Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian

Glenn Greenwald: The detention of my partner, David Miranda, by UK authorities will have the opposite effect of the one intended

Secret program launched by Bush continued 'until 2011'• Fisa court renewed collection order every 90 days• Current NSA programs still mine US internet metadata

Top secret documents submitted to the court that oversees surveillance by US intelligence agencies show the judges have signed off on broad orders which allow the NSA to make use of information "inadvertently" collected from domestic US communications without a warrant.

The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell.

Revealed: The NSA's powerful tool for cataloging data – including figures on US collection