WikiLeaks advocates in Iceland are working to grant former National Security Agency technical contractor Edward Snowden asylum in the Nordic country.

"We are in touch with Mr. Snowden's legal team and are in the process of brokering his asylum in Iceland," WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told the New York Times on Wednesday.

Snowden exposed the NSA's classified mass surveillance programs-including interception of United States telephone data and the PRISM program, in which telecommunication company Verizon was forced to give the NSA its customers' phone call logs on a daily basis-to the press.

Once he leaked this crucial information, he immediately fled the country, amid shock from United States citizens, a flurry of scrambles to pick up the pieces in Washington and a heated public debate about government surveillance.

Some say Snowden is currently hiding out in Hong Kong, where he has been granted temporary asylum. According to the New York Times, Snowden has said that he will probably be indicted for disclosing the information.

Government officials have acknowledged that they are currently investigating Snowden, but he has not received any public charges as of yet.

He has shown interest in going to Iceland for refuge, but also treaded carefully on the move, questioning his safety there.

Assange knows what it is like to hide from potential prosecution: he himself spent a year in Ecuador's London embassy after hiding out there to bypass a sexual offense investigation in Sweden. His site is constantly under government watch-the latest is a leak check by a Virginia federal grand jury.

According to law professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas Christopher L. Blakesley, Iceland "would be a smart choice," for Snowden, because governmental bodies there have expressed compassion for his actions and his cause.  

In the meantime, the Obama Administration is in the midst of deciding whether or not they should change the PRISM program to ease the public's belief that it is an invasion of American privacy.