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Edward Snowden

AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE CONTRACTOR
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
COMPUTER PROGRAMMER

• Name-Edward Snowden
• Full Name -Joseph Snowden
• Nick Name-The Joseph Edward Snowden
• Date of  Birth- June 21,1983
• Nationality-American (Elizabeth City, North Carolina, U.S.)
• Education- Anne Arundel Community college
• Books- Permanent Record
• Occupation-Computer Security Consultant
• Father-Lonnie Snowden
• Mother-Wendy Snowden
• Brother-N/A
• Sister-N/A
• Marital Status/Marriage-
• Wife-Lindsay Mills
• Son-N/A
• Daughter-N/A
• Height-180 cm,6 feet
• Weight-72kg
• Net Worth-

Who Is Edward  Snowden?

Edward Snowden is a former National Security Agency subcontractor who made headlines in 2013. when he leaked top-secret Information about NSA surveillance Activities. Snowden was born in North Carolina and his family moved to central Maryland a short distance. From NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, When he was a child. He dropped out of high school and Studied intermittently between 1999 and 2005 at a community Collage.

He completed a GED but did not receive a college degree. He enlisted in the ARMY reserve as a special force candidate in May 2004, but he was discharged Four months later. In 2005 he worked as a Security guard at  The center for Advance Study Of language. A University of Maryland Research facility Affiliated with NSA  despite a Relative lack of formal Education and Training Snowden demonstrated an aptitude With Computers and He was hired by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2006. He was given a top-secret clearance and in 2007 was posted to Geneva where he worked as a network Security technician under a diplomatic.

Family About
Snowden was born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on June 21,1983.
His mother works for the federal court in Baltimore (The family moved to 
Maryland during Snowden's Youth) as chief deputy clerk for administration
and information technology.
Snowden's  father a former coast Guard officer  later Relocated to Pennsylvania
and remarried.

Snowden left the CIA for the NSA in 2009

There he worked as a private contractor for the Companies Dell and Booz Allen Hamilton. During this time, he began gathering information on a Number of NSA activities Most notably, secret Surveillance programs that he believed were Overly broad in size and scope. In May 2013 Snowden requested a medical leave of absence and flew to  Hong-Kong. Where during the following month he conducted a series of interviews with journalists from the Newspaper. The Guardian Footage filmed during that Period was featured in the documentary citizen four (2014). Among the NSA secrets leaked by Snowden was a court order that compelled Telecommunications company Verizon to turn over metadata (such as Number dialed and duration of calls) for millions of Its subscribes. Snowden also disclosed the existence of  PRISM data-mining programs that reportedly gave the NSA the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Government Communications Headquarters

------------------------------Britain's NSA equivalent-----------------------------------

"Direct access" to the servers of such Internet giants as Dell, Apple, Facebook, Google, And Microsoft. during his years of IT work, Snowden had noticed the far reach of the NSA's everyday surveillance while working for Booz Allen, Snowden began copying top-secret NSA documents, building a Dossier on practices that he found invasive and Disturbing. The documents contained vast information on the NSA's domestic surveillance practices. After he had compiled a large store of Documents, Snowden told his NSA supervisor that he needed a leave of absence for medical reasons, starting he had been diagnosed with Epilepsy. On May 20, 2013, Snowden took a flight to Hong-kong, China, where he remained as He orchestrated A clandestine meeting with journalists from The U.K. publication The Guardian as well as filmmaker Laura Poitras. On June 5 The Guardian released secret documents obtained from Snowden. In these documents, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court implemented an Order Verizon To release Information to the NSA on an "ongoing daily basis" called that required from its American Customer Phone activities. The following day, The Guardian and The Washington Post released Snowden's Leaked information on  PRISM and NSA program that allows real-time information Collection electronically. A Flood of Information followed and both domestic And international Debate ensued. I'm willing to sacrifice (my former life) Because I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. Government to destroy privacy  Internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine, they're secretly building Snowden said in Interview given from his Hong Kong hotel Room The fallout from his disclosure continued to unfold over the next months Including a legal battle over the collection of phone data by the NSA President Obama sought to calm fears over Government spy in January  2014 ordering U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to review the country's surveillance programs.       

Snowden's Timeline 

• 21 June 1983  Snowden is born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, US.
• 2006-2013  Initially at the CIA and then as a contractor for first Dell and then Booz Allen Hamilton Snowden Spends years working in Cybersecurity on projects for the US  National Security Agency(NSA).
• 20 May 2013  Snowden arrives in Hong Kong where a few days later he meets with Guardian Journalists and shares with them a cache of Top secret Documents he has been downloading and storing for some time.
• 5 June 2013 The Guardian begins reporting the Snowden leaks with revelations about the "NSA" storing the phone records of millions of Americans and the Agency claim its PRISM program had "direct access" to data held by Google, Facebook, Apple, and Other US internet giants.
• 7 June 2013 The US president Barack Obama is forced to Defend the programs insisting that They are adequately overseen by the courts and Congress.
• 9 June 2013 Snowden goes public as the source of the leaks in a video interview.
• 16 June 2013 The revelations expand to include the UK with News that GCHQ intercepted foreign politician's communications during the 2009 G20 summit in London and that the British Spy Agency has also tapped the fiber-optic cables carrying much of the internet traffic.
• 21 June 2013 The US files espionage charge against Snowden and request Hong Kong detains him for extradition.
• 23 June 2013 Snowden leaves Hong Kong for Moscow. Hong Kong claims that The US got Snowden's middle name wrong in documents submitted requesting his Arrest meaning they were powerless to prevent his departure.
• 1 July 2013 Russia reveals that Snowden has applied for asylum. He also expresses the internet in claiming asylum in several South American nations. Eventually Ecuador Nicaragua Bolivia and Venezuela offer permanent.
• 3 July 2013 While en route from Moscow Bolivia's President, Evo Morales, is forced to land in Vienna after European countries refuse his plane airspace suspecting that Snowden was on board. It is held and searched for 12 hours.
• 1 August 2013 After living in an airport for a month, Snowden is granted asylum in Russia.
• 21 August 2013 The Guardian reveals that the UK government ordered it do Destroy the Computer equipment used for the Snowden documents.
• December 2013 Snowden is a runner-up to Pope Francis as Time Person of the year and gives Channel 4's [Alternative Christmas Message].
• May 2015 The NSA stops the bulk collection of US phone calling records that had been revealed By Snowden.
• December 2016 Oliver Stone releases the movie Snowden featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Melissa Leo, Tom Wilkinson, Zachary Quinto and a Cameo by Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger.
• January 2017 Snowden's leave to remain in Russia is extended for three more years.
• June 2018 Snowden says he has no regrets about his revelations saying: The Government and corporate sector preyed on our ignorance. But now we know. People are aware of Now. People are still powerless to stop it but we are trying.
• March 2019 Vanessa Rodel, who Sheltered Snowden in Hong Kong is granted asylum in Canada.
• September 2019 Snowden remains living in an Undisclosed Location in Moscow as He prepares to Publish his memories.

U.S. "Hacks China Networks" 

After fleeing to Hong Kong, Snowden told the south china morning post that the NSA Had led more than 65,000 hacking operations worldwide, Including many in Hong Kong and mainland China. He said targets in Hong Kong including the Chinese University public officials And businesses. We hack Network backbones like huge internet routers basically That gives us access to the Communications of hundreds of  Thousand of computers Without having to hack every single one "Edward Snowden was quoted as saying"

Embassies under surveillance

A total of 38 embassies and missions have been the TARGET of US spying Operations according to a "secret file" leaked to the Guardian Countries targeted included France, Italy, and Greece, as well as America's non-EU Allies such as Japan, South Korea and India, the paper reported on 1 July. EU embassies and missions in New York and Washington were also said to be Under surveillance. The file allegedly detailed "an extraordinary range" of spying Methods used to intercept messages, Including bugs, specialized antennae and write Taps. the guardian reports also mentioned codenames of alleged Operations against The French and Greek mission to the UN as well as the Italian embassy in Washington. US secretary of state John Kerry said that activities to protected National security was "Not unusual in International relations."

Edward Snowden Charges

The U.S. government soon responded to Snowden's disclosure legally. on June 14, 2013, federal prosecutors charged Snowden with "theft of government property" "Unauthorized communication of National defense information" and "willful Communications intelligence information to an unauthorized person" The last two charges fall under the Espionage Act. Before President Barack Obama took office, the act had only been used for prosecutorial. Purposes three times since President Obama took office the act had been invoked seven times as of June 2013.

Government Surveillance

The US military revealed that the information Snowden leaked may have caused Billions of dollars in damage to its security structures. in exile, Snowden has remained A polarizing figure and a critic of government surveillance. in May 2014, Snowden Gave a revealing interview with NBC News. He told Brian Williams that he was A trained spy who worked undercover as an operative for the CIA and NSA, an assertion Denied by National Security Adviser Susan Rice in CNN interview. He Made an appearance at the popular south by southwest Festival via teleconference In 2014. Around this time Snowden explained that he viewed himself as a patriot believing his action had beneficial Results. he stated that his leaking of information Led to robust public debate and new Protections in the US and abroad for our Rights to make sure they are no longer violated. he also expressed an interest in returning home to America. Snowden appeared with Poitras and Greenwald via video conference in February 2015. Earlier that month, Snowden spoke with Students at Upper Canada college Via video-conference. He told them that "the problem with mass surveillance is When you collect everything you understand Nothing " He also stated that the Government spying "fundamental change the balance of power between the Citizen and the state." Just a few days later, Snowden spoke to the new Hampshire Liberty forum via Skype and stated he would be willing to return to the U.S. if the Government could guarantee a fair trial. there are laws on the books that say one thing.

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Snowden "Girlfriend, affair, Wife" 

One of the people Snowden left behind when he moved to Hong Kong to leak Secret NSA files were his girlfriend Lindsay Mills. The pair had been living together in Hawaii, and she reportedly had no idea that he was about to Disclose classified information to the public. Mills graduated from Laurel High School in Maryland in 2003 and Maryland Institute College of art in 2007. She began her career as a pole-dancing Performance artist while living in Hawaii with Snowden. In January 2015, mills joined the citizen, four documentary team, onstage for Their Oscars acceptance speech. In September 2019 it was reported that Snowden and Mills had gotten married.

Marriage Life
 Edward Snowden happily marriage life his girlfriend Lindsay Mills Together in Hawaii