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
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