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In 2013, Edward Snowden was an IT systems expert working under contract for the National Security Agency when he traveled to Hong Kong to provide three journalists with thousands of top-secret documents about U.S. intelligence agencies' surveillance of American citizens.
To Snowden, the classified information he shared with the journalists exposed privacy abuses by government intelligence agencies. He saw himself as a whistleblower. But the U.S. government considered him a traitor in violation of the Espionage Act.
After meeting with the journalists, Snowden intended to leave Hong Kong and travel — via Russia — to Ecuador, where he would seek asylum. But when his plane landed at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport, things didn't go according to plan.
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Edward Joseph Snowden was born on June 21, 1983,[19] in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.[20] His maternal grandfather, Edward J. Barrett,[21][22] a rear admiral in the U.S. Coast Guard, became a senior official with the FBI and was at the Pentagon in 2001 during the September 11 attacks.[23] Snowden’s father, Lonnie, was a warrant officer in the Coast Guard,[24] and his mother, Elizabeth, was a clerk at the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.[25][26][27][28][29] His older sister, Jessica, was a lawyer at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C. Edward Snowden said that he had expected to work for the federal government, as had the rest of his family.[30] His parents divorced in 2001,[31] and his father remarried.[32]
In the early 1990s, while still in grade school, Snowden moved with his family to the area of Fort Meade, Maryland.[33] Mononucleosis caused him to miss high school for almost nine months.[30] Rather than returning to school, he passed the GED test[12] and took classes at Anne Arundel Community College.[27] Although Snowden had no undergraduate college degree,[34] he worked online toward a master’s degree at the University of Liverpool, England, in 2011.[35] He was interested in Japanese popular culture, had studied the Japanese language,[36] and worked for an anime company that had a resident office in the U.S.[37][38] He also said he had a basic understanding of Mandarin Chinese and was deeply interested in martial arts. At age 20, he listed Buddhism as his religion on a military recruitment form, noting that the choice of agnostic was “strangely absent.”[39]
In September 2019, as part of interviews relating to the release of his memoir Permanent Record, Snowden revealed to The Guardian that he married Lindsay Mills in a courthouse in Moscow.[17] The couple’s first son was born in December 2020,[40] and their second son was born sometime before September 2022.[1]
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/19/761918152/exiled-nsa-contractor-edward-snowden-i-haven-t-and-i-won-t-cooperate-with-russia
