Edward Snowden: Digital Whistleblower
REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana
Wondery | Ballen Studios
4.3 • 668 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
After the tragic events of 9/11, Edward Snowden decides to do his patriotic duty and joins the US Military. When he moves up to systems engineer at the CIA, he stumbles across a secret that will change the world forever: the American Government is spying on its citizens. In the end, Snowden is forced to sacrifice everything he holds dear to make America's dark secret public.
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| 0:00.0 | Love unsettling stories. |
| 0:02.4 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to redacted, declassified mysteries, early and ad-free, |
| 0:07.8 | as well as another twisted tale from Bollin Studios and Wondry called Wartime Stories, |
| 0:12.8 | also hosted by me, Early and Ad-Free on Wondry Plus. |
| 0:16.7 | Start your free trial today. Early one morning in the spring of 2013, a 29-year-old computer analyst intensely watched his screen. |
| 0:33.6 | He was downloading thousands of top-secret documents and never felt more terrified in his life. |
| 0:40.7 | The analyst was in his office deep in the heart of the tunnel, a data center for the National |
| 0:45.0 | Security Agency. |
| 0:46.5 | It was buried under a pineapple field in Hawaii. |
| 0:49.3 | The lack of windows and fluorescent lighting made it hard to know what time of day it was. The analyst snuck a glance down the hall, scared one of his coworkers was going to appear behind him at any moment. |
| 1:01.0 | Finally, after three hours of nauseating anxiety, the download finished, and the analyst breathed a side relief. |
| 1:09.0 | He ejected his micro SD card about the size of a pinky |
| 1:12.0 | fingernail and packed up his things. Now, he had to exit the building past security. |
| 1:18.8 | He steadied his breathing as he walked down a long corridor. He was a seven-year veteran in the |
| 1:24.0 | intelligence community, and he knew how to keep calm in moments of extreme stress. |
| 1:28.6 | But as he approached the exit, the paranoia was getting to him. |
| 1:33.3 | He reached the security checkpoint and nodded to the guards. |
| 1:37.1 | He'd gotten to know them well since he started working in the tunnel. |
| 1:40.4 | They called him the Rubik's Cube guy, because he was always fiddling with one. |
| 1:45.0 | Today, his fingers twisted the cube anxiously. |
| 1:48.0 | He just hoped the guards wouldn't notice anything different this time. |
| 1:51.0 | They hadn't in the past, not when he'd hidden cards in his shoe, or even inside one of his cubes. |
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