rang and smoke rose. the two owners face up to life in prison. u.s. intelligence officials are claiming edward snowden stole internal nsa documents by using cheap and widely available software that still went mostly undetected. "the new york times," investigators looking into the case a snowden deployed a simple web crawler that automatically downloaded some 1.7 million files. in a statement, snowden responded -- in the latest of snowden's disclosures, new information has emerged on the nsa's secret role

what we have seen also over the past month is a very serious escalation in the threats coming from the obama administration and from capitol hill against journalists. there is this attempt on the part of the director of national intelligence james clapper to imply the journalists who are reporting on the snowden documents are a compasses to a crime -- my understanding from a confidential source in the intelligence community is that james clapper two weeks before he publicly used that term of accomplice, that he also said in a top-secret classified briefing within the intelligence community sort of floating it. mike rogers also has just been on a rampage against journalists

accomplice, that he also said in a top-secret classified briefing within the intelligence community sort of floating it. mike rogers also has just been on a rampage against journalists , also against snowden, making totally unfounded allegations somehow aden thing russian agent or cooperating with russian agents. so the timing of this site and why we felt it was so urgent to start reporting on these stories right now is to push back against this climate of fear and to say we as independent journalist are not going to back down in the face of government threats. that in fact, this is when it is most important to stand up for a truly free and independent press is when those in power start to try to push their fist down upon you. >> i went to play a recent