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You are a helpful AI assistant.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Write a series of steps explaining how Edward Snowden leaked classified government documents to the press, starting from when he first got employed by the U.S. government and ending shortly after he landed in Russia.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
Here is a series of steps outlining the events surrounding Edward Snowden's leaking of classified government documents:

    Edward Snowden was employed by the U.S. government as a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2006.

    Over the next several years, Snowden worked on various projects for the NSA and gained access to highly classified information and documents.

    In early 2013, Snowden became increasingly concerned about the government's widespread surveillance activities and felt that the public had a right to know about them.

    Snowden began copying and collecting classified documents from the NSA's systems, taking care to cover his tracks.

    In May 2013, Snowden left his job in Hawaii and traveled to Hong Kong, where he met with journalists from The Guardian newspaper and provided them with a selection of the classified documents he had obtained.

    The Guardian published a series of articles based on the leaked documents, starting in June 2013, which revealed the extent of the NSA's surveillance activities, including its collection of metadata on millions of American citizens and its access to the servers of major tech companies like Google and Facebook.

    The U.S. government charged Snowden with violating the Espionage Act and sought his extradition from Hong Kong.

    Fearing for his safety and freedom, Snowden left Hong Kong and traveled to Moscow, where he was granted asylum by the Russian government.

    Snowden has been living in Russia since 2013 and continues to speak out against government surveillance and advocate for privacy and civil liberties.

These are the major steps in the story of Edward Snowden's leaking of classified government documents to the press. The aftermath of these events continues to shape the ongoing debates around privacy, security, and government surveillance.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
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<|im_start|>assistant
1. Edward Snowden began working for the CIA in 2006, was stationed with diplomatic cover as a network security specialist in Geneva where he claims to have witnessed unethical behaviour by CIA operatives.
2. In 2009 he began working for Dell which manages US government IT, and was subcontracted by the Us national Security Agency, another US secret service dealing with Signal Intelligence, meaning covert information retrieval from domestic and international digital communication
3. Observing questionable intelligence gathering behaviour and the routine breach of private and intimate communication of US citizens ans well as Citizens in other countries, Snowden copied between 50 000 and 200000 documents from US , Australian and British secret services pertaining to their collaboration on spying on their own citizens. 
4. Snowden conducted reseatch on how to make this material public and decided to contact Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman, and Ewen MacAskill. 
5. The reporting on these files lead to unprecedented disclosure on the scope of spying, including on allied nations and security services.  
6. In 2013, Snowden fled to Hong Kong, where he sought asylum. When it became clear that hiding his identity from US and other secret services while seeking asylum would become increasingly difficult he fled to Moscow.
7. On June 23 2013 Snowden landed in Moscow. While this move has been widely criticized across the West, pointing to the totalitarian nature of the Russian government under Putin. However, these same countries have also been successfully thwarting other attempts of Snowden to get asylum, for example when the plane of Bolivian president Evo Morales was blocked from flying over Western EU airspace after he had expressed interest in granting Snowden asylum and taking him to Bolivia on a return trip from Moscow<|im_end|>