From 'Geeky' Dropout To NSA Leaker, in depth look at Edward Snowden
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April 16, 2014 3:24 PM ET
LISTEN: http://www.npr.org/2014/04/16/303733011/edward-snowden-from-geeky-drop-out-to-nsa-leaker
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has revealed some of the group's most carefully guarded secrets.
The reporting on the documents he leaked won a Pulitzer Prize for the Washington Post and The Guardian, announced on Monday.
But there's still a lot we don't know about Snowden himself — and his motivation.
In a new article in Vanity Fair, Bryan Burrough, Suzanna Andrews and Sarah Ellison take a closer look at Snowden in an effort to explain how a high school dropout, a "seemingly aimless geeky kid from the Maryland suburbs," came to possess and expose secret NSA documents.
The trio spent six months researching their Vanity Fair article, "The Snowden Saga: A Shadowland of Secrets and Light." Burrough reflects on the article with Fresh Air's Terry Gross.
Interview Highlights
-On Snowden's background
-On the turning point when Snowden left his CIA job in Geneva
-On why Snowden had so much access to NSA files during his project in Hawaii
-On the British and U.S. governments' attempts to stop the articles based on Snowden's documents
-On his own changing view of American intelligence issues
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Here is the Vanity Fair article:
Snowden Speaks: A Vanity Fair Exclusive
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didn't hear anything I'd call swooning.. 
He's so dreamy.
