Former CIA employee Edward Snowden, who last week came forward and announced that he was the source of the leaks about the United States surveillance program, has some worried about his fate.
CBS News reports that former Texas congressman Ron Paul thinks that the government might try to assassinate him.
"I'm worried about, somebody in our government might kill him with a cruise missile or a drone missile," said Paul in an interview on Tuesday with Fox News. "I mean, we live in a bad time where American citizens don't even have rights and that they can be killed, but the gentlemen is trying to tell the truth about what's going on."
Snowden, whose last know whereabouts were in Hong Kong knows that he may face consequences for his actions.
"I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions," Snowden said. "I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant."
A recent poll conducted by CBS news showed that 75 percent of Americans approve of federal agencies collecting phone records of people the government suspects of terrorist activity, while 58 percent disapprove of this type of data collection when it involves ordinary Americans.
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