“For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.”
“All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago. Right now, all we are looking at are stretch goals.”
From his refuge in Russia, Edward Snowden claimed victory in his campaign to unmask the National Security Agency’s global surveillance programs, telling the Washington Post “the mission’s already accomplished.”
CBS’s Bob Orr reports on Snowden’s actions and their potential impact on U.S. intelligence.
The former US National Security Agency contractor also appeared in a televised Christmas message released to the British public by TV station Channel 4 on Wednesday.
You can watch the clips, below.
NSA leaker Edward Snowden: “I already won”
Raw: Snowden Sends Christmas Day Message to US
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