As Congress grapples with modifications to the Patriot Act, the man who first revealed the scope of U.S spying on its own citizens, Edward Snowden, reveals in a New York Times op-ed how tense he and other journalists were when reporting the story two years ago. They knew they were at risk for arrest or subpoena, but the bigger worry was that the public wouldn’t care. “Never have I been so grateful to have been so wrong,” Snowden writes. Not that the threat has disappeared. “As you read this online,” he says, “the United States government makes a note.”
