Snowden says he wanted to denounce the U.S. control its citizens
Documentation was provided by Edward Snowden, 29, former employee of the CIA
Snowden dice que quiso denunciar el control de EE UU a sus ciudadanos
La documentación fue facilitada por Edward Snowden, de 29 años, exempleado de la CIA
El joven dice que pedirá asilo en "algún país que crea en la libertad de expresión"
EDITORIAL: 'Espionaje y libertades'
Obama defiende la vigilancia masiva de las comunicaciones
Eva Saiz Washington 10 JUN 2013 - 08:54 CET
Snowden says he wanted to denounce the U.S. control its citizens
Documentation was provided by Edward Snowden, 29, former employee of the CIA
The young man says he asked for asylum in "a country that believes in freedom of speech"
EDITORIAL: 'Espionage and freedoms'
Obama defends mass surveillance of communications
Eva Saiz Washington 10 JUN 2013 - 08:54 CET
The source who leaked to The Guardian and The Washington Post mass surveillance programs of communications by the U.S. government has revealed his identity in an interview published on Sunday afternoon in the online edition of the British newspaper. Edward Snowden, 29, former CIA assistant coach and now works for a contractor working for the National Security Agency (NSA), admitted to being the author of the leaks and ensures that provided the information because it does not seem right Management practices and wanted to know how citizens seeking his privacy. Snowden gave its name a day after the head of national intelligence, James Clapper, announced that he would ask the Department of Justice criminal investigation responsible for the leaks.
"I have no intention of hiding because I know that nothing I did was wrong," Snowden told The Guardian in an interview from Hong Kong, where, according to the newspaper, responsible for the leaks. In the interview, Snowden acknowledges that was three weeks ago, while I was working in the offices of the NSA in Hawaii, when finished preparing all documentation sent to newspapers then and who then, his superior told him he needed take two weeks off health problems. The Guardian says it has been the very Snowden who has requested anonymity.
Snowden said the Guardian that chose Hong Kong as a place of refuge for their "living commitment to freedom of expression and the right to political dissent." Unlike the rest of mainland China, Hong Kong, a former British colony, has an extradition treaty with the United States since the transfer of territory in 1997. According to the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post, the Hong Kong treaty allows extradition refusal "if they involved the defense, foreign affairs, politics, or the essential public interest of the Republic of China."
The 'big brother' of Obama
Record phone calls. On 5 June, the Guardian published an order issued by the Court Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, which required the phone company Verizon delivery to the National Intelligence Agency (NSA) of the entry of tens of millions of customer calls. The mandate did not allow to know the content of communications or the holders of the phone numbers, but did allow control of the duration and destination of the calls.
Access to Internet business servers. On June 6, The Guardian and The Washington Post kept awake the existence of secret surveillance program PRISM, authorizing the NSA and the FBI to access the servers of nine of the largest Internet companies in the U.S., including Microsoft , Google, Facebook or Apple. Through this practice, established in 2008, the government could access files, chats, audios, videos, emails or pictures of its users. The Administration said that only investigated data on foreigners residing outside the United States. Several of the companies deny any knowledge of the program and data to be transferred to the Government.
Directive of cyberattacks. On June 7, both newspapers kept awake a directive from the White House that the president ordered his intelligence agencies to establish a list of countries that could be ciberatacados by the U.S.. The Post noted that the U.S. had begun collaborating with neighboring Iran to the potential security threat posed by the Asian country.
Catalog of information from abroad. On Saturday, The Guardian leaked the existence of another program that allows the NSA collects data classified according to the origin of the information. This practice is aimed at foreign cyber espionage and only in March 3000 allowed gathering data million computers in the U.S.. The bulk of the information obtained by this mechanism comes from Iran, followed by Pakistan, Jordan and Egypt.
Last week, The Guardian and The Washington Post were shelling the existence of several secret programs that showed the extent of the surveillance of communications of millions of citizens by the U.S. government. The first filtration denounced record thousands of calls from a telephone company. In the hours following unveiled a secret program to access the data from the servers of the main country's Internet companies, including Microsoft, Facebook, Google or Apple, with their connivance. During the weekend, both newspapers have been revealed other cyber spying and surveillance programs of communications in countries around the world.
"The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows you to intercept virtually any type of communication. With these techniques most human communications are stored without a specific purpose, "says Snowden told The Guardian.
U.S. President Barack Obama defended the legitimacy and effectiveness of monitoring programs revealed by Snowden saying that "had prevented many terrorist attack". In a ceremony held hours before meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping at the Ranch Mirage in California, the president was blunt when noted that none of these practices had compromised the privacy of American citizens, he stressed that the phone records did not include the content of communications, and in the case of access to servers on the Internet giants, data were collected only overseas-foreign, that at all times they fulfilled the parameters of the law and had been authorized by Congress. "You can not have 100% safe and 100% privacy," said the president.
This Sunday, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee of the House of Representatives, Republican Mike Rogers, crossed the leaks as "very dangerous" and said that may have cost the lives of many Americans. His counterpart in the Senate, Democrat Dianne Feinstein, said, meanwhile, that support the decision to prosecute Clapper responsible for disclosing the information to the press.
Snowden does not expect to return to the U.S. without being arrested. "When I decided to do this, I took the risk of ending up in prison," says the Guardian. "You can not face the world's most powerful country and disregard this possibility. If you want to catch, they will do it, "he says. However, Snowden is clear that "does not think hiding" and will not "be intimidated by the U.S. government and its justification that what he has revealed is contrary to the public interest". "I seek asylum in any of the countries that believe in freedom of expression and oppose undermine privacy worldwide," he says.
The Guardian presents its source as a person whose patriotism and ideals were seriously disappointed by the performance record of the Government towards its citizens. That conflict is determined you give out such practices. "I do not want to live in a society that allows this kind of action," says Snowden.'s Extécnico the CIA says Obama is defending "the unjustifiable" when it appeals to the effectiveness and legitimacy of the practices he admits he was denounced and disappointed by the attitude of President. Snowden acknowledges that he was already aware of these programs before Obama first acceded to the White House, "Many people voted for him, I did it for a third party but believed in his promises. I was going to reveal this information then, but waited because he was elected. But he continued with the same policies of his predecessor, "he laments.
Still, Snowden argues that what he has done has been worthwhile. "I am very satisfied and I have no regrets," he admits. The analyst believes that the stir that caused your leak will serve to change the current policy. "I think we have started to change things. Now everyone is aware of the extent to which things have come and are talking about it. Citizens have the power to decide if they will sacrifice their privacy for state surveillance. " A debate has also accepted the President.
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