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Edward Snowden looks back at NSA leaks, considers his personal mission accomplished
12/24/2013 3:15:00 AM

2013 is almost over, but revelations delivered this year about the amount of communications data the NSA has access to, and how it has acquired that data, will reverberate for much longer. The man at the center of the leaks, Edward Snowden, has spoken once again to The Washington Post about what he did and why, saying "For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished...I already won." According to him, giving the public a chance to look over what the government agency had decided -- behind the closed doors of Congress the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court -- is legal in order to track terrorists after 9-11, was the meaning behind his mission. Naturally, NSA leaders disagree and Snowden remains in Russia where he has been granted temporary asylum.

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