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Democracy Now! brings you the voices you won't hear on the networks or cable shows—voices calling for peace, exposing abuses of power, demanding action on climate change and championing racial and economic justice.
As a whistleblower complaint filed against President Trump rocks Washington and threatens Trump's presidency, we spent the hour today with one of the world's most famous whistleblowers, Edward Snowden.
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Snowden, who joined us from his home in Moscow, talked about how he risked his life to leak a trove of secret documents exposing the U.S. government's massive surveillance apparatus built to spy on Americans and people around the world.
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Snowden also condemned President Trump’s mistreatment of the whistleblower who revealed details of Trump's July phone call with the Ukrainian president.
"The most alarming part of what we see about the treatment of this person today is what every White House does," said Snowden. "They try to make the conversation not about the allegations, but about the source of the allegations. They want to talk about the whistleblower, rather than the government's own wrongdoing."
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This week we also spoke to celebrated writer Ta-Nehisi Coates about his first novel, The Water Dancer, in which he tries to “get at American myth” that exists around race and reparations.
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Coates said, "This would be an entirely different conversation, had this country done in 1865 what Frederick Douglass asked it to do, which is to let the enslaved alone and let them prosper. That’s not what happened ... It haunts all of our policy."
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