7 Key Moments From Edward Snowden's First-Ever U.S. TV Interview

Edward Snowden speaks.

The bespectacled NSA-leaker, currently living under asylum in Moscow, Russia, gave a wide-ranging interview to NBC Nightly News' Brian Williams on Wednesday night, his first with a major American television network since exposing the country's massive surveillance programs.

Wednesday's interview came after "months of negotiations between NBC News and intermediaries for Mr. Snowden" and "contained its own quotient of cloak-and-dagger activity," according to The New York Times. Ahead of the interview, Williams told the Times, “What’s going to be most interesting is to see if it moves the conversation or changes any minds.” Read more...