National Security Agency employees routinely share sexually explicit photos of citizens, according to Edward Snowden, NBC News reported. The former NSA contractor said analysts searching for signals intelligence sometimes intercepted intimate messages and photographs sent online or through cellphones by "ordinary citizens” unrelated to their work. “These are seen as the fringe benefits of surveillance positions,” he told The Guardian newspaper from Moscow, where he has sought temporary asylum after leaking classified documents about U.S. surveillance programs.
