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James Ball is an award-winning journalist and author. After completing a Master\\u2019s degree in investigative journalism aged 21, he cut his teeth at The Grocer before progressing to the Times, the Telegraph, Dispatches and Panorama. In 2010, he joined the Bureau of Investigative Journalism to work on the Iraq war documents, and was poached by Julian Assange to join WikiLeaks. He became the Guardian\\u2019s data editor in 2013 and was a key member of the tight-knit team investigating the documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, for which they won a Pulitzer Prize. In this in-depth interview, he describes the clandestine methods used to keep the investigation under wraps, argues that data \\u2018holds the key\\u2019 to keeping governments accountable \\u2013 and reveals what it was really like working for \\u201cserial liar\\u201d Julian Assange.