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Edward Snowden Hits Out At Critical Report Into His Activities by Enapesunday(m): 7:51am On Sep 16, 2016 |
Edward Snowden has dismissed a report by the
House of Representatives intelligence committee
that heavily criticised his activities.
It rejected his view of himself as a whistleblower,
and said he was a disgruntled employee whose
actions did nothing more than help US enemies.
The report comes a day after two rights groups
launched a campaign for President Obama to
pardon Mr Snowden.
The White House has rejected the possibility of a
presidential pardon.
The release of the report, two years in the
making, also coincides with that of the film
"Snowden", directed by Oliver Stone.
In a series of tweets, Mr Snowden dismissed the
report's findings, writing: "Their report is so
artlessly distorted that it would be amusing if it
weren't such a serious act of bad faith."
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Mr Snowden, the former National Security Agency
(NSA) contractor, has been living in Russia since
2013, when he gained notoriety for releasing
thousands of classified documents that revealed
mass phone and internet surveillance put in place
after the 9/11 attacks.
Releasing a summary of its 36-page investigation
into the case, the House committee said Mr
Snowden had fallen out with his colleagues and
lied about his background while at the NSA.
It says that most of the material he leaked
related to military secrets that had nothing to do
with Americans' privacy but were to "protect
American troops overseas and... provide vital
defenses against terrorists and nation-states".
Amnesty International and the American Civil
Liberties Union launched their 'Pardon Snowden'
campaign on Wednesday, urging President Obama
to do so before he leaves office in January 2017.
Amnesty said no-one should be prosecuted for
exposing human rights violations, which, it
claimed, is what "indiscriminate mass
surveillance of communications" amounts to.
The ACLU acts as Snowden's legal adviser, and
called him "a great American who deserves
clemency for his patriotic acts".
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