edward_snowden_rt_article_140605_truth_is_comingThis is a summary of some of Ed Snowden's quotes, and I found it helpful reading. And this should be my last "Snowden's revelations one-year-anniversary" post.

""I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice," Snowden said, adding that he does not regret his decision. "While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted to see, somehow legitimize an illegal affair. These rulings simply corrupt the most basic notion of justice – that it must be seen to be done. The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law."

""We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world," Snowden said via a video link to Washington as he was receiving the Ridenhour Award for 'Truth-Telling'.

"When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought? Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me," the whistleblower said, greeted by a standing ovation from the US audience.

"We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection," Snowden added. "Let's put it this way. The United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into me personally, into my work with the journalists, and they still have no idea what documents were provided to the journalist, what they have, what they don't have, because encryption works.""

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From 'Truth is coming' to 'Merkel Effect': Top 13 Snowden quotes on NSA

NSA leaks

While the files exposing limitless global NSA spying speak for themselves, the man behind the leaks has also had much to say. One year after his first leaks were published, RT picks some of the standout quotes from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

'The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything'

In June 2013, Snowden revealed to the world that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using a sophisticated and warrantless web surveillance system to gather and analyze Americans' and foreign nationals' online and phone communications.

READ MORE: 10 things we didn't know before Snowden

"The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards," Snowden said.

Snowden painstakingly picked the NSA files from a trove of classified documents and distributed them among some of the trusted world journalists, making sure that the flow of explosive leaks would be unstoppable.

"All I can say right now is the US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped," he said.
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