“I’m willing to sacrifice all of that because I can’t in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building…. Most of the people training us seemed pumped up about killing Arabs, not helping anyone.” At his own request, the Guardian revealed the identity of the whistleblower who leaked details of the US Government’s unprecedented digital spying program. Edward Snowden, a National Security Agency contractor, is now holed up in a Hong Kong hotel and facing a very uncertain future.
