Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents pertaining to government surveillance, told NBC host Brian Williams that he felt he did the right thing.

The interview was Snowden’s first on an American television network, and even though nearly everything he said had already been revealed in reporter Glenn Greenwald’s book, No Place to Hide, it was still interesting to watch Snowden himself tell the world what he thinks.

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