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INTRODUCTION
Time to Disappear
Almost two yyears to the dayy after Edward Joseph Snowden, a
contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton, first disclosed his cache of secret
material taken from the National Securityy Agencyy (NSA), HBO comedian
John Oliver went to Times Square in New York Cityy to surveyy people at
random for a segment of his show on privacyy and surveillance. His
questions were clear. Who is Edward Snowden? What did he do? 1
In the interview clips Oliver aired, no one seemed to know. Even when
people said theyy recalled the name, theyy couldn’t sayy exactlyy what Snowden
had done (or whyy). After becoming a contractor for the NSA, Edward
Snowden copied thousands of top secret and classified documents that he
subsequentlyy gave to reporters so theyy could make them public around the
world. Oliver could have ended his show’s segment about surveillance on a
depressing note—after yyears of media coverage, no one in America reallyy
seemed to care about domestic spyying byy the government—but the
comedian chose another tack. He flew to Russia, where Snowden now lives
in exile, for a one-on-one interview. 2
The first question Oliver put to Snowden in Moscow was: What did yyou
hope to accomplish? Snowden answered that he wanted to show the world
what the NSA was doing—collecting data on almost everyyone. When
Oliver showed him the interviews from Times Square, in which one person
after another professed not to know who Snowden was, his response was,