Post date: Oct 12, 2013 7:15:3 PM
NVO - New video released by WikiLeaks shows former N.S.A. contractor Edward Snowden accepting the "Integrity in Intelligence" award.
In Moscow, a group of intelligence workers-turned whistleblowers gave Snowden the award for revealing thousands of details on U.S. surveillance programs.
His leaks sparked a new debate on counterterrorism and civil liberties.
FORMER NSA CONTRACTOR EDWARD SNOWDEN:
"People all over the world are realising that these program s don't make us more safe. They hurt our economy; they hurt our country; they limit our ability to speak and think and live and be creative - to have relationships, to associate freely. And they're going 'this doesn't make us more safe, it makes us less safe."
At the ceremony, Snowden called out the hypocrisy of the U.S.
FORMER NSA CONTRACTOR EDWARD SNOWDEN:
"And it's led us to a point in our relationship with the government where we have an executive, aDepartment of Justice, that's unwilling to prosecute high officials who lied to Congress and the country on camera, but they'll stop at nothing to persecute someone who told them the truth."
The former intelligence worker is wanted in the U.S. on espionage charges.
Snowden has been in Russia since June.
After being stranded in the transit zone of the airport, he was later granted temporary asylum.