Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden
Edward Joseph Snowden was a former NSA contractor through Booz Allen Hamilton who worked on classified top-secret intelligence projects including PRISM and other programs to spy on both foreign and domestic individuals. He revealed thousands of documents illustrating the technologies and methods with which warrantless searches were performed under the justification of laws designed to stop terrorism. He successfully fled the country before releasing the documents through the press, starting with reporters from The Guardian. He currently resides in Russia and is considered a traitor by the United States federal government.