Snowden Bashes Nunes: I Was More Careful With Government Secrets Than You Are



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Edward Snowden. (photo: Wired)
Andrew Kirell, The Daily Beast 
Kirell writes: "Edward Snowden spoke out this week against the process in which House Republicans sought to release a memo full of classified government information." 
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