Cenk Uygur
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Edward Snowden: American Hero or Traitor? (Video)
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June 11, 2013
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June 11, 2013
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10:03Now Playing"The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell."*
Edward Snowden has revealed himself be the whisteblower who exposed the NSA's secretly-ordered blanket mass surveillance. Many pundits are calling him a traitor, while others call him a hero for alerting Americans to an unconstitutional privacy-violating program. Cenk Uygur breaks down why Snowden blew the whistle on the NSA.
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