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Convicted, whistle-blower edward snowden began leaking classified government material to the media and a documentary filmmaker. >> the more you're ignored, the more you're told it's not a problem until eventually you realize that these things need to be determined by the public. >> reporter: snowden, a former cia employee and nsa contractor, shared documents from the national security agency about far-reaching surveillance programs. >> people's lives are at risk here because of data that mr. snowden -- >> reporter: among other things, snowden was charged with giving national defense informatio...

>> reporter: included in the leaked material, a video of iraqi civilians and journalists being killed by a u.s. helicopter in 2007. she was convicted and sentenced to 35 years for the leak, but president barack obama commuted her sentence in 2017. the same year manning was convicted, whistle-blower edward snowden began leaking classified government material to the media in a documentary filmmaker. >> the more you're ignored, the more you're told it's not a problem until eventually you realize that these things need to be determined by the public. >> reporter: snowden, a former cia employee and...

Snowden began leaking classified government material to the media and a documentary filmmaker. >> the more you're ignored, the more you're told it's not a problem until eventually you realize these things need to be determined by the public. >> snowden, a former cia employee, shared documents from the national security agency about far reaching surveillance programs. >> people's lives are at risk here because of data that mr. snowden purloined. >> among other things, snowden was charged with giving national defense information to someone without a security clearance and revealing classified in...

Documents with wikileaks. >> i stopped seeing statistics and information and i started seeing people. >> reporter: included in the leaked material, a video of iraqi civilians and journalists being killed by a u.s. helicopter in 2007. she was convicted and sentenced to 35 years for the leak, but president barack obama commuted her sentence in 2017. the same year manning was convicted whistle-blower edward snowden began leaking classified government material to the media and a documentary filmmaker. >> the more you're ignored, the more you're told it's not a problem until eventually you realize ...

Lawsuit against nsa whistle-blower edward snowden over his new memoir "permanent record." the book went on sale today, accusing ed snowden of violating the nondisclosure agreement with the cia and the national security agency. he worked as a contractor for both of those agencies before he leaked classified information about government surveillance programs which let us all know what the government is doing. according to the department of justice, he failed to submit his manuscripts to the agency that claims is a common practice for former contractors and the department of justice has filed the...