Government surveillance through the Internet has been a hot topic for years, from the WikiLeaks releases all the way to the National Security Agency whistleblowing that caused the American computer professional to flee the United States for Russia as he was charged with treason; now, Edward Snowden's on John Oliver to discuss the phenomenon.
In the time since "Last Week Tonight" started airing on HBO, the British host has turned into one of the most important culture and political commentators on television, giving a fun twist to serious matters like Dr. Oz's wrongful advice or the dangers of poor infrastructure in America; now, it's Edward Snowden's John Oliver interview making news.
According to The Guardian, the Edward Snowden John Oliver interview wasn't really what the whistleblower was expecting, as Oliver took the challenge to press the former NSA contractor on whether he'd gone through all the information he handed to the press back in 2013.
Business Insider reports that the Edward Snowden John Oliver interview saw the "Daily Show" alum giving no rest to the exiled whistleblower; besides pressing on whether Snowden had actually read every single file he leaked to the press (from the 1.77 million ones he pulled out of the NSA system), Oliver also jabbed that Snowden was in a "Kafkaesque nightmare."
Olivier means that Snowden's exile in an undisclosed part of the Russian Federation means that not only he can't go home due to the charges pressed against him (including one account of espionage taken from legislation from World War I) but he's also under close scrutiny by the Vladimir Putin government.
Of course, the Edward Snowden John Oliver interview touched upon this issue.
The biggest highlight, however, is that Snowden ended up admitting he hadn't read every single file he leaked, and apparently one of them (to give an example) actually exposed intelligence activity of Al-Qaeda, which Oliver said had been a mistake - and Snowden admitted as much.
You can watch the full Edward Snowden John Oliver interview below.
