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Schmidt writes: "The former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden said in a wide-ranging interview published on Sunday that the oversight of surveillance programs was so weak that members of the United States military working at the spy agency sometimes shared sexually explicit photos they intercepted."

Portrait detail of Edward Snowden. (photo: Robert Shetterly/americanswhotellthetruth.org)
Portrait detail of Edward Snowden. (photo: Robert Shetterly/americanswhotellthetruth.org)


Snowden: Sexually Explicit Photos Intercepted, Shared by NSA Workers

By Michael S. Schmidt, The New York Times

21 July 14

 

he former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden said in a wide-ranging interview published on Sunday that the oversight of surveillance programs was so weak that members of the United States military working at the spy agency sometimes shared sexually explicit photos they intercepted.

He also said the British government often pioneered the most invasive surveillance programs because its intelligence services operate with fewer restrictions intended to protect individual privacy than its counterparts in the United States and other allies.

The interview, which was published by The Guardian, was conducted in Moscow, where Mr. Snowden has been marooned for a little more than a year. He fled there from Hong Kong after he gave journalists hundreds of thousands of classified documents he downloaded from the N.S.A., which specializes in electronic surveillance. He had most recently worked for the agency in Hawaii.

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