But few are as successful as Booz Allen Hamilton, the government contractor whose employee, Edward J. Snowden, has acknowledged leaking national security documents revealing details of the government's extensive surveillance programs.
HONG KONG — In choosing Hong Kong as an initial place to take refuge from the United States government, the National Security Agency contractor who has acknowledged leaking documents has selected a jurisdiction where it may be possible to delay extradition but not avoid it, legal and law enforcement experts here said.
HONG KONG — Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who has acknowledged leaking numerous documents about American surveillance operations around the world, planned his escape from Hong Kong over a surreptitious dinner of pizza, fried chicken and sausages, washed down with Pepsi.
HONG KONG — Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency computer technician who has acknowledged leaking highly classified documents about the United States government's monitoring of Internet and telephone communications, told a Hong Kong newspaper on Wednesday that he planned to stay in the city and fight extradition.
Snowden has acknowledged leaking secrets about classified U.S. surveillance programs to the Washington Post and Britain's Guardian newspaper.
Manning has acknowledged leaking hundreds of thousands of military and State Department documents to the anti-secrecy website to expose what he considered wrongdoing.
White had acknowledged smoking marijuana.
Less than six months later, an international audience has acknowledged those leaks.
Nomura has acknowledged that employees leaked information on at least three public offerings in 2010 to favored fund managers, who then profited from short-selling ahead of the expected drop in the share price.
Well — it's not really any more a reality than it was a week ago, given the innumerable leaks and Sony Ericsson having acknowledged the device's existence a handful of times before.. but hey, it's official.
