Edward Snowden says he’d like to return to the U.S.

Edward Snowden discussed the NSA, President Obama’s recent comments about surveillance, whistleblower protection reform and other topics in a live question-and-answer session held Thursday afternoon on a website run by an organization that supports Snowden, the former government contractor who leaked classified documents.

Snowden expressed interest in returning to the U.S., calling it “the best resolution for the government, the public, and (him)self,” but said that current whistleblower protection laws mean that “there’s no chance to have a fair trial.”

Asked about the “appropriate extent” of national security policies, Snowden asserted that not all forms of spying are necessarily bad, clarifying that “indiscriminate mass surveillance” is the primary issue facing society.

“When we’re sophisticated enough to be able to break into any device in the world we want to … there’s no excuse to be wasting our time collecting the call records of grandmothers in Missouri,” he wrote.

In addition, he called a Reuters report that he had persuaded his former colleagues to give up their passwords and login credentials “simply wrong.”

The rest of Snowden’s answers can be read at freesnowden.is. For more, Jeffrey Brown interviewed Barton Gellman of The Washington Post last month about Snowden’s feeling of vindication in the wake of his revelations.