"All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing o..." — Edward Snowden

A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises.

I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.