Research Project Photo

This is Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower. The first photo shows Snowden at an interview with The Guardian in 2013. The second has been altered to give a sense of Snowden's current situation - having been exiled to Russia after being declared a fugitive of the United States due to a highly controversial charge of espionage. This is controversial because of the NSA's secretive spying program targeting American citizens (and other countries' citizens and diplomats as well) in the first place.