I went to St. Petersburg - St. Petersburg is awesome.

The government doesn't want us to know what they're doing, how they're interpreting the law, how they're interpreting and redefining their powers, and increasingly, how they're redefining the boundaries of our rights and our liberties, broadly, socially, and categorically without our involvement.

The government would assert that individuals who are aware of serious wrongdoing in the intelligence community should bring their concerns to the people most responsible for that wrongdoing, and rely on those people to correct the problems that those people themselves authorized.

We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes.

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.