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'''Edward Snowden''' is a former [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) employee who worked for [[Booz Allen Hamilton]], a contractor for the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA). In June, 2013, he instantly became known as [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance one of America's biggest whistleblowers] when he released classified material on top-secret NSA programs including the PRISM surveillance program to ''[[The Guardian]]'' and ''[[The Washington Post]]''. On June 9, 2013, journalist [[Glenn Greenwald]] revealed, with his permission and full cooperation, his identity as the source of super-secret information on US digital data collection. <ref name=whb>Glenn Greenwald, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations], The Guardian, June 9, 2013.</ref>
==Data Classified Information Leakedby Snowden==
On June 5, 2013, [[Glenn Greenwald]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'' reported [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order on a top-secret court order] requiring [[Verizon]], "on an 'ongoing, daily basis' to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries."<ref>Glenn Greenwald, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily - Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama], ''The Guardian'', June 5, 2013.</ref>
===PRISM Data Mining Program===
On June 6, 2013, ''[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data The Guardian]'' and ''[http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html The Washington Post]'' reported on the NSA's widespread data mining of major Internet tech companies such as [[Google]], [[Microsoft]], [[Facebook]], and [[Apple]] thanks to a top-secret powerpoint presentation Snowden leaked to those news outlets.
==Motivation for Leaking Top-Secret Government Data==
