Journalist Glenn Greenwald dropped two bombshells about the information smuggled out of the US by fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden:  First, he’s in daily contact with the former US spy agency contractor; and second, there are more and bigger stories yet to come.

Greenwald spoke before the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, which by incredibly good fortune two years ago picked Rio de Janeiro as the site of this year’s gathering.  Rio is Greenwald’s home base, and he arguably has the investigative story of the year.

“There are a lot more stories,” he said on Monday, “The archives are so complex and so deep and so shocking, that I think the most shocking and significant stories are the ones we are still working on, and have yet to publish.”

Those stories reportedly involve US spying activities in Spain and France.  Brazil is already taking measures to protect its citizens’ privacy after revelations that the US spied directly on Brazil’s President, Energy Agency, lawmakers, and businesses. 

President Dilma Rousseff this weekend confirmed plans to establish secure email service, with Brazil’s Federal Data Processing Service (Serpro) charged with developing the system. 

Edward Snowden is currently a fugitive from US prosecutors, living in an undisclosed location in Moscow.