10.46pm BST

We're going to wrap up our live blog coverage for the day. Here's a summary of where things stand:

• The whereabouts of Edward Snowden were unknown, although White House spokesman Jay Carney said "it is our understanding that Mr. Snowden remains in Russia." Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in a conference call with reporters claimed to know where Snowden is and said he is "safe and healthy."

• Ecuador said it had received an asylum request from the former NSA contractor. Wikileaks also said it had applied to Iceland on Snowden's behalf. Ecuador's foreign minister, speaking on a trip to Vietnam, signaled support for Snowden.

• Carney said the White House "does not buy" Hong Kong's explanation for the decision to allow Snowden to depart. "That decision unquestionably has a negative impact on US-China relations," he said. Carney also said, without explanation, that it was "safe to assume" that any information Snowden had with him was "compromised."

• Carney paid tribute to the "strong cooperative relationship" between the US and Russia "on law enforcement matters." Secretary of state John Kerry said it would be “deeply troubling” if either China or Russia had had advance notice of Snowden’s travel plans and let him fly.

• Vermont senator Patrick Leahy introduced a bill to unravel the Patriot Act, which knocked out protections against intrusive government surveillance, by 2015.

• Former vice president Dick Cheney said he was proud of NSA surveillance programs he'd helped install. He said he offered Congress more oversight but they didn't want it. "I said, 'Do you think we ought to come back to the Congress in order to get more formal authorization?' and they said, 'Absolutely not.' Everybody, Republican and Democrat, said, 'Don't come back up here, it will leak'," Cheney said.