There’s a new Snowden article out in the Times that’s well worth your time to read. I suspect it will confound at least a few of the assumptions held by people on either side of the Snowden divide, sympathetic or not. The gist of the article is that Snowden’s decision to leave Hong Kong came rather late, after one meeting with his Hong Kong lawyers and that Snowden seemed to have arrived in Hong Kong with only a very limited understanding of what his legal position would be once he arrived and disclosed his identity. Read More

Edward Snowden now says he took the contractor position with Booz Allen Hamilton for the express purpose of collecting evidence on secret surveillance programs for later exposure.