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An NSA Employee Reveals Government Secrets to the Media
Show: "Scandal"
Episode: "Hunting Season"
Air date: Oct. 18, 2012
A Season 2 episode of "Scandal" centered around Olivia's attempts to help an NSA employee go public with his information about the government's abuse of the Patriot Act. Olivia gets her client a primetime TV interview by blackmailing the head of the network. Seven months later NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked thousands of classified documents to journalists. Without a D.C. fixer on his side, he fled the country before his data dump, was charged with espionage, then was granted asylum in Russia. He's still there, avoiding extradition. On the plus side, Joseph Gordon-Levitt played him in a movie, a PR move worthy of Pope and Associates.
Show: "Scandal"
Episode: "Hunting Season"
Air date: Oct. 18, 2012
A Season 2 episode of "Scandal" centered around Olivia's attempts to help an NSA employee go public with his information about the government's abuse of the Patriot Act. Olivia gets her client a primetime TV interview by blackmailing the head of the network. Seven months later NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked thousands of classified documents to journalists. Without a D.C. fixer on his side, he fled the country before his data dump, was charged with espionage, then was granted asylum in Russia. He's still there, avoiding extradition. On the plus side, Joseph Gordon-Levitt played him in a movie, a PR move worthy of Pope and Associates.
PeopleKerry Washington
TitlesScandal, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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