Snowden has received Russian citizenship, married and had children in Russia, and earned $ 1.2 million

Jimu Journalist Li Manying

The Comprehensive Associated Press, BBC, and the Guardian reported that on September 26, local time, Russian President Putin signed an order to give a number of Russian citizenship, including many people including Edward Snowden, including former US defense contractor Edward Snowden.

Snowden himself (picture source: BBC)

On September 27, Jimu Journalists sorted out and found that Snowden was known to the public in 2013 to expose the secret intelligence monitoring project of the National Security Agency. Among them, the monitoring project of overseas targets and codenamed "Prism Plan" (Prism), Once exposed, it caused a stir in the international community. After being rejected by the United States' passport and applying for political asylum from multiple countries, and 9 years of escape overseas, Snowden finally obtained Russian nationality.

Exposure "Prism program"

It is understood that the "Prism Plan" is a top -secret electronic monitoring plan implemented by the National Security Agency since 2007, including collecting domestic private electronic data and monitoring foreign information.

In 2013, Snowden went to Hong Kong after printing the top secret documents, and then disclosed the secret intelligence monitoring project of the US National Security Agency, including the "Prism program", to the Washington Post and the Guardian.

According to reports, Snowden's publicly leaked documents showed how the "Prism program" achieved in -depth monitoring of instant messaging and existing data, and the monitoring objects include any customers who participated in the planning company services outside the United States, or any foreign abroad with foreign countries. American citizen communicated by people.

The "Prism program" is considered a highly confidential program. Its scope of surveillance is wide. It allows the National Security Agency and the Federal Investigation Agency to directly from Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Paltalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple The data that can be obtained can include email, video and voice conversation, videos, photos, text conversation content, file transmission, login notification, and social network details. However, in a few days after the leak, these companies involved have strongly denied understanding and participating in the "Prism Plan", and denied that the US government can directly use its user data.

Snowden also exposed detailed information about US confidential intelligence budgets and US surveillance on foreign officials including the United States allies. Snowden said the reason why he disclosed the information was because he believed that "the American intelligence community has gone too far and violated citizen freedom."

In the book "Permanent Records" published in 2019, Snowden said that after understanding these intelligence plans, he felt the level of trample on the freedom of citizens. He did not want to live in such a society, so he decided to use practical actions be opposed to.

9 years overseas

Public information shows that in 1983, Snowden was born in Elizabeth, North Carolina. Grandfather is Major General of the United States Coast Guard, his father is the precious captain of the Coast Guard, his mother Elizabeth is a staff member of the Maryland District Court in the United States, and her sister is a lawyer. Born in such a family, Snowden was dazed from an early age, and he also looked forward to working as a federal government like his family.

In 2006, Snowden worked at the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States and became a network security expert. After resigning in 2009, he became Dell's contract worker to manage computer systems for multiple government agencies. In March 2012, Dell assigned Snowden to Hawaii as chief technical experts at the Information Sharing Office of the National Security Agency. On March 15, 2013, after his resignation of Dell, Snowden became an employee of the US defense contractor. He found the secret intelligence monitoring project, including the "Prism program", and decided to find the media to the public.

In order to avoid being arrested, Snowden left the United States before leaking the document and came to Hong Kong to take refuge.

On June 21, 2013, the US Department of Justice announced two allegations of Snowden's violation of the 1917 spy law and theft of government property, and then the State Council revoked his passport. Since then, the United States has issued a wanted crime of spy, theft, and unauthorized leakage of national defense and information information.

On June 23, 2013, Snowden fled Hong Kong to Moscow. Because his passport had been revoked, he was restricted at the airport terminal and stayed there for more than a month.

It is understood that during the escape, Snowden applied for political asylum to 21 countries. However, according to him, due to the US government, especially the then Vice President Biden at the time, he pressured other governments, and most countries rejected his political asylum application.

Among them, after evaluating the situation of law and Snowden, the French Ministry of the Interior rejected his application for political asylum. Poland refuses to handle his shelter application because it does not meet the legal procedures. The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the government plans does not respond to Snowden's asylum request. Germany and India directly rejected Snowden's application, while Austria, Ecuador, Finland, Norway, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain said Snowden must apply on their territory. In November 2014, Germany announced that Snowden did not update his previous request and refused to provide asylum.

Russia later awarded Snowden asylum. The initial residence visa was one year, and it was subsequently extended many times.

In October 2020, Snowden obtained Russia's permanent residency. In November 2020, Snowden said in social media that he would apply for Russian citizenship. In September 2022, Snowden obtained Russian nationality. How many intelligence is still fascinated

According to reports, Snowden was accused of unauthorized disclosure of US national security and intelligence information and theft of government property in 2013. Each accusation can be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years. The US Department of Justice also prosecuted to prevent Snowden from profitable from his memoirs, saying he violated the confidentiality agreement with intelligence agencies.

In 2015, a petition requested by the then President Barack Obama to pardon Snowden was rejected by the White House. In August 2020, then US President Trump said in August 2020 that he would "consider" pardon Snowden, but there was no follow -up.

At present, Snowden has mastered and disclosed how much intelligence information has been unclear. However, Australian officials estimate that there are more than 15,000 information documents about Australia, and British officials estimate that at least 58,000 British intelligence documents. The National Security Agency initially estimated that Snowden replicated 50,000 to 200,000 documents of the US National Security Agency, and then US officials estimated the total number of documents to 1.7 million.

Snowden is married and has a child (screenshot of Twitter Page)

Over the years, Snowden has been married to Russia and has earned a lot of income through books and online speeches. In August 2020, a court document submitted by the US Department of Justice showed that since 2013, Snowden has charged a total of more than 1.2 million US dollars in addition to book prepaid.

In September 2021, Yahoo Finance reported that Snowden received more than $ 1.2 million in 67 speeches from September 2015 to May 2020. Among them, in March 2021, Iowa State University paid $ 35,000 for his online speech. In February 2017, the University of Pittsburgh paid him a 15,000 speech fee.

On Monday, local time, the White House submitted information about Snowden citizenship to the Ministry of Justice, which indicated "unsatisfactory criminal allegations" above. Over the years, the US authorities have been hoping that he has returned to the United States for criminal trial.

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