🦈 Get an exclusive @Surfshark deal! Enter promo code PHILIP for an extra 3 months free at https://surfshark.deals/philip ☕ If you would like to support my channel and gain access to membership rewards and benefits, please consider buying me a coffee! ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompson Hong Kong. The 2nd of June 2013. A cybersecurity agent sits in the bustling restaurant of the Mira Hotel. He fiddles nervously with a Rubik's cube. He looks up and his gaze locks with two newcomers - a man and a woman, one a hardened journalist and the other a documentary filmmaker. As he recognises the pair, he pockets the cube and stands. Silently, they make their way through the hotel towards the elevators. As they enter the agent's hotel room silently, the woman unclasps her case on the unmade bed, revealing camera equipment. As she sets her camera on a tripod, the agent takes his position on a chair opposite the journalist. The room hums with the weight of their impending conversation. The world, unknowing, teetered on the brink of a revelation from Edward Snowden that would change it forever. More than 10 years on since Snowden’s infamous NSA leaks, the debate over whether he is a friend or foe to America rages on. Telling the story of Edward Snowden is a difficult task, with the facts contained in the available sources conflicting on even the most innocuous of facts. Nevertheless, this video is an attempt to tease out the truth, and where that is not possible, present the claims from both ends of the ‘friend versus foe’ spectrum as objectively as possible. #lifeofedwardsnowden #surveillancestate #truelifespystories