Former US security contractor Edward Snowden on Wednesday spoke out about the use of state secrecy privileges as he presented an Oxford University award to fellow intelligence leaker Chelsea Manning.
Snowden, who is in hiding in Russia, presented the prestigious British university’s Sam Adams awards for integrity and intelligence to the jailed former US Army intelligence analyst via YouTube.
Snowden recorded a four-minute message, in which he warned of the dangers of “overclassification.”
He said the term described governments’ use of state secrecy privileges “to withhold information from the public that’s not related to national security”, adding it had become a “serious problem.”
“The White House told us that 95 million records have been created and classified in the year 2012, more than any year on record,” he continued. “Many other western governments are on the same trajectory.”
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Snowden can come home. There is so much we can enjoy with his smile in a prison chair. Too bad he has no more time in America!