WASHINGTON, D.C.: A 29-year-old government contractor revealed himself on Sunday as the source who leaked details of a vast, secret US program to monitor Internet users, as the US spy chief pressed for a criminal probe.

Edward Snowden, who has been working at the National Security Agency (NSA) for the past four years, admitted his role in a video interview posted on the website of The Guardian, the first newspaper to publish the leaked information.

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