Daniel Ellsberg

Not being on Facebook, I have to reply to today's Ed Page debate via the letters page [June 12, op-ed feature]. My answer to the "is Edward Snowden a hero or a traitor" debate is to mention a little bit of 1970s history. When Daniel Ellsberg leaked...

Well, at least we won't need another big, bad Department of Justice investigation for this latest leak. Eric Holder can call off the dogs. Because the man behind the National Security Agency leak stepped forward and saved us all that money. Edward...

By David Ingram and Joseph Ax June 12 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors are increasingly seizing on an anti-espionage law to pursue Americans suspected of divulging government secrets to the press, a major shift in the use of a 1917 law that was designed to...

(Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors are increasingly seizing on an anti-espionage law to pursue Americans suspected of divulging government secrets to the press, a major shift in the use of a 1917 law that was designed to stop leaks to America's enemies. Nine...

The revelation that the government has been acquiring vast quantities of telephone records of U.S. citizens has put a bull’s eye on the back of Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who has outed himself as the source of that information....

(Jack Shafer is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Jack Shafer June 12 (Reuters) - Edward Snowden's expansive disclosures to the Guardian and the Washington Post about various National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs...

Re "Hero or criminal?," Editorial, June 11, and "Analyst admits to cyber-spying leaks," June 10 Senate Intelligence Committee head Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has called Edward J. Snowden's admitted leaking of the National Security Agency's extensive...

Where there's smoke arising from a free-speech matter, you're likely to find the fiery attorney Floyd Abrams. He's blazed a trail for freedom of the press from the Pentagon Papers case to protecting reporters' sources. He's just as incendiary when he's...

Edward J. Snowden is "a low-level disenchanted punk," says LA Observed's Marc Lacter. In the New York Times, David Brooks notes that Snowden wasn't very neighborly or much of a loving son to his mother. A front-page story Tuesday in the L.A. Times begins:...

By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - Thomas Drake is one of the few people who understands from personal experience what the future may hold for Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former NSA contractor who exposed the U.S. government's top...

(Reuters) - Edward Snowden dropped out of high school, tried Army Reserve training but quit after four months, and then became a security guard. Now at age 29, Snowden has become known worldwide as the man responsible for exposing vast surveillance...

WASHINGTON Just a few weeks ago, media experts were warning that the Obama administration's secret tracking of phone calls of Associated Press reporters and criminal targeting of a Fox News correspondent's contacts with a source would intimidate...