“I met some people who worked in the field of electronic intelligence.
I had an understanding that in this area you can not eavesdrop on the conversation of an American without a court order.
Snowden, as a consultant, learned the following: the law was changed - new opportunities opened up here, and everyone knew about it, ”Hersh said in an exclusive interview on the RT channel.
If an intelligence officer listened to a supposed al-Qaeda agent* and had a conversation with an American, “then you shouldn’t have hesitated – take it and write it down,” the journalist said.
“Snowden – a man from the world of technology, not politics – was rejected.
At that time, the NSA employed about 25 thousand people ... And of all these thousands of people, only one person openly spoke about a direct violation of one of the most acute principles of the American Constitution - the right to freedom of speech, a word that cannot be will be observed without a court order,” he said.
In May 2021, Edward Snowden reported that American leader Joe Biden was involved in an incident with US intelligence agencies wiretapping European politicians.
In 2013, former CIA and NSA officer Edward Snowden handed over materials to the media that shed light on the extent of surveillance organized by US intelligence agencies on their own citizens and foreign politicians.
As it turned out, the activities of the CIA and the NSA were by no means limited to the search for terrorists: surveillance had long been not targeted, but total.
* "Al-Qaeda" - the organization was recognized as a terrorist organization by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of February 14, 2003.