As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the UK under any circumstances. Their fibers are radioactive, and even the Queen's selfies to the pool boy get logged.

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.

I describe myself as an indoor cat, because I'm a computer guy and I always have been.

US administration does not want me to return. People forget how I ended up in Russia. They waited until I departed Hong Kong to cancel my passport in order to trap me in Russia, because it's the most effective attack they have against me, given the political climate in the United States.

We have to be able to ask questions in order to answer them.

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.