Booz Allen Hamilton, the massive private corporation contracted to work with the NSA to spy on Internet users around the world, is not doing so well after their employee, Edward Snowden, leaked details about its vast spying operation.

One of the many sticking points Americans have with the NSA's just-revealed massive spying operation, is that the NSA had repeatedly lied about the scope of the programs to congress, and many senators and congress members were taken off-guard (or at least acted like it) by last week's revelations.

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.

A gimme, from Media Matters: Sean Hannity then, rabidly defending the Bush Administration's warrantless NSA wiretapping program. And Sean Hannity now, rabidly attacking the Obama Administration's NSA wiretapping program.

The parade of columnists declaring their support for the NSA's massive secret spying program goes on, and on, and on...

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."

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.

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.

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.

The NSA surveillance whistleblower is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former CIA technical assistant, who has been working as a contractor at the NSA for the last four years.

Glenn Greenwald and the Guardian have another leak: Meet "Boundless Informant" the NSA tool that records and analyzes where NSA intelligence comes from, including over 3 billion pieces of intelligence from US computer networks in just a 30-day period.

Want to buy a PRISM t-shirt? You can't: Someone is claiming copyright over the logo of the vast NSA surveillance operation, and they took down my Zazzle store.

Television producer David Simon, who made his bones fictionalizing the foibles, corruption, and inescapable humanity of the City of Baltimore's public servants, has complete and unalloyed faith in the NSA's pure intentions in hoovering your telephone data until someone proves otherwise.

Ever since 9/11, the American government has been busily constructing the most comprehensive surveillance state in this country's history. This vast and invasive bureaucracy is too big to hide, but the public has done its part by politely ignoring it. No longer. Now is when we, the people, choose whether or not we will accept the end of privacy as we know it. If history is any indication, we will.

This week, we learned that the NSA is engaged in a series of prodigious data-mining operations in concert with several huge communications and technology companies. Today, Obama addressed the news. He didn't make anyone feel better.

As the dust settles on yesterday evening's revelation that the U.S. government has been mining data from most of Silicon Valley's largest companies in a program called "PRISM," one question stands out: How did the NSA get access?

Since at least April, the National Security Agency has been collecting the telephone records of every Verizon customer in the US. In total, the NSA has gathered data from millions of Verizon customers, including for phone calls placed within the US and for calls made from the US to other countries.