Brazil's Senate formed an Investigative Parliamentary Commission Tuesday to follow up on reports that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) spied on President Dilma Rousseff.
A British government lawyer said on Thursday that the country's police had launched a criminal investigation into Edward Snowden's leak of classified documents to the Guardian newspaper, noting the recently seized material was "highly sensitive."
American journalist Glenn Greenwald, who helped blow the lid off the United States' secret global spying campaign, said Tuesday he has copies of all the leaked documents the revelations are based on.