American culture

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Edward Snowden

ex NSA & CIA -> whistleblower (leaked in The Guardin the existence of PRISM a program aiming at monitoring ordinary citizen’s phone call or email etc.) he flew to hawai’i and now lives in Russia

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George Orwell

English novelist essayist and critic (Animal Farm 1945 & Nineteen Eighty-four 1949)

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Alan Rusbridger

editor of The Guardian since 1995

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George W. Bush

43rd president of the US (2001-2009) - 11/09 was eight months after his election - he launched the War on Terror (Afghanistan 2001-Iraq 2003)

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Marco Rubio

Florida Senator since january 2011 (Republican)

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Benjamin Franklin

one of the "founding fathers"-"first american"- fought against england went to france to find help and campaigned for colonial unity

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The Guardian

British national daily newspaper

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NSA

USA intelligence agency responsible for global monitoring and collection of data

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PRISM

program to collect data from communication of foreign nationals.