In his new memoir "Permanent Record," whistleblower Edward describes what he learned from within the American intelligence apparatus that convinced him to blow the whistle on unchecked government surveillance. While working as a contractor for the CIA and NSA, Snowden laid the groundwork for many of the cybersecurity protocols under which the agencies currently operate. Eventually, Snowden came to believe the NSA's surveillance practices were betraying public trust in the government and violating the constitution. "When you think about what the NSA doe … you're at least supposed to think that they spy on bad guys," he says. He later came to the realization that "the systems that I built, the systems that my generation had built, I had produced a system that instead spied on everyone."

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