The internet is shared critical infrastructure for everyone on earth. It's not supposed to be a domain of warfare. We're not supposed to be putting the Unied States' economy on the frontlines in the battleground.

I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.

Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how they talk. Whenever we had a debate in the office on how to handle crimes, they do not defend due process - they defend decisive action. They say it is better to kick someone out of a plane than let these people have a day in court. It is an authoritarian mindset in general.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.

If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest, we're not actually improving anything. We're not changing anything.

The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses.

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose.