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These Are the #Emails #Snowden Sent to First Introduce His Epic NSA Leaks

Six months before the world knew the National Security Agency’s most prolific leaker of secrets as Edward Joseph Snowden, Laura Poitras knew him as Citizenfour. For months, Poitras communicated with an unknown “senior government employee” under that pseudonym via encrypted emails, as he prepared her to receive an unprecedented leak of classified documents that he would ask her to expose to the world.

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NSA whistleblower reveals identity, exposes US government’s “architecture of oppression” - World Socialist Web Site

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NSA whistleblower reveals identity, exposes US government’s “architecture of oppression”

By Thomas Gaist
10 June 2013

Former CIA employee Edward Joseph Snowden announced on Sunday that he is the source of recent leaks to the Guardian and Washington Post exposing systematic police-state surveillance conducted under the Obama administration by the National Security Agency.