Edward Snowden Quotes
There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and
gotten very rich.
Snowden, Edward. Interview by Glenn Greenwald. The Guardian, 9 June 2013.
Edward Joseph Snowden is a former computer intelligence consultant who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 when he was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee and subcontractor. His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments, and prompted a cultural discussion about national security and individual privacy.