In 2013, National Security Agency subcontractor Edward Snowden leaked private documents to the public about Government secrets funded and used by the NSA. Some of the information collected was telephone records of millions of American citizens, Verizon was a major player in this operation. After that, announcements from both the Washington Post and the Guardian were directly hacking into networking systems such as Facebook and Google. Since this leak Edward Snowden has been charged with things like theft of government property and unauthorized communication of national defense. I stand here before you today not only defending Edward Snowden but the American people rights and privacy. Not only that but the fact that the people of this country
