“2013 was not about surveillance, it was about democracy,” explained former NSA contractor Edward Snowden on a simulcast at the Parkway Central branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia Monday night.

Jeremy Scahill, cofounder of investigative publication The Intercept, moderated the night’s conversation.

At the very start of the event, Scahill entertained a handful of silly questions the audience wanted to ask Snowden, inquiring about Donald Trump’ssearch history, Snowden’s favorite cheesesteak recipe (hint: it contains mayonnaise) and if he knew there was a cannabis strain in Colorado named after him.

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