Snowden: The Geek Turned Deep Throat

Hunted as a US traitor and at the center of a diplomatic row, Edward Snowden got off to a less spectacular start in life: he is a self-confessed geek and high school dropout. Snowden, 30, came out of nowhere to trigger one of the biggest intelligence leaks in American history, sparking a furious standoff with Russia as he evades capture from a Moscow airport transit area. Yet until he shot to notoriety by revealing details of vast US surveillance programs, Snowden had made little mark on his world. [...]