Edward Snowden sued by U.S. government, 6-year mystery remains — Transcript

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1. 0:00Edward Snowden the former NSA and CIA
2. 0:02employee who stole more than 1.5 million
3. 0:05classified documents is being sued by
4. 0:07the US government at issue whether or
5. 0:11not the publication of his new
6. 0:12autobiography violates a nondisclosure
7. 0:14agreement and joining us to explain all
8. 0:17of this Yahoo Finance's michael kelly
9. 0:19who's been following the story and the
10. 0:21issue that the government's wing over is
11. 0:23the money that might be raised by the
12. 0:26sale of this book right yeah it's a it's
13. 0:27a civil suit about breach of contract
14. 0:29and fiduciary obligations so they're not
15. 0:33they say in the in the introduction that
16. 0:34they're not trying to restrain the
17. 0:36publication or the distribution of the
18. 0:38book they say that he breached his
19. 0:40contract and in that contract it means
20. 0:42that they have a right to profits and
21. 0:44royalties from that book so he is a
22. 0:48defendant the publisher Macmillan is a
23. 0:51defendant only so that they can try to
24. 0:54get this money from the sale and you
25. 0:58also looked into what he's doing now
26. 1:01besides writing a book and we don't
27. 1:04really know so the the the book is
28. 1:06fascinating that because it kind of
29. 1:09abruptly ends right when he leaves the
30. 1:11airport in Moscow
31. 1:12August 1st 2013 and then there's like a
32. 1:15chapter about how he got married and
33. 1:17sometimes he goes to museums but there's
34. 1:19about six years and changed that we
35. 1:21don't really he doesn't really fill us
36. 1:23in on that so yeah that's a big gap in
37. 1:25even even an autobiography or even a
38. 1:27biography is he a spy that intends harm
39. 1:31to the United States he's a he's a
40. 1:35trained technical spy he was a CIA
41. 1:37technician as he because we don't know
42. 1:41anything about basically since he
43. 1:44stepped off a plane in June 23rd 2013
44. 1:47there's a question mark about who his
45. 1:51bodyguards are his Russian lawyer says
46. 1:52he has bought his permanent security who
47. 1:55here he worked in Russia yeah the the he
48. 1:58keeps he over a dozen times he said that
49. 2:00Snowden had a job for an IT company but
50. 2:02no one seems to know what that IT
51. 2:04company is so there's a lot of question
52. 2:07marks about the last six years and and
53. 2:10you know that's what they are they're
54. 2:12question marks it's
55. 2:13intrigued I'm and in some of the his
56. 2:15recent interviews he said he wants to
57. 2:17come home but how likely is that to
58. 2:19happen
59. 2:19so he's been saying this for years since
60. 2:232014 about he would come home on the
61. 2:26condition you would get a fair trial but
62. 2:28he can't get a fair trial because of the
63. 2:30Espionage Act and that that's true to a
64. 2:33point but the thing that people forget
65. 2:35about if Snowden could come home is the
66. 2:39fact that the Russians have a say in
67. 2:41that and he knows a lot about how they
68. 2:44treat their special guests so they have
69. 2:48little incentive to tell California you
70. 2:50can check in but you can never leave
71. 2:52that's right all right Michael Kelly
72. 2:54thank you hey investors Zach Guzman here
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