Snowden to VF: We are the “post-terror generation”

[DonViejo]

The whistle-blower opens up in an upcoming interview about his decision to leak, his politics and his plans

NATASHA LENNARD

In an upcoming interview (released April 10) in Vanity Fair, Edward Snowden speaks at length about his decision to collect a vast trove of classified NSA documents and leak them to journalists.

The interview spans over 20,000 words, but teaser excerpts reveal that whistleblower talks candidly about his motivations to leak, and the attendant fear of doing so:

“Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away, because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating… But there’s a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I’m no longer alone.”

He also combats the narrative that he could have gone through proper routes within the government to report what he (and now so many of us) see as gross overreach and unconstitutional practices by the spy agency:

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http://www.salon.com/2014/04/08/snowden_to_vf_we_are_the_post_terror_generation/

[randome]

1. "...incivility and inequality and inhumanity..." What is he talking about?

It's 'inhumane' to store metadata phone records? How is it 'unequal'? How is it 'uncivil'? I get that Snowden doesn't like the metadata records but how do those three words describe anything?

And after all this time, it's funny how a Libertarian wants to latch onto the word 'inequality' all of a sudden.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Precision and concision. That's the game.[/center][/font][hr]

[grasswire]

2. obtuse much? nt

[Wilms]

3. Perhaps another apologist should craft the argument.

"Libertarian"? You left out pole dancer and boxes in a garage.

[stevenleser]

8. He doesn't know what he is talking about. He strings together buzzwords and criticisms and

his supporters eat it up. If that sounds familiar, it's because it is. He's a Sarah Palin.

[yodermon]

4. wonder if he addresses those awful chat logs of his. n/t

[Capt. Obvious]

5. Comrade Eddie soaking up the rays in his Crimea beach house

sipping Vodka with Putin.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Complete with pole dancers? The NSA should put tabs on these malcontents.

And, check what's in those cardboard boxes in their garages.

[Blue_Tires]

6. This is the part where break out my catalog of contradictions from previous interviews

But to be honest, I know DU is tired of reading it, and I swear to god I'm tired of writing it and never getting any answers...