On September 26, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an order to grant Russian citizenship to a number of non-Russian individuals. In addition to former U.S. President Ronald Reagan's adviser Susan Massey, a more well-known and interesting name appears on the list — former CIA technical analyst, former U.S. defense contractor employee, and U.S. "Prism Gate" whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Since the exposure of the US "Prism" plan in 2013, Snowden has been like a water margin hero going to Liangshan and being "forced" by the United States to go to Russia. During the nine years he lived in Russia, Snowden continued to submit citizenship applications to the Russian side. Finally, Snowden successfully naturalized, and Russia's move is undoubtedly announcing to the world - Snowden this person, I covered.
Speaking of Snowden, the legendary figure called "the number one traitor" in the United States, from the loyal guardian of "old America" to the leaker wanted by the US government for many years, what has he experienced? Snowden's things are not something that can be done with a plate or two of peanuts.
In his early years, Snowden was a "three-good young man" with great ambitions and a heart to serve the country.
Snowden was born in North Carolina on June 21, 1983, with his grandfather being a Coast Guard major, his father a Coast Guard officer, his mother a District Court Judge, and his sister a lawyer at the Washington Justice Center.
Born in such a family, Snowden can be described as "the roots are red", and the future is unlimited.
At that time, electronic information technology in the United States was developing rapidly. During his studies, Snowden was exposed to the dense computer programming code, became very interested, and began his programming self-study journey. In middle school, Snowden was able to use programs to find vulnerabilities in the network.
After completing his high school studies, Snowden did not continue to college, but chose a community college, Anne Arundel Community College, to further his studies in computer technology. In just two years of training, Snowden's computer level has improved by leaps and bounds, and he himself has become increasingly obsessed with the virtual network world built by computers.
However, in 2001, the year Snowden became an adult, a wisp of terrifying black smoke rose from the US International Trade Center building, and the "911" incident occurred, and the loud noise pulled Snowden back to reality from the string of codes. As a young man, he began to think about his responsibilities and immediately signed up for the army to join the fight against terrorists.
At this time, he was full of pride in serving the country, but he did not see who the real terrorist organization in the world was. In order to join the special forces, Snowden was unfortunately injured in high-intensity training and suffered a fracture of both legs, so he had to retire early.
Snowden, who was just a year old, refused to let go of the ideal of loyalty to the country and began to think about how to combine his computer talent with the desire to serve the country. NSA, this place is undoubtedly the best place for Snowden to achieve his ideals.
Snowden immediately submitted his resume to the NSA, and with a reliable family background, Snowden successfully passed the background check and became a security guard for the NSA.
While guarding security guards at the NSA's Center for Advanced Language Studies, Snowden discovered a rule of operation for the NSA: Due to the rapid development of network technology, the supply of NSA-related technicians has outstripped demand, and the NSA has chosen to hand over these intelligence technology work to outsourcing companies, and the staff of these companies have also become NSA intelligence collectors.
Such a good opportunity was in front of him, and Snowden, who was not willing to work as a security guard, resigned from public office and joined the ranks of outsourcing companies. With his superior level of network technology, he was assigned to the CIA for network service and maintenance work, and he also had high access rights.
But what he didn't expect was that this access was the beginning of the collapse of his faith.
Snowden had free access to files stored in the CIA's terminal servers, including secret archives and intelligence sent by the CIA from around the world. Seeing so much secret intelligence, Snowden burst out a more thoughtful plan - directly into the CIA!
Subsequently, after submitting his application, attending the training, and everything in one fell swoop, Snowden successfully entered the CIA and was sent to Geneva to work.
In Geneva, the centralized node of the European optical fiber network, the United States has been conducting a lot of intelligence collection work for a long time, and Snowden has also learned a set of standard processes for American intelligence work.
A year later, Snowden finished his work in Geneva, re-entered the outsourcing company, and worked at the U.S. military base in Yokota, Japan, and it was here that Snowden felt uneasy for the first time.
At this time, he could already log into the CIA and NSA internal intelligence network systems at the same time, and while browsing through a large number of top-secret documents, a seemingly inconspicuous document caught Snowden's attention - the presidential surveillance program.
After the "911" incident, the then US President George W. Bush issued this document, because it may invade the privacy of the people, the US government had to stop the implementation of the document.
However, this is a complete "yin and yang" document. Through systematic tracking, Snowden discovered the internal implementation version of the "Presidential Monitoring Plan", which bypasses the original law through exquisite language design, not only authorizing intelligence agencies to spy on a small number of special suspects, but also expanding intelligence collection targets to a large number of ordinary people, completely ignoring the human rights and freedoms that the United States usually shouts loudly. Snowden was utterly disappointed by this, and the faith that kept him going down the ladder collapsed in an instant.
At this point, Snowden's "rebellion" plan began.
Snowden developed a program called "Heartbeat", ostensibly for the NSA, and through this process he retrieved all the information about the surveillance program, and the American "Prism Project" began to surface.
The US surveillance system covers most official websites, and the vast majority of information in the website will flow into the US government, and the monitoring scope covers tens of millions of ordinary people. This huge and unsightly surveillance program is not only the strength of the United States, but also the joint efforts of the countries of the "Five Eyes Alliance". Snowden scavenged through the ugly deeds of Lao Mei and managed to copy the documents one by one. He decided that he must expose all this darkness to the world.
In May 2013, the British newspaper "Guardian" headlined the "Prism Gate" incident in the United States and displayed a large number of internal documents. The provider of this document and the whistleblower of this incident is none other than Snowden.
As soon as the incident came out, it aroused the indignation of all countries, the despicable behavior of the United States was made public, and the old face did not know where to put it, so it became angry and embarrassed, and tried every means to arrest Snowden all over the world, not only to revoke Snowden's passport, but also to issue ancestral hegemonic skills, and to issue threats to various countries that they did not dare to accept Snowden's entry.
After that, Snowden began a life of exile, first fleeing to Hong Kong, the Pearl of the Orient, and then to Russia, Russia is also tough, do not look at the face of the United States, issued a residence certificate to Snowden, so that Snowden temporarily has a foothold.
During his life in Russia, Snowden also counted happiness, not only autobiography, speech, play music, no less money, girlfriend Lindsay Mills is also inseparable, left the United States in 2014 to follow Snowden to Russia, the two married and had two children.
Not only that, Snowden's legendary experience was also made by HBO into a documentary "Fourth Citizen", which can be described as a double harvest of fame and fortune, and it is also worthy of his efforts to take risks and expose the truth of the United States to the world.
Today, Snowden, who has lived in Russia for nine years, has successfully "entered Russia", has Russian citizenship, and has become a justified Russian citizen, no longer worrying about identity problems.
Looking at the United States, it can be said that it was severely beaten in the face by Russia and Snowden, and can only mock Snowden through the yin and yang of the press spokesman, "Beware of being sent by Russia to the front line of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict."
It is true that the Heavenly Dao has reincarnation, and the heavens have spared no one. The bad things the United States did to Assange made Snowden come back.
Old beauty, you don't want to think, the people you have arrested for nine years have not been arrested, and finally naturalized Russia, and dare to come out to criticize, say cool words, do you still think that you are not ashamed enough?
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