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March 20, 2014 08:21 pm GMT

NSA Deputy Director: Snowden Is Not a Whistleblower

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VANCOUVER, Canada — NSA Deputy Director Rich Ledgett on Thursday talked about Edward Snowden in a video conference at TED. His last-minute appearance comes just two days after Snowden told the same TED crowd that the biggest revelations are yet to come out of the estimated 1.7 million NSA documents he leaked to journalists because he said it was duty as an American citizen.

However, Ledgett disagrees, saying there were other actions Snowden could have taken

"He had alternatives," Ledgett said. "Characterizing him as a whistleblower actually hurts legitimate whistleblowing activities."

Snowden exposed controversial NSA programs like PRISM, but he said that's just the beginning. When Snowden spoke on Tuesday, he said there is still a lot of reporting to be done, including diving deeper into the accusation that the NSA tricks companies into building backdoors into their systems that make data vulnerable to hackers across the world. Read more...

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