Edward Snowden is not a Republican or Democrat as stated in 2008 - Political views Snowden has said that in the 2008 presidential election, he voted for a third-party candidate. He has stated he had been planning to make disclosures about NSA surveillance programs at the time, but he decided to wait because he believed in Obamas promises. He was later disappointed that Obama continued with the policies of his predecessor. For the 2012 election, political donation records indicate that he contributed to the primary campaign of Republican candidate Ron Paul. A week after publication of his leaks began, technology news provider Ars Technica confirmed that Snowden, under the pseudonym TheTrueHOOHA, had been an active participant in the sites chat rooms from 2001 through May 2012, discussing among other things a variety of political topics. In a January 2009 entry, TheTrueHOOHA exhibited strong support for the United States security state apparatus and said he believed leakers of classified information should be shot in the balls.However, in February 2010 TheTrueHOOHA wrote, Did we get to where we are today via a slippery slope that was entirely within our control to stop, or was it an relatively instantaneous sea change that sneaked in undetected because of pervasive government secrecy? In accounts published in June 2013, interviewers noted that Snowdens laptop displayed stickers supporting internet freedom organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Tor Project. Snowden considers himself neither traitor nor hero. Im an American. Source - Wikipedia
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