Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden says his mission has already been accomplished, after leaking NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of US surveillance policies.

He was speaking in Moscow to the Washington Post after six months when he was rarely heard from except through the documents he leaked. Snowden said he was satisfied because journalists have been able to tell the story of the government's collection of bulk Internet and phone records. He said he didn't want to change society, and he wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself. President Barack Obama hinted Friday that he would consider some changes to NSA's bulk collection of Americans' phone records to address the public's concern about privacy.

His comments came during a week in which a federal judge declared the NSA's collection program as probably unconstitutional.

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