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Edward Snowden a 'hero' for NSA disclosures, Wikipedia founder says
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: December 2nd, 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/25/edward-snowden-...
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has called on Barack Obama to rein in the National Security Agency as he described the whistleblower Edward Snowden as "a hero" whom history will judge "very favourably". Wales called for a "major re-evaluation" of the NSA, adding that the public "would have never approved this sweeping surveillance program" had it been put to a vote. The revelations, Wales said, had been "incredibly damaging and embarrassing to the US. It makes it very difficult for someone like me to go out, as I do, [to] speak to people in authoritarian countries, and say: 'You shouldnt be spying on activists, you shouldnt be censoring the internet', when we [in the US] are complicit in these acts of extraordinary intrusion into peoples personal lives. [Snowden] has exposed what I believe to be criminal wrongdoing, lying to Congress, and certainly [an] affront to the Fourth Amendment. I think that history will judge him very favourably. There is a growing sense of concern in Congress about this, a growing sense in Congress that public is angry about this, that they have been misled and I think we are going to see legislation to change this."
Note: For more on the realities of intelligence agency activities, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.
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