New York Times: Snowden used web crawlers to download his document trove

It’s ironic that officials are giving classified information to journalists in an effort to discredit me for giving classified information to journalists. The difference is that I did so to inform the public about the government’s actions, and they’re doing so to misinform the public about mine.

— Whistleblower Edward Snowden, speaking to the New York Times for an article about how he was able to collect so many documents from the National Security Agency.