An ex-CIA employee working as a contractor at the U.S. National
Security Agency said he was the man who had leaked details of a top
secret U.S. surveillance programme, acting out of conscience to protect
"basic liberties for people around the world."
Holed up in a hotel room in Hong Kong, Edward Snowden, 29, said he had
thought long and hard before publicising details of an NSA programme
codenamed PRISM, saying he had done so because he felt his country was
building an unaccountable and secret espionage machine that spied on
every American.
Both the Washington Post and Britain's Guardian newspaper - to whom
he gave the documents he had purloined - published his identity on
Sunday.
"I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things ...
I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is
recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under,"
he told the Guardian, which published a video interview with him on its
website.
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