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Snowden, "the powerful skip the law without paying for it"
The American ex-analyst living in Russia participated in a videoconference
SAN FRANCISCO- Former National Security Agency (NSA) exanalist Edward Snowden, who has been in Russia for more than five years, said yesterday that "the powerful keep breaking the law without paying the consequences for it" and encouraged citizens to take risks to end this "impunity". "In 2013 I took a step forward because I realized that people in positions of power were carrying out gross violations of civil rights. But to change things you have to take risks. That's what I did and that's why I can not go back home, "Snowden said. The NSA exanalista participated by videoconference in a talk in San Francisco (USA) about freedom, human rights and "authoritarian tendencies" in the world, in which lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck also spoke,Law versus Power .
In June 2013, Snowden, who previously had also worked for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), leaked thousands of NSA classified documents to the press that, among other things, revealed a system of mass espionage by the American government. Since then, the 35-year-old ex-analyst has been persecuted by the US Justice and resides in Russia, where he arrived first as a political asylee and has a residence permit valid until 2020.
"Governments ensure a certain level of impunity because it gives them flexibility in what they consider to be in the national interest. It's not just that they're spying on us, it's that we're less free. What we now call privacy, we used to call it freedom, "Snowden said.
The NSA exanalista explained that when he started working for the agency, he did not do it "with bad intentions", but he wanted to help create something good. - Efe
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