what he told NPR this past September. But as a contractor for the National Security Agency working at an underground facility in Hawaii, he witnessed the mass collection of electronic data on American citizens, and he thought it was wrong. Snowden assumed he'd be engaged in similar work as well. GREG MYRE, BYLINE: Edward Snowden's family traces its role in national security to relatives who fought in the Revolutionary War.
NPR's Greg Myre has our story on what has and has not changed since Snowden's revelations. MARTIN: As this decade winds down, we're looking back at some of the most important stories of the past 10 years. I work as an infrastructure analyst for NSA. surveillance information has come forward.ĮDWARD SNOWDEN: My name is Ed Snowden. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The man who leaked classified U.S. We probably weren't thinking about how governments might monitor us on these very devices. A decade ago, we were still exploring the technological wonders of our cellphones and other electronic devices.
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