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The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously. They do it to glorify the President, or manipulate public opinion, or even to help produce a pre-election propaganda film about the Osama bin Laden raid.

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The Obama administration does not hate unauthorized leaks of classified information. They are more responsible for such leaks than anyone. What they hate are leaks that embarrass them or expose their wrongdoing. Those are the only kinds of leaks that are prosecuted.

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The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.

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There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal, and that is to destroy privacy and anonymity, not just in the United States, but around the world.

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Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

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The Obama administration says we only destroy the privacy of non-Americans. That is not true. The government is spying on Americans.

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My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

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You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs.

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When I was talking to strangers over the Internet in the 1990s, there would be a much more intense connection because they're disembodied, so it's just your brain and your soul interacting with this other person, and it just frees you up in this incredibly empowering way.

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The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point of asylum is to find a country that's both willing and able to protect you from political persecution. In no way is asylum an endorsement of a country's politics, laws, or values.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: March 6th, 1967

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