How Edward J. Snowden Orchestrated a Blockbuster Story

Edward J. Snowden orchestrated an elaborate plan to reveal the closely guarded secrets he had emerged with from deep inside the American national security apparatus.

    

Media Decoder: N.S.A. Leaker Is a New Kind for an Internet Age

Edward J. Snowden has stepped into public view as the source of disclosures about the nation’s surveillance programs.

    

Anti-Surveillance Activist Is at Center of New Leak

Glenn Greenwald, a blogger who opposes government surveillance and has supported whistle-blowers, has published a top-secret order on the monitoring of phone logs.

    

N.S.A. Said to Gather Users’ Online Data

A National Security Agency program took e-mails and other information from companies that included Google, Apple and Facebook, according to documents that emerged on Thursday. A government official said the program targeted only foreigners abroad.