Edward Snowden: Mission Accomplished, 'I Already Won'

Edward Snowden said his goal was simple: to start a conversation.

The 29-year-old former NSA contractor discussed his motivations for leaking a trove of secret government documents during a face-to-face interview with the Washington Post's Barton Gellman, one of the journalists he entrusted with the materials, published on Monday.

"For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,” Snowden said. “I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself." Read more...