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August 16, 2013

Report: Snowden Began Downloading Files in 2012 While Working at Dell 
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Reuters is reporting Edward Snowden began downloading documents related
to widespread U.S. spying while working for Dell last April, almost a
year earlier than has previously been reported. Prior stories have
focused on Snowden's subsequent three-month stint with contractor Booz
Allen Hamilton. Meanwhile, Snowden said in a letter to The Huffington
Post Thursday that people associated with his father have, in his words,
"misled" journalists into "printing false claims about my situation."
Snowden said neither his father, Lon Snowden, nor his father's lawyer,
Bruce Fein, nor Fein's wife and spokesperson, Mattie Fein, represent him
"in any way." Lon Snowden has announced plans to travel to Russia to be
with his son.

 

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