Edward Snowden Quotes
We have to decide why terrorism is a new threat. There has always been terrorism.
Snowden, Edward. "NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I Don't Want to Live in a Society That Does These Sort of Things'." Interview by Glenn Greenwald. The Guardian, 9 Jun. 2013.
There was Arab terrorism even then, often directed at fellow Arabs who were deemed not zealous enough or insufficiently orthodox in following Islam.
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.