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Snowden says mission ‘accomplished’
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National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden said his “mission’s already accomplished” after revealing NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of US surveillance policies.
Snowden told The Washington Post in an interview published online Monday night that he was satisfied because journalists have been able to tell the story of the government’s collection of bulk Internet and phone records, an activity that has grown dramatically in the decade since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,” he said. “I already won.”
“As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated,” Snowden said. “Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.”
President Barack Obama hinted on Friday that he would consider some changes to NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records to address the public’s concerns about privacy. His comments came in a week in which a federal judge declared the NSA’s collection program probably was unconstitutional. A presidential advisory panel has suggested 46 changes to NSA operations.
Snowden was interviewed in Moscow over two days by Post reporter Barton Gellman, who has received numerous leaks from the former NSA contractor. The interview was conducted six months after Snowden’s revelations first appeared in the Post and Britain’s Guardian newspaper.
Gellman described Snowden as relaxed and animated over two days of nearly unbroken conversation, fueled by burgers, pasta, ice cream and Russian pastry.
In June, the Justice Department unsealed a criminal complaint charging Snowden with espionage and felony theft of government property.
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