In june 2013, the 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the nsa’s history shocked the world by revealing top-secret nsa and gchq cyber programs. Snowden’s disclosures did tremendous damage to u. s. National security, and the committee remains concerned that more than three years after the start of the unauthorized disclosures, nsa, and the ic …

In may 2013, snowden flew to hong kong, and in early june he revealed thousands of classified nsa documents to journalists glenn greenwald, laura poitras, barton gellman, and ewen macaskill.