“Edward Snowden, in an exclusive interview with “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams, is fighting back against critics who dismissed him as a low-level hacker — saying he was “trained as a spy” and offered technical expertise to high levels of government.

“I was trained as a spy in sort of the traditional sense of the word, in that I lived and worked undercover overseas — pretending to work in a job that I’m not — and even being assigned a name that was not mine,” Snowden said in the interview.”

NBC NEWS EXCLUSIVE WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS
INSIDE THE MIND OF EDWARD SNOWDEN
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/edward-snowden-interview/exclusive-edward-snowden-tells-brian-williams-i-was-trained-spy-n115746

John Iadarola (http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola) of The Young Turks breaks down the Snowden interview. Tell us what you thought of Snowden’s interview in the comment section below.