Four former U.S. government officials who met with former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden said Thursday that he is adjusting to life in Russia and expresses no regrets about leaking highly classified information. Separately, Snowden's father arrived to see his son。

In short video clips posted by the WikiLeaks website on Friday, Snowden said that the NSA's mass surveillance, which he disclosed before fleeing to Russia, "puts us at risk of coming into conflict with our own government."

A U.S. court has charged Snowden with violating the Espionage Act for disclosing those programs。

Snowden described them as a "dragnet mass surveillance that puts entire populations under sort of an eye that sees everything even when it's not needed."

"They hurt our economy. They hurt our country. They limit our ability to speak and think and live and be creative, to have relationships and to associate freely," Snowden said。

The videos are the first of Snowden speaking since July 12, when the former NSA analyst was shown at a Moscow airport pleading with Russian authorities to grant him asylum, which they did on Aug. 1.

That decision has strained the relations between the U.S. and Russia, and President Barack Obama called off a meeting with President Putin at a summit hosted by Russia in September。

Snowden said the U.S. government was "unwilling to prosecute high officials who lied to Congress and the country on camera, but they'll stop at nothing to persecute someone who told them the truth."

據外媒報道，“棱鏡”秘密情報監(jiān)視項目曝光者愛德華·斯諾登10月9日在莫斯科獲頒“薩姆·亞當斯獎”，向其頒發(fā)獎項的4位前美國情報官員稱，斯諾登對泄露機密情報“沒有半點后悔”。10日，斯諾登的父親順利抵達莫斯科，他說兒子應拿諾貝爾和平獎。

為斯諾登頒獎的4位前美國情報官員分別為國家安全局前分析師托馬斯·德雷克、聯(lián)邦調查局(FBI)前特工科琳·羅利、前司法部官員簡瑟琳·拉達克和中情局退休官員雷·麥克戈文。英國《每日電訊報》稱，與斯諾登類似，他們4人均有過“違抗(美國)政府的行為”。

據報道，斯諾登的父親郎·斯諾登10日從美國前往俄羅斯首都莫斯科，隨后與斯諾登會面。這名消息人士沒有透露會面的具體時間和地點，但說父子倆“已經見過面，都非常激動”。