We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record quotes from anonymous officials who have an ax to grind, not a single US official, not a single representative of the United States government, has ever pointed to a single case of individualized harm caused by these revelations. This, despite the fact that former NSA director Keith Alexander said this would cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation.

By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things.

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

What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.

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 TV is obsolete technology for me.

I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.