Copyrighted Image? DMCA | I had the rare opportunity to hang out for three days with Edward J. Snowden. It gave me a chance to get a deeper understanding of who he is and why, as a NSA contractor, he took the momentous step of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents. Snowden stressed that the transfer of intercepts to Israel contained the communications -- email as well as phone calls -- of countless Arab- and Palestinian-Americans whose relatives in Israel and the Palestinian territories could become targets based on the communications. "I think that's amazing," he told me. "It's one of the biggest abuses we've seen." |