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Janine Gibson, right, Guardian U.S. editor in chief, looks on as Ewan MacAskill, left, and Laura Poitras, center, part of the reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for The Guardian US, the British newspaper’s American operation, chat online with leaker Edward Snowden, Monday April 14, 2014, in New York. The Guardian and The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize in public service Monday for revealing the U.S. government’s sweeping surveillance efforts in a blockbuster series of stories based on National Security Agency secret documents handed over by Snowden. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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One specialist on background checks said that if the Office of Personnel Management allowed investigators to troll online, they could have spotted troubling signs with Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who leaked details of many of the government's most secret spy programs. (Associated Press)

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Edward Snowden talks during a simulcast conversation during the SXSW Interactive Festival on Monday, March 10, 2014, in Austin, Texas. Snowden talked with American Civil Liberties Union’s principal technologist Christopher Soghoian, and answered tweeted questions. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP)

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Edward Snowden talks during a simulcast conversation during the SXSW Interactive Festival on Monday, March 10, 2014, in Austin, Texas. Snowden talked with American Civil Liberties Union’s principal technologist Christopher Soghoian, and answered tweeted questions. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP)

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Edward Snowden talks during a simulcast conversation during the SXSW Interactive Festival on Monday, March 10, 2014, in Austin, Texas. Snowden talked with American Civil Liberties Union’s principal technologist Christopher Soghoian, and answered tweeted questions. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP)

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FILE- In this Oct. 9, 2013 file photo, American journalist Glenn Greenwald, right, speaks to a congressional committee investigating reports based on documents, leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, at Congress in Brasilia, Brazil. Greenwald is among four journalists who reported on the extent of the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance based on documents leaked by Snowden, who are among the winners of the 65th annual George Polk Awards in Journalism's National Security Award. At left his Greenwald's partner David Miranda. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)