Revealed: The individual who recently disclosed details about top-secret National Security Agency programs is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, the Guardian reports. "I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions," but "I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant," Snowden said in a note accompanying the first set of documents he provided.
Fewer Jobs: The legal industry lost 500 positions in May, The Am Law Daily reports. The sector had added jobs in March and April.
Cyberwarfare: President Barack Obama has directed national security officials to create cyberwarfare abilities that could be deployed with “little or no warning” against adversaries around the world, The Washington Post reports.
Cleveland Indictment: Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man accused of kidnapping and holding captive three young women in his house for a decade, was indicted Friday on 139 counts of rape, 177 counts of kidnapping, seven counts of gross sexual imposition, three counts of felonious assault and one count of possession of criminal tools, CNN reports.
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