Job Title: Former CIA employee currently employed by defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.
Age: 29
Security clearance: Snowden had access to NSA documents during the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors.
Number of documents leaked: Undetermined. Snowden leaked a PowerPoint presentation and possibly among other documents about PRISM, a government computer program used for managing foreign intelligence collected from Internet and electronic service providers.
Agency betrayed: National Security Agency
Potential years: Undetermined. Snowden is still holed up in a hotel room in Hong Kong, though he said in a video that he?s prepared for the fact that he could be "rendered by the CIA" or "have people come after me" at any time.
Motive: The Guardian interviewed Snowden, who lived in Hawaii with his girlfriend and had a stable, well-paying job: "I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building."
"The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to," Snowden added. "There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to." Snowden says he hopes that his efforts will spur public debate about the intelligence programs the government is running.
Name: Bradley Manning
Job title: Army Sergeant First Class, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division
Age: 25
Security clearance: Manning "was allowed to surf massive closed databases of secret information without any restrictions as well as download classified files to CDs," according to The Guardian.
Number of documents leaked: Manning provided 700,000 documents to Wikileaks in the most extensive leak of confidential and classified material in U.S. history.
Agency betrayed: U.S. Military
Potential years: Government prosecutors are charging Manning with aiding the enemy, a charge that carries a maximum of a life sentence. Manning, who faces 22 charges altogether, is allowed to plead guilty to seven of them (not including the aiding the enemy charge), which together carry a maximum sentence of 16 years in prison.
Motive: Manning became increasingly disillusioned with the Army and the U.S.?s tactics in Iraq and, during online chat sessions with Adrian Lamo, a former hacker, said that he wanted "people to see the truth? regardless of who they are? because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public."
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