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Edward Snowden was an "infrastructure analyst" for the National Security Administration, working as a contractor in Hawaii.
He became increasingly disturbed by the fact that the federal government has a gigantic, secret spying apparatus to monitor people around the globe.
Snowden decided to leak proof of previously unknown clandestine spying programs to Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian.
The Guardian in turn published a series of exposés in June and July about the program.
The government was not really sure how to respond to the leaks at first.
