Jack Lawrence

Snowden was assigned to an NSA airbase facility near Tokyo and instructed top officials on how to protect themselves from Chinese hackers.

He maintained his job with Dell until 2013 when he would quit his job after he says he witnesses the Director of National Intelligence lying under oath to Congress.

No, sir.

Around February or April of the same year, Edward began working with a journalist at The Guardian.

And the first of the initial articles based on the leaked documents that he supplied was published on June 5th.

On the 23rd of the same month, Edward travelled to Russia from Tokyo, where he'd been when the articles were published, with a plan to continue on to Cuba.

However, the US would cancel his passport in an attempt, he says, to make him look like a Russian spy.

Edward would apply for asylum in over 20 countries, four of which would offer him permanent asylum.

However, there were no direct flights to any of these countries from Moscow, and with the US pressuring countries along the flight path to detain him, he would decide to seek asylum in Russia.

Edward Snowden would manage to avoid being arrested by authorities and made his way to a country with no extradition treaty with the United States.

Annie and David, however, were running around Europe, countries where their former colleagues could most certainly follow them.

So Annie and David had a plan.

The plan was to create enough of a media storm to create change, to make people ask questions and want answers.

The problem was they needed the media in which to do this.

Little did they know they were just days away from a news story breaking that would not only take over the British media, but the world media.

Now, Annie and David faced the decision of what to do next.

And it would be Annie who would initially head home first, knowing full well she would be arrested.

In fact, she would hand herself in.

And she could also be facing a lengthy prison sentence.

David would also eventually return to the UK but would not have his charges dropped and in fact had already spent time in prison in France prior to returning to the UK.