Source: Wikipedia

Legal Wikipedia Research

Search legal concepts and jurisdictions without leaving LegalLens.

Edward Snowden

Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is a former United States National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence contractor who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs. Born in 1983 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, he attended a community college and later enrolled in a master's programme at the University of Liverpool without finishing it. In 2006, he started working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and then moved to Dell in 2009, where he managed computer systems for the NSA. In 2013, he worked for two months at Booz Allen Hamilton, with the purpose of gathering more NSA documents.

Source

USA Freedom Act

The USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048, Pub. L. 114–23 (text) (PDF)) is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015, that restored and modified several provisions of the Patriot Act, which had expired the day before. The act imposes some new limits on the bulk collection of telecommunication metadata on U.S. citizens by American intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency.

Source

Economic policy of the second Trump administration

Under the second presidency of Donald Trump, the federal government of the United States has pursued an economic policy focused on lower taxation, deregulation, and large-scale protective tariffs. Trump nominated Howard Lutnick as the United States secretary of commerce, Scott Bessent as the United States secretary of the treasury, and Russell Vought as the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), all of whom were confirmed by the U.S. Senate. When Donald Trump took office as president in January 2025, the economy of the United States had increasing economic growth, low unemployment, and declining inflation in the aftermath of the 2021–2023 inflation surge.

Source