Dianne Feinstein elected me when she asked softball questions” in committee hearings. Mike Rogers elected me when he kept these programs hidden… The FISA court elected me when they decided to legislate from the bench on things that were far beyond the mandate of what that court was ever intended to do. The system failed comprehensively, and each level of oversight, each level of responsibility that should have addressed this, abdicated their responsibility.

— Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished (Barton Gellman, The Washington Post)