Edward Snowden and the NSA leaks

合同工斯諾登踢爆美國國安局監控行動

Without question, the scandal of the year: The U.S. government still doesn't know the number of secrets Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor-gone-rogue, snuck out of the country with last June. The strands to this scandal are many: from the extent of government spying at home and abroad to the ease with which a single contractor got a security clearance, fled the country with untold amounts of sensitive data, and outran that government on a wild goose chase. And the scandal, of course, is still unfolding.毫無疑問，這是今年最大的丑聞：美國政府至今仍不確定愛德華•斯諾登到底掌握了多少秘密。這位“潛伏”在美國國家安全局（National Security Agency，NSA）的合同工于去年六月秘密逃往國外。這起丑聞涉及多個方面，比如：政府在國內外進行暗中監控的程度，合同工竟然可以輕易獲得安全許可，掌握大量敏感數據的斯諾登能夠順利逃往國外，而政府只能望洋興嘆。目前，這出鬧劇仍未收場。