2014.05.28 NBC TV News interviews Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden full interview with NBC News and Brian Williams, Wednesday 28 May 2014. Edward Snowden talked about how 9/11 personally affected him, and he charged that the U.S. government has exploited that tragedy to justify spying on American citizens.

He said, "It's really disingenuous for the government to invoke and sort of scandalize our memories to sort of exploit the national trauma that we all suffered together and worked so hard to come through to justify programs that have never been shown to keep us safe, but cost us liberties and freedoms that we don't need to give up, and [that] our Constitution says we don't need to give up."

Williams challenged him, asking why the government wouldn't want to "cast the widest net possible" after a horrible attack on the country. Snowden argued that the U.S. can't turn into a security state and if the American people want to be free, "we can't become subject to surveillance, we can't give away our privacy, we can't give away our rights."

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