Surveillance expert to Bill Moyers: Edward Snowden is “a troublemaker, & a true hero and patriot"
The former NSA contractor, she said on Moyers & Company, is “a troublemaker, and a true hero and patriot,” arguing that “working as he did for a private corporation, handling sensitive information, and being told basically that there was no problem, there was nothing he could do, he then took matters into his own hands, knowing that he would probably face imprisonment for the rest of his life.”
Though Snowden’s request for clemency from the U.S. has been rejected, Boghosian credited him with waking the American public up to the widespread nature of the NSA’s monitoring activities through his series of leaks to the British newspaper The Guardian.
“So it’s not a matter of your saying, as so many people are, ‘What if I’m not doing anything wrong, why should I care if anybody’s watching?’” Moyers asked her. “You’ve heard that, haven’t you?”
“I think that’s a very simplistic answer,” Boghosian replied. “Because when one is under constant surveillance, be it from a surveillance camera on the city block and we have so many here in New York, to the possibility that internet communications are being monitored, it necessarily alters how you communicate. It makes us tamp down things that we might say.”
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http://billmoyers.com/segment/heidi-boghosian-on-spying-on-democracy/
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/08/surveillance-expert-tells-bill-moyers-edward-snowden-is-a-true-hero-and-a-patriot/
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