Edward Joseph Snowden was born on June 21, 1983, in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. New documents from Edward Snowden were issued Thursday about the government's surveillance of Americans' international Internet traffic to allegedly track foreign hackers. Snowden showed the world just how far those powers had been stretched.

One year ago, the first bombshell story based on top-secret NSA documents was published -- little did we know that Edward Snowden was just getting stated.


Snowden's father, Lonnie, was also an officer in the Coast Guard, and his mother, Elizabeth, is a clerk at the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. His older sister, Jessica, was a lawyer at the Federal Judicial Centerin Washington, D.C. Ed… Facing up to 30 years in prison, Snowden left the country, originally traveling to Hong Kong and then to Russia, to avoid being extradited to the U.S.
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His maternal grandfather, Edward J. Barrett, a rear admiral in the U.S. Coast Guard, became a senior official with the FBI and was at the Pentagon in 2001 during the September 11 attacks.