Edward Snowden, the former NSA agent who revealed the extensive electronic surveillance of citizens set up by the United States, spoke Thursday night as part of the International Film Festival and Forum on human rights in Geneva. Skype, he addressed the audience came following the dissemination of “Citizenfour” Laura Poitras’s documentary dealing with these revelations, and recent Oscar-winning.
From Russia, who offered him temporary asylum, he returned on the motivations that led him to denounce the spying of citizens set up by his country. “This comprehensive and intrusive surveillance has never been able to stop a single terrorist attack,” noted the whistleblower, who believes that since the revelations, the Obama administration has done very little to stop the illegal activities of NSA, the US security agency. “But what people want to hear is that we do not redo this type of error.”
Edward Snowden reiterated Thursday his desire to one day return home under conditions that guaranteeing a fair, allowing a serene debate on these issues. “To date, the only guarantee that I have is that they are not going to execute me,” he started laughing. “But the question is not to know what they will do to me, but what they will do to us,” he noted, stressing the importance of fighting, everywhere, the guarantee of individual freedoms. “I am a patriot. But being a patriot, this does not mean agreeing with what the government is doing; because governments are often wrong. Love his country is rising to denounce the state when it violates the law. Because we can not allow to create super-states that play with different laws of those affecting citizens. “
Failing to return to his native country, where his family and friends he missing, Snowden willing to consider a refuge in Geneva, it is still necessary that permits him, he said in response to a question from Darius Rochebin, journalist of RTS which animated the debate. A city he knows well since he has exercised, time, activities on behalf of US intelligence. According to him, even though he obviously has more information from within, Geneva Figure course always at the center of US espionage, because of its international position and the number of organizations are active
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(Created: 03/06/2015, 1:27).
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