A former neighbor of Edward Snowden, the source of the National Security Agency leaks, recalled the 29-year-old as a “nice kid” in an interview published Monday with USA Today.
“[He] wasn’t really personable. He didn’t say much at all. He would say, ‘Hi,’ but he’d be looking down,” said Joyce Kinsey, who resides in a Maryland apartment complex where Snowden once lived, and where his mother now resides.
Kinsey said that Snowden hasn’t lived in the house for about a decade, but regularly visited his mother, Elizabeth Wendy Snowden, there over the holidays. The younger Snowden originally lived in the apartment with a roommate and then a girlfriend, who was “kind of artsy.” His mother moved in around the time that he moved out.
“She’s a wonderful woman – I like her very much, and her dog is the most wonderful dog I’ve ever seen in my life,” added Kinsey. “He’s right there with her. He knows how to get her help.”
