The battle to define Edward Snowden’s public image is on.
A day after rights groups announced a petition campaign supporting a presidential pardon for the ex-National Security Agency contractor, and on the eve of the “Snowden” biopic, Washington lawmakers fired off a reportaiming to derail the public relations blitz supporting Mr. Snowden’s cause.
On Thursday, members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence unanimously approved a report on Snowden, who is facing a 30-year prison sentence on espionage charges for leaking secret documents on US surveillance programs, that labels him as a “serial exaggerator” and aims to create a sharp contrast with the digital privacy community’s portrayal of the exiled former contractor as a celebrity whistleblower. – READ MORE
