Luke Harding, the author of "The Snowden Files: The Inside Story Of The World's Most Wanted Man," said on Twitter that the U.S. filmmaker has bought the movie rights to the book.
The White House has proposed to halt the National Security Agency's controversial bulk telephone data collection of U.S. .citizens, a program which sparked a vast public outcry.
Intelligence leaker Edward Snowden said that until he obtains permanent asylum the U.S. government will continue to interfere with his ability to speak out.
The Guardian has slipped into the single largest crack in the free speech laws that are on the books here — the dissemination of state secrets protecting queen and country in the British homeland.
Two Google engineers exploded in profanity when they learned the details of the NSA's MUSCULAR spying program. "I hope you publish this," one of them said.
The Guardian was asked to return or destroy the files to "guarantee that very sensitive information that posed a risk to national security didn't get into the wrong hands."
Europe is furious about allegations that the U.S. government has been bugging European embassies and missions in apparent violation of a 1961 convention on diplomatic relations.
It remains unclear how the world's most famous refugee would be able to leave the transit zone of Sheremetyevo Airport, where he has been marooned without valid documents since he arrived from Hong Kong on June 23.
Venezuela's Maduro said he was offering asylum so that the former National Security Agency contractor could live "free of imperial North American persecution."
Vladimir Putin, who has disagreed with the Obama administration on its handling of the Syrian conflict and plans to develop a missile-defense shield in Europe, tried to distance himself from the case.
Southwest Airlines has cancelled its planned Las Vegas–Costa Rica flight before the route ever operated, dropping what would have been the carrier's longest international...
