Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission'��s accomplished

"��I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA,"�� he said. "I am still working for the NSA right now. They are the only ones who don'��t realize it."
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What entitled Snowden, now 30, to take on that responsibility?
."That whole question -�� who elected you? �- inverts the model," he said. "��They elected me. The overseers."
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He named the chairmen of the Senate and House intelligence committees.
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"��Dianne Feinstein elected me when she asked softball questions" in committee hearings, he said. "Mike Rogers elected me when he kept these programs hidden. .... The FISA court elected me when they decided to legislate from the bench on things that were far beyond the mandate of what that court was ever intended to do. The system failed comprehensively, and each level of oversight, each level of responsibility that should have addressed this, abdicated their responsibility."
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"It wasn'��t that they put it on me as an individual - that I'��m uniquely qualified, an angel descending from the heavens - as that they put it on someone, somewhere,"�� he said. "You have the capability, and you realize every other [person] sitting around the table has the same capability but they don't do it. So somebody has to be the first."

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The whistleblower Edward Snowden has declared "mission accomplished", seven months after revelations were first published from his mass leak of National Security Agency documents.

The documents, which were passed to the Guardian, as well the Washington Post and other publications, revealed how technological developments were used by the US surveillance agency to spy on its own citizens and others abroad, and also to spy on allies, such as the US on Germany and Australia on Indonesia.

In 14 hours of interviews with Washington Post journalist Barton Gellman, Snowden said: "��For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission'��s already accomplished."

He continued: "I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn'��t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself."

"��All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/24/edward-snowden-i-already-won