The committee “found no evidence that Snowden took any official effort to express concerns about US intelligence activities to any oversight officials within the USA government, despite numerous avenues for him to do so”.
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FILE – An employee distributes newspapers, with a photograph on the left side of the page of former USA spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, at an underground walkway in central Moscow, July 2, 2013.
“Not just privacy. Privacy is one tree in the forest”, he says. “I think that’s very much at odds with the narrative that he wants to tell that he is a whistleblower”.
The report, by some members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, alleges that Snowden’s actions to expose the NSA’s anti-terror program inflicted great harm to the national security of the United States. The programs collected the telephone metadata records of millions of Americans and examined emails from overseas. Part of the problem is that Stone, who co-wrote the script with Kieran Fitzgerald (the underrated The Homesman), goes too broad, covering a decade in Snowdens life in which the security expert traveled between Washington, Geneva, Tokyo, Hawaii and Hong Kong, where the movie gets under way.
“Even by a conservative estimate, the U.S. Government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars, and will eventually spend billions, to attempt to mitigate the damage Snowden caused”.
Sep 16, 2016- Edward Snowden has dismissed a report by the House of Representatives intelligence committee that heavily criticised his activities. In late July, the administration responded to an earlier petition campaign by rejecting the idea and saying that Snowden should return to the United States to face trial.
Stone also massages what could have been a banal plot point to thematically and aesthetically fit the thriller into which he’s shaped “Snowden” – the exfiltration of the classified NSA documents.
In a report endorsed by both its Republican and Democratic leaders, the House intelligence committee said Snowden was “not a whistle-blower” as he has claimed.
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., chairman of the committee, said Snowden betrayed his colleagues and his country.
However, in 2013, Reuters quoted US officials and other sources familiar with the matter as saying that Snowden began downloading such data in April 2012, nearly a year earlier than had previously been reported at the time.
In June 2013, the summary begins, Snowden “perpetrated the largest and most damaging Public release of classified information in USA intelligence history”.
The committee, on the other hand, called Snowden a “disgruntled employee who had frequent conflicts with his managers”. The summary also claims Snowden is a “serial exaggerator and fabricator” who lied about why he dropped out of the Army and stole answers to an employment test, among other purported falsehoods. “This report diminishes the committee”, he said in his concluding tweet. He claimed to have obtained a high school degree equivalent when in fact he never did.
The committee notes he never obtained a high school degree, and claims he lied about being a “senior advisor” at Central Intelligence Agency while actually working as a lower computer technician.
“It wouldn’t be true to say that Edward [Snowden] is strongly affected by this [Russian] premiere, I would describe his attitude as neutral”.
“I will be voting”, Snowden said, speaking at a conference in Athens by video link from Moscow.
The timing of Snowden’s interview with The Guardian appears to be timed to coincide with the release of “Snowden”, an Oliver Stone biopic about the former NSA contractor’s exploits.
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Stay on topic – This helps keep the thread focused on the discussion at hand. Look for them. You might be slightly amazed, especially with the montage that ends with a close up of a human eye.
