BIG BROTHER is watching you。 1984(小說)可以很美國
最新猛料，爆出美國秘密監聽美國公民電話（美國用「國際」「普世價值」指責他國「鐵幕」之同時，也很「鐵幕」地監聽國民）。
自揭身份者是一名中情局間諜，他現在人香港。
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Edward Snowden identified as source of NSA leaks
By
Barton Gellman, Aaron Blake and Greg Miller,
Updated: Monday, June 10, 6:20 AM E-mail
the writers
Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former
undercover CIA employee, unmasked himself Sunday as the principal source of
recent Washington Post and Guardian disclosures about top-secret National
Security Agency programs.
Snowden, who has contracted for the NSA and
works for the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, denounced what he described
as systematic surveillance of innocent citizens and said in an interview that
“it’s important to send a message to government that people will not be
intimidated.”
Director of National Intelligence James R.
Clapper Jr. said Saturday that the NSA had initiated a Justice Department
investigation into who leaked the information — an investigation supported by
intelligence officials in Congress.
Snowden, whose full name is Edward Joseph
Snowden, said he understands the risks of disclosing the information but felt
it was important to do.
“I’m not going
to hide,” Snowden told The Post from Hong Kong, where he has been staying. The
Guardian was the first to publicly identify Snowden, at his request. “Allowing
the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for
revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.”
Asked whether he believed his disclosures
would change anything, he said: “I think they already have. Everyone everywhere
now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They
have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice
their privacy to the surveillance state.”
Snowden said nobody was aware of his
actions, including those closest to him. He said there wasn’t a single event
that spurred his decision to leak the information.
“It was more of
a slow realization that presidents could openly lie to secure the office and
then break public promises without consequence,” he said.
Snowden said President Obama hasn’t lived
up to his pledges of transparency. He blamed a lack of accountability in the
Bush administration for continued abuses. “It set an example that when powerful
figures are suspected of wrongdoing, releasing them from the accountability of
law is ‘for our own good,’ ” Snowden said. “That’s corrosive to the basic
fairness of society.”
The White House did not respond to multiple
e-mails seeking comment and spokesman Josh Earnest, who was traveling with the
president, said the White House would have no comment Sunday.
A brief statement from a spokesperson for
Clapper’s office referred media to the Justice Department for comment and said
the intelligence community was “reviewing the damage” that had been done by the
leaks. “Any person who has a security clearance knows that he or she has an
obligation to protect classified information and abide by the law,” the
statement said.
Snowden also expressed hope that the NSA
surveillance programs would now be open to legal challenge for the first time.
Earlier this year, in Amnesty International v. Clapper, the Supreme Court
dismissed a lawsuit against the mass collection of phone records because the
plaintiffs could not prove exactly what the program did or that they were
personally subject to surveillance.
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