[lake_rogue]

New York Times intro paragraph on the topic:

The former National Security Agency contractor who revealed the U.S. government's top-secret monitoring of Americans' phone and Internet data fought back against his critics on Monday, saying the government's "litany of lies" about the programs compelled him to act.

[mark_l_watson]

This: this is why I pay $20/month for NYT, even though I think that a random sampling of articles from Google News (representative publications from around the world) provides more signal to noise.