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(PHONE RINGING)

(lNDISTINCT CHATTER)

(VOICES MUMBLING lNDISTINCTLY)

(lNDISTINCT CHATTER)

(PHONE RINGING)

(lNDISTINCT CHATTER)

So?

This is the only alligator.

Four minutes past.
We walk in one minute.
He was clear on that.

He's coming.

No, he's too young
to have that kind
of access.

Uh, what time does
the restaurant open?

Noon. But the food's
a little too spicy.

This way.

MAN: Excuse me.
Uh-huh.

MAN: Thank you.

(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)

Right here.

(SIGHS) it's, uh,
really great to finally
meet you guys.

So, first thing,
can I get your
cell phones, please?

Thank you.

We want Laura to be
the only one recording, right?

As discussed? Thank you.

I actually bought this.
It blocks UHF frequencies.

(CAMERA BEEPS)

You've been
photographed before, right?

Yeah, it's been a while
since anybody took
a photo of me, so... (LAUGHS)

LAURA: Try thinking of
this as your friend.

(BREATHES DEEPLY)

Take your time.

(lNHALES DEEPLY) Um...

Can you start by telling us
why you did what you did

and, uh, how you gained access

to such a vast
amount of information,

all of which I read
on the plane

and...
Glenn.

Uh, how about we just start
with your name? Okay?

(lNHALES DEEPLY)

My name is
Edward Joseph Snowden.

I'm 29 years old.

I work as a private
contractor for the NSA.

I've also worked as
a private contractor

for the CIA and directly
for the Agency.

I've worked in various jobs
in the intelligence industry

for the last nine years.

I've been
a systems engineer, uh,
been a solutions consultant...

Uh...
(ALL CALLING CADENCE)

SNOWDEN: And a senior advisor
for the Central
lntelligence Agency.

RECRUIT: Rangers...
DRILL SERGEANT: Rangers...

RECRUITS: Rangers...
RECRUIT: Rangers...

DRILL SERGEANT: So you
wanna be Special Forces?

RECRUITS: Sir, yes, sir!

I think Special Forces
would be ashamed

to call you soldiers.
Am I right?

RECRUITS: Sir, no, sir!

DRILL SERGEANT: Your left.
Your left, right. Your left.

DRILL SERGEANT: (SINGING)
Went from driving Cadillacs

RECRUITS:
Went from driving Cadillacs

DRILL SERGEANT:
To driving convoys in Iraq

RECRUITS:
To driving convoys in Iraq

TRAINER: Move it, soldier!

(RECRUITS GRUNTING, PANTING)

TRAINER: Go! Go!
Move now!

TRAINERS: Move!
You better get going!

Pick it up,
you waste of space!

DRILL SERGEANT: Let's move!

TRAINER: Come on, soldier! Go!

Come on, darling!

(SHOUTING) Snowden?
What the hell are you doing?

Nothing, sir!

Where is your
fucking heart?
Right here, sir!

I want you to reach
way down in that pathetic
excuse of a chest,

and you rip it out.

You find your heart,
and then you get

your broke ass on my tower!
You got that?

Sir, yes, sir!

DRILL SERGEANT:
Now get the fuck
out of my face!

I need you on my tower,
gentlemen! Let's move!

TRAINER: Move! Move! Let's go!

(BANGING ON DOOR)
DRILL SERGEANT: (SHOUTING)
Rise and shine, maggots!

Get your hands off your dicks,
and get the fuck
out of my barracks!

You guys got one minute!

Fall out! Move, move, move!

Get the hell out here!
Get the hell out
of my barracks!

(LOUD THUD)
(GASPS)

DRILL SERGEANT: Move it!
Keep moving!

Let's go!
All right, gentlemen.

(RECRUITS GRUNTING)

DRILL SERGEANT: Harrison?
RECRUIT: Here!

DRILL SERGEANT: Carson?
RECRUIT: Here!

DRILL SERGEANT: Ramirez?
RECRUIT: Here!

(SHOUTS) Fuck!

DRILL SERGEANT: Pierce?
RECRUIT: Here!

DRILL SERGEANT: Coulson?
Help!

DRILL SERGEANT: Snowden!

Snowden!
Where the fuck is Snowden?

Help! (SIGHS)

DOCTOR: You know, you've
been walking around
on two broken legs...

Best I can tell, for weeks.

Now this is what happens
when you put
a 80-pound rucksack

on a 150-pound body.

You get these little
stress fractures and...
(GROANS)

Easy.
Sorry.

They build up
in your tibias.

You don't get off of 'em,
and eventually they just bust.

Now, you're gonna be
here for a few weeks,

and then I'd count on
another eight weeks or so

on the crutches.

SNOWDEN: Okay,
and then when do I go back?

Son, you ever again
land on those legs of yours,

airborne or not,
those bones will
turn to powder.

I'm gonna authorize
an administrative discharge.

(SIGHS)

DOCTOR: Plenty of other ways
to serve your country.

(MESSAGE ALERT)

(CHUCKLES)

POLYGRAPH ADMINISTRATOR: Have
you ever committed a crime
for which you weren't caught?

SNOWDEN: No.

POLYGRAPH ADMINISTRATOR:
Have you ever cheated
on an exam?

SNOWDEN: No.

Do you believe
the United States

is the greatest
country in the world?

Yes.

INTERVIEWER:
Why do you want
to join the CIA?

PSYCHOLOGIST:
How would you explain
the lnternet to a child?

INTERVIEWER: Granddad
retired as an admiral
and joined the FBI.

Dad's in the Coast Guard,
30-year man.

PSYCHOLOGIST: What has been
the most important day
in your life?

9/11.

We thought my grandfather
was inside the Pentagon.

Uh, turned out he was
off-site that day.

INTERVIEWER:
You wanted to be
Special Forces?

Yes, sir. Yeah,
I love their motto.
De oppresso liber.

lNTERVIEWER: Is that what
you hope to do with us?
Free people from oppression?

I'd like to help my country
make a difference
in the world.

Uh, the lnternet
is a technology

that has the power

to let everyone in the world
understand each other.

Missed a perfect score
on the ASVAB test
by a single question.

Crushed the language
learning test.

Some Mandarin,
some Japanese.

And no high school diploma.

So why did you stop
attending high school?

I had to make money.
My parents were
divorcing at the time.

Any other influences?

I'd say Joseph Campbell,

Star Wars,
Thoreau, Ayn Rand...

One man can stop
the motor of the world.

Atlas Shrugged.
Yes, sir. I believe that.

Let's try again.

Why do you want
to join the CIA?

Uh...

Well, frankly, sir,

it sounds really cool to have
top security clearance.

(CHUCKLES)

(lNHALES DEEPLY)
it's not enough.

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

Ordinarily. But these
are not ordinary times.

Bombs won't stop terrorism,
brains will,

and we don't have
nearly enough of those.

I'm gonna give you
a shot, Snowden.

Thank you, sir.
Thank you very much.
You won't regret this.

My name's Corbin O'Brian.

I have many titles,
among them Senior lnstructor.

You'll be joining
my class at The Hill.

Stop the vehicle.

Shut off the engine.

I need to see your lD.

(BARKING)

All right. Using
your left hand only,
pop the trunk.

(LOCK OPENING)

SECURITY GUARD: Now place
your hands

through the steering wheel
on the dashboard.

Through the steering wheel.

On the dashboard.
Do not exit the vehicle.

SECURITY GUARD 2:
Right here. Right here.

Excuse me.

You'll be looking
for Corbin's class.

End of the hall,
keep going through
the second set of doors.

Thank you.
Is that an Enigma?

No.
Enigma was broken.

This is the follow up,
the Sigaba. Never broken.

Cold War's greatest
encryption machine.

Tides of history
ticked with this motor
and these rotors.

One day everyone's gonna want
a machine like this.
Wow!

I always wanted to
learn cryptography.
What's this one?

The Hot Line.

First direct link between
Washington and Moscow.

Probably
prevented World War lll.

You got a name?
How do I know
you're not the enemy?

Oh, sorry. Uh,
Snowden. Ed Snowden.

Hank Forrester.
Where'd you study,
Snowden?

Mostly I'm,
uh, self-taught.

You can tell me
if you're busy,
but is that a Cray-1?

Why, yes. Yes, it is.

The first supercomputer.

You can get all of
this on a cell phone now.

Yeah. So you're,
um, an engineer?

Am I an engineer?
lnstructor and counselor, too.

I'm supposed to keep
an eye on you CTs,

make sure you don't buckle
under the pressure.

Turn to drugs and booze.

Well, you won't have
that problem with me.
I don't drink or do drugs.

What is your sin
of choice?

Uh, computers.

Well, then, Snowden,
you've come to the right
little whorehouse.

O'BRIAN: The front lines in
the global war on terror

are not in Iraq
or Afghanistan.

They're here. In London,

Berlin,
(WOMAN SPEAKING lNDISTINCTLY)

lstanbul...

Any server,
any connection...

The modern battlefield

is everywhere.

Which means

you don't have to sit
in the ditch eating MREs
or dodging mortar fire,

it means that if
there is another 9/11,
it'll be your fault.

Just as the last one
was my generation's.

Believe me, you do not want
to live with that burden.

We're gonna start
with an aptitude test.

(KEYBOARDS CLACKING)

O'BRIAN: Each of you
is gonna build a covert
communications network

in your home city,

you're gonna deploy it,
back up your site, destroy it,

and restore it again.

The point of this
exercise is to keep

your infrastructure up
and running securely.

The average test
time is five hours.

If you take more than eight,
you will fail.

SNOWDEN: Mr. O'Brian?

I'm done, sir.

You don't have to tell me
when you've completed a stage.

No, I finished
the whole thing.

It's been 40 minutes.

Thirty-eight.

What?

Thirty-eight minutes.

Okay. Let's see
where you screwed up.

(KEYBOARDS CLACKING)

(SYSTEM BEEPING)

(KEYBOARD CLACKING)

(COMPUTING)
(SYSTEM BEEPING)

You didn't say we had
to do it in order, sir.

So I, uh, broke
the sequence to save time,

and I automated
the backup process
to run as I built the site.

Eyes on screens.

Sir?

What should I do now?

Whatever you want.

(lNDISTINCT CHATTER)
(MAN LAUGHING)

(CAMERA CLICKS)

Hey.
Hi.

Finally. (LAUGHS)
Yeah.

Um, sorry.

Do you, um,
want anything?

No. Let's go
for a walk.

You could use some sun.
(LAUGHS)

(LAUGHS) Yeah.
You mentioned that earlier.

Sorry it took me
this long. I just...

You didn't want to
see me on crutches.
I was not so agile.

And then this
new job hit. So...

Oh, yeah, what was it
you were doing again?

I'm doing analysis for
the State Department.

Right. Congratulations.
Thanks.

You're welcome.

Hey, can you
do me a favor

and, um, point
in the direction
of the State Department?

Uh...

Yeah, it's that way.
(CAMERA CLICKS)

Where? Are you sure?
(CAMERA CLICKS)

I mean, I'm not that great
at orienting myself...

Not that great
at lying, either.

You're gonna
have to work on both
if you wanna be a spy.

Where I came from,
everyone's parents

worked for
the "State Department."

Plus, every time you visited
my website this week,

which was quite often,
it was from an lP in Virginia.

You know how to
run an lP trace?
Yeah.

I'm pretty sure that
the State Department
has no offices in Virginia.

(CHUCKLES)
Huh?

(CAMERA CLICKS)

All right,
let's see you strut it.

Let's see what?

Let's see you strut it.
Show me what you got,
you know.

Your best catwalk.

Don't be shy.

Come on.
You got this.
Uh... All right.

(CAMERA CLICKING)

(BOTH LAUGHING)

I don't know. (LAUGHS)

PROTESTORS: (CHANTING)
Drop Bush, not bombs!

Drop Bush, not bombs!

Drop Bush, not bombs!

Excuse me.
Would you mind signing
our petition, please?

Yes, absolutely.

Thank you.
Thank you so much. Sir?

No, thank you.

MALE ACTMST:
Excuse me, ma'am.
Would you like to sign?

I actually just signed.
Yeah.
Okay. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Too much independent
spirit for you?

Uh, no, I just don't really
like bashing my country.

It's my country too,
and right now it has
blood on its hands.

(SIGHS)

Sorry, I just...
l have friends who are
over there right now.

I'm not talking
about the troops.

I'm talking about the moron
sending them to war.

(LAUGHS) Moron? You mean
our Commander-in-Chief?

Yeah, whatever you
want to call him.
He's still wrong.

How do you know he's wrong?
You're just lashing out.

No, I'm not lashing out.
I'm questioning
our government.

That's what we do
in this country.

That is the principle
that we were founded on.

Okay, but how about
questioning the liberal media?

I mean,
you're just buying into
what one side is saying.

(LAUGHS) Maybe I am,
'cause my side is right.

See, that's funny,
'cause my side's right.
Oh, really?

Yeah.
Uh...(LAUGHS)

Why is it smart conservatives
always make me so mad?

Probably because
you don't like
hearing the truth.

You are a very
frustrating individual,
you know that?

How am I going
to make you see?

I can see just fine,
thank you.

(CHUCKLES)

That help at all?

Nope. No, that did
nothing for me.

Tastes like liberal.

(LAUGHS)
it's not my thing.

(O'BRIAN READING)

(O'BRIAN READING)

Is it constitutional
to bypass the Courts?

No. The Fourth Amendment
prevents searches

and seizures
without a warrant.

That's absolutely right,
Rio. Which means

your Commander-in-Chief,
the President of
the United States,

is breaking the law.

That is what you're saying,
isn't it, Rio?

Well, I guess it depends
on who you talk to.

O'BRIAN: And if you talk
to journalists?

Who, more often than not,
don't have the full picture,

or neglect to report it,
you only get a partial truth.

Foreign lntelligence
Surveillance Act.

The FISA Court.

We do respect
the Fourth Amendment
in this country,

and we issue warrants
based on suspicion.

But sometimes these warrants
have to be issued
by secret courts,

so we don't alert
the suspects we're spying on.

And these court proceedings
are classified,

which means, surprise...

They don't appear in papers
such as The New York Times.

SNOWDEN:
Did you see my test scores?

HANK: Yes. Top of
my class. Like you.
What, here?

NSA. They liked me plenty.

They put me on
all the best teams.
Soviet frontier. Desert Storm.

And then
the big new challenge,

find the terrorist
in the lnternet haystack.
Hell of a haystack.

Hundreds of
terabytes a minute.

I mean, it would
take you 400 years
to read the emails.

Then you have
to analyze them.

Sometimes,
the more you look,
the less you see.

What'd you come up with?
HANK: Something beautiful.

In house.
For $3 million.

A program that could
differentiate between
foreign and domestic,

encrypt every signal
we weren't targeting,
so it would remain private.

It was elegant, streamlined.

It was the best
work I ever did.

Have a seat.

What was it called?

Ed, rising to
the top in our world

can sometimes
be hard on a man.

I mean... You think
you're making strides,

you think you're
taking the initiative.

And then, the next minute,
they grind your work
out of existence.

They didn't use it?
Why not?

HANK: Well,
they never tell you why.

Two years later,
after 9/11,

a friend of mine
tells me about

this new contractor
program they're using.

Costs $4 billion
to deploy.

Modeled after mine
but with no filters,
no automation.

Ingested everything.
They were drowning in data.

It was a fucking disaster.

Okay, but there must have been
some bigger picture, right?

I mean, spending
that kind of money?
They're not stupid.

You would think
intelligence would
count for something

in the intelligence
business.

Right. But you wanna
know what it really is?

What really sets
the agenda?

Military industrial
happiness management.

You keep the coffers
open in Congress,

you keep the money flowing
to the contractors.

Efficiency, results?
They go out the window.

Not to mention...
All right.

Well, you're late
for class.

(BELL RINGING)

Okay. Thank you.

Can I take another one?
Sure.

Did you ever say
anything to anybody?

Yeah. I went to legal.
We filed complaints.

Now here I am,
tucked away, teaching you.

Maybe that's more important,
in the long run.

You're getting better.

My favorite spot
on campus.

You hunt, Ed?

SNOWDEN: Uh...

Did some skeet shooting
with my dad a few times,

but, no,
I never went hunting.

O'BRIAN:
We'll go one day.

SNOWDEN:
That'd be great.

Mr. O'Brian,
can I ask you a question?

How about just
calling me Corbin?

Okay. (LAUGHS)
Thank you, sir. Uh, Corbin.

I was talking
with Hank Forrester
and I wanted to know,

are all of our SIGINT programs
specifically targeted?

Of course.
What good would they be
if they weren't? Hmm?

(LAUGHS)
Yeah, I don't know.

You have a girlfriend, Ed?

Uh, nothing serious.

What's her name?
Lindsay.

Lindsay.

She going with you?

No, I wouldn't want
to put her in any danger.

Well, you won't have to.

We're not sending you
to the Middle East.

Sir, I'm your best student.
Doesn't that count
for something?

In 20 years,
Iraq will be a hellhole
nobody cares about.

Terrorism's
a short-term threat.

The real threats will come
from China, Russia, lran,

and they'll come as
SQL injections and malware.

Without minds like yours,
this country will be
torn apart in cyberspace.

I don't want to risk
losing you

for some horseshit war
over sand and oil.

Sir, I'm surprised
to hear you say that.

You don't have to agree
with your politicians
to be a patriot.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Sir, where are
you sending me?
Take a moment.

Enjoy the view.

Hey.

(SIRENS BLARING)

(lNDISTINCT CHATTER)

(STATIC)

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

(DOOR OPENS)

GLENN: This is Laura.

Hello.

EWEN: Hello,
nice to meet you.

Hello, I'm Ewen MacAskill
from the Guardian.
It's nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you, too.

Um, if you don't mind, uh,
I'd like to record some of...

Uh...
Cell phones go
in the microwave.

Dare I ask why?

We'll get to that.
After you ask your questions.

EWEN: Yeah, before...

Before we get on to
the stories, I need
to know more about you.

Your career by Glenn's account
is very varied,

but the Guardian
needs evidence that...

Yeah. This is my
diplomatic passport
for friendly countries,

my tourist passport
for everywhere else.

You can check
the visa stamps.

This is my NSA badge
with Booz Allen,
my CIA badge with Dell,

and this is my DIA
instructor's badge.

This is a photo of me
with Michael Hayden,

who's a former head
of the NSA and the CIA.

When can you publish?

Okay, um, do you mind
if I sit down?
No, please.

EWEN: Uh, Glenn says
you want to, uh...

You want to tell people
your identity.

How do you think
your government's
going to react?

Well, they'll charge me
under the Espionage Act.

And they'll say I endangered
national security,

and they'll demonize me,
and my friends and family.

(lNHALES DEEPLY)
And they'll throw me in jail.

That's the
best-case scenario.

And the worst?

Well, if I don't
have any media cover,

then I'll be rendered
by the CIA

and interrogated
outside of the law.

And they have a station
right up the street.

But how would they
know what you did?

Because I left a digital
footprint in my logs,
so they'll figure it out.

I did not want
a manhunt.

I know what they would
do to my colleagues.

Look, Mr. MacAskill, uh,

this is not about money
or anything for me.

There's no hidden agenda.

I just wanted to get this data
to established journalists
like yourselves,

so that you can present it
to the world,

and the people can decide
either I'm wrong

or there's something going on
inside the government
that's really wrong.

So...

This one
is everything I have

on your British
intelligence agency, the GCHQ.

An encryption key
will follow.

You're gonna want
your technical people
at the Guardian

to look through
that thoroughly.

There's a lot
of stuff there.

(lNHALES DEEPLY)

Listen,
they're gonna investigate,

and they're gonna
figure out what I've done.

And then they're
gonna come for me.

And now that
we've made contact,

they're gonna come
for all of you, too.

Uh... Um...

Do you mind if I go
look in the microwave?

Ewen. I'm on with Stuart.

Hi, Ewen.

Hi, Stuart. Look,
I've got one thing to say.

The Guinness here is great.
JANINE: (OVER PHONE)
Wonderful.

Oh, absolutely
the genuine article.

JANINE: (OVER PHONE) Good.

But shockingly different
from what you'd expect.

So... (CLEARS THROAT) Now we
have the lawyers to deal with.
And no doubt the White House.

I got the go ahead.

That's great.
Oh, good.

Let's get started.
We have a lot to
go through here,

and it's not easy reading.

LAURA: We can start
by showing him XKeyscore.

Good idea. Ed,
can you bring it up again
and walk us through it?

Yeah.

(CAMERA BEEPS, WHIRRING)

Do we all get
under there now?

He's protecting
his passwords.
(KEYBOARD CLACKING)

Okay. So...

This was introduced

during my first deployment
at the CIA in Geneva.

EWEN: "XKeyscore."

What does that do?

It's like
a search interface.

What does it search for?

Anything you want.

EWEN: What was your
assignment in Geneva?

SNOWDEN: Well, I was
assigned with diplomatic cover
to the UN mission

to maintain
the CIA's computer
security network.

I spent almost two years
around CIA field officers.

I don't see a time
stamp on any of this.

We have
a confirmation on the GSS.

(PHONE RINGING)

SNOWDEN: I'm sorry, sir,
I don't understand.

Sherman says you hacked
the Human Resources site.

Yeah, it's my job
to find flaws.

The security of the HR site
is not your problem.

You went outside
the wheelhouse.

Okay, but just to clarify,
I did not hack it,

I showed that it
could be hacked.

You told me
to find a patch.

You have that
in writing?

Yes, I do.
Remember, I sent you
the proof of concept.

Doesn't matter
what you did, Snowden.

Right or wrong,
you need to let these things
be someone else's problem.

He's also put
a derog in your file.

Excuse me?
Let that be a lesson.

I don't want him
calling me again

about another
Ed Snowden moment.

Okay?

(lNDISTINCT CHATTER)

Why don't you take it easy
the rest of the day?

Go work on
the scrubbing pile.

That didn't look
like it went well.

Oh, hey, man. Uh, yeah.
No, I just got a derog
for doing my job.

(CHUCKLES) Politics, man.
The culture of fear
wins again.

I can't get
anything done here.
Yeah.

Hey, um, what about that idea
that we were talking about?

I'm working on it.
I'm waiting for a call back

from our friend
at The Hill.

Who, Corbin?
You called Corbin?
Hmm.

You think he can
do something?

We'll see.
Maybe some limited field ops
under my supervision.

Yes, that would be amazing.
I would love...

Easy, Ed. I've gotta
see a cleric in Milan.
We'll talk after.

Okay. Thank you.

(MACHINE WHIRRING)

(KNOCKS)

Damn, CIA does not like
to leave a trace, huh?

Can I help you?

You get curious
to check one out?

See what kind of crazy-ass
covert kill mission

you might be erasing
from history?

I'm sorry,
who are you with?

No Such Agency.
I'm Gabriel Sol.

I'm the 50-pound brain
from the Council of
Wizards and Warlocks.

Excuse me?

Giving you your intel
for Bucharest, dude.
Oh.

Unless there's
another Dave Churchyard.

No. That's me.
Right this way.

I'll be right outside.
Stay if you want.

(SYSTEM BEEPS)
Uh, I don't have authorization
to use NSA programs.

Well, if you're
the messenger to Bucharest,

you must have
a PRIVAC clearance

to see the finished
intel, yes?

Yeah...

GABRIEL: Yeah, so what
difference does it make

if you see how
it's put together?

(KEYBOARD CLACKING)

Well, it's up to you, man.

Uh, you're giving me
just names?

Uh, and a lot more
than names.

What I will be providing you
and the fine gentlemen
of the Secret Service

is a list of every threat
made about the President
since February 3rd.

And a profile of
every threat-maker.

And these are, like,
existing targets?

99% are gonna come from
the bulk collection program,
so...

Upstream, Muscular,
Tempora, PRISM.

PRISM?

You got a little
Snow White in you.

Which makes me feel like
the witch bringing you
a poisoned apple.

Here. Exhibit A.

Oakland resident Justin Pinsky
posted on a message board,

"Romania has a storied history
of executing their leaders,

"couldn't they do us a solid
and take out Bush?"

Now this looks juicy.
This is from a G-chat.

"...with the biggest python
you've ever seen." Hmm.

How is this all possible?

Um, keyword selectors.

"Attack," "take out Bush."

So think of it as
a Google search,

except instead of searching
only what people make public,

we're also looking at
everything they don't. So...

Emails, chats,
SMS, whatever.

Yeah, but which people?

The whole kingdom,
Snow White.

(lNDISTINCT CHATTER)

(lNDISTINCT CHATTER)

Which ambassador
was he again?

De La Hoya, with
World Trade Organization.

Right.

(STRING QUARTET PLAYING)

MATT: So...

O'Brian came through
for you.

He agrees your talents
are being wasted. You ready
for a little action?

Really? What,
you mean right here?

Yeah. Now.

See the woman in
the pink number?

Credit Suisse.
J. P. Morgan's on her arm.
Grandma's with Deutsche Bank.

Ten thousand bankers
in this town.

All you need to turn is one.

Socialize. Meet a few.

Preferably ones sitting on
a pile of dirty Saudi money

that's funding bin Laden.

Thank you very much.
Church. Church.
Sure. Churchyard.

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

Mr. Debrinin asks
your business card, please.

An ambassador. Wow!
(LAUGHING)

I wish I had your
schmoozing skills.

Uh, well,
that's why you have me.

Yeah. You don't know
any bankers, do you?
Bankers?

Are you on some kind of
assignment or something?

Um,
"Relationship cultivating."
(SIGHS) And not well.

Let me help you.

No.
Yeah.

No, this is serious.
I know it's serious.

Trust me.

Any luck?

No, no bites.

Is there some kind
of trick to it?

It's all about finding
the pressure point.

Everything else is
just pushing on it.

Looks like
you're being summoned.

...we have to pay extra...
Marwan?
May I interrupt?

This is
my boyfriend, Dave.

Hello, Dave.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.

Marwan works at Monfort.

We were talking,
and after last week,

he may be able
to give you some tips.

Gentlemen,
I'll see you inside.
Last week?

He's embarrassed.
It was a lot
of money for us.

Day trading is
a perilous sport.
(LAUGHS)

You shouldn't
be ashamed of it.
Yeah.

I'm gonna grab some food.
See you guys inside?

Sure.

You have
a lovely girlfriend.
Thank you so much.

You know, I work in lT,
and so I just figured

I could crack the market
like a weak network.

May I ask, how precipitous
were your losses?

Well, I told Lindsay
it was 20,000,

but between you and me,
it was closer to 45.

Tried to recoup,
but that was a mistake,

and now without
any real grounding,

I feel like I'm just
sliding out of control.

Oh, I have seen it
many times.

And I'm always happy
to help a man

break a bad habit
before it gets going.

Oh, thank you.
I really appreciate that.

GABRIEL: This is the cleanest
Pakistani I've ever seen.

We got no first-degree ties
to government or lSl,

no shady family.

I mean, second-degree contacts
are off the charts,

but that's... l mean,
that's everyone
in the Middle East

with a six-figure income.

Well, it's not dirt
that we need necessarily,
it's a pressure point.

Something intimate,
some kind of weakness.

Can we look through
his family?
Mmm-hmm.

GABRIEL: How about
his sister-in-law?

Yeah.

What is that,
is that some video
that she sent somebody?

No, this is live.
Out of Paris.

What do you mean, live?

GABRIEL: Optic Nerve.
It's camera
and mic activation.

I wish we could take credit,
but the Brits wrote it.

Activation?

GABRIEL: Yeah,
her laptop's off.

Or was, she just
forgot to close it.

Of course,
how would she know?

This shit is so sly,
the webcam light
doesn't even turn on.

Hmm. I always wondered
what was under those.

Okay, look, let's stick
to family in Geneva.

All right?

Okay, Snow White.
Uh...

Fifteen-year-old daughter
at the lnternational School.

Yeah. Uh, Facebook?
Is that possible?

Dude,
Facebook's my bitch.

Seriously?
(KEYBOARD CLACKING)

Like, she fights
with her parents, or...

Don't worry, don't worry.
I know all the hooks
for this kind of fishing.

Uh, query name.
So email, keyword,
whatever selector you want.

And justification
is where I write...

In other words,
turning your daddy
into a CIA informant.

Wait, that's it?
(lNHALES DEEPLY)
That's it, bro.

You don't have to get
a FISA court order?

Mmm-mmm. No, not here.
XKeyscore's under
702 authority,

which means no warrants.

Okay, but U.S. targets
then, you'd have to get
the court order?

You mean FISA? Yeah,
they're just a big-ass
rubber stamp, dude.

I mean, FISA judges
are all appointed by

the Chief Justice,
who's like, you know...

Darth Vader when it comes
to national security. Boom.

Here we go.

Okay, okay. And the boy
at third base is...

Nadim. Okay. He's 18.

Salma says she wants
to marry him,

but is scared of
telling her parents.

What she doesn't know
is that his other name
is Nicolas.

And he's currently banging
Geraldine and Julie.

And...

He and his Turkish mother
are here illegally.

That's it.

(MUSIC PLAYING)

(MUSIC PLAYING)

STRIPPER:
Ah, you like that?

MARWAN: I love these.

Man, what are
we doing here?

You're making people
very happy.

Mr. Marwan's bank
handles serious Saudi money,

and a whole bunch of
Russian billionaires.

What about any
al-Qaeda money?
Anything promising?

Ed, I'm up for
a promotion soon.

I will not forget
my friends.

Thank you.

This is all going kind
of fast though, right?
(LAUGHS)

I mean, I just sent
some initial background.

There he is!
The man!

Hey, Marwan!

Dave. How wonderful
to see you.

Good to see you, too.

Uh, I was counting, Marwan,
you snuck in an extra
half hour back there.

(LAUGHS) I'm afraid
she was merely listening
to an old man's woes.

(LAUGHS) Oh, I see.

So, how are you,
Marwan?

I must tell you,
Dave, since we met,

my life has gone
somewhat topsy-turvy.

Oh, no,
I'm sorry to hear that.

But your colleague
Charles here

has graciously
offered his help.

So I owe him and you
a great deal.

Can I ask
what happened?

My daughter had an...

Marwan's daughter
took too many sleeping pills.

She's all right.

It had something to
do with her boyfriend,
who was recently deported.

We're trying to secure
a visa for him.

And even so,
I'm afraid that Salma will...

I'm sorry.
I won't trouble you
with such matters.

No, no, you... Hey.
You talk as much
as you want.

All right?
Family comes first.

(LAUGHS SOFTLY)

(ALL LAUGHING)

Whoa!
Oh!

There's my beauty.

I'm never
like this before.

Oh, sure.
No, of course.

You sit down, huh?
Sit tight.

You sit tight.
(BOTH LAUGHING)

What the fuck's
going on?

I have been acting
swiftly and effectively

on the very good
signals intelligence
you've provided.

And if his daughter
had died?

We could have
used that too.

Are you serious?
What, in the name
of a promotion?

(BEEPS)

Marwan can't be away
from his family right now.

So in the morning,
when he's facing
a week in jail,

we're going to offer him
a deal and he won't
turn it down.

Wait, jail? For what?

Drunk driving.

Now, I want you
to call the police.

Tell 'em you saw
a Mercedes headed north...

No, he's not driving
right now.

Look at him,
he'll kill himself.

Okay. I'll call 'em.
Hey!

He's not driving.

Remind me, are you
authorized on any of
the NSA programs you used?

So we're both doing
a little fucked up
shit here, huh?

Watch yourself, Ed.
I will tell him
who you are.

You reveal the identity
of an undercover officer,

you're going to jail
for a lot longer than Marwan.

MARWAN: Hey!

Hey.

Sorry I'm so late.

How was work?

It was, uh...

(SIGHS)
it was all right. Yeah.

(lNHALES DEEPLY)
I have to wake up in,
like, three hours.

My flight's at 7:00.

(SIGHS)

Well, we'd better
be quick, then.

(BOTH CHUCKLING)

(MOANING)

(BREATHES DEEPLY)

(BOTH MOANING)

I will provide
our intelligence
and law enforcement agencies

with the tools they need
to track and take out
the terrorists

without undermining
our constitution
and our freedom.

(DOOR OPENS)
That means no more
illegal wiretapping

of American citizens.

No more ignoring the law
when it is inconvenient.

That is not who we are.

Hey, hon.
Hey.

(LAUGHS) What happened
to the London trip?

Uh...
(REPORTERS SPEAKING
lNDISTINCTLY ON TV)

Turns out I'm not going.

Oh.

What's going on?
Who's winning?

CORRESPONDENT:
...and Michelle Obama voted
this morning in Chicago.

I voted.
CORRESPONDENT: In Arizona...

Still early.

...John and Cindy McCain
voted, and then they landed
in Colorado

to defend a traditionally
Republican state

that has turned
into a battleground.

Hey. Let's see.

WOLF: (ON TV)
Obama ahead 67% to 32%...
(EXHALES DEEPLY)

Come on, big ears.
Check out Florida.

Holy shit,
he's gonna win it!
(LAUGHS)

What, Florida?
Yeah!

That's big. Yeah.
It's huge!

You can act all nonchalant,
but I know you were starting
to root for him.

I've been watching
your inner liberal grow.

For which I will take
a modest percentage
of the credit.

And you deserve it.
(LINDSAY LAUGHING)

(CLEARS THROAT)

What is this?

WOLF: ...in Missouri.

56% for McCain,
43% for Obama.

Oh, yeah, that. Just...
Leave that there.
That's, uh...

Russian hackers.
The Agency says

they can activate
webcams now. So...

That's creepy.

Yes. it's really
bothering me.

Whatever. it's not
a big deal. You shouldn't
let it bother you.

It's not
a big deal?
No.

What, that someone
could be watching you
right now?

No, I'm not
hiding anything.

(EXHALES DEEPLY)
That's such a bullshit line.
What is?

I have nothing
to hide.
I don't.

Everyone does.

Okay, well then,
what do I have to hide?

(SIGHS) Forget it.
No, what do
I have to hide?

No, never...
Let's just drop it.

Well, apparently you
think that I'm hiding
something, so...(LAUGHS)

Okay, the other day,
your computer was open,

and I happened to notice
you were on the site
where we met,

and you were looking
at other guys.

You just were looking
at my computer?

I wouldn't have
even brought this up.

You asked me,
"What do I have to hide?"

That's something
you're not telling me.

(STUTTERS)
Well, it's not...
I don't do anything,

I don't meet any
of those people.

You're gone for weeks
at a time.

So it's like
I'm peering into
other peoples' lives

because my own is
just temporarily on hold.

That sounds like
an excuse.

It's the truth.

(SIGHS)

I should have told you.
And I didn't.

I'm really sorry.
But it's not a big deal.

Hey.

(BREATHES DEEPLY)

Look at me.
I don't want anyone else.

I don't want
any other life.

Okay?

Listen, uh...

I didn't go to London today
'cause I resigned.

What?

It was personal differences,

and it was a matter
of principle.

Can you tell me
anything else?

Do you get
reposted, or...

No, no, I resigned
from the CIA.

LINDSAY: So what does
that mean? What do we do?

I don't know. I'll figure
it out, but listen, l...

This is a good thing.
Trust me.

I do.

(LAUGHS SOFTLY)

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

Hey.
Hmm?

He's gonna win.

WOLF: (ON TV) 52% for Obama,
48% for McCain.

Yeah, he'd better.

CNN can now project that
Barack Obama, 47 years old,

will become the President
of the United States.
(PEOPLE CHEERING)

OBAMA: (ON TV) Every agency
and department should know
that this administration

stands on the side

not of those who seek
to withhold information,

but those who seek
to make it known.

GLENN: Janine is
the website editor

of a small stateside office
of a British newspaper,

up against the most powerful
government in the world.

EWEN: She won't be bullied.

We need to establish
that we're not compromising

national security
by publishing.

GLENN: We need
to have alternatives.

Listen, Ed,

the real issue here is that
they, the White House,

are aware that Janine
has a leaked top secret
FISA court order.

Anything could happen.

They could subpoena
the Guardian

and, for that matter,
they could

break through
that door any minute,

ending all of this.

We are running
out of time.

We seriously have to
think about doing this
on our own website.

We have no choice.

Wait, you can't just
start dumping articles

on the lnternet, Glenn!
Be serious.

Look at WikiLeaks.
It destroyed
their credibility.

Look, Ed,
you said it yourself,

if this isn't done properly,
the world isn't
gonna take notice.

You need
experienced journalists
to lead the public

through some very,
very complicated stories.

We are
experienced journalists.

My feeling...
(PHONE RINGING)

Has anyone
called here before?
Not once. Not in three weeks.

Well, I'll...
Shall I answer it?

I'll tell 'em it's
the wrong number.

Yes?

No, I don't.

Okay. Thank you.

Asking if I want
turndown service.

She said the
"Do not disturb" sign
was off the door.

(DOOR CLOSES)

(EWEN SIGHS)

(DOOR CLOSES)

So?

Do we wait?
Or go on our own?

Look, I said
from the beginning

that how you publish
is your business,

and I trust you.

The only thing I ask
is you study the data,
you be responsible,

no names, no specifics,
anything ongoing

that's critical,
you don't release.

You just stick to the issue
of mass surveillance

and let the people decide.

GLENN: You have our word on
that, but that's not the
question. We have to ask...

EWEN: Look, Ed, Ed,

right now the White House is
arranging a conference call

between Janine and
the intelligence services.

Now that's gonna happen
in a few hours.

Let's at least wait for that,
see what they say to her.

I'd say we pause a moment.

EWEN: Yeah, I think
we should reassemble

in this room after
the call takes place,

so that's around midnight.
Be noon in New York.

All right.

I'll take another pass
at the PRISM story
in the meantime.

Okay. We'll be
in our hotel room
if you need us, okay?

Thanks, Ewen.

Yeah.
Okay.

(DOOR CLOSES)

Uh, do you mind maybe
we take a break from that?

For a second?

Oh, yeah.
Sure, sorry.
(CAMERA BEEPS)

You wanna take a look?
Might make you feel better.

Oh. (LAUGHS)
it's not recording,
just on standby.

Okay.
(LAUGHS)

When did this start for you?
Not wanting your photo taken?

Uh, probably in Japan.
(EXHALES DEEPLY)

I remember every time
a camera got pointed at me,

it was like...
Couldn't breathe.

Why was that?

I probably, uh, spent too much
time looking at other people
through cameras.

Japan was your
first NSA job, right?

Yeah, well,
as a contractor with Dell.
Had a lot of access.

LAURA: Why'd you go
back after Geneva?

'Cause the money,
and 'cause I wanted
to live in Japan.

And because of Obama,
actually.

You know, I thought
things were gonna
get better with him.

I was wrong.

(lNDISTINCT CHATTER
OVER PA)

LAURA:
What was it like there?

SNOWDEN: Well,
in the first part of my day,

I was building this
round-the-clock backup
system called Epic Shelter.

So, if there was
some catastrophe,

say, uh, terrorists
burned down every embassy

and NSA post in
the Middle East.

This program would
ensure we wouldn't lose
any of that data.

But then, I would
have to put it aside
when visitors would show up.

Hi, Ed.

SNOWDEN: NSA wanted
to impress the Japanese,
show them our reach.

They loved
the live drone feeds.

This is over Pakistan.

Right now.

(lNDISTINCT CHATTER)

SNOWDEN: They were not
as thrilled to learn that
we wanted them to help us

spy on
the Japanese population.

They said it was
against their laws.

Course we tapped
the entire country anyway.

And we didn't stop there,

'cause once we owned
their communications systems,

we started going after
their physical infrastructure.

We'd slip these
little sleeper programs
into power grids,

dams, hospitals,

and the idea was
if the day came

when Japan was
no longer an ally,

it'd be lights out.

(POWERING DOWN)

And it wasn't
just the Japanese.

We were planting malware
in Mexico, Germany,

Brazil, Austria.

I mean, China
I can understand,
or Russia, or lran,

or Venezuela, okay.
But Austria?

(COWBELL DINGS)

You're also being ordered
to follow most world leaders

and heads of industry.

You know, you're tracking
trade deals, sex scandals,

diplomatic cables
to give the U.S.

an advantage in
negotiations at the G8,

or leverage over
Brazilian oil companies,

or helping to oust
some third-world leader
who's not playing ball.

And ultimately,
the truth sinks in

that no matter
what justification
you're selling yourself,

this is not about terrorism.

Terrorism is the excuse.

This is about economic
and social control.

And the only thing
you're really protecting

is the supremacy
of your government.

LAURA: Were you thinking about
going to journalists then?

No. No, that wouldn't have
occurred to me back then.

I just thought, you know,
the system will self-correct,

and the President
will keep his promise
that got him elected...

That's actually when
I first started reading
about you and your films.

It was in Glenn's blog.

You were being detained
in airports for hours.

Thirty-seven times.
For investigating
your own country's wars.

(SIGHS) That's why I'm going
back to Berlin to edit.
You can trust me with this.

I do. Yeah.

I haven't trusted
anyone in years.

It was a welcome change
when they put me on
terrorism watch duty.

Every day, I'd go in
and I'd get starting
points for SIGINT,

which is signals intelligence.
(KEYBOARD CLACKING)

A lot of them were American,
which felt strange,

but you just keep
reminding yourself,

I could stop
a dirty bomb attack
and save thousands of lives.

The thing is,
you're not just following
your bad guy targets.

You're also following
their metadata,

which is basically
all the phone numbers
that they're in touch with.

Let's say your target
is a shady lranian banker

operating out of Beirut,
okay.

So you're watching his stuff,
but you're also watching

all the people
that he talks to.

lncluding,
you know, his cousin,

who's just some dentist
living in Buffalo.

And then you have to watch
all of that guy's contacts.

And by the time
you go a third hop out
from the original target,

you're watching this bartender
chat with her mother
about Botox.

'Cause three hops from anyone
with, say, 40 contacts,

you're looking at a list
of 2.5 million people.

And there's that
moment when

you're sitting there and
the scale of it hits you.

The NSA is really tracking
every cell phone in the world.

No matter who you are,

every day of your life,
you're sitting in a database

just ready
to be looked at.

(lNDISTINCT CHATTER)

SNOWDEN: And not just
terrorists, or countries,
or corporations, but you.

Was Lindsay with you
in Japan?

Japan was difficult
for us.

I guess you couldn't
talk about your work.

No. (LAUGHS)

There was this one night,
uh, towards the end,

when, uh, we were supposed
to go climb Mount Fuji
the next day...

(SONG PLAYING)

Wow!

Are you gonna
post that on Twitter?

No.

They're just for me.
What do you think?

You should delete those.

That's not quite
the artistic critique
I was going for.

I'm sorry. You just...
You should...

You can't have
stuff like that
on your hard drive.

LINDSAY: Yes, I can.

Can you just please...
I'm asking you,
can you delete them?

Russian hackers again?

No...

Is it us?

It's classified.

Am I a target?

Of course not.

Clearly someone is looking
at my nude portraits.

Okay. I shouldn't
have brought it up.

All right? it's issues
of national security.

Well, I am flattered
that my boobs

are considered an issue
of national security,

but you're gonna have to do
a lot better than that.

I'd rather not talk
about stuff that could
land us in jail.

LINDSAY: So that's what
the Band-Aids are about, then?

And your camera phobia?

Because of work?

Are they watching us?

Who are they watching?
No one, okay?

Let's just stop
talking about it.

Let's go to bed,
and wake up in the morning,

and go climb this
fucking mountain.
All right?

Of course we're not
gonna talk about it.

What is that
supposed to mean?

It means that we don't talk
about anything anymore.

You work 12-hour days,
you come home depressed,

you play fucking video games,
and then you fall asleep.

Yeah, I'm tired
'cause I have a job.

That's what pays
for this apartment

in the most expensive city
in the world.

Which you asked me to come to
knowing that I did not have
a work visa.

Okay, what if
you had one?

Would you really give up
your beautiful life
of eating and sleeping

and going out all the time?
You think you'd really
want a career?

A career like yours?
Where I'm miserable
all the time? No.

That's called
responsibility.

(CHUCKLES) Fuck this.

You know what?
You have no fucking idea

what it's like
to be accountable
for other people's lives,

because you live
in a fairy tale land

where just there
are no consequences,

and no one ever gets hurt.

(SIGHS)

(VOICE BREAKING) No. No,
you, you don't get hurt.

(SOBS) I get
fucking crushed.

Fucking bullshit!
I've done nothing to you!

That's exactly right.
You have done nothing!

You don't hang out with me,
you don't laugh with me,

you don't even
fucking touch me anymore.

I'm sorry.
Stop!

No! (SOBS)

We, uh, never made
it to Mount Fuji.
(LAUGHS SOFTLY)

And Lindsay left pretty
soon after that, and...

I was really lonely there.

But after three months,
I left too. I went back
to Maryland.

(DOORBELL RINGING)

(CHUCKLES)

And I promised her
I'd change.

And, uh, we moved
back in together.

(PIANO MUSIC PLAYING)
Make sure your
knees stay bent,

and then you can fully extend
once you feel stable. Ready?

One, two, three.

All the way up.

Now you wanna clench
between your knees.

It'll burn,
but it's a good burn.

Perfect.

Twirl around.

(CLAPPING)
Perfect! Oh, my God,
I'm so proud of you!

SNOWDEN:
When you're really happy,

there's a large part of you
that just wants to stay happy.

And you start to think,
what could be more
important than this?

What!
Is it okay?

Oh, my God.
It's so beautiful.

SNOWDEN: You know,
lots of people cruise
happily through life.

Why can't I?
(CAMERA CLICKING)

And I went back
to work at the CIA.

With backdoors...

My official title was
Solutions Consultant.

Basically I was hawking
overpriced hardware
for a living.

But I thought
you had resigned?

Yeah, well,
it was all contract work
after Geneva.

You know,
it's Booz Allen Hamilton,

or Dell, in partnership

with CIA or NSA, DIA.

That's the intelligence
community's revolving door.

How was it?
Being back in the States?

It was, uh, it was
really good to be home.

But Maryland was where things
started to turn for me.

Every time I felt like
I was finally letting go
of all the anxiety

and all the questions that
used to keep me up at night,

I'd learn something else,
and I just couldn't ignore it.

Like, there were these
three high-level officials
at the NSA,

Bill Binney, Ed Loomis,
and Kirk Wiebe.

They'd been filing complaints
about abuse and overreach
for years.

That's all they did,
they just filed complaints,

and the FBI
raided their homes.

Then there was Thomas Drake.

Like the other three guys,
Drake was trying

to change things
from the inside.

But when nothing worked,
he did go to the press.

So they hit him
with the Espionage Act,
and we were shocked.

The whole intel community.

SCOTT: (ON VIDEO)
Why do you think
you were charged?

To send a chilling message.

To whom?

To other whistleblowers,
to others in the government,

not to speak out.

Do not tell truth to power.
We'll hammer you.

O'BRIAN: There's a new
program being developed

at the NSA's op
center on Oahu.

You'd be going up against
Chinese cyber divisions.

You interested?

Won't be
the vast sums of money
you're making now,

but you'd be performing
a critical service
for your country.

I know that's
important to you.

You mean service
like in Geneva?

Matt was a mistake.
Shouldn't have
pushed you into that.

You didn't push me
into it.

I asked for exposure
to field ops,
you gave it to me.

I won't hold that
against you.

Is there something
you do hold against me?

You didn't tell me
we were running

a dragnet on
the whole world, Corbin.

(DOG BARKING)

(GUNSHOTS)

Great shooting, Ed.

Thank you.

That's terrific.

(LAUGHS) it's the one thing
in the Army I was good at.

O'BRIAN:
You ever think, Ed,

since the Second World War,
it's been 60 years
and still no WW lll.

Why?

Because we've used
our power generally
for the good of the world.

For prosperity, order.

How can we defend
ourselves against

nuclear war, terror attacks,
cyber-attacks

without a centralized
intel factory

working around the world
night and day?

So we should catalogue
billions of people's lives?

O'BRIAN: Most people already
catalogue their lives
for public consumption.

Well, they catalogue
part of their lives,
and they do it by choice.

We're not giving
them the choice.
We're just taking everything.

Most Americans
don't want freedom,
they want security.

It's a simple bargain. if...

Good girl! Good girl!
(GROWLS)

if you want to play
with all the new toys

and be safe, you pay
the price of admission.

Yeah, except people,

they don't even know
they've made that bargain.

Where's the modern
battlefield, soldier?

Everywhere.

(MAN SHOUTING)
O'BRIAN: What's the first
rule of battle?

Never reveal
your position.

And if one
unauthorized person knew?
If Congress knew?

So would the enemy.

That, Mr. Snowden,
is the state of the world.

Secrecy is security,
and security is victory.

(PEOPLE SPEAKING lNDISTINCTLY
IN THE DISTANCE)

(DOG BARKS)

Thank you, sir.

Someone I want you
to meet.

MAN: Beautiful day
for it, wasn't it?
Perfect weather.

Mr. Lowell. Jim.

How are you?
Dorian.

Alan.
Nice to see you.

O'BRIAN:
Welcome to the U.S.

How'd you make
out today, Corbin?

Uh, very mediocre.
Nothing like Ed here.

Apparently the Army's training
people to shoot straight.

So this is Ed Snowden.

Yes, sir.
Pleasure to meet you.

The brains
behind Epic Shelter.
That's right.

That's brilliant work.
Thank you, sir.

Yeah, I had a few questions
I wanted to ask you.

Uh, Jim. Will you
excuse me, gentlemen?

Excuse me, Alan.
Nice to meet you.

Yeah, it's proving very useful
to our UAV program.

Yes, I heard.
With foreign site
intel transfer.

Transfers happen
on collection now.

They go straight
to the Pentagon,
Mossad if they need it.

Actionable immediately.
No one sees it.

It's improved
the response time

of our drone pilots
by a factor of ten.

Tell me, Ed. You worked
signals intelligence
in Japan too, yes?

Yes, sir.

How'd you like it?

It was a very
empowering job, sir.
(LAUGHS)

With this new job in Hawaii,
you'd have even more access.

I asked Corbin to
start the conversation.
But the offer is mine.

Take your time.

It's going to
take a few months

to get this program
on its feet.

If you'll excuse me,
gentlemen, I see dinner.

ATTENDANT: Beer, sir?
Thank you.

Sir, for you?
Uh, no, thank you.

Epic Shelter was meant
as a backup program.

Lowell is creating
this position for you, Ed.

You'd be the first contractor
outside Fort Meade

working counter-cyber.

It's your ticket to the top.

(MEAT SIZZLING)

POLYGRAPH ADMINISTRATOR:
Do you believe
the United States

is the greatest country
in the world?

Yes.
(BEEPING)

POLYGRAPH ADMINISTRATOR:
Have you ever used

any programs
you were unauthorized for?

SNOWDEN: No.

(BEEPS)

LINDSAY: We're not usually
supposed to submit
our own work,

but my editor said
she'd make an exception.

Pretty neat, huh?

(GRUNTS) I get to
submit an entry.

You ignoring me
on purpose, or what?

No. Sorry.
Shit. Uh...

(SIGHS)
I was just thinking.

About what?

I wanted to talk to you
about it at dinner,

but let's just...
Will you come sit down?

Is everything okay?

Yeah.

Um...

The, uh, Deputy Director
of the NSA...

Hmm?
(lNHALES DEEPLY)

He offered me
a new position.

And, uh,
that was a while back,
and now they need an answer.

Well, is it something
you want to do?

I'd be good at it.

Can you tell me
anything about it?
(LAUGHING)

(LAUGHS)
You know I can't.

I know. Mission first.

(lNHALES DEEPLY)

Well, are there social perks?
White House galas, maybe?

The position
is in Hawaii.

We worked really hard
to get where we're at.

And you're willing to
just rip it all up again?

Like we finally have
a house that we love,

and a job that I like,
and real friends,

and we're close
to our families.
I... l understand.

And if you want to stay,
then we're staying.

That's it.

Don't just say that
'cause I wanna hear it.

I'm not.

I let you go once,
I'm not gonna do it again.

(LID RATTLING)

Shit. I'm sorry.
The pasta.

It's gonna...
One sec.
(LINDSAY CHUCKLES)

You know, I think I actually
came pretty close

to getting it
right this time.

LINDSAY:
I'll get some candles.

(VOICE ECHOING)
Oh, my God! Ed! Ed! Ed!

(lNAUDIBLE)

SNOWDEN: I know Tegretol.

I know it slows you down,
'cause I've seen it in my mom.

She's taken all kinds
of medications her whole life.

Well, they work
in 70% of cases.

Ed, epilepsy is
a serious condition.

If you have a seizure
driving yourself,

or with someone else
in the car,

or you're in a place
where you could fall,

this is not something
to be lightly regarded.

It's essential
you commit yourself
to this medication.

Okay?

Yeah.

After you.
Oh, thank you.

(BOTH LAUGHING)

I've been thinking about
what the doctor said.

About less stress.

A warmer climate
could help.

(lNHALES DEEPLY)

if Hawaii is something
that we decide

would be better
for you, I'll go.

EWEN: Janine,
how'd the White House
conversation go?

JANINE: (OVER PHONE)
I made it quite clear

that we were in possession
of an authentic
FISA court order.

They wanted to see it.
We refused.

Now I just pray that
it's actually authentic.

Are you actually
questioning that?

Glenn, no one has ever seen
a FISA court order.

There's no precedent here.

Our source risked his life
for that document. it's real.

Tell us, did the White House
make any specific claims

about national security
that would prevent you
from publishing?

No. I asked them repeatedly,
and they had no
substantive answer.

Then, there you go!
What more do you want?

You can go out and
know that you're safe.

Glenn, I'd like to
talk to Alan before
we go any further.

EWEN: When does he land?

STUART: (OVER COMPUTER)
In six hours.

No. Absolutely not!
We're sitting
ducks here, Janine.

It's 1:00 p.m.
in New York.

If you don't get this out
in the next four hours,

you'll miss the evening news
on the East Coast.

But we can post
later tonight.

I'm sorry, Glenn.

But Alan's our
editor-in-chief,
and I really think that...

Bullshit! The government
knows that we have
these documents now.

The CIA could barge through
this door any minute,
and you want more time!

Act like a fucking journalist
and stop stringing us along!

I just stood my ground
with the goddamn White House!

I've risked my career!

How dare you question
my commitment to this story!

Okay, let's just
keep our voices down...

No, you're right.
I am questioning it.

This is absolutely
inappropriate.

We are publishing ourselves.
You're out.

(SCOFFS)

All right, Glenn.

We'll have it ready
by 4:00 p.m.

I have to go over
the story once more.
Why?

Because it still
needs editing, damn you.

All this fucking
intelligence jargon
is hurting our brains.

This PRISM story is
still incomprehensible.

PRISM is the second story,
Janine.

Verizon is the first story.

Have it ready to post
by 4:00 p.m.,
5:00 at the latest.

Ugh...

No games, or we're gone.

(HEAVY BREATHING)

SNOWDEN: So, my new job
was counter-spying

on the Chinese at the NSA
Regional Cryptological Center
on Oahu.

Hi.
You mind placing your
bag down there, sir?

No personal laptops,
no USB sticks,
no cell phones,

no electronic devices
of any kind?

No, sir.

(WOMAN SPEAKING
lNDISTINCTLY ON PA)

GUARD: Thank you.

Thank you.

Snow White!
Is that you?

Gabriel?

Dude, what the hell
are you doing here?
(CHUCKLES) Wow!

That's amazing.

Oh, man.

What, do you work here?

Yeah, yeah. Uh, three years,
two months, and five days.

But who's
counting, right?
Yeah.

It's like who knew
a secret underground
World War ll-era base

would become munchie heaven
for a thousand geeks, right?

So there's good pizza?
Good pizza, yeah.

That's important.

Elevator's slow
as shit, though.

Jesus.

GABRIEL: it's something
else, huh?

Yeah. So, uh, what deck
are you working on?

You NTOC or ROC?

Between you and me? NTOC.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)

Cool. You get to
hack the hackers.

You're coming up
in the world.

(lNDISTINCT CHATTER)

(KNOCKS ON DOOR)
Fresh brains
for you, Trevor.

Trevor James, lnteractive
Ops Division Chief.

Ed Snowden.

I've been briefed.
Next door is NTOC.

Defense. That's where
you'll be working.

Over here we have ROC,
our offense.

Now I move between the two.
We run a tight ship here,
Snowden.

Yes, sir.

You'll be working
with Haynes.

Hey. Patrick Haynes.

Hey. Nice to meet you.
Good to have you.

You watch out for him.

That's the smartest guy
in the building right here.

(CHUCKLES)
Come on.

Bro, how many languages
you speak, again?

I mean, seven in code,
six spoken, two signs.

That's cool.

Great. Another language
I can't understand.

Uh, I'll check you
later, Ed.

Okay. See you.

TREVOR: Wait for it.

Any moment.

TECHNICIAN: We got 'em.

TREVOR: Lights over
Waziristan, gentlemen.

Way to go.

So what exactly do we
contribute to this?

The underside of
that Reaper drone

is fixed with
a big-ass antenna,

snarfing the hardware lD
of anything that broadcasts.

We do the geolocator.

My friend Tasha
here at the Air Force

rains hellfire.
There she is now.

FEMALE DRONE PILOT:
Hey, Trev.
You likin' the show?

You know it. We track 'em,
you whack 'em.

SNOWDEN: And who
did we just track?

Not who, what.

We're targeting
bad guys' cell phones.
Sometimes the SIM card.

Okay, and how do we
know the bad guy

is in possession of
the bad cell phone

when we strike?

Well, we don't...

Course we do. JSOC and CIA
have their people
in the field.

What's the program name?

Epic Shelter.

It was originally some
backup program for, um...

Catastrophic site failure.

Yeah. How did
you know that?

I built it.

You?
Yeah.

You know I've actually...
I've been thinking about, uh,

another use
for Epic Shelter.

What'd you have
in mind?

Well, I was chatting
with Jim Lowell

about how there's
so many programs...

Deputy Director Lowell?

Yeah. Yeah.

And we were saying there's
so many programs nowadays,

it's kind of impossible
to keep track of them
anymore, right?

So why not create
a centralized database.

Ah. Like an index.

Yeah, exactly.
Something that updates
in real time,

you know, we've already got
Epic Shelter collecting
our finished intel.

We just need a web portal
to catalogue it,
make it searchable.

Let me think about it.

In any case,
I'd have to run it
past Fort Meade.

SNOWDEN: Of course.

Did you have a name?

Yeah, if it's not taken,
I'd call it Heartbeat.

Heartbeat.
FEMALE DRONE PILOT:
Six, five, four,

three, two, one...

Engage target.

LINDSAY:
You okay down there?

Yep.

See, this is why I keep saying
we need to hike more.

SNOWDEN: You're right.

Hey, can you
look at me?

Oh!

LINDSAY: Come on.
It's been years.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)

By social media standards,
you don't even exist anymore.

Just one.

Okay, smile.
Show me your teeth!
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)

My elusive E,
finally captured.

So now I'm
a viable boyfriend?

Yes.
(LAUGHS)

Such a shame, you used
to be such a cute
little model.

Little?
Yeah.

Was I little?
Wait! (LAUGHING)

Stop!

Oh, my God.
What?

Think you got
some sun!
(CHUCKLES)

I'm serious,
it looks good!

Well, that's impossible.

Hey, um,
I've been meaning
to ask you, by the way.

Did you switch
pharmacies?

'Cause I tried to pick up
your prescription,

and I couldn't.

Why did you do that?

Uh, because I was there
and thought it would
be helpful.

I stopped taking
the Tegretol.

What? When?

A couple months ago.

And you're just
now telling me?

I wanted to tell you.

I did, I just...
I can't take that stuff,
it makes me groggy,

and I need to be
sharp for work.

I need to be
on the ball
all the time.

What is it about
this fucking job

that makes it more
important than your life?

(SIGHS)

I don't understand.

Our government...

Our government, what?

Our government
is hemorrhaging
billions of dollars

every year
to Chinese hackers.

And I've been hired
to shut them down.

A lot of people
are depending on me.

More so than
anyone else?

Yes.

No, this is bullshit.

We didn't come to Hawaii
for you to heal, did we?

There was never gonna be
a less stressful job out here.

Look, I feel like
I'm made to do this.

And if I don't do it,
then I don't know
anybody else that can.

It's like I'm on a trajectory
that I can't turn back from.

LINDSAY: You can
always turn back.

SENATOR WYDEN:
What I wanted to see

is if you could give me
a yes or no answer
to the question,

"Does the NSA collect
any type of data at all

"on millions or hundreds
of millions of Americans?"

DIRECTOR CLAPPER: No, sir.

SENATOR WYDEN: it does not?

Not wittingly.

There are cases where
they could inadvertently,

perhaps, uh, collect,

but not wittingly.

Oh, really?

SENATOR WYDEN:
Thank you, and I'll have
additional questions

to give you in writing
on that point.

(KEYBOARD CLACKING)

SNOWDEN: Okay, so, uh,

what I wanted to
show you guys is, um,

the slide I ran across
while building
this indexing program.

And what is this?

Okay. So, this is
data collection

for the month of March

worldwide,
emails and Skype calls.

So France, 70 million.
Germany, 500 million.
Brazil, two billion.

Inside the U.S.,

3. 1 billion emails and calls.

That's not including
any of the telecom
company data.

PATRICK: Okay, so what's
the collection in Russia?

SNOWDEN: Russia
is 1 .5 billion.

Wait, so we're collecting
twice as much

in the U.S.
as we are in Russia?

Yeah, I figured it
was a lot, but...

GABRIEL: This shit
is out of hand, man.

Wait. Have you shown
this to anyone else?

No, you guys
are the first.

Yeah, yeah, you know,
I'd be careful about that.

You know, it could seem
like you're rocking the boat.

SNOWDEN: Yeah, you're right.

No, I just, uh,
I needed to know

if I was the only one that
thought this was crazy.

TREVOR: What the fuck's
going on?

CATFISH: Hey, Trev.

What are you doing
in here?

It's nothing.
I was just showing them

this one slide,
I needed some input.

Why the heat map?

It's my bad, Trev.

I made a bet with Ed
about which country

we were collecting
the most signals from.

He said lran,
I said Pakistan.

Who won?

Ed.

(SOFT CHUCKLE)

GABRIEL: Yeah, I need to
head out. I'll see you guys.

You're going
down next time, man.

Yeah, okay.

No more bets.

And I don't want anyone
unauthorized in here again.

Especially not
with Heartbeat.

You're right.
Won't happen again.

(SIGHS)

ALL: Happy birthday!

(APPLAUSE AND CHATTER)

CATFISH: ...in Vegas,
looking at Afghanistan.

So we're running late hours.

So this blurry object
comes wandering
into the strike zone.

We all knew
that it was a kid.

Poof.

He's gone.

We called in
for clarification,
and the report came back

that it was a dog.

Okay. Fine.

Shift's long, day and night.
I don't remember.

But same village,
two, three days later.

We see the funeral party.

We knew it was a kid
that they were burying.

Moms and dads wailing.

And then the order comes down.
Pretty clear. Hit 'em.

Poof.

And they are gone
in a cloud of dust.

I mean, all of them.
(CHUCKLING) The whole
fuckin' family.

But the crazy thing is,

you come home after work,

kiss your wife, your kids,
back to work the next day.

Pretty soon, you know,
it just all becomes routine.

(SIGHS)

Fuck that.

You make it
sound criminal, man.
It's war. it's a job.

Oh, I don't know, man.
You saying jobs
can't be criminal?

Not if you're working
for the government.

SNOWDEN: You ever hear about
the Nuremberg trials, Trev?

They weren't that long ago.

Yeah. And we hung
the Nazi big shots, right?

Yeah, well, the big shots
were the first trial,

but then the next trial
were just the judges,

and lawyers,
and policemen, and guards,

and ordinary people
just doing their jobs,
following orders.

That's where we got
the Nuremberg principles,

which then the UN made
into international law,

just in case ordinary jobs
become criminal again.

Just sayin'.

(DRONE WHIRRING)

(THUD)
(WOMAN SCREAMS)

(CLAMORING)

MAN: That's gotta
wake you up. You okay?

See, I told you
not to grab my hand.

(lNDISTINCT CHATTER)

...fucking touch me
anymore.

MAN: Dude! Dude,
are you okay?
WOMAN: Oh, my God.

LINDSAY:
Ed, are you okay?

Are you okay, man?
I think he's having a...

LINDSAY: Get away,
don't touch him.

MAN: Don't touch him,
don't touch him.
LINDSAY: Don't...

(SIGHS)

Hey, Ed. How are you?
How's your health?

Hey, Corbin. Uh...

it's fine.
Thanks for asking.

Must be nerve-wracking
living with that condition.

You wouldn't know it
to look at your numbers.

Two hundred Chinese lPs down
in your first four months.

Those are, uh,
internal numbers.

Your colleague, Trevor,
comes out of the CIA like you.

He's been, uh, keeping me
informed on your progress.

(CHUCKLES)
it's outstanding work.
Heartbeat as well.

Thank you. Thanks.
That means a lot.

Lowell is very pleased.
He, uh, sends his regards.

That's great to hear.

He, um...

He doesn't know about
your heat map conversations,

or some of the ideas you've
expressed to your colleagues.

And he's not going to.

Yeah. Uh...

You know, Heartbeat
is proving a tricky project.

Collating from
multiple agencies,

and knowing
where to pull from.

It has helped to talk
it over with colleagues.

I believe in you, Ed.

Which is why
nothing happened to you
after the derog in Geneva.

And I'm very grateful
you've looked out for me.

Or after you, uh,

omitted the truth
in your last polygraph.

What was it you were
withholding exactly?

Hmm?

You remember
that day in class,

you were talking to us
about the FISA Court?

You said that
they approved Bush's
wiretapping programs.

Sometimes we're restricted
from telling the whole truth.

Doesn't give us
permission to lie.

Come on, Corbin,

the Director of
National lntelligence
just lied to Congress!

Sorry.

Look at me.

Did you access
an unauthorized program

that I did not know about?

Yes.

It was, uh...

it was at Geneva.
It was Lindsay.

I was jealous.

And I'm sorry.
I never did it again.

Listen, Ed.

I know it's been up and down
with you and Lindsay
since Geneva.

It's tough to keep
any relationship going.
Few of us do.

So, if it'll give you
any peace of mind,
I can assure you,

she's not sleeping with
that photographer friend
of hers.

If that's what
you're thinking.

I have to go to
a Five Eyes conference

in Sydney in
a couple of weeks.

I'll stop off in Hawaii
on the way back.

Okay?

Okay. Thank you.

I'll see you soon.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Hey, Dad.

Good. Did you get
the e-mail that I sent you
with the photos?

Uh-huh.

Well, I was hoping that
you could send me some...

(KEYBOARD CLACKING)

What are you doing?

Sit down.

Your e-mail is
being monitored.

So?

No, it's different now.

It's not passive collection,
it's full-take surveillance.

It's all of your e-mails,
calls, texts, social media,
everything.

It's also possible
that the house is bugged.

I'm not sure.

By who?

By a senior officer
at the CIA.

You in trouble?
Is it the Chinese thing?

Look, there's things
that I wish I could tell you,

but I can't because
you could get very hurt.

What's keeping you safe
is that you don't know
anything.

I'm sorry, I really am.
I didn't want
any of this for you.

But I know you would think
I was doing the right thing.

So just listen to me
for a sec, okay?

When we go back in the house,
everything has to appear
normal.

We're gonna act like
nothing has changed,

but if you do notice
something that's weird,

you need to
tell me right away.

And you're gonna use
an encrypted e-mail
that I'm setting up for you.

(EXHALES SHARPLY) Oh, my God,
I don't think I can do this.

Yes, you can.
I know you can.

Do I even have a choice?

I'm asking you
to trust me.

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

And, Linds,
I think it'd be best

if you went back
to Maryland for a while.

Tell your parents
that I'm away on
a business trip

and that you're homesick.

Are you going away?

Yes. But just
for a little while.

No.

No, I can't go.

Please.
Just until I get back.

I can't go.

You just said
that we have to appear
like nothing's changed.

If both of us left
at the same time,
wouldn't that seem suspicious?

(SNIFFLES)

I will do this for you.

(SOBBING)
But it is the last time.

(KEYBOARD CLACKING)

(SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE)

(lNDISTINCT CHATTER)

Yo! Yo, you hear
about Trevor, bro?

No, what?

You remember that op
to own the lnternet in Syria?

Yeah.
Yeah.

Trevor and his TAO team
crashed the core router.

Bro, the whole
country's gone dark.

SNOWDEN: Jesus Christ.

TREVOR: Figure it out!

GABRIEL: Poor bastards.

Okay, I'm gonna, uh...
l gotta get to work.

Yeah. Yeah, me too.

So, Ed, how's, uh...

How's Heartbeat coming?

It's close.

It's very close.

TREVOR: Pull it up
on this monitor.

MAN: I'm still
trying to access...

Don't tell me you're
involved in this, too?

Well, Trevor fucking roped me
into going through
their zero-day exploit codes.

This thing is
a fucking mess, man.

Why did I agree
to this?
Good luck.

PATRICK: This is Patrick...

What you're gonna
do is you're gonna...

I told him, l...
Help them.

(KEYBOARD CLACKING)

(COMPUTER CHIMES)

(lNDISTINCT CONVERSATION)

TREVOR: Okay.
Get back to work, guys.

No, Patrick, show me.

TREVOR: Talk about
getting hung out to dry.

PATRICK: Yeah. Are we set?

(KEYBOARD CLACKING)

Trouble with the Navy?

TREVOR: One of those idiots
ripped some bullshit piece
of lsraeli code

and jammed it down
our payload. Can you
fucking believe that?

Script kiddies.

TREVOR: I know, I know.
I should have
listened to you.

God damn it.
Is this it?

PATRICK: Here.
Yeah, this is it.

TREVOR: I'm gonna make
the goddamn lsraelis
take the fall for this.

Come on.

Got it?
I'm not taking
the fall for this.

Patrick.

MAN: Still working on it,
Trev. Hold on.

MAN: Nothing. Still nothing.

(CHUCKLES)

Yeah, but...

You, uh... You headed
home already?

Yeah. I'm not
feeling so well.

Might not be in
tomorrow either.

You know,
Trevor's kind of busy,

maybe you could
let him know for me?

Yeah. Yeah, man.
lt'd be my pleasure.

You know,
if you're, uh...

if you're really not
feeling well, dude,
maybe you should, uh,

go back to the States
and see your doctor.

I think that, you know,
folks would understand that.

That sounds like
a smart thing.

(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)

Take care of yourself.

Yeah, you too, bro.

(CUBE CLICKING)

(lNDISTINCT CONVERSATION)

Hey.
Hey.

You ever play
with one of these?

Yeah, when I was a kid.

Yeah. You should try it.
It's hard.

(SCANNER BEEPS)

I can't figure this out.

(SCANNER BEEPS)

I don't know
about this.

Yeah, you gotta start
with the white cross,
actually,

and then you do
the corners.
Ah.

Oh, man.

Look, I love these things.
(CHUCKLES)

Hey, have
a good weekend, man.

You too, buddy.
All right.

LAURA: it's live.

There's a link to
the FISA court order.

(CHUCKLES)

Well done, Janine.

I told you
she wasn't a pushover.

Well, it feels so
goddamn good to be wrong.

Breaking news tonight.
Reports that through
a secret court order,

the Obama administration
is collecting
the phone records

of millions of
Verizon customers.

That's been reported by the
Guardian newspaper in the U.K.

The specific court order shows

that all the information
is going to the National
Security Agency.

(GLEEFUL EXCLAMATION)

How's that for
mainstream media,
Glenn?

They can't shut this down now.
And we've got
four more days of it.

They have no idea what
they're in store for.

(CHUCKLES)
That's fantastic!

MORGAN: ...former Speaker
of the House is on the grill
tonight and joins me now.

BLITZER: Another explosive
article has just appeared,

this time in
The Washington Post.

It's breaking news
that it reveals

another broad and secret
U.S. government
surveillance program.

The Washington Post
and the Guardian
in London reporting

that the NSA and the FBI

are tapping directly
into the central servers

of nine leading
lnternet companies,

including Microsoft,
Yahoo, Google, Facebook,

AOL, Skype, YouTube,
and Apple.

The Post says
they're extracting audio,

video, photographs,
e-mails, documents,

and connection logs

that enable analysts
to track a person's
movements

and contacts over time.

OBAMA: In the abstract,
you can complain
about Big Brother

and how this is a potential
program run amok.

But when you actually
look at the details,

then I think we've struck
the right balance.

FEMALE REPORTER:
U.S. President Barack Obama
staunchly defends

U.S. government programs,

insisting that
they were conducted
with broad safeguards

and to protect against abuse.

GLENN: He reached
the conclusion that
what was happening

inside this really
secretive agency

uh, was very
threatening and menacing

to privacy rights,
to lnternet freedom,

to basic political liberty,
not only in the United States,

but all around the world.

And he felt it was
his duty as a human being
to disclose it.

Uh, my name's Ed Snowden.
I'm 29 years old.

I work for
Booz Allen Hamilton

as an infrastructure analyst
for NSA in Hawaii.

(SPEAKING MANDARIN)

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

(SPEAKING lTALIAN)

(SPEAKING JAPANESE)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

The identity of the man
who sent the Obama...

You can't come forward
against the most powerful
intelligence agencies

in the world without expecting
to have some risk.

They're just such
powerful adversaries.

So no one can
meaningfully oppose them.

He did it.

You know,
if they want to get you,
they will get you, in time.

The kid did it!

SNOWDEN: And it's just
gonna get worse for
the next generation,

as they extend
the capabilities

of this sort of
architecture of oppression.

And you realize that
you might be willing
to accept any risk,

as long as the public
is able to make
their own decision

about how
this is applied.

Because even if
you haven't done
anything wrong,

you're being
watched and recorded.

(TELEPHONE RINGING)

Look, I had access
to the entire
intelligence community.

So, if I had wanted
to harm the U.S.,

you could shut down
the entire surveillance
system in an afternoon.

But that was never
my intention.

And I think anybody
that's making that argument,

they have to think,
if they were in my position,

living in Hawaii, in paradise,
and making a ton of money,

what would it take to make
you leave everything behind?

The fear that
I think I have most
in regards to the outcome

for America of
these disclosures

is that nothing
will change.

In the coming months
and the coming years,
it'll just get worse.

And then eventually,
at some point,

some new leader
will be elected

who flips the switch,

and the people won't
be able to do anything,
by that point, to oppose it.

And it'll be
turnkey tyranny.

GLENN: How you holding up?

Yeah, I'll be fine.

It's you guys
that have to start
watching out

for yourselves now.

You know, if you have
any reason to believe

that you're about to be
raided or intercepted
or breached in any way,

you format and destroy
all the data immediately.

You have
the encrypted backups.

And now, l...

I no longer have any access
to these files myself.

You guys have them all.

Uh...

Keep the focus on the stories,
that's all that matters.

If you'll excuse me, it's...

I think we should
all get some rest.
We can use it.

Yeah. I should probably
lay down on a soft bed

while I still have
one available, right?

You rest well.
Thank you.

See you tomorrow.
Good night.

(DOOR OPENS)

(DOOR CLOSES)

(WAVES CRASHING)

Can you at least tell me
where you're going?

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(CHUCKLES)

SNOWDEN: Listen,
I know that I'm...

(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)

(lNDISTINCT CHATTER)

Ewen, I'm on
the second floor.

I don't see Tibbo.

No. No, no, wait.
Okay. I think I see him.

Shit!

There's press swarming
all over the hotel.

Yeah, I don't know.
I'll figure it out.

I'll stop them with
a press conference
or something.

Hey, I'm Glenn.
Look, we really
appreciate this.

We understand you're
one of the best lawyers
in Hong Kong.

TIBBO: We'll do our best.

We're gonna take him
to the UN first, then
I prefer not to reveal.

GLENN:
I understand.

Shit. They spotted me.
You guys get going.

(REPORTERS CLAMORING)

Okay, I will take
your questions in
an orderly fashion.

Where is Snowden?
Do you know where he is?

FEMALE REPORTER: Come on,
please let us know!

Did you get them?

Yeah, this is the best
I could do.

You're meeting Tibbo
in five minutes,

on the skybridge
opposite the large mall.

I've met a lot of
astonishing people
in my life, but you...

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

Okay, laddie.
Off you go.

I won't let you down.

You'd make a shitty journalist
without a camera.

Are you sure?
Yeah.

Okay. That's a great idea.

Thanks.

Oh! You don't want to
leave your luck behind.

SNOWDEN: Oh.

I think I'd like you
to have that.

Thanks for everything.

Thank you.

(REPORTERS CLAMORING)

(WHISPERS) I have
a van on the street.

FEMALE REPORTER:
NSA leaker Edward Snowden
has now been charged formally

with espionage, theft,
and conversion of
government property.

(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
U.S. officials
have asked Hong Kong

to detain
the former contractor

on a provisional
arrest warrant.

Snowden has been
in Hong Kong since May...

MALE REPORTER 1:
...remember, that was back
reportedly on May 20th.

MALE REPORTER 1:... Snowden
has checked out of the luxury
hotel in Hong Kong,

where he had been holed up.

TIBBO: You might
turn your eyes away.

FEMALE REPORTER:
...not likely take
action against him

without an arrest
warrant from the U.S.

MALE REPORTER 2: The Justice
Department had to go
to lnterpol so that Snowden,

if he tried to cross
a border, he could be
intercepted and detained.

MALE REPORTER 3:
Snowden is still in hiding.

So again...

MALE REPORTER 4: But the
Americans are now closing in.

They almost certainly know
where he is,

they just need
Hong Kong's approval
to get him.

FEMALE REPORTER 1:
The Hong Kong government
does have

an extradition agreement
with Washington.

But the ultimate decision...

FEMALE REPORTER 2:
So the big question here is,
where is he now?

(KNOCKS ON DOOR)

Thank you.
This is Ed. Ed, Mayana.

Hi, Ed. Welcome.
Thank you.

(GREETING IN TAMIL)
SNOWDEN: Thank you.

TIBBO: These are good people.
They won't talk.

I've been handling
their cases for years.
They're like you.

That's so nice.

They're stateless.
Yeah.

TIBBO: So we're waiting
on the UN application
for refugee status.

Yeah.

Just in case you're arrested,
this is where you can call me.

Yeah.

Good.

Thank you so much.

You may not feel it,
Ed, but you're not alone.

Thank you.

FEMALE REPORTER:
...his longtime girlfriend,
Lindsay Mills,

an amateur photographer,

has not been heard from.

It's believed
she's in seclusion

in her parents' home
in Maryland,

and has been questioned
by the FBI

and remains
under investigation.

MALE REPORTER: Ten days
have now gone by, as the world
looks for Edward Snowden.

Rumors have surfaced
that a rich supporter
is hiding Snowden

somewhere in
the Hong Kong hills
in a private mansion.

(WOMAN SPEAKING
lNDISTINCTLY ON PA)

MALE REPORTER 1: it is now
confirmed that Edward Snowden

has boarded a flight
from Hong Kong to Moscow.

FEMALE REPORTER 1:
The State Department
is very disappointed

in the authorities
in Hong Kong

for letting Snowden go.

MALE REPORTER 2: He was
accompanied by a
representative from WikiLeaks.

MALE REPORTER 3: Snowden is
trying to make his way
from Russia to Cuba,

and then to Ecuador
for political asylum.

FEMALE REPORTER 2: Moscow
airport officials say
he won't be permitted

to make his connective flight

because the U.S. government
has revoked his passport.

MALE REPORTER 4: The
United States Secretary
of State, John Kerry,

outraged that Russia
is refusing to arrest
the American fugitive.

MALE REPORTER 5: Now a man
without a country stranded
inside the Moscow airport.

No, I'm not gonna
be scrambling jets, uh,

to get a 29-year-old hacker.

FEMALE REPORTER 3: The
President of Bolivia's plane

was forced down in
Austria airspace today

following U.S. suspicions
that Snowden may
have been on board.

MALE REPORTER 6: After
39 days in the airport hotel,

he's left with
his Russian lawyer
and a legal advisor

from WikiLeaks,
Sarah Harrison.

MALE REPORTER 7: He can now
enjoy all of the sweet,
sweet liberty

allowed under the regime
of President Vladimir Putin.

TRUMP: There is still
a thing called execution.

Mr. Snowden
actually deserves asylum

and protection
around the globe.

But he does have asylum
in Russia at least.

He can engage in
the debate he started.

And the world
now has an example

that you can do
the right thing,

and you don't have
to end up in a cage,
one room, a prison.

MALE REPORTER: After more
than a year in the country
under temporary asylum,

Edward Snowden has received
a three-year residency permit
in Russia.

MALE MODERATOR: And now,
here live from Moscow,

Edward Snowden.
(APPLAUSE)

Hi, Ed. How you doing?

SNOWDEN: (ON SPEAKERS)
Thank you.

Uh, forgive me if
I get my bearings
a little bit here.

People always said
I was kind of a robot.

(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)

MODERATOR: How is it that
you came to be in Russia?

Well, I never intended
to come here.

You know,
my passport was revoked
en route to Latin America.

So when people say,
"Why are you in Russia?"

I say,
"Ask the State Department."

Does that mean you're willing
to go back and face trial?

Absolutely, if it was
a fair and public trial.

Unfortunately, that's not
what would happen right now,

as long as the Espionage Act
is being used against
whistleblowers.

MODERATOR: Do you still
think it was worth it?

Yes, I do.

Without the information
to start a public debate,

we're lost.
You know...

The people being able
to question our government

and hold it accountable,

that's the principle
that the United States
of America was founded on.

So if we want to protect
our national security,

we should be protecting
that principle.

MODERATOR: What ifyour
argument falls on deaf ears?

What if our leaders
don't act?

I believe that,
if nothing changes,

more and more people
all over the world
will come forward.

Whistleblowers
and journalists,
but also regular citizens.

And when those in power
try to hide by
classifying everything,

we will call them out on it.

And when they try to scare us
into sacrificing our basic
human rights,

we won't be intimidated,

and we won't give up,
and we will not be silenced.

You're alone in
a foreign country,

you'll be extradited
if you try to leave.

That must be hard.

When I left Hawaii,
I lost everything.

And I had a stable life.

(CHUCKLES)

A stable love.

Family. Future.

And I lost that life,

but I've gained
a new one,

and I'm incredibly
fortunate.

And I think

the greatest freedom
that I've gained

is the fact that
I no longer have to worry
about what happens tomorrow,

because I'm happy with
what I've done today.

Live from the lnternet,
Edward Snowden!

(APPLAUSE)

(CHEERING AND WHISTLING)

MALE REPORTER:
Has your mindset
changed about him?

Is he now more whistleblower
than he is a, uh, hacker?

MALE REPORTER: What is going
to happen to Edward Snowden?

He's going to die in Moscow.
He's not coming home.

Edward Snowden,
is he a traitor or a hero?

HILLARY CLINTON: He stole
very important information.

MALE REPORTER: We have
breaking news tonight...

Among the reforms,

work with Congress
to change how the NSA
collects phone records.

Mandate more transparency
by the secret court

that regularly approves
the surveillance.

MAN: Well, is it
a victory for Edward Snowden?

That's gonna depend
on the eye of the beholder.

LINCOLN CHAFFEE:
The American government
was acting illegally.

HILLARY CLINTON: I don't think
he should be brought home
without facing the music.

SANDERS: Snowden played
a very important role

in educating
the American people

to the degree in which
our civil liberties and
our constitutional rights

are being undermined.