In an interview with The New Yorker, Edward Snowden called suggestions that he is a Russian spy “absurd” and complained about the media’s role in spreading that notion: “It’s just amazing that these massive media institutions don’t have any sort of editorial position on this. I mean, these are pretty serious allegations, you know? The media has a major role to play in American society, and they’re really abdicating their responsibility to hold power to account.”

+ Booz Allen is the company that hired Edward Snowden to work as a contractor for the NSA. That didn’t go terribly well. So now the government needs to hire people who can identify and catch leakers. Which company is doing the hiring? Booz Allen.