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Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/strong> An ex-CIA employee working as a contractor at the U.S. National Security Agency said he leaked documents and details of a top secret U.S. surveillance program in order to protect the \u201cbasic liberties for people around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Holed up in a hotel room in Hong Kong, Edward Snowden, 29, said he had thought long and hard before publicizing details of an NSA program code-named PRISM, saying he had done so because he felt the United States was building an unaccountable and secret espionage machine that spied on every American.<\/p>\n His whereabouts were not immediately known on Monday. Staff at a luxury hotel in Hong Kong told Reuters that Snowden had checked out at noon.<\/p>\n Read more<\/a><\/p>\n <!– <\/p>\n –><\/p>\n This article was posted: Monday, June 10, 2013 at 8:45 am<\/p>\n Tags: activism<\/a>, big brother<\/a>, constitution<\/a>, domestic news<\/a>, domestic spying<\/a>, government corruption<\/a>, technology<\/a><\/p>\n
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