"At the heart of the case of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who leaked a massive tranche of agency documents in 2013 and revealed the breathtaking scope of US government spying, there was always a fundamental absurdity. Snowden was hunted, pushed into exile, and forced to live knowing he could have SEAL Team Six kick down his door any moment and spirit him off to some clammy military prison, all for doing something that authorities and even the people going after him tacitly admitted was a vital public good. ... He even put together a panel of national security luminaries and his own loyalists to review surveillance policy, which eventually recommended a range of limits to it. ..."
2015 October: Citizenfour (2014), 2017 July: Snowden - Oliver Stone (2016)
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