The Pulitzer Prizes will be announced Monday and it is expected that reporting on the NSA, one of the biggest stories of

The pair cautioned that government monitoring of "metadata" is more intrusive than directly listening to phone calls or reading

He said that the NSA programs came to light "almost entirely without them and despite them." Their role as journalists, Greenwald

Snowden himself applied for asylum in Brazil while he was holed up in the transit zone of Moscow's Shermetyevo Airport. Brazil

"Unless you realize you’ve got a problem, that is not going to be renewed," Sensenbrenner said. "There are not the votes

Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who broke the story on top-secret NSA surveillance programs earlier this summer, will testify

Speaking over Skype to the Socialism Conference in Chicago, Greenwald claimed that the NSA has the ability to store one billion

Snowden "wanted to trigger a debate and inform people," Greenwald told the Post's Greg Sargent. "Given that he has access

He continued, "Do you publish-- do you prosecute every journalist who publishes any sort of national security story? It creates

Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who revealed his identity Sunday, first approached The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald in February and, by the journalist’s account, said he had information "that would be of great interest.”

Poitras said she brought in Gellman in February, but again declined to go into details of the decisions about how and where

Dear NSA, It turns out that our handyman has been looking at gay porn on my laptop. Is there a way to correct your records? Name Withheld, Washington, D.C.

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy "Yeah, I'll put this into context for you," Greenwald

That two news outlets would publish stories on a secret government program so close together is striking, and the timing

Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to