Edward Snowden: US surveillance 'not something I'm willing to live under'

◼ In second part of Glenn Greenwald interview, NSA whistleblower insists he is a patriot who regards the US as fundamentally good (Video) - Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill/Guardian

In the new excerpts, he explained his motivation for revealing the information. "I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded," he said. "And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under."

He also insisted he had continued with his job while waiting for political leaders to rein in what he decribed as "government excesses".

But, he said, "as I've watched I've seen that's not occuring, and in fact we're compounding the excesses of prior governments and making it worse and more invasive. And no one is really standing to stop it."