The world’s
most famous whistleblower, Edward Snowden, took Twitter by storm when
he created an account last year. Since, he has criticized everyone
from the FBI to Google, so his latest post on the CIA should come as
no surprise. Commenting on revelations the CIA “inadvertently”
destroyed a copy of the 6,700-page torture report, Snowden questioned
the agency’s official story.
“I
worked @CIA. I wrote the Emergency Destruction Plan for Geneva. When
CIA destroys something, it’s never a mistake,” he tweeted
Wednesday, openly challenging the CIA’s claim. He also shared an
article detailing the news.
Snowden
previously worked for the CIA and as an NSA contractor before leaking
documents revealing the U.S. government’s extensive mass
surveillance programs and subsequently fleeing the country. He has
been an outspoken voice against government overreach and privacy
issues ever since.
On Monday,
Yahoo News reported on the CIA’s apparent fumble that inspired
Snowden’s Wednesday tweet: “The CIA inspector general’s
office — the spy agency’s internal watchdog — has acknowledged
it ‘mistakenly’ destroyed its only copy of a mammoth Senate
torture report at the same time lawyers for the Justice Department
were assuring a federal judge that copies of the document were being
preserved.”
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