DAMAGING DETAILS: The National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters building in Fort Meade, Maryland. Whistleblower Snowden exposed the agency's secret surveillance program code-named PRISM. - Reuters
WASHINGTON: An ex-CIA employee working as a contractor at the US National Security Agency said on Sunday he was the source who leaked details of a top secret US surveillance program, acting out of conscience to protect "basic liberties for people around the world."
Holed up in a hotel room in Hong Kong, Edward Snowden, 29, said he had thought long and hard before publicising details of an NSA program code-named PRISM, saying he had done so because he felt the United States was building an unaccountable and secret espionage machine that spied on every American.
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