Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald address Amnesty International event in Chicago

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    Last Saturday, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden and reporter Glenn Greenwald addressed an event hosted by Amnesty International in downtown Chicago. Both Greenwald and Snowden were invited to speak at the organization’s annual human rights meeting on the pair’s revelations of a massive government spying dragnet of the personal communications of populations across the world.

    Snowden, who has been forced to take asylum in Russia by after being hounded by US authorities, was met by a standing ovation by the more than 1,000 people in attendance.

    Greenwald, who has reported extensively on government spying programs and the documents released by Snowden, addressed the crowd from his home in Brazil. “My hope and my belief is that as we do more… reporting and as people see the scope of the abuse as opposed to just the scope of the surveillance they will start to care more,” he said. “Mark my words. Put stars by it and in two months or so come back and tell me if I didn’t make good on my word,” he added.