Gordon Corera
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The Inspector General.
The Inspector General.
And I think, you know, it gets to a question of motive, which maybe we'll come back to when we get to the very end of the series, which is what is he seeking to do at this point? Is he trying to place greater oversight on these programs and have a debate about them? Is he trying to stop the surveillance and the programs? Is he trying to damage the NSA and the intelligence community?
And I think, you know, it gets to a question of motive, which maybe we'll come back to when we get to the very end of the series, which is what is he seeking to do at this point? Is he trying to place greater oversight on these programs and have a debate about them? Is he trying to stop the surveillance and the programs? Is he trying to damage the NSA and the intelligence community?
And I think, you know, it gets to a question of motive, which maybe we'll come back to when we get to the very end of the series, which is what is he seeking to do at this point? Is he trying to place greater oversight on these programs and have a debate about them? Is he trying to stop the surveillance and the programs? Is he trying to damage the NSA and the intelligence community?
And that's a kind of big question. It's quite hard because, you know, the answer is in Edward Snowden's head, and I'm not sure even... He would be able to verbalize it even if he was here and be honest about it. But those are the different kind of levels of what's going on.
And that's a kind of big question. It's quite hard because, you know, the answer is in Edward Snowden's head, and I'm not sure even... He would be able to verbalize it even if he was here and be honest about it. But those are the different kind of levels of what's going on.
And that's a kind of big question. It's quite hard because, you know, the answer is in Edward Snowden's head, and I'm not sure even... He would be able to verbalize it even if he was here and be honest about it. But those are the different kind of levels of what's going on.
But what is, I think, significant is that rather than take just a few documents, and I think this is one of the big questions I have, is if he was really aggrieved by, say, Stella Wynne, the program collecting American phone records and a few other surveillance programs,
But what is, I think, significant is that rather than take just a few documents, and I think this is one of the big questions I have, is if he was really aggrieved by, say, Stella Wynne, the program collecting American phone records and a few other surveillance programs,
But what is, I think, significant is that rather than take just a few documents, and I think this is one of the big questions I have, is if he was really aggrieved by, say, Stella Wynne, the program collecting American phone records and a few other surveillance programs,
he could have just picked 10 files to take, but what he's about to do and what we're going to see is he's not going to take 10 files. He's going to take almost everything he can lay his hands on about what the NSA and its allies do.
he could have just picked 10 files to take, but what he's about to do and what we're going to see is he's not going to take 10 files. He's going to take almost everything he can lay his hands on about what the NSA and its allies do.
he could have just picked 10 files to take, but what he's about to do and what we're going to see is he's not going to take 10 files. He's going to take almost everything he can lay his hands on about what the NSA and its allies do.
And I think that to me is one of the question marks is why does he take so much to expose what they do rather than if you like the kind of narrow things where he's got an issue about the kind of, and I think a legitimate issue about the constitutionality or the ethics of it.
And I think that to me is one of the question marks is why does he take so much to expose what they do rather than if you like the kind of narrow things where he's got an issue about the kind of, and I think a legitimate issue about the constitutionality or the ethics of it.
And I think that to me is one of the question marks is why does he take so much to expose what they do rather than if you like the kind of narrow things where he's got an issue about the kind of, and I think a legitimate issue about the constitutionality or the ethics of it.
One interesting thing, though, about not taking that job, though, is that People have said, was he working for the Russians or the Chinese? I don't think that's true. In fact, I'm sure that's not true.
One interesting thing, though, about not taking that job, though, is that People have said, was he working for the Russians or the Chinese? I don't think that's true. In fact, I'm sure that's not true.
One interesting thing, though, about not taking that job, though, is that People have said, was he working for the Russians or the Chinese? I don't think that's true. In fact, I'm sure that's not true.