The US: Surveillance, secrets and security - Listening Post - Al Jazeera English

The US: Surveillance, secrets and security - Listening Post - Al Jazeera English

When we first took an extended look at the White House's war on whistleblowers a year ago, little did we know that there was another figure waiting in the wings, about to make political history. Edward Snowden took the stage in June 2013, revealing the sweeping extent of the NSA's surveillance programme. He has gone down as one of US' most important whistleblowers of all time, becoming the seventh person to be charged by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act, more than double the number of prosecutions of all previous presidential administrations combined.