"Unlike other things I have worked on, this wasn't the kind of thing that started by thinking of it as a business," he explains.
I told a friend of mine, a writer named John Clayton, that I had been working on this thing, and he asked to see it.
"It's a government Web site, O.K.?" Mr. Snowden said that if an immunity deal can be worked out, "I can get to work on this thing right away — I don't need a password".
"Throughout my career at Google, there was the standard thing: 'I know you want to work on this thing, but we're going to let a white dude work on it.
It's scary to say 'I want to work on this thing and other people want to work on it too, but we don't know if it'll make more money'.
"Who's the best lawyer in America that we don't have working on this thing?" Mr. Klain asked in a phone call to Walter E. Dellinger, a Gore supporter and former United States solicitor general.
Everyone goes to bed on the plane and the only people up are Ben [Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser] and the president and myself and Samantha [Power, a national security aide], and we're just still working on this thing.
"I would pace through the hallways of these corporations, sit in a common area, sit in on meetings for hours, or I'd go at three in the morning because I'd get a phone call saying, 'Oh, we're working on this thing,' " Mr Menuez said.
Maybe he's been working on this thing.
