In the same spirit of statements made by army whistleblower Bradley Manning, Snowden wanted this crucial information to be publicly available so people could make informed decisions about what is being done in their name by their government.Īt his court-martial proceedings, Bradley Manning testified about his motivation behind the largest leak of classified information in history.
The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to … My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.” His day-to-day insider knowledge about the conduct of the NSA led him to the conclusion that the NSA surveillance poses “an existential threat to democracy.” He related how he was motivated for the public good and not for personal gain “If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich ….” He continued, “The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. “I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded,” the young whistleblower told The Guardian newspaper. What made him risk this privileged life to be on the run or possibly end up in Federal prison? The 29-year-old former technical contractor for the CIA and system administrator for defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton had a good family, girlfriend and comfortable living in Hawaii. Edward Snowden, the leaker of the National Security Agency top-secret PRISM surveillance program has voluntarily stepped into the public limelight.
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