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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of journalists as being bullet-proof in a way.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Taiwan, which was a military dictatorship.
- Happy-Go-Lucky
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a fairly happy-go-lucky person, generally fairly optimistic, but there were points when I was down.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't feel at all guilty about what I did, so I couldn't plead guilty, even though I would get a more lenient sentence.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have the initial GCHQ induction course for new arrivals, they tell you… not to trust journalists, to be careful to keep everything confidential.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked for GCHQ, which stands for Government Communications Headquarters, and is the equivalent of the NSA here in the U.S.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, I never set out to be a whistleblower. Secondly, I never expected that my story would be interesting to anybody. Third of all, you know, I was actually terrified of being named, of being identified.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never met Snowden, I've never spoken with him personally. I mean, he's extremely smart. Very, very smart. I guess he was a lot less naive than I was.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, Ed Snowden was basically saying the same things that Bill Binney and Thomas Drake and other U.S. whistleblowers had said before him. But he came out more publicly, and maybe revealed more. He showed that when the U.S. government said, 'We are not surveilling U.S. citizens,' that was a lie.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know people have tried to make citizens' arrests on Tony Blair and so on, but really it's time the international criminal court has some guts and charges white war criminals. They need to face justice just like other war criminals.
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have only ever followed my conscience.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I'm not ambitious it's not paramount for me to find myself in a high-paid job.
- Crowds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cheering crowds have never been my sort of thing.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth and accountability were drilled into me as a child.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the initial flurry of media interest, I was left to figure out how to move on with my life - and that proved hard. I was glad to get back to what I hoped would be normality, but the effect on me had been traumatising.
- Charging
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why did the British authorities wait eight months before charging me - and then drop the charges, claiming there was insufficient evidence for prosecution when I had confessed to the leak from the start?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is moving in a completely fascist, corporate direction. It worries me, it should worry us all.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the invasion of Afghanistan, when the focus suddenly turned toward Iraq, I suddenly thought, ‘What on earth had Iraq got to do with the war on terror?'
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now everybody is questioning everything, so it's up to journalists who really care about the truth to fight for their corner of the truth and journalistic freedom.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a rogue nation were to attack the U.K. physically, I would be a patriot, yes; I would try to defend the U.K.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my own country is subverting the rule of law and sending its own citizens, its military, into harm's way on the basis of lies and propaganda, I would argue that being a patriot is calling out those lies and saying, ‘No, you don't send our military into harm's way with no legal justification.'
- Craving
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has to be understood is that most whistle-blowers are not natural activists - this one certainly wasn't. We usually work in anonymous jobs, far from the spotlight. We are not campaigners, or journalists, or wannabe celebrities, craving a platform. Our conscience tells us we have to reveal what we know.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a politician; I don't have a well-organised PR machine to craft my every word.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working at GCHQ was a relatively easy, reliable job. As long as you always toe the 'party line', you are more or less guaranteed a job for life.
- Disclosure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not make my disclosure about the deceitful manipulation of the U.N. before the invasion of Iraq began in order to garner fame or fortune.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was arrested on suspicion of breach of Official Secrets Act in March 2003, but they didn't charge me until November. Now, the in-between months, I was bailed and re-bailed, and my life was on standstill. I was in limbo. It was a difficult time for me and my family, because we just did not know what the future held for us.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I can say is that you have to live with your conscience at the end of your life, and it's the only thing that you have that belongs to yourself and nobody else.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ironically, becoming known publicly was my biggest fear. And it was partly because I'm on the whole a fairly shy person.
- Curl
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- Nov 07, 2020
You just have to get on with life, there's no alternative. You could curl up in a ball on your bed, but that's not going to achieve anything.
- Describe
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- Nov 07, 2020