The NSA Vs. Edward Snowden Onstage At TED

Yesterday, Snowden appeared via video at TED. Today, we got a counterpoint from the NSA. Hear both sides.

Edward Snowden, who leaked nearly two million secret documents from the National Security Agency (NSA) to journalists, has been making the conference rounds recently, popping up first via satellite for a keynote at SXSW, and this week via a telepresence robot at the TED conference in Vancouver. The majority of the TED audience appeared to be supportive of Snowden's rationale for stealing and releasing the documents, based on an informal on-stage poll by TED curator Chris Anderson (and by the constant chatter about the appearance among TED attendees).

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