Which of the following is not a consequence of Edward Snowden’s 2013 leak of classified government documents from the NSA?

a. Congress censured the National Security Administration for its collection of telephone calls and emails sent by members of the House and Senate.
b. The leaks revealed the depth of an NSA program that gathered much of the U.S. population’s telephone calls, e-mails, financial transactions, and other personal information, which ran against the agency’s long-standing ban on domestic surveillance without a warrant.
c. Snowden’s news leaks provided media outlets with a vast range of classified documents that circulated within the intelligence community regarding domestic surveillance.
d. The U.S. government charged Snowden with illegally releasing classified information, a violation of the 1917 Espionage Act.


a. Congress censured the National Security Administration for its collection of telephone calls and emails sent by members of the House and Senate.

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