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Edward Snowden Breaks Silence On Donald Trump, Says Populace Puts Too Much Faith In Presidents

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Now that Donald Trump is President-elect of the United States of America, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has come out of hiding long enough to offer some insight on the business tycoon's recent win. Snowden, who is still a fugitive in the U.S. for leaking sensitive NSA documents revealing the government's surveillance program, appeared on a camera via livestream to talk about privacy and, of course, the nation's future president.

When Snowden was asked "if the outcome [of the election] was better or worse for your case" (likely referring to his chances of receiving a presidential pardon), he deflected the pardon reference and stated that the election is not about him. After criticizing the authoritarian tone of the campaign, he brought to attention the fact that regardless of who is in office, it is every citizen's duty to help themselves.

"This is the thing I think we begin to forget when we focus too much on a single candidate. The current president of the United States, President Barack Obama, campaigned on a platform of ending mass surveillance in the United States. He said no more warrantless wiring tapping. He said he'd investigate and end criminal activities that had occurred under the prior administration….And we all put a lot of hope in him because of this. Not just people in [the United States]…but people in Europe and elsewhere around the world. It was a moment where we believed that because the right person got into office everything would change. But unfortunately, once he took that office we saw that he actually didn't fulfill those campaign promises."



 


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