Edward Snowden: ‘I was trained as a spy’

Edward Snowden, the 30-year old whistleblower who revealed how the US collects communications data in bulk, said he was ‘trained as a spy.’ In an exclusive interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, Snowden said the US claims that he was a “low-level systems administrator” was misleading. He added that he had worked undercover and overseas for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Department of Defense at all levels. “I don’t work with people. I don’t recruit agents. What I do is I put systems to work for the United States. And I’ve done that at all levels from — from the bottom on the ground all the way to the top,” said Snowden. He currently lives in Russia after being given temporary asylum.

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