Edward Snowden asks France to grant him asylum: 'Welcoming someone like me is not an attack on the United States'

'Protecting whistleblowers is not a hostile act,' the National Security Agency whistleblower said.

In this handout photo provided by The Guardian, Edward Snowden speaks during an interview in Hong Kong. Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA, revealed details of top-secret surveillance conducted by the United States' National Security Agency regarding telecom data.The memoir, which is set to be released globally on the anniversary of the signing of the U.S.

"Everything that we do now lasts forever. Not because we want to remember, but because we're no longer allowed to forget," Snowden said in a recent video announcing Permanent Record."Helping to create that system is my greatest regret." The world would later hear of following explosive revelations, from spying on world leaders to the mass collection of text messages and the PRISM program that allowed the NSA to access Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple servers.

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