Vào ngày 30 tháng 9 năm 2013, tại Hội Đồng Quốc Hội Âu Châu về Dân Quyền, Công Lý và An Ninh Nội Chính, các Công dân Tố Cáo và Chuyên Gia Pháp Luật đã điều trần về Guồng máy rình mò nghe lén của Nhà Nước Chính Phủ,
Ban Điều Trần gồm các Công Dân Tố Cáo Mỹ như ông Thomas Drake, J.Kirk Wiebe, Edward Snowden (khiếm diện- do giám đốc Cơ Quan Nhân Quyền Jesselyn Radackthay thay mặt đọc lời điều trần), và đại diện ủy ban GAP (Điều Tra Trách Nhiệm Chính Phủ)
Transcript Snowden statetment
I thank the European Parliament and the LIBE Committee for taking up the challenge of mass surveillance. The surveillance of whole populations, rather than individuals, threatens to be the greatest human rights challenge of our time. The success of economies in developed nations relies increasingly on their creative output, and if that success is to continue, we must remember that creativity is the product of curiosity, which in turn is the product of privacy.
A culture of secrecy has denied our societies the opportunity to determine the appropriate balance between the human right of privacy and the governmental interest in investigation. These are not decisions that should be made for a people, but only by the people after full, informed, and fearless debate. Yet public debate is not possible without public knowledge, and in my country, the cost for one in my position of returning public knowledge to public hands has been persecution and exile. If we are to enjoy such debates in the future, we cannot rely upon individual sacrifice. We must create better channels for people of conscience to inform not only trusted agents of government, but independent representatives of the public outside of government.
When I began my work, it was with the sole intention of making possible the debate we see occurring here in this body and in many other bodies around the world. Today we see legislative bodies forming new committees, calling for investigations, and proposing new solutions for modern problems. We see emboldened courts that are no longer afraid to consider critical questions of national security. We see brave executives remembering that if a public is prevented from knowing how they are being governed, the necessary result is that they are no longer self-governing. And we see the public reclaiming an equal seat at the table of government. The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.
Edward Snowden
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