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1. Shard Calculation

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Response:

Calculated Shard: 99 (from laksa174)

2. Crawled Status Check

Query:

curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa099.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/edward-snowden\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/edward-snowden\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

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Spare a thought for him, and worry about the future\nAlan Rusbridger\nMay 2023\nTen years of Guardian Australia\nThe top-secret leak that led to a spying scandal, infuriating Indonesia – and Tony Abbott\nLenore Taylor\nlooks back at Guardian Australia’s first big scoop and its far-reaching repercussions\nApril 2023\nFrom Ellsberg to Assange: Jack Teixeira joins list of alleged leakers\nThe subject matter may differ but the US government has been relentless in pursuing those accused of national security leaks\nDecember 2022\nEdward Snowden gets Russian passport after swearing oath of allegiance\nWhistleblower is ‘happy and thankful to the Russian Federation’ for his citizenship, lawyer says\nSeptember 2022\nPutin grants Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden\nFormer NSA intelligence contractor was given asylum in Russia after leaking secret files in 2013\nAugust 2022\nUS asked British spy agency to stop Guardian publishing Snowden revelations\nHead of GCHQ rebuffed late-night request from National Security Agency amid strained relations in Five Eyes intelligence coalition\nAbout 1,246 results for Edward Snowden","attrs_markdown":"![](https:\/\/sb.scorecardresearch.com\/p?c1=2&c2=6035250&cv=2.0&cj=1&cs_ucfr=0&comscorekw=us-news)\n\n[Skip to main content](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/edward-snowden#maincontent)[Skip to navigation](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/edward-snowden#navigation)\n\n[Print subscriptions](https:\/\/support.theguardian.com\/subscribe?REFPVID=mnmleom74axy74ohq5sv&INTCMP=undefined&acquisitionData=%7B%22source%22%3A%22GUARDIAN_WEB%22%2C%22componentId%22%3A%22PrintSubscriptionsHeaderLink%22%2C%22componentType%22%3A%22ACQUISITIONS_HEADER%22%2C%22referrerPageviewId%22%3A%22mnmleom74axy74ohq5sv%22%2C%22referrerUrl%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2Fedward-snowden%22%7D)\n\n[Search jobs](https:\/\/jobs.theguardian.com\/)\n\n[Sign in](https:\/\/profile.theguardian.com\/signin?INTCMP=DOTCOM_NEWHEADER_SIGNIN&ABCMP=ab-sign-in&componentEventParams=componentType%3Didentityauthentication%26componentId%3Dguardian_signin_header)\n\nUK\n\n- [UK edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/uk)\n- [US edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/us)\n- [Australia edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/au)\n- [Europe edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/eur)\n- [International edition](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/preference\/edition\/int)\n\n[The Guardian - 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In this June 23, 2013 file photo, a television screen shows a news report of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at a shopping mall in Hong Kong. Whisked out of a luxury Hong Kong hotel, vanishing into a mysterious wing of the Moscow airport, Edward Snowden's continent-jumping, hide-and-seek game seems like the stuff of a pulp thriller \\_ a desperate man's drama played out before a worldwide audience trying to decide if he's a hero or a villain. But the search for the former National Security Agency contractor who spilled government secrets has become something of a distracting sideshow, some say, overshadowing at least for now the important debate over the government s power to seize the phone and Internet records of millions of Americans to help wage the war on terrorism. (AP Photo\/Vincent Yu, File )](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c16675184a877d991254c704afd2347790117944\/0_327_3000_1801\/master\/3000.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### The Google employee who helped Edward Snowden in Hong Kong\n  18 Jun 2023 14.00 BST\n- ![Col Rabih Alenezi](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/03288e43fdcf3159b90975d458bf5c7327a993c8\/0_253_6720_4032\/master\/6720.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### Threatened Saudi dissident told to live like Edward Snowden by Met police\n  8 Jun 2023 13.00 BST\n- ![Edward Snowden at 29th May in Moscow\\<br\\>JA1G3H Edward Snowden at 29th May in Moscow](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6fe2fb19ed1b3539b8e814b604041a8541271e34\/0_0_7360_4415\/master\/7360.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### ‘No regrets,’ says Edward Snowden, after 10 years in exile\n  8 Jun 2023 07.00 BST\n\n- ### Snowden, MI5 and me: how the leak of the century came to be published\n  7 Jun 2023 09.00 BST\n- ### What’s really changed 10 years after the Snowden revelations?\n  7 Jun 2023 06.00 BST\n- ### States haven’t stopped spying on their citizens, post-Snowden – they’ve just got sneakier\n  Heather Brooke\n  \n  6 Jun 2023 16.08 BST\n  \n  [255 255 comments](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/jun\/06\/edward-snowden-state-surveillance-uk-online-safety-bill#comments)\n- ### Ten years ago, Edward Snowden warned us about state spying. Spare a thought for him, and worry about the future\n  Alan Rusbridger\n  \n  6 Jun 2023 10.09 BST\n\n## May 2023\n- ![Composite of Lenore Taylor and Indonesian protesters burning a photo of Tony Abbott](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e195dd5dc3b857b88ce22832c943052b5d05226e\/0_0_2500_1500\/master\/2500.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### Ten years of Guardian AustraliaThe top-secret leak that led to a spying scandal, infuriating Indonesia – and Tony Abbott\n  **Lenore Taylor** looks back at Guardian Australia’s first big scoop and its far-reaching repercussions\n  \n  25 May 2023 16.00 BST\n\n## April 2023\n- ![sculpture of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1b6610952c537558fb29e5d205b159b9fb38feb2\/0_313_5472_3283\/master\/5472.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### From Ellsberg to Assange: Jack Teixeira joins list of alleged leakers\n  The subject matter may differ but the US government has been relentless in pursuing those accused of national security leaks\n  \n  19 Apr 2023 07.00 BST\n\n## December 2022\n- ![Edward Snowden](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/deeade8a19b97d4aaec235ee92d5cd670e16639f\/0_9_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### Edward Snowden gets Russian passport after swearing oath of allegiance\n  Whistleblower is ‘happy and thankful to the Russian Federation’ for his citizenship, lawyer says\n  \n  2 Dec 2022 17.02 GMT\n\n## September 2022\n- ![Edward Snowden](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d803ef9687ac444cfa342c1949a3c2a0fce97513\/249_0_3598_2160\/master\/3598.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### Putin grants Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden\n  Former NSA intelligence contractor was given asylum in Russia after leaking secret files in 2013\n  \n  26 Sept 2022 18.10 BST\n\n## August 2022\n- ![Edward Snowden\\<br\\>FILE - This June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. Snowden says his \"mission's already accomplished\" after leaking NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of U.S. surveillance policies. Snowden told The Washington Post in a story published online Monday night, Dec. 23, 2013, he has \"already won\" because journalists have been able to tell the story of the government's collection of bulk Internet and phone records. (AP Photo\/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9b2a941a9678a7f400548c28ee25f788c4cf2217\/52_0_1809_1085\/master\/1809.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian publishing Snowden revelations\n  Head of GCHQ rebuffed late-night request from National Security Agency amid strained relations in Five Eyes intelligence coalition\n  \n  31 Aug 2022 15.11 BST\n\nAbout 1,246 results for Edward Snowden\n\n1[2](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/edward-snowden?page=2)[3](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/edward-snowden?page=3)[4](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/edward-snowden?page=4)...\n\nExplore more on these topics\n\n- [NSA](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/nsa)\n- [Surveillance](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/surveillance)\n- [Julian Assange](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/julian-assange)\n- [WikiLeaks](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/wikileaks)\n- [US politics](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-politics)\n\n- [World](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world)\n- [Europe](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/europe-news)\n- [US news](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news)\n- [Americas](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/americas)\n- [Asia](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/asia)\n- [Australia](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news)\n- [Middle East](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/middleeast)\n- [Africa](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/africa)\n- [Inequality](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/inequality)\n- [Global development](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development)\n\n- [News](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/)\n- [Opinion](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree)\n- [Sport](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport)\n- [Culture](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture)\n- [Lifestyle](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle)\n\nOriginal reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning\n\n[Sign up for our email](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2022\/sep\/20\/sign-up-for-the-first-edition-newsletter-our-free-news-email)\n\n- [About us](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/about)\n- [Help](https:\/\/manage.theguardian.com\/help-centre)\n- [Complaints & corrections](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/complaints-and-corrections)\n- [Contact us](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/help\/contact-us)\n- [Tip us off](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tips)\n- [SecureDrop](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/securedrop)\n- [Privacy policy](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/privacy)\n- [Cookie policy](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/cookies)\n- [Modern Slavery Act](https:\/\/uploads.guim.co.uk\/2025\/09\/05\/Modern_Slavery_Statement_2025.pdf)\n- [Tax strategy](https:\/\/uploads.guim.co.uk\/2025\/09\/05\/Tax_strategy_for_the_year_ended_31_March_2025.pdf)\n- [Terms & conditions](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/help\/terms-of-service)\n\n- [All topics](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/index\/subjects\/a)\n- [All writers](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/index\/contributors)\n- [Newsletters](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?INTCMP=DOTCOM_FOOTER_NEWSLETTER_UK)\n- [Digital newspaper archive](https:\/\/theguardian.newspapers.com\/)\n- [Bluesky](https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/theguardian.com)\n- [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theguardian)\n- [Instagram](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/guardian)\n- [LinkedIn](https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/theguardian)\n- [Threads](https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@guardian)\n- [TikTok](https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@guardian)\n- [YouTube](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheGuardian)\n\n- [Advertise with us](https:\/\/advertising.theguardian.com\/)\n- [Guardian Labs](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/guardian-labs)\n- [Search jobs](https:\/\/jobs.theguardian.com\/)\n- [Patrons](https:\/\/patrons.theguardian.com\/?INTCMP=footer_patrons)\n- [Work with us](https:\/\/workwithus.theguardian.com\/)\n- [Accessibility settings](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/help\/accessibility-help)\n\nSupport the Guardian\n\nAvailable for everyone, funded by readers\n\n[Support us](https:\/\/support.theguardian.com\/?INTCMP=footer_support&acquisitionData=%7B%22source%22:%22GUARDIAN_WEB%22,%22componentType%22:%22ACQUISITIONS_FOOTER%22,%22componentId%22:%22footer_support%22%7D)\n\n[Back to top](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/edward-snowden#top)\n\n© 2026 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.\n\n(dcr)","attrs_readable_markdown":"Latest on the computer analyst whistleblower who provided the Guardian with top-secret NSA documents leading to revelations about US surveillance on phone and internet communications\n\nFebruary 2025\n\n- ![The actors stand at five desks, each bearing a large computer](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cde0b79bb10dcc55e73c9a6d8e70e60e6e80478b\/0_133_2000_1201\/master\/2000.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### Truth review – Julian Assange play is hard going, with flashes of brilliance\n- ![Woman looks ahead and speaks into microphone](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/327085081fb9288632cdf9c59c8f25c3429a7995\/0_103_2800_1680\/master\/2800.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  Why Snowden – not Russia or Syria – could tank Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination\n\nJanuary 2025\n\n- ![a woman appears nervous sitting in front of a microphone](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/595c7e3ad6dd364dcbb53be92c7201f9dd284147\/0_201_3000_1799\/master\/3000.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  Tulsi Gabbard grilled on Snowden, Assad and Putin in tense Senate hearing\n  \n  Skeptical senators ruthlessly questioned Trump’s national intelligence director nominee ahead of confirmation voteUS politics live – latest updates\n\nOctober 2024\n\n- ![Julian Assange, pictured in 2010](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e6be8fcab32958f64040613a824052983ff3ca30\/825_88_2983_1791\/master\/2983.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  Julian Assange: new play about WikiLeaks founder’s life to debut in 2025\n  \n  Truth, by Australian playwright Patricia Cornelius, will feature multiple actors playing Assange as it probes questions about whistleblowers\n\nFebruary 2024\n\n- ![Julian Assange](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a9b0f313fffad5f0a5420376d829c88613165088\/0_100_2999_1799\/master\/2999.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  The Guardian view on Julian Assange: why he should not be extradited\n  \n  **Editorial:** Sending him to be tried in the United States would be an unacceptable act against the WikiLeaks founder – and against journalism\n\nOctober 2023\n\n- ![Illustration of a man in red on a staircase being watched by spies in hats](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7a835875733d32b85497e7f23a6b36b3ded55c46\/0_0_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  Scandinavian spy drama: the intelligence chief who came under state surveillance\n  \n  How Lars Findsen and Claus Hjort Frederiksen came to be facing trial for allegedly disclosing ‘state secrets’ that had been in public domain for years\n\nAugust 2023\n\n- ![Jess Search wearing her trademark white suit at Keble College, Oxford, during the third Britdoc festival in 2008.](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/61044445f0c9e08db14971f9eef2cfb3021083be\/0_739_2848_1708\/master\/2848.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  Jess Search obituary\n  \n  Documentary producer dedicated to using non-fiction storytelling to bring about change on many vital issues\n\nJune 2023\n\n- ![Bronze figures of Snowden and Assange](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/43bec4e36809b4dd18a23aa7ac154651c1494c00\/1481_482_1017_610\/master\/1017.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  Lifesize sculpture of Julian Assange appears outside UK parliament\n- ![FILE - In this June 23, 2013 file photo, a television screen shows a news report of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at a shopping mall in Hong Kong. Whisked out of a luxury Hong Kong hotel, vanishing into a mysterious wing of the Moscow airport, Edward Snowden's continent-jumping, hide-and-seek game seems like the stuff of a pulp thriller \\_ a desperate man's drama played out before a worldwide audience trying to decide if he's a hero or a villain. But the search for the former National Security Agency contractor who spilled government secrets has become something of a distracting sideshow, some say, overshadowing at least for now the important debate over the government s power to seize the phone and Internet records of millions of Americans to help wage the war on terrorism. (AP Photo\/Vincent Yu, File )](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c16675184a877d991254c704afd2347790117944\/0_327_3000_1801\/master\/3000.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  The Google employee who helped Edward Snowden in Hong Kong\n- ![Col Rabih Alenezi](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/03288e43fdcf3159b90975d458bf5c7327a993c8\/0_253_6720_4032\/master\/6720.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  Threatened Saudi dissident told to live like Edward Snowden by Met police\n- ![Edward Snowden at 29th May in Moscow\\<br\\>JA1G3H Edward Snowden at 29th May in Moscow](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6fe2fb19ed1b3539b8e814b604041a8541271e34\/0_0_7360_4415\/master\/7360.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ‘No regrets,’ says Edward Snowden, after 10 years in exile\n\n- Snowden, MI5 and me: how the leak of the century came to be published\n- What’s really changed 10 years after the Snowden revelations?\n- ### States haven’t stopped spying on their citizens, post-Snowden – they’ve just got sneakier\n  Heather Brooke\n- ### Ten years ago, Edward Snowden warned us about state spying. Spare a thought for him, and worry about the future\n  Alan Rusbridger\n\nMay 2023\n\n- ![Composite of Lenore Taylor and Indonesian protesters burning a photo of Tony Abbott](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e195dd5dc3b857b88ce22832c943052b5d05226e\/0_0_2500_1500\/master\/2500.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  ### Ten years of Guardian AustraliaThe top-secret leak that led to a spying scandal, infuriating Indonesia – and Tony Abbott\n  **Lenore Taylor** looks back at Guardian Australia’s first big scoop and its far-reaching repercussions\n\nApril 2023\n\n- ![sculpture of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1b6610952c537558fb29e5d205b159b9fb38feb2\/0_313_5472_3283\/master\/5472.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  From Ellsberg to Assange: Jack Teixeira joins list of alleged leakers\n  \n  The subject matter may differ but the US government has been relentless in pursuing those accused of national security leaks\n\nDecember 2022\n\n- ![Edward Snowden](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/deeade8a19b97d4aaec235ee92d5cd670e16639f\/0_9_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  Edward Snowden gets Russian passport after swearing oath of allegiance\n  \n  Whistleblower is ‘happy and thankful to the Russian Federation’ for his citizenship, lawyer says\n\nSeptember 2022\n\n- ![Edward Snowden](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d803ef9687ac444cfa342c1949a3c2a0fce97513\/249_0_3598_2160\/master\/3598.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  Putin grants Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden\n  \n  Former NSA intelligence contractor was given asylum in Russia after leaking secret files in 2013\n\nAugust 2022\n\n- ![Edward Snowden\\<br\\>FILE - This June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. Snowden says his \"mission's already accomplished\" after leaking NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of U.S. surveillance policies. Snowden told The Washington Post in a story published online Monday night, Dec. 23, 2013, he has \"already won\" because journalists have been able to tell the story of the government's collection of bulk Internet and phone records. (AP Photo\/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)](https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9b2a941a9678a7f400548c28ee25f788c4cf2217\/52_0_1809_1085\/master\/1809.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4)\n  \n  US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian publishing Snowden revelations\n  \n  Head of GCHQ rebuffed late-night request from National Security Agency amid strained relations in Five Eyes intelligence coalition\n\nAbout 1,246 results for Edward Snowden","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	Latest on the computer analyst whistleblower who provided the Guardian with top-secret NSA documents leading to revelations about US surveillance on phone and internet communications February 2025 Truth review – Julian Assange play is hard going, with flashes of brilliance Why Snowden – not Russia or Syria – could tank Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination January 2025 Tulsi Gabbard grilled on Snowden, Assad and Putin in tense Senate hearing Skeptical senators ruthlessly questioned Trump’s national intelligence director nominee ahead of confirmation voteUS politics live – latest updates October 2024 Julian Assange: new play about WikiLeaks founder’s life to debut in 2025 Truth, by Australian playwright Patricia Cornelius, will feature multiple actors playing Assange as it probes questions about whistleblowers February 2024 The Guardian view on Julian Assange: why he should not be extradited Editorial: Sending him to be tried in the United States would be an unacceptable act against the WikiLeaks founder – and against journalism October 2023 Scandinavian spy drama: the intelligence chief who came under state surveillance How Lars Findsen and Claus Hjort Frederiksen came to be facing trial for allegedly disclosing ‘state secrets’ that had been in public domain for years August 2023 Jess Search obituary Documentary producer dedicated to using non-fiction storytelling to bring about change on many vital issues June 2023 Lifesize sculpture of Julian Assange appears outside UK parliament The Google employee who helped Edward Snowden in Hong Kong Threatened Saudi dissident told to live like Edward Snowden by Met police ‘No regrets,’ says Edward Snowden, after 10 years in exile Snowden, MI5 and me: how the leak of the century came to be published What’s really changed 10 years after the Snowden revelations? double quotation mark States haven’t stopped spying on their citizens, post-Snowden – they’ve just got sneakier Heather Brooke double quotation mark Ten years ago, Edward Snowden warned us about state spying. Spare a thought for him, and worry about the future Alan Rusbridger May 2023 Ten years of Guardian Australia The top-secret leak that led to a spying scandal, infuriating Indonesia – and Tony Abbott Lenore Taylor looks back at Guardian Australia’s first big scoop and its far-reaching repercussions April 2023 From Ellsberg to Assange: Jack Teixeira joins list of alleged leakers The subject matter may differ but the US government has been relentless in pursuing those accused of national security leaks December 2022 Edward Snowden gets Russian passport after swearing oath of allegiance Whistleblower is ‘happy and thankful to the Russian Federation’ for his citizenship, lawyer says September 2022 Putin grants Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden Former NSA intelligence contractor was given asylum in Russia after leaking secret files in 2013 August 2022 US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian publishing Snowden revelations Head of GCHQ rebuffed late-night request from National Security Agency amid strained relations in Five Eyes intelligence coalition About 1,246 results for Edward Snowden
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Whisked out of a luxury Hong Kong hotel, vanishing into a mysterious wing of the Moscow airport, Edward Snowden's continent-jumping, hide-and-seek game seems like the stuff of a pulp thriller \_ a desperate man's drama played out before a worldwide audience trying to decide if he's a hero or a villain. But the search for the former National Security Agency contractor who spilled government secrets has become something of a distracting sideshow, some say, overshadowing at least for now the important debate over the government s power to seize the phone and Internet records of millions of Americans to help wage the war on terrorism. 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Spare a thought for him, and worry about the future Alan Rusbridger 6 Jun 2023 10.09 BST ## May 2023 - ![Composite of Lenore Taylor and Indonesian protesters burning a photo of Tony Abbott](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e195dd5dc3b857b88ce22832c943052b5d05226e/0_0_2500_1500/master/2500.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) ### Ten years of Guardian AustraliaThe top-secret leak that led to a spying scandal, infuriating Indonesia – and Tony Abbott Lenore Taylor looks back at Guardian Australia’s first big scoop and its far-reaching repercussions 25 May 2023 16.00 BST ## April 2023 - ![sculpture of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1b6610952c537558fb29e5d205b159b9fb38feb2/0_313_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) ### From Ellsberg to Assange: Jack Teixeira joins list of alleged leakers The subject matter may differ but the US government has been relentless in pursuing those accused of national security leaks 19 Apr 2023 07.00 BST ## December 2022 - ![Edward Snowden](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/deeade8a19b97d4aaec235ee92d5cd670e16639f/0_9_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) ### Edward Snowden gets Russian passport after swearing oath of allegiance Whistleblower is ‘happy and thankful to the Russian Federation’ for his citizenship, lawyer says 2 Dec 2022 17.02 GMT ## September 2022 - ![Edward Snowden](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d803ef9687ac444cfa342c1949a3c2a0fce97513/249_0_3598_2160/master/3598.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) ### Putin grants Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden Former NSA intelligence contractor was given asylum in Russia after leaking secret files in 2013 26 Sept 2022 18.10 BST ## August 2022 - ![Edward Snowden\<br\>FILE - This June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. Snowden says his "mission's already accomplished" after leaking NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of U.S. surveillance policies. Snowden told The Washington Post in a story published online Monday night, Dec. 23, 2013, he has "already won" because journalists have been able to tell the story of the government's collection of bulk Internet and phone records. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9b2a941a9678a7f400548c28ee25f788c4cf2217/52_0_1809_1085/master/1809.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) ### US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian publishing Snowden revelations Head of GCHQ rebuffed late-night request from National Security Agency amid strained relations in Five Eyes intelligence coalition 31 Aug 2022 15.11 BST About 1,246 results for Edward Snowden 1[2](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/edward-snowden?page=2)[3](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/edward-snowden?page=3)[4](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/edward-snowden?page=4)... 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Readable Markdown	Latest on the computer analyst whistleblower who provided the Guardian with top-secret NSA documents leading to revelations about US surveillance on phone and internet communications February 2025 - ![The actors stand at five desks, each bearing a large computer](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cde0b79bb10dcc55e73c9a6d8e70e60e6e80478b/0_133_2000_1201/master/2000.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) ### Truth review – Julian Assange play is hard going, with flashes of brilliance - ![Woman looks ahead and speaks into microphone](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/327085081fb9288632cdf9c59c8f25c3429a7995/0_103_2800_1680/master/2800.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) Why Snowden – not Russia or Syria – could tank Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination January 2025 - ![a woman appears nervous sitting in front of a microphone](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/595c7e3ad6dd364dcbb53be92c7201f9dd284147/0_201_3000_1799/master/3000.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) Tulsi Gabbard grilled on Snowden, Assad and Putin in tense Senate hearing Skeptical senators ruthlessly questioned Trump’s national intelligence director nominee ahead of confirmation voteUS politics live – latest updates October 2024 - ![Julian Assange, pictured in 2010](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e6be8fcab32958f64040613a824052983ff3ca30/825_88_2983_1791/master/2983.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) Julian Assange: new play about WikiLeaks founder’s life to debut in 2025 Truth, by Australian playwright Patricia Cornelius, will feature multiple actors playing Assange as it probes questions about whistleblowers February 2024 - ![Julian Assange](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a9b0f313fffad5f0a5420376d829c88613165088/0_100_2999_1799/master/2999.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) The Guardian view on Julian Assange: why he should not be extradited Editorial: Sending him to be tried in the United States would be an unacceptable act against the WikiLeaks founder – and against journalism October 2023 - ![Illustration of a man in red on a staircase being watched by spies in hats](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7a835875733d32b85497e7f23a6b36b3ded55c46/0_0_4000_2400/master/4000.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) Scandinavian spy drama: the intelligence chief who came under state surveillance How Lars Findsen and Claus Hjort Frederiksen came to be facing trial for allegedly disclosing ‘state secrets’ that had been in public domain for years August 2023 - ![Jess Search wearing her trademark white suit at Keble College, Oxford, during the third Britdoc festival in 2008.](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/61044445f0c9e08db14971f9eef2cfb3021083be/0_739_2848_1708/master/2848.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) Jess Search obituary Documentary producer dedicated to using non-fiction storytelling to bring about change on many vital issues June 2023 - ![Bronze figures of Snowden and Assange](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/43bec4e36809b4dd18a23aa7ac154651c1494c00/1481_482_1017_610/master/1017.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) Lifesize sculpture of Julian Assange appears outside UK parliament - ![FILE - In this June 23, 2013 file photo, a television screen shows a news report of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at a shopping mall in Hong Kong. Whisked out of a luxury Hong Kong hotel, vanishing into a mysterious wing of the Moscow airport, Edward Snowden's continent-jumping, hide-and-seek game seems like the stuff of a pulp thriller \_ a desperate man's drama played out before a worldwide audience trying to decide if he's a hero or a villain. But the search for the former National Security Agency contractor who spilled government secrets has become something of a distracting sideshow, some say, overshadowing at least for now the important debate over the government s power to seize the phone and Internet records of millions of Americans to help wage the war on terrorism. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File )](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c16675184a877d991254c704afd2347790117944/0_327_3000_1801/master/3000.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) The Google employee who helped Edward Snowden in Hong Kong - ![Col Rabih Alenezi](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/03288e43fdcf3159b90975d458bf5c7327a993c8/0_253_6720_4032/master/6720.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) Threatened Saudi dissident told to live like Edward Snowden by Met police - ![Edward Snowden at 29th May in Moscow\<br\>JA1G3H Edward Snowden at 29th May in Moscow](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6fe2fb19ed1b3539b8e814b604041a8541271e34/0_0_7360_4415/master/7360.jpg?width=120&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) ‘No regrets,’ says Edward Snowden, after 10 years in exile - Snowden, MI5 and me: how the leak of the century came to be published - What’s really changed 10 years after the Snowden revelations? - ### States haven’t stopped spying on their citizens, post-Snowden – they’ve just got sneakier Heather Brooke - ### Ten years ago, Edward Snowden warned us about state spying. Spare a thought for him, and worry about the future Alan Rusbridger May 2023 - ![Composite of Lenore Taylor and Indonesian protesters burning a photo of Tony Abbott](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e195dd5dc3b857b88ce22832c943052b5d05226e/0_0_2500_1500/master/2500.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) ### Ten years of Guardian AustraliaThe top-secret leak that led to a spying scandal, infuriating Indonesia – and Tony Abbott Lenore Taylor looks back at Guardian Australia’s first big scoop and its far-reaching repercussions April 2023 - ![sculpture of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1b6610952c537558fb29e5d205b159b9fb38feb2/0_313_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) From Ellsberg to Assange: Jack Teixeira joins list of alleged leakers The subject matter may differ but the US government has been relentless in pursuing those accused of national security leaks December 2022 - ![Edward Snowden](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/deeade8a19b97d4aaec235ee92d5cd670e16639f/0_9_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) Edward Snowden gets Russian passport after swearing oath of allegiance Whistleblower is ‘happy and thankful to the Russian Federation’ for his citizenship, lawyer says September 2022 - ![Edward Snowden](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d803ef9687ac444cfa342c1949a3c2a0fce97513/249_0_3598_2160/master/3598.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) Putin grants Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden Former NSA intelligence contractor was given asylum in Russia after leaking secret files in 2013 August 2022 - ![Edward Snowden\<br\>FILE - This June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. Snowden says his "mission's already accomplished" after leaking NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of U.S. surveillance policies. Snowden told The Washington Post in a story published online Monday night, Dec. 23, 2013, he has "already won" because journalists have been able to tell the story of the government's collection of bulk Internet and phone records. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9b2a941a9678a7f400548c28ee25f788c4cf2217/52_0_1809_1085/master/1809.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=5%3A4) US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian publishing Snowden revelations Head of GCHQ rebuffed late-night request from National Security Agency amid strained relations in Five Eyes intelligence coalition About 1,246 results for Edward Snowden
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