Former Republican Rep Ron Paul has revealed he is worried about the welfare of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who leaked the secret information about a classified U.S. government surveillance program. 'I’m worried about somebody in our government might kill him with a cruise missile or a drone missile,' Mr Paul explained in an interview this morning. '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.' Former Republican Rep Ron Paul has revealed he is worried about the welfare of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who leaked the secret information about a classified U.S. government surveillance program . Mr Paul added that there were no indications Snowden was defecting to a foreign country. [caption] .
Edward Snowden, a former CIA technical assistant fled to Hong Kong . Leaked details of Prism, which he says harvests personal data from web . Ron Paul: 'The gentlemen is trying to tell the truth'