If I had to guess what the future's going to look like for me - assuming it's not an orange jumpsuit in a hole - I think I'm going to alternate between tech and policy.

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

I do everything on the computer. TV is obsolete technology for me.

I've got more than enough for my needs [for social life in Moscow], let's put it that way.

There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold senior officials to account with the same laws that every other citizen in the country is held to," or "This is a nation that believes in the rule of law."

Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect.

The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that. They know where all the bodies are buried. At the same time, they get far more campaign donations than anybody else from defense contractors, from intelligence corporations, from private military companies.