Snowden: US hacks Chinese mobile phone messages

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40. I am not talking about Julian Assange

There's a small hint in that I have referred to Snowden, Mr Snowden or Edward Snowden throughout.

You want to talk about Julian Assange? Start a new thread.

As to Mr Snowden's declarations of good intent and honesty? to judge those we need only to look at his record..

Let's also ask where his money is coming from. Before begining with how he earned $200,000 per annum remember that is the pro-rata rate and external contractors will actually only gain about a quarter or one half that. Seems like a lot of money except until you calculate living expenses and all the other little costs. If he ended up with $25,000 invested per annum I would be very surprised, if he has $1 million total invested on current rates of return that would get him between $35,000 and $40,000 per annum - not an awful lot.