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Edward J. Snowden insisted that he had been trying to hold Russia’s government to account over its surveillance practices, as he did with the Obama administration.

Edward J. Snowden and the journalist Laura Poitras, who helped him disclose the documents on government surveillance, will receive a Ridenhour prize.

House Republicans on Tuesday offered sharply divergent views about secret government surveillance programs and the leaks that made them public, underscoring the unsettled nature of a political debate that has scrambled the usual partisan lines.

The National Security Agency uses cartoon characters to try to teach young people about its work, and to encourage them to someday join the agency.

China and Britain both underscore how transparency, however painful in the moment, allows democracy, business and the citizenry to thrive in the long run.

Pierre Omidyar will finance the news site drawing Glenn Greenwald away from The Guardian, where he reported on the revelations by Edward Snowden.

Glenn Greenwald was offered a “once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity that no journalist could possibly decline,” he wrote on his blog.

The recent security and military leaks have received predictable criticism from the government, but a number of journalists have also lashed out at those who are closest to the stories.

The partner of Glenn Greenwald, a Guardian reporter who published information leaked by Edward J. Snowden, was detained for nine hours by the British authorities under a counterterrorism law.

Edward Snowden and Pfc. Bradley Manning say they obeyed a moral imperative on behalf of the public, but the public is divided on whether that’s a good thing.