Snowden also touched on Rand Paul's filibustering of the renewal of the Patriot Act, whose key provisions are set to expire Monday. Paul, he said, "is speaking for the majority of Americans ...

While the debate over the Patriot Act raged on, Edward Snowden sat half a world away in Russia, far from Rand Paul's filibuster and the revised USA Freedom Bill that President Barack Obama would ...

Government officials sometimes first learn about specific documents stolen by Snowden from reporters preparing their articles for publication. Over the last six months, estimates for the number of ...

Over the last six months, estimates for the number of classified files Snowden stole from NSA systems have been upwardly revised from 10,000 to "as many as 200,00" to a staggering 1.7 million.