Snowden: "Mereka Ingin Tembak atau Racuni Saya"
Snowden: "They will Put a Bullet in my Head or Poison Me"
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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EDWARD Snowden, buron intelijen Badan Keamanan Nasional Amerika Serikat (NSA) mengaku diancam untuk ditembak atau diracun karena telah membocorkan dokumen-dokumen berisi aktivitas NSA ke publik.
Namun dia mengaku bisa tidur nyenyak karena dia percaya apa yang dilakukannya benar.
"Ada banyak ancaman tapi saya tidur nyenyak sekali," kata dia merujuk laporan sebuah laman internet AS yang mengutipkan pernyataan pejabat AS bahwa hidupnya dalam bahaya.
"Orang-orang ini, dan mereka ini para pejabat pemerintah, berkata bahwa mereka akan senang menembuskan peluru ke kepala saya atau meracun saya ketika saya keluar dari supermarket dan lalu menyaksikan saya mati di pancuran (shower)," kata Snowden dalam wawancara dengan televisi Jerman ARDTV seperti dilansir Yahoo News.
Pada wawancara itu Snowden juga menyatakan bahwa NSA terlibat dalam spionase industri, tidak hanya membatasi spionasenya untuk keamanan nasional AS.
Snowden menyebutkan salah satu yang dibidik NSA adalah perusahaan elektronik Jerman, Siemens.
"Jika ada informasi mengenai Siemens yang berguna bagi kepentingan nasional AS --sekalipun tidak ada kaitannya dengan keamanan nasional AS-- maka mereka akan mengambil informasi itu," kata Snowden dalam wawancara di sebuah tempat di Rusia.
Spionase industri oleh NSA ini sangat dimungkinkan karena NSA telah menanamkan software ke dalam 100.000 komputer di seluruh dunia, sehingga bisa menyadapnya dan sekaligus menjadi jalan tol digital untuk melakukan serangan siber.
FORMER U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden told German TV on Sunday about reports that U.S. government officials want to assassinate him for leaking secret documents about the NSA´s collection of telephone records and emails.
"There are significant threats but I sleep very well," he said before referring to a report on a U.S. website that he said quoted anonymous U.S. officials saying his life was in danger.
"These people, and they are government officials, have said they would love to put a bullet in my head or poison me when I come out of the supermarket and then watch me die in the shower," Snowden said.
Snowden said the NSA is active in industrial espionage and will grab any intelligence it can get its hands on regardless of its national security value.
He said the NSA doesn´t limit its espionage to issues of national security and he cited German engineering firm Siemens as a target.
"If there´s information at Siemens that´s beneficial to U.S. national interests - even if it doesn´t have anything to do with national security - then they´ll take that information nevertheless," Snowden said, according to ARD, which recorded the interview in Russia where he has claimed asylum.
Snowden´s claim the NSA is engaged in industrial espionage follows a New York Times report earlier this month that the NSA put software in almost 100,000 computers around the world, allowing it to carry out surveillance on those devices and could provide a digital highway for cyberattacks.
