The Department of Justice Won a Civil Suit Against Edward Snowden. What Happened? Summary A court ruled on Thursday that former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden should pay all of the royalties from his speaking and writing engagements, totaling more than $5 million, to the U.S. government. Snowden is a former contractor for the NSA, and previously for the CIA, who leaked nearly 10,000 classified NSA documents to journalists in 2013. The documents contained evidence of surveillance operations on U.S. persons …
