The U.S. has charged NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden with espionage for leaking classified information to the Guardian and the Washington Post. According to the Post, the charges have been filed in Virginia. The U.S. has asked Hong Kong to detain Snowden, who coincidentally celebrates his 30th birthday today.

National Review writer Daniel Foster thinks that assassinating Edward Snowden would be hilarious.

A man who caused a scare on a flight from Hong Kong today was taken into FBI custody after telling fellow passengers "he was poisoned, had secrets from the CIA and mentioned Edward Snowden's name a number of times." The CDC found no evidence of poison on the plane.

NSA leaker Edward Snowden, still hidden somewhere in Hong Kong, emerged briefly for a live Guardian chat today, accusing tech companies of issuing "misleading" statements and re-asserting previous claims about warrantless wiretapping. He also burned Dick Cheney.

@guardian Can't help but wonder abt the interpersonal repercussions of your decision. What msg would you send your girlfriend? #AskSnowden

Edward Snowden is not the first NSA whistleblowers. A small group of others came before him. USA Today got them together, and their conversation is terrifying.

Naomi Wolf—the author, Thought Leader, and political consultant/non-consultant—has been following the story of Edward Snowden, and she has decided to share her thoughts on Facebook. Specifically, Wolf wishes to convey her "creeping concern" that Snowden "is not who he purports to be." Who is he, then? Signs point to his being one of them. You know: THEM.

The NSA has been relentlessly hacking both Chinese officials and citizens for years, says Edward Snowden, the NSA-contractor turned whistleblower who has taken refuge in Hong Kong.

According to a new Reuters poll, more Americans see NSA leaker Edward Snowden as a patriot than as a traitor, though 46 percent of those surveyed said they didn't know.

Ten years before 29-year-old Booz Allen contractor Edward Snowden undertook the most "significant or helpful leak... in American history" he was "Edowaado," a goofy anime fan working at a small anime art company.

Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old whose leak of NSA documents revealed important details about the surveillance agency's mammoth online data-mining operation, resurfaced for the first time since his self-unmasking this weekend, telling a Hong Kong paper "I'm neither traitor nor hero. I'm an American."

Ron Paul on NSA leaker Edward Snowden: "I'm worried about somebody in our government might kill him with a cruise missile or a drone missile.”

Daniel Ellsberg attended Harvard and Cambridge, became a decorated Marine and Pentagon analyst—and then, at 38, produced the greatest document leak in American history. He cited unjust warfare and official lies. Edward Snowden dropped out of high school and produced perhaps the second greatest leak at 29. He cited Reddit. The bad news for American intelligence: the Snowdens are here to stay.

Lindsay Mills, the 28-year-old pole-dancing acrobat Edward Snowden left to become an internationally-renowned leaker, posted many self-portraits on her (now-shutdown) blog. One is her wearing the hacktivist collective Anonymous' trademark (well, technically, Time Warner's trademark) Guy Fawkes mask.

In the past week, we've witnessed the post-9/11 era's most comprehensive set of stories about the extent of the U.S. government's secret domestic spying programs. It's front page news worldwide. It's sparked a national debate over privacy and security. And some of our nation's most useless political pundits could not be more bored.

Lindsay Mills, a 28-year-old dancer in Hawaii, is the girlfriend of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, according to various reports.

NSA leaker Edward Snowden was apparently staying in this swanky hotel in Hong Kong—until this morning, when he checked out for places unknown.

Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old who revealed himself on Saturday as the leaker behind The Guardian's NSA scoops, is holed up in a Hong Kong hotel. What's his next move?

Edward Snowden, a former CIA technical assistant and current employee of the defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, which assigned him to work for the NSA, has revealed himself as the leaker behind the documents this week that showed the extent of spying that the NSA does on American citizens.