I will be made to suffer for my actions’: Self-identified source for NSA leaks comes forward

The Guardian

Edward Snowden is the self-identified source of documents and information pertaining to government data collection programs.

By Andrew Rafferty, Staff Writer, NBC News

A 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA revealed in England’s the Guardian newspaper Sunday that he is the source who leaked information about secret National Security Agency programs that revealed the widespread surveillance of U.S. citizens.
Edward Snowden, who currently works for defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, told the Guardian that he knows there will punishment for exposing the classified information, but said, “I’m willing to sacrifice all of that because I can’t in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building.