Video: US whistleblower Edward Snowden wins 'integrity in intelligence' award In video released by WikiLeaks, Snowden is presented with the annual Sam Adams Award by former US security officers. The video is believed to have been shot on Wednesday 9 October in Moscow at an undisclosed location, where Mr Snowden was granted asylum in August. The award is named for a CIA analyst during the Vietnam War who accused the US military of deliberately underestimating the enemy's strength for political purposes. The Americans, who once worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Justice Department and the NSA, have criticised the US government and exposed what they believed was wrongdoing in the security agencies. All are supporters of Mr Snowden, who has been charged in the US with violating the Espionage Act for disclosing the NSA's surveillance of phone and internet usage around the world. In a short speech, Snowden criticised US surveillance methods, describing them as dangerous to democracy.