EVERYBODY UNDER CONTROL
Frei Betto*
The new hero of democratic transparency is called Edward Snowden, he is 29 years of age, born in Maryland close to Fort Meade where the powerful NSA (National Security Agency) has its headquarters. He did not finish high school and was exempted from military service in 2003 due to an accident. As he showed great talent for computer science, the CIA employed him.
He is now hiding in Hong Kong for having denounced and proved that the USA government, through the NSA, controls the private life of millions of citizens. The Guardian and the Washington Post published the documents about the Prisma project which Snowden leaked in May 2013. He worked for companies contracted by the NSA like Dell and, more recently, for Booz Allen Hamilton.
http://www.hart-brasilientexte.de/2008/02/13/amazonia-an-ecocide-foreseen/