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Video: 'Use VPN!' Former 'Most Wanted Hacker' Mitnick talks Snowden, NSA, privacy
The ongoing leaks from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden cause more anger the more they emerge. People across the world are being shown just how...
Video: 'Russia's only choice is to permit Snowden to live here' – Putin
Ahead of the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russian President Vladimir Putin sat down for an interview with AP and Channel 1. Among many...
Video: Edward Snowden Speaks Out Against NSA "Dragnet Mass Surveillance"
http://www.democracynow.org - For the first time in months, the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has appeared on video speaking in ...
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Video: Assange on the Untold Story of the Grounding of Evo Morales’ Plane During...
http://democracynow.org - In 2013, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks played a pivotal role in helping National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden leave ...
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Video: Julian Assange on Aiding Snowden, Tiff w/ The Intercept & Whether He'll Ever...
http://www.democracynow.org - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sits down with Democracy Now! inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he has ...
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Video: Is Edward Snowden a Hero? A Debate With Journalist Chris Hedges & Law...
http://www.democracynow.org - Edward Snowden's decision to leak a trove of secret documents outlining the NSA's surveillance program has elicited a range of ...
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Video: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Responds to Hillary Clinton: Fair U.S. Trial for Snowden "Not...
http://www.democracynow.org - In part two of our exclusive interview, Amy Goodman goes inside Ecuador's embassy in London to speak with Julian Assange, ...
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Video: 'US citizen has no right to free speech?' State Dept spokesperson grilled over...
Tensions are high as NSA leaker Edward Snowden officially submitted application for temporary asylum in Russia on Tuesday. After Russian and international ...
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Video: No credibility for #SIF14 w/out Snowden. More whistleblowers coming – Wikileaks
A massive internet forum devoted to the issues of privacy and surveillance has taken place in Stockholm. However all the leading whistleblowers, including ...
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Video: "You're Being Watched": Edward Snowden Emerges as Source Behind Explosive Revelations of NSA...
http://www.democracynow.org - Former CIA employee Edward Snowden has come forward as the whistleblower behind the explosive revelations about the ...
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NSA kills phone spying program exposed by Snowden… to replace it with something better?...
The National Security Agency has reportedly ended the intrusive spying program that combs through Americans’ calls...
Video: Edward Snowden’s Lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck on the Global Fight for Human Rights
https://democracynow.org - Web-only conversation with Wolfgang Kaleck, founder of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. Kaleck is a ...
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WikiLeaks threatens to sue Louise Mensch after posting wild theory about Snowden and Putin...
WikiLeaks has suggested it could sue prolific conspiracy theorist Louise Mensch after she tweeted that NSA...
Video: Ex-Snowden lawyer: Whistleblower’s helpers got victimised in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's authorities have been accused of forcing Edward Snowden's former lawyer to flee the city last year. Robert Tibbo has spoken exclusively about...
Video: Glenn Greenwald on U.S. Hacking, Edward Snowden, the Dangers of Obsessing over Russia...
https://democracynow.org - Extended conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept on the U.S. indictment of Russian ...
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Video: ‘Surveillance exposed by Snowden never stopped happening’ – Human & Labour Rights lawyer
NSA collected over 500mn phone records of US citizens last year... Over triple the number of 2016 Check out http://rt.com RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air Subscribe...
Video: NSA’s been trying to track down bitcoin users long before crypto boom –...
It's been revealed that the much-praised security of the virtual currency Bitcoin may have been compromised by the U.S. National Security Agency. Classified documents...
NSA targeted cryptocurrency users globally, Snowden leaks show — RT US News
The US National Security Agency targeted Bitcoin users around the world, according to classified documents released...
Snowden calls out Fox News claim that memo is first proof of govt spying...
Whistleblower Edward Snowden called out Fox News host Tucker Carlson for claiming Americans have grounds to...
Video: NSA can identify you just by hearing your voice – Snowden leak docs
America's National Security Agency has the power to identify people by the sound of their voice. They are thought to be using technology much...
NSA sought to prevent Snowden-style leaks, ended up losing staff – whistleblower to RT...
Published time: 9 Jan, 2018 02:02 Edited time: 9 Jan, 2018 05:48
The NSA has been...
Video: NSA sought to prevent Snowden-style leaks, ended up losing staff – whistleblower to...
The NSA has been steadily shedding staff ever since the agency introduced draconian internal rules to stop potential new Snowden-inspired whistleblowers, former NSA technical...
Video: Welcome to Haven: Snowden launches spy-blocking smartphone app
A new app developed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden promises to harness the surveillance power of your smartphone and turn it into a tiny...
Snowden hosts Reddit AMA over Congress’ mass surveillance plan — RT US News
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the ACLU held a live Reddit Ask Me Anything session, which...
UK journalists who worked on Snowden leaks still under investigation, police confirm — RT...
British journalists who worked with leaked National Security Agency (NSA) documents from Edward Snowden are...
Video: Judge Denies Bail to Whistleblower Reality Winner, Citing Her Admiration for Snowden and...
https://democracynow.org - Last Thursday, a federal judge denied a second request for bail from Reality Winner, the former National Security Agency contractor ...
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'Wasn’t trying to be Snowden’: Suspected NSA leaker who smuggled files in pantyhose tells...
Accused NSA leaker Reality Winner told the FBI she had smuggled the classified report on ‘Russian...
Snowden Part Two: Edward Snowden Interviews Ron Paul!
As our interview last week with Edward Snowden ended, Edward asked Ron Paul a question while the cameras were still...
CIA director blames ‘Snowden worship phenomenon’ for rise in leaks of US secrets
The exploits of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has triggered a trend where a growing number of...
Ron Paul Interviews Edward Snowden: Security… or Surveillance?
What does former NSA analyst turned whistleblower Edward Snowden have to tell us about liberty? About trading a little freedom for government promises of...
Video: Part 1: Oliver Stone Interviews Putin on U.S.-Russia Relations, 2016 Election, Snowden &...
https://democracynow.org - The Senate is slated to vote today on whether to impose a spate of new sanctions against Russia over allegations of Russian...
Video: Part 2: Oliver Stone Interviews Putin on U.S.-Russia Relations, 2016 Election, Snowden &...
https://democracynow.org - The Senate is slated to vote today on whether to impose a spate of new sanctions against Russia over allegations of Russian...
Oliver Stone Interviews Putin on US-Russia Relations, 2016 Election, Snowden, NATO and Nuclear Arms
The Senate is slated to vote today on whether to impose a spate of new sanctions against Russia over allegations of Russian meddling in...
Comey hailed as ‘intelligence porn star’ by Assange, as Snowden defends ‘leak’
Published time: 8 Jun, 2017 22:03 Edited time: 9 Jun, 2017 10:20
James Comey's revelation Thursday...
Edward Snowden Comes to Defense of Jailed NSA Contractor Reality Winner
A day after her arrest was announced publicly by the U.S. Justice Department, Reality Winner, the 25-year-old alleged source of a leaked National Security...
Video: Putin gives Oliver Stone a lift, says Snowden not a traitor, but ‘what...
'The Putin Interviews' premieres June 12 on Showtime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD4eIM-8Vrc&t=19s Vladimir Putin told Oliver Stone that while he ...
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Video: Open Letter to Trump: Snowden, Chomsky & others call on president to drop...
Former intelligence officers, journalists and artists are among more than 100 signatories of an open letter calling on President Trump to close the Grand...
Video: Snowden talks surveillance, privacy and civil rights at law school conference
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Snowden Says Cyberweapons Dump Underscores NSA Hacking Tools Are Not Secure
Lauren McCauley, staff writerHackers and security experts are raising alarm over a massive cyberweapons dump that they say underscores the danger of government spy...
Video: LIVE: Snowden speaks at itnl conference in Rio de Janeiro via video link
Mandatory Credit: Acampamento Internacional Das Juventudes Em Luta National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden is taking part in an ...
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‘Stop breaking the law’: Snowden raises ‘red flag’ over testimony of NSA and FBI...
Published time: 20 Mar, 2017 21:25
Edward Snowden has reacted to the testimony from the directors of...
Snowden: If Trump So Concerned About Government Spying, He Should Fix It
If President Donald Trump really cares about government spying, he should reform the National Security Agency's (NSA) mass surveillance program, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden...
Another Hatchet Job on Snowden
Exclusive: The hatchet jobs against NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden keep on coming with a new book whose author says he...
Video: Greenwald: Democrats Seem to Consider Snowden’s & Manning’s Leaks Evil & Leaks Under...
http://democracynow.org - Over four years ago, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden warned that he or other NSA analysts could spy on anyone, even the U.S....
Federal prosecutors seek to indict ‘2nd Snowden’ this week
Prosecutors in Baltimore, Maryland say they are seeking to indict one of the biggest thieves of classified information in US history. It could happen...
Video: Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Commutation of Chelsea Manning & Continued Demonization of Edward...
http://democracynow.org - While President Obama has commuted the sentence of Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, the administration has indicated it has ...
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Snowden speechless: NSA whistleblower overwhelmed by push for presidential pardon
More than 1 million signatures have been delivered to the White House calling on outgoing President...
Donald Trump's Pick for Spy Chief Took Hard Line on Snowden, Guantanamo, and Torture
Colleagues of former Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., describe the septuagenarian as competent and congenial — the “Mister Rogers” of Republicans, as Sen. Cory Gardner,...
Video: What Impact Will Trump Presidency Have on Freedom of Edward Snowden & Julian...
http://democracynow.org - In our extended conversation, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald responds to claims NSA whistleblower Edward ...
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Video: Snowden in contact with Russian intelligence – US House report
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been in contact with Russian intelligence agencies since his arrival in Moscow and shared information with them that ...
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Exonerating, no evidence of foreign influence, or harm – Snowden on House Intelligence report
Edward Snowden has reacted to a damning House Intelligence report analyzing his life and possible motives...
Ron Paul on Election ‘Hack’ – Do We Believe Snowden And Assange … Or...
On one hand we have the Washington Post reporting that the CIA has determined that the Russians have hacked the...
#PardonSnowden: Privacy advocates shine messages of support on Washington landmark (VIDEO)
Privacy advocates have staged a guerrilla demonstration in support of Edward Snowden in Washington to express...
Mass surveillance exposed by Snowden is about control, not counterterrorism – Oliver Stone to...
The majority of the US public is not aware of what exactly was exposed by...
Video: Big brother is watching? UK intelligence spied on Israel – Snowden leak
British secret services have been spying on Israel's diplomats, defense firms, and military, according to documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden ...
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GCHQ spied on former colonies & African leaders, including UK allies – Snowden leaks
Britain’s electronic spy agency listened in on businessmen, government departments and politicians, including heads of state closely allied to the UK, according to the...
NSA workers leaving in ‘increasingly large numbers’ following Snowden leaks – former director
Employees working for the National Security Agency are leaving their posts in “increasingly large numbers” following...
Video: Snowden exposed mass surveillance to show it’s for control, not counterterrorism – Oliver...
The majority of the US public is not aware of what exactly was exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden because media coverage focused on...
British spies monitor Israeli diplomats, with help from US and Jordan – Snowden docs...
British secret services have been spying on Israel’s diplomats, defense firms, and military, according to...
Snowden: Ex-CIA Director Petraeus ‘shared far more classified info than I ever did’
Whistleblower Edward Snowden is surprised at the leniency shown to CIA Director General David Petraeus, who...
Obama says he ‘can’t pardon’ Snowden unless whistleblower goes to court
President Obama gave an interview to German media outlets Spiegel and ARD during his visit to...
Video: Snowden: Fear of terrorism used as ‘legislative magic wand’ for surveillance (streamed live)
National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden is scheduled to take part in a Q&A session via video call, hosted by the PEN International...
Video: LIVE: Snowden Q&A on how US Election affects your privacy, his pardon
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Snowden’s former employer hires ex-FBI director to review security after 2nd data breach
Booz Allen Hamilton has hired an ex-FBI director to launch an external review of security and staffing procedures after an employee stole up to...
GCHQ hired New Zealand firm for mass hack capabilities – Snowden leak
Electronic spy agency GCHQ paid a New Zealand firm to tap undersea internet cables in...
Video: ‘Breathtaking’ Breach: ‘2nd Snowden’ to face espionage charges over 50TB of stolen data
The US Department of Justice may charge a former NSA contractor with espionage after discovering top secret documents and enough highly sensitive data to...
Snowden ridicules Joe Biden's cyberthreats against Russia
Whistleblower Edward Snowden has made fun of US Vice President Joe Biden's announcement to respond to...
Video: Snowden: Spy or Whistleblower
The US Government relies on public ignorance in order to threaten the privacy of tens of millions of people around the world, Snowden exposed...
Video: A New Snowden?
Former whistleblower William Binney says the arrest of Harold Thomas Martin could be tied to the August release of NSA source-code Visit ...
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Video: Snowden 2.0: NSA contractor arrested for stealing malware
The FBI 'secretly arrested' a National Security Agency contractor on suspicion of stealing and revealing malware the NSA used to hack foreign governments, the...
NYT Declares Snowden a Thief–and Journalism a Crime
The old “theft” the New York Times headline (10/5/16) refers to is Edward Snowden’s exposure of government crimes.
On the home page today of the...
Why the Snowden the Movie Matters
I’ve reviewed Oliver Stone’s movie Snowden elsewhere, and it’s well worth seeing just as a movie. But of course the issues brought up by...
Source Betrayed: the Washington Post and Edward Snowden
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The tensions between those engaged in the dangerous and compromising pursuit of whistleblowing, and those who use the fruit of such efforts has...
Tech firms distancing themselves from spies thanks to Snowden – MI6 chief
Spy chief Alex Younger says the leaks from Edward Snowden have undermined the relationship between...
Whatever you do, do not use Google Allo: Snowden
Google Allo, the new “smart” chat app launched on Wednesday, is ‘dangerous’ and should be avoided,...
The Washington Post and Edward Snowden
The tensions between those engaged in the dangerous and compromising pursuit of whistleblowing, and those who use the fruit of such efforts has been...
Assange, Manning, and Snowden, Standing With the Conscience of Truthtellers
Last week, Oliver Stone’s biopic “Snowden”
hit the theaters. The film illuminates the life of Edward Snowden between 2004
and...
Assange, Manning and Snowden: Standing up for the Conscience of Truthtellers
Last week, Oliver Stone’s biopic “Snowden” hit the theaters. The film illuminates the life of Edward Snowden between 2004 and 2013, aiming to humanize...
Video: Oliver Stone on Snowden’s guts (EXCLUSIVE)
WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE: https://youtu.be/tDr_-Wu7j3s Despite Edward Snowden's notoriety, rarely mentioned is how he became one of the ...
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Snowden has ‘a lot of guts,’ Oliver Stone tells RT as Washington Post turns...
Edward Snowden showed “a lot of guts” to speak out about the NSA surveillance program, director...
Peter Van Buren on What Lesson To Take From Snowden Movie?
The NSA is collecting every aspect of our lives and storing them in a massive database. Most Americans are not...
Oliver Stone talks ‘Snowden’ movie, love, cyberwarfare & govt secrets (VIDEO)
Despite Edward Snowden’s notoriety, rarely mentioned is how he became one of the biggest whistleblowers in...
The Value of Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’
Exclusive: Oliver Stone’s “Snowden” takes you inside the vast electronic expanse of U.S. intelligence gathering via the personal story of Edward Snowden’s decision...
Video: What Would Happen to NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden If He Is Tried Under...
http://democracynow.org - In Part 2 of our debate about whether National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden should be pardoned, we examine ...
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Video: Debate: Should Obama Pardon NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden?
http://democracynow.org - It has been three years since National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden released classified NSA files to media outlets ...
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‘American people deserve better’: Snowden refutes House report through Twitter outburst
Edward Snowden addressed specific claims of the report by the House Intel Committee, which accused him...
House urges Obama not to pardon Snowden, claims he is ‘not a whistleblower’
US lawmakers intend to shoot down any hope for pardoning Edward Snowden, claiming that the...
Video: Obama’s War on Whistleblowers Forced Edward Snowden to Release Documents, Says Wikileaks Editor
http://democracynow.org - On the release of Oliver Stone's new film, "Snowden," we speak with WikiLeaks editor Sarah Harrison, who accompanied NSA ...
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Video: Is Hillary Clinton’s Criticism of Edward Snowden a Distraction from Real Issue of...
http://democracynow.org - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said Edward Snowden "stole very important information that has unfortunately ...
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Video: “Pardon Snowden” Campaign Launches, Led by ACLU, Amnesty & Human Rights Watch
http://democracynow.org - The release of Oliver Stone's film "Snowden" comes amid a stepped-up campaign by the ACLU, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty ...
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Human rights groups launch campaign seeking pardon for Snowden
Three leading human rights organization launched a campaign to try and persuade President Barack Obama to pardon National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden of...
Is Hillary Clinton's Criticism of Edward Snowden a Distraction From Real Issue of Surveillance?
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said Edward Snowden "stole very important information that has unfortunately fallen into a lot of the...
Oliver Stone’s New Movie Snowden Tackles the Myth
Snowden is a helluva movie, kicking an audience’s ass on a number of levels. I had a chance to see the film last night...
Why Oliver Stone’s Snowden is the Best Film of the Year
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlSAiI3xMh4]Snowden is the most entertaining, informing, and important film you are likely to see this year.
It’s the true story of an awakening. It...
‘Let him come home:’ Star Trek’s new Spock calls Espionage Act charges against Snowden...
Hollywood heartthrob Zachary Quinto, who plays Star Trek’s new Spock and Edward Snowden in Oliver Stone’s...
Video: Snowden: war criminals in RAF Menwith Hill, not in Yemen, Afghanistan or Pakistan
Snowden: RAF Menwith Hill GHOSTHUNTER, war criminals targetting drone assassinations, Tony Gosling INSIDE MENWITH HILL Ryan Gallagher - Sep.
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Video: Devil’s advocate? Robert Tibbo on Snowden’s life in Hong Kong and more
A little known fact about Edward Snowden: he was helped by refugees while hiding out in Hong Kong. After he fled the US, at...
Snowden ‘uncomfortable’ with film portrayal, calls UK ‘authoritarian’ in new interview
US exile Edward Snowden, the subject of a new Oliver Stone film that premiered at the...
Video: Inside Menwith Hill: NSA spy base in UK used for ‘kill or capture’...
Leaks by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have revealed how his former employer used the US spy base at Menwith Hill in Yorkshire to conduct...
Hack of NSA ‘cyber weapons’ verified by Snowden docs – report
Newly liberated NSA files from whistleblower Edward Snowden remove any doubt that the “ShadowBrokers” hack on...
‘You’re welcome’: Snowden casts light on NSA hack
The files released by a hacker group that claims to have breached the NSA are authentic,...
FBI recommends no charges against Clinton, but Snowden & others didn’t get off so...
Hillary Clinton was called “extremely careless” in handling classified information by the director of the FBI,...
Edward Snowden’s legal team to seek presidential pardon from Obama
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s life in exile may not have to be a permanent solution. His lawyers are planning to raise the pressure on...
Snowden leak: MI5 has gathered so much data it may actually be missing ‘life-saving...
British spies may have missed potentially "life-saving intelligence” because their surveillance systems were sweeping up more data than could be analyzed, a leaked classified...
Snowden leak: GCHQ & America’s NSA regularly intercept British MPs emails
American spies and the UK’s listening post GCHQ regularly intercept the emails of British MPs...
Video: ‘Public service’: Snowden’s leaks praised by former US Attorney General
Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who first wanted to see whistleblower Edward Snowden put in prison, now says the ex-NSA contractor did a “public...
Snowden’s leaks were ‘public service’ – former US Attorney General
Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who first wanted to see whistleblower Edward Snowden put in prison,...
Video: ‘A lot of surprises’: New secret Snowden files leak coming – activist Miranda
David Miranda says the public has the right to see documents leaked by Edward Snowden, which he plans to release soon. However, Miranda told...
Did Snowden’s mass surveillance leaks have a chilling effect on political activists?
A new report examines how political activists have responded to the knowledge they are under...
Video: Part 3: Source Reveals How Pentagon Ruined Whistleblower’s Life and Set Stage for...
http://democracynow.org - In a Democracy Now! broadcast exclusive, we speak with a former senior Pentagon official about how his superiors broke the law to...
Video: Part 2: Source Reveals How Pentagon Ruined Whistleblower’s Life and Set Stage for...
http://democracynow.org - In a Democracy Now! broadcast exclusive, we speak with a former senior Pentagon official about how his superiors broke the law to...
Video: Part 1: Source Reveals How Pentagon Ruined Whistleblower’s Life and Set Stage for...
http://democracynow.org - In a Democracy Now! broadcast exclusive, we speak with a former senior Pentagon official about how his superiors broke the law to...
Snowden laughs off CIA’s ‘mistaken’ destruction of secret torture report
Following a recent report that the CIA's internal inspectors destroyed their only copy of a top...
Video: NSA involved in Gitmo interrogations – new Snowden leak
The NSA participated in Guantanamo Bay interrogations, newly released leaks by whistleblower Edward Snowden show. A decade's worth of NSA newsletters ...
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Noam Chomsky on US Military Presence in Europe and the Case of Edward Snowden
In this interview with MIT professor, anarchist, philosopher and renowned linguist Noam Chomsky, we discuss US military presence in Europe and the...
Video: Part 2: “It’s a War on Whistleblowers”: Snowden Pens Foreword to New Scahill...
http://democracynow.org - NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden wrote the foreword for the new book by Jeremy Scahill and the staff of The Intercept, "The ...
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Video: Part 1: “It’s a War on Whistleblowers”: Snowden Pens Foreword to New Scahill...
http://democracynow.org - NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden wrote the foreword for the new book by Jeremy Scahill and the staff of The Intercept, "The ...
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People too afraid to search privacy-sensitive topics after Snowden revelations – Oxford study
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations on government mass surveillance have apparently scared a significant number of...
Edward Snowden: ‘Demand Cameron’s resignation over tax dodging’
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has urged the British people to demand Prime Minister David Cameron’s...
Private matter? That’s rich! Edward Snowden deals Cameron a Twitter takedown
David Cameron has been called out for hypocrisy by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden after the...
US govt mistakenly leaks Snowden’s name in case that shuttered Lavabit
The US government has accidentally leaked Edward Snowden’s name, letting slip the FBI’s real target in...
‘That’s horse sh*t!’: FBI can already unlock iPhone without Apple’s help – Snowden
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NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said that the FBI’s claim to need Apple to unlock...
Video: How bad was Snowden revelation for US govt? Activists ask defense intelligence agency
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In 2013, America was thrown into damage control mode after National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed the US was snooping on its...
Video: Former CIA Agent Says Edward Snowden Revelations Emboldened Apple to Push Back Against...
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http://democracynow.org - We speak with former CIA agent Barry Eisler about the role of Edward Snowden in raising public awareness about encryption and...
Video: Street trolling: Chinese internet wants Snowden St as US names plaza after dissident...
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Beijing has labelled "provocative" the US Senate's approval to rename a plaza in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington after a jailed...
Video: Apple vs. the FBI: Inside the Battle Snowden Calls “The Most Important Tech...
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http://democracynow.org - A major debate over privacy and online encryption has erupted after the computer giant Apple announced it will resist a court...
Edward Snowden burns Jeb Bush, Kanye in one devastating tweet
Kanye West hasn’t had a great week. With his tweets getting more attention than the release of his new album, The Life of Pablo,...
Edward Snowden among Nobel Peace Prize candidate
US whistle-blower and former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden is among the top candidates for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize which is awarded in...
Snowden leaks: Law used in David Miranda detention incompatible with human rights, court rules
Legal loopholes used to detain David Miranda at Heathrow Airport while he was carrying leaked intelligence files for journalistic use are incompatible with human...
NSA helped GCHQ spies hack Juniper firewalls — Snowden leak
British spies enlisted the help of the US National Security Agency (NSA) to learn how to hack firewalls made by top internet security provider...
Video: RT ‘2035’ promo: Retired Obama, John Kerry, & ft President Snowden
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RT celebrates it's 10th birthday in December 2015 #RT10. We want to thank you for your support: Thanks for watching! We hope you...
Video: Glenn Greenwald: “Shameless” U.S. Officials Exploit Paris Attacks to Defend Spying & Attack...
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As France and Belgium move to expand state power in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, top U.S. officials have renewed a push...
Scapegoating Snowden is ‘Irrational’ and Very Troubling, Advocates Warn
Shifting the blame to 'unauthorized disclosures,' security officials seize on Paris tragedy to expand surveillance state
by Lauren McCauley
As politicians and security officials rush to shift...
’60 Minutes’ Pushes National Security Propaganda To Cast Snowden, Manning As Traitors
The television program, “60 Minutes,” aired a segment on Sunday in which it assassinated the character of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, and even...
Snowden condemns Britain’s new surveillance bill
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has voiced his opposition to the Investigatory Powers Bill, which was unveiled Wednesday by the British government, saying ministers are...
Video: ‘Ed Snowden of Banking’ Refuses to Appear in Swiss Trial
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After Herve Falciani leaked more than 100000 HSBC account records of tax evaders to government tax agencies, the Swiss government has been on...
Video: EU Passes Resolution to Protect Edward Snowden from Prosecution
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Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net says European governments still have to adopt and implement the resolution that whistleblower Edward Snowden is calling a ...
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Video: “Everybody is a Suspect”: European Rights Chief on Edward Snowden’s Call for Global...
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Last month, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald and other privacy activists launched a new campaign to ...
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Video: There’s A New Edward Snowden Whistleblower!!!
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In this video Luke Rudkowski covers the latest news of a new Edward Snowden coming out and releasing hidden government documents relating to...
Snowden: NSA, GCHQ Using Your Phone to Spy on Others (and You)
You are a tool of the state, according to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The NSA in the U.S., and its equivalent in the UK, GCHQ,...
Video: A New Snowden? Whistleblower Leaks Trove of Documents on Drones & Obama’s Assassination...
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Newly leaked government documents have provided an unprecedented window into the secret U.S. drone assassination program across the globe.
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Video: Norman Solomon: Clinton’s Debate Comments on Snowden “Give Hypocrisy a Bad Name”
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At Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate, candidates offered differing views on what should happen to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for exposing ...
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Leaked: ‘New Snowden’ releases Obama’s drone program papers
A cache of classified documents has revealed the inner workings of US drone operations in Somalia, Yemen and Afghanistan, including the mechanism of targeting...
BBC’s “Panorama” attacks Edward Snowden
By Robert Stevens
Last week the BBC’s flagship documentary show “Panorama” broadcast what it described as the first British TV interview with US whistleblower Edward Snowden.
In...
Video: Lawfare: Assange, Snowden & Dotcom face same prosecutor in US
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Julian Assange says US authorities have assigned the same prosecutor for him, Edward Snowden and Kim Dotcom in Virginia in an example of...
Karma Police spying on the whole internet: Snowden
Documents recently leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have revealed that Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) mapped “every visible user on the internet,” in...
Video: Ben Carson On Why Edward Snowden Was Right But Needs To Go To...
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In this video Luke Rudkowski talks to Presidential Candidate Ben Carson about what do with Edward Snowden. Here we get a unique perspective...
Video: Assange: U.S. Spying on WikiLeaks Led to Downing of Morales Plane in Snowden...
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Snowden says Australia watching its citizens ‘all the time,’ slams new metadata laws
Published time: May 09, 2015 15:02
Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden (Reuters/Charles Platiau)
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden accused Australia of undertaking mass surveillance of its citizens and passing laws on the collection of metadata that he says do not protect society from acts of terrorism.
Snowden, addressing the Progress 2015 conference in Melbourne via satellite link, criticized Australia's new metadata laws, which allow the government and intelligence agencies to keep a constant watch on citizens.
"What this means is they are watching everybody all the time,” the former NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower said. “They're collecting information and they're just putting it in buckets that they can then search through not only locally, not only in Australia, but they can then share this with foreign intelligences services.”
Last month, Australia passed controversial laws that require telecommunications firms to retain their customers’ phone and computer metadata for two years.
READ MORE: Congress mulls future of metadata collection after court's condemnation
Snowden decried this disturbing trend, warning that regardless of what you are doing “you're being watched."
He compared Australia's mass surveillance system to that being
used in the UK.
"Australia's role in mass surveillance around the world is similar to the UK and the Tempora program," he said.
Snowden, who has been living in Moscow since June 2013 after
receiving political asylum, criticized the Australian
government’s passage of a metadata program that is being used, he
said, to “collect everyone's communications in advance of
criminal suspicion."
"This is dangerous," he told the conference.
The former system administrator for the CIA said such invasive surveillance technologies had nothing in common with traditional liberal societies.
READ MORE: NSA's telephone metadata collection not authorized by Patriot Act - appeals court
"This is not things that governments have ever traditionally been empowered to claim for themselves as authorities.
"And to have that change recently ... is a radical departure from the operation of traditional liberal societies around the world."
Snowden repeated his position that acts of terrorism in the US
and elsewhere have not been thwarted by conducting mass
surveillance on citizens.
"Nine times out of 10 when you see someone on the news who's engaged in some sort of radical jihadist activity, these are people who had a long record," he said.
"The reason these attacks happened is not because we didn't have enough surveillance, it's because we had too much."
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Aside from average citizens, he warned that journalists are also
at risk of having their contacts exposed by the mass
surveillance.
"Under these mandatory metadata laws you can immediately see who journalists are contacting, from which you can derive who their sources are."
He excoriated such a turn of events, saying the purpose of a free
press in society is to “act as an adversary against the
government on behalf of the public."
Snowden’s comments came on the same day that a US federal appeals court ruled the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records was illegal. In a unanimous decision, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York called the bulk phone records collection "unprecedented and unwarranted."
The ruling, which Snowden called “extraordinarily encouraging,” comes as Congress confronts a June 1 deadline to renew a section of the Patriot Act that allows the NSA’s bulk data surveillance.
Meanwhile, Snowden seems determined to reveal more information from the National Security Agency (NSA) files, hinting there was yet more information about Australia’s intelligence work that would be revealed at a later date.
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RINF Alternative News
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For many years in
Since 1993, Channel 4 in
While a fossilized remnant of Empire delivered her message by a Christmas tree in Buckingham Palace’s Blue Drawing Room, Snowden’s setting was sober and devoid of the trappings of privilege or connotations of a violent colonial past. His message concerned the
Snowden referred to George Orwell. He stated that Orwell warned us about the dangers of microphones, video cameras and TVs that watch us, but concluded that these are nothing compared to what is used to infringe our personal privacy today. Edward Snowden feels that privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.
Snowden finished his message by arguing that the conversation occurring today about mass surveillance will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it.
Back in June, British Foreign Secretary William Hague tried to dismiss Snowden and the concerns he was raising about mass surveillance by saying that if you are a law abiding citizen, going about your business and your personal life, you have nothing to fear. The message was clear: trust us, the government.
But why should we?
Stephen Lawrence was a young black man who was lawfully ‘going about his business’ in
Notwithstanding the lies, disinformation and misinformation used to elicit the public’s support for illegal military campaigns in the likes of Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya, only the foolish (or the ignorant) would eagerly place their trust in officialdom and believe that we have ‘nothing to fear’ from it.
Much of the illegal surveillance exposed by Snowden is spuriously justified by the likes of William Hague on the basis of the bogus ‘war on terror’ in a futile attempt to stop any discussion on surveillance in its tracks. However, ordinary people need to turn the tables by holding the powerful to account. It should not be the case of them stripping away our privacy. We need to strip away their secrecy and privacy, not to blithely acquiesce to their needs as Hague advocates.
We need to do this to help guarantee our safety, our privacy, our freedoms and threats to democracy. We need greater transparency within government to ensure decisions are properly scrutinized and genuinely open to pubic debate. In the absence of this, we have free trade deals being hammered out behind closed doors and the revolving door between government and big business, which makes a complete mockery of the term ‘democracy’.
In the absence of genuine democracy, we have food safety/regulation authorities being hijacked by corporate interests. We have armaments companies using politicians as their sales lackeys.We have police and intelligence agencies infiltrating and harassing legitimate groups that have every right to protest. And we have a wide range of powerful players that buy political influence, manipulate markets, impose ‘austerity’ and salt away their stolen wealth in tax havens.
The reality is that ‘public servants’ fool us into thinking they serve us, while all the time bowing down to elite interests. We are told that the ‘fourth estate’ mainstream media, the self-proclaimed protector of democracy, is credible even though it largely serves a corporate agenda. A media that too often has little to say about exposing the privacy surrounding the back room stitch ups which take place in banks, boardrooms and the corridors of power - because it involves ‘sensitive’ information; but a media that is readily on hand to support policies that result in the curtailment of the privacy and freedoms of ordinary folk – because its for our own good.
If Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have shown us anything, it is that the official line can never and should never be taken at face value. It is for that reason that Assange remains incarcerated in the Ecuadorian embassy in
Snowden says that privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be. Ultimately, as the
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Mission Accomplished, Says Snowden
by Stephen Lendman
On December 23, he told the Washington Post:
"For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished. I already won."
"As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself."
"All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago. Right now, all we are looking at are stretch goals."
WaPo called Snowden "an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving."
"He had come to believe that a dangerous machine of mass surveillance was growing unchecked."
Woefully inadequate congressional oversight and rubber-stamp FISA court rulings reflect a "graveyard of judgment," he said.
NSA's business is "information dominance," he stressed. He didn't know if others would share his views.
"But when you weigh that against the alternative, which is not to act, you realize that some analysis is better than" none, he said.
"Because even if your analysis proves to be wrong, the marketplace of ideas will bear that out."
"If you look at it from an engineering perspective, an iterative perspective, it's clear that you have to try something rather than do nothing."
He succeeded beyond anything he could have imagined. He captured world attention. Millions consider him heroic. There's no turning back now.
On June 22, a Justice Department criminal complaint charged him with espionage and felony theft of government property.
He signed NSA's Standard Form 312. He called it a civil contract. "The oath of allegiance is not an oath of secrecy," he said.
"This is an oath to the Constitution. That is the oath that I kept that (NSA chief) Keith Alexander and (Director of National Intelligence) James Clapper did not."
He's irresponsibly accused of disloyalty. "I am not trying to bring down the NSA," he stressed.
"I am working to improve" it. "I am still working for the NSA right now. They are the only ones who don't realize it."
"The system failed comprehensively, and each level of oversight, each level of responsibility that should have addressed this, abdicated their responsibility," he said.
Some of his NSA colleagues feel the same way. They were "astonished to learn we are collecting more in the United States on Americans than we are on Russians in Russia."
"What the government wants is something they never had before," he stressed.
"They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?" Does Washington have the right to invade everyone's privacy?
Should NSA be permitted to eliminate private spaces altogether? Do rule of law principles no longer matter? Is freedom a convenient illusion?
Snowden dismisses disloyalty accusations. He didn't pass on state secrets to Russia and China, he stressed.
"If I defected at all," he said, "I defected from the government to the public."
It bears repeating. Millions call him a hero. He connected important dots. He's the gift that keeps on giving.
On December 20, Der Spiegel reported more. It headlined "How GCHQ Monitors Germany, Israel and the EU," saying:
Snowden documents "show that Britain's GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) signals intelligence has targeted European, German and Israeli politicians for surveillance."
Suspicions surfaced last summer, said Der Spiegel. Snowden documents confirm them. They provide "concrete evidence."
GCHQ and NSA operate jointly. They target UNICEF and other UN organizations. Medecins du Monde is a French organization. It sends doctors and other medical professions to conflict zones.
It's on NSA/GCHQ's target list. So is Economic Community of West African States' (ECOWAS) head Kadre Desire Ouedraogo. Communications with his colleagues are monitored.
Targeting Angela Merkel, Brazil's Dilma Rousseff, and other world leaders was disclosed earlier. New revelations show Israeli officials are watched.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was targeted. So was former Defense Secretary Ehud Barak and his chief of staff, Yoni Koren. More on surveilling Israel below.
European Commission Vice President Joaquin Almunia's name showed up on NSA/GCHQ's target list.
Last October, UK Prime Minister David Cameron endorsed an EU statement. It condemned NSA/GCHQ spying on world leaders.
He did so knowing it was ongoing at the time. He lied claiming opposition. He could stop it through parliamentary action. Legislation could declare it illegal.
Political Britain is in bed with GCHQ the way Washington endorses unconstitutional NSA spying.
Disclosures show both agencies are rogue operations. They go way beyond what's lawful. They do it with impunity.
Snowden documents provide no insight into why organizations and individuals unrelated to national security are targeted.
He called doing so NSA's "total awareness" obsession. It wants privacy entirely eliminated. It wants the ability to monitor everyone, everywhere, at all times. It wants no one escaping its dragnet.
US law prohibits economic spying. NSA does it anyway.
Under Britain's Intelligence and Security Act, GCHQ may work "in the interests of national security, with particular reference to the defence and foreign policies of Her Majesty's government; in the interests of the economic wellbeing of the United Kingdom; and in support of the prevention and the detection of serious crime."
Critics raise serious questions. National security is left undefined. So is protecting economic well-being beyond helping UK companies defend themselves against intellectual property theft or cyber-attacks.
Earlier Snowden documents showed NSA and GCHQ conduct industrial espionage. They do so for economic advantage. They do it illegally. They do it anyway. They do it with impunity.
When questioned, both agencies lie. They claim they operate lawfully. Clear evidence proves otherwise.
Documents show NSA/GCHQ spying is remarkably comprehensive. No government or other officials of interest are left behind. Ordinary people are mass surveilled.
According to Der Spiegel:
"In addition to many political and 'diplomatic targets,' (target) lists contain African leaders, their family members, ambassadors and businesspeople."
"They also include representatives of international organizations, such as those of United Nations agencies like the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)."
"A noticeably large number of diplomatic missions to the United Nations in Geneva are also listed."
"Even non-governmental organizations like Doctors of the World (Medicins du Monde) appear on the British intelligence agency lists, along with a representative of the Swiss IdeasCentre and others."
"Individual companies can also be found on the list, especially in the fields of telecommunications and banking."
"The partly government-owned French defense contractor Thales, along with Paris-based energy giant Total, is also mentioned."
NSA and GCHQ constantly search for new targets. They want nothing of potential importance escaping their dragnet.
Netanyahu criticized NSA spying on Israel, saying:
"With regard to things published in the past few days, I have asked for an examination of the matter."
"In the close ties between Israel and the United States, there are certain things friends mustn't do to each other." They're "not acceptable to us."
Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said he assumes it's spied on by allies. He stopped short of admitting Israel's extensive spying operation.
Israeli MK Nachman Shai lied saying:
"Israel is a friendly state to the US." (It) stopped all espionage" on America 30 years ago.
False! Israel spies aggressively. It does so on all allies. In 2011, former CIA counterintelligence specialist/military intelligence officer Philip Giraldi said Israel steals everything it gets its hands on. It includes military and industrial secrets.
"The reality of Israeli spying is indisputable. (It) always features prominently in annual FBI reports."
Washington's Government Accountability Office (GAO) said Israel "conducts the most aggressive espionage operation against the United States of any US ally."
The Pentagon accused Israel of "actively engag(ing) in military and industrial espionage in the United States."
"An Israeli citizen working in the US who has access to proprietary information is likely to be a target of such espionage."
FBI whistleblower John Cole said Justice Department officials ordered dozens of Israeli espionage cases dropped. At issue was political pressure.
Despite longstanding ties, "US national security officials consider Israel to be, at times, a frustrating ally and a genuine counterintelligence threat," he added.
The CIA considers Israel its main Middle East counterintelligence threat. Its operations are highly sophisticated.
Netanyahu claiming allies don't spy on us doesn't wash. Israel violates fundamental rule of law principles. It does so as egregiously as America.
Obama exceeds the worst of his predecessors. So does Netanyahu. Both leaders threaten world peace and security. Lawless spying reflects the tip of their rogue governance.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity."
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NSA Officials Still Baffled by Extent of Snowden Leak
Officials have admitted that they may never know the full extent of the information downloaded by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the leak of which...
US: Extent of Snowden leaks unknown
The NSA says it may never know the extent of Edward Snowden�™s leaks.
Senior US government officials say American intelligence community may never know the...
Snowden urges public debate on spying
In a new statement available to the public, Edward Snowden says that one of the clearest lessons to be taken from what the world...
Snowden: ‘Surveillance of the Public Must Be Debated by the Public’
In a new statement available to the public, Edward Snowden says that one of the clearest lessons to be taken from what the world...
‘We cannot trust them anymore’: Engineers abandon encryption chips after Snowden leaks
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Critics Blast Time Magazine’s Snowden Snub
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Snowden Doc: Canada Set Up Spy Posts for NSA
At the behest of the U.S. National Security Agency, Canada engaged in global spying operations, including setting up spy posts, CBC News reports.
A new...
Disclaimer: “British agents in Russia instructed to find Snowden — Canadian NGO”
The Voice of Russia has published an article entitled “British agents in Russia instructed to find Snowden – Canadian NGO”
where it states that:
“The...
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Snowden: Indicted by US, Key Witness for EU
Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower indicted by the United States government, is slated to testify by video to the European Parliament later this month...
U.K. Ponders Terror Charges Over Guardian’s Publication of Snowden Leaks
Members of the Guardian newspaper staff may be charged with crimes of terrorism over the British newspaper's handling of secret U.S. National Security Agency...
Snowden leak reveals NSA tracks cell phone locations on unprecedented scale – report
The US National Security Agency collects and logs almost 5 billion cellphone records each day indicating a user's location around the world, according to...
New Snowden Docs Reveal NSA Collecting Data on a ‘Planetary Scale’
The National Security Agency is tracking location information on hundreds of millions of cellphones around the world every day, amounting to roughly 5 billion...
UK police threaten Guardian editor with terrorism charges over Snowden leaks
RTDecember 4, 2013
British police have launched an investigation into whether the Guardian committed “potential” terrorism offenses by publishing the incriminating NSA and GCHQ documents...
Snowden Leaks Spark UN Probe into NSA Mass Surveillance
Press TV has conducted an interview with James Corbett, the editor of the corbettreport.com, about the United Nations launching an investigation into the massive...
Snowden document confirms US-backed mass surveillance in Australia
By Mike Head3 December 2013
Australia's intelligence apparatus mines the telecommunications data of ordinary Australians, and hands over the material to the US and...
Ex-NSA chief slams Edward Snowden
Former US National Security Agency director Michael Hayden says Edward Snowden has created a "catastrophic" situation for American intelligence agencies.
"This is catastrophic for the...
Britain targets Guardian newspaper over intelligence leaks related to Edward Snowden
Living in self-imposed exile in Russia, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden may be safely beyond the reach of Western powers. But dismayed...
Cyber Command and NSA breakup looming over Snowden leaks – report
The fallout over the Snowden affair hits "critical stage" as Washington continues the push to separate Cyber Command, which oversees cyberspace operations, from the...
NSA Dragnet: Snowden Leak Reveals Mass Spying During G8, G20 Summits
US may have illegally monitored foreign dignitaries as well as wider populationSteve WatsonInfowars.comNov 28, 2013
The latest revelation to come from the Edward Snowden leaks...
New Snowden document reveals NSA’s international malware operation
By Kevin Reed28 November 2013
A presentation slide provided by Edward Snowden and published by the Dutch media outlet NRC on November 23 shows...
Latest Snowden Leak Shows NSA Wants More Scope and Flexibility
A top- secret National Security Agency document, leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, reveals that the government agency is intent on maintaining its dominance in...
Is ‘Doomsday Cache’ Story Latest Effort to Smear Snowden?
(Photo: paulcapewell/ cc/ flickr)A piece by Reuters' Mark Hosenball, published late Monday, cites unnamed officials who suggest Edward Snowden is hoarding a 'doomsday cache'...
Intelligence Officials Fret Over Snowden’s ‘Doomsday’ Cache of NSA Documents
The documents are allegedly stored in...
US, UK officials worry Snowden still has ‘doomsday’ collection of classified material
US and British intelligence officials say they are concerned about a “doomsday” collection of highly classified, heavily encrypted materials they believe former National Security...
US fears Snowden’s ‘doomsday’ cache
Intelligence officials in the US and Britain are worried that former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, whose revelations in June triggered a massive spying...
New Snowden leaks expose the NSA’s play for more power
Dell Camerondailydot.comNovember 23, 2013 Email
If what they say is true and knowledge is power, the National Security Agency is the strongest government organization in...
Tea Party Choice for President Says Snowden a Traitor
Kurt NimmoInfowars.comNovember 22, 2013
It's no secret Marco Rubio is the reformulated tea party's choice for president. Earlier this week the junior senator from Florida...
Bob Woodward Doesn’t Understand Why Whistleblowers Like Snowden Avoid Journalists Like Him
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JFK, 9/11, and the Deep State: Hard Evidence in a Post-Snowden World
This year, the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination, saw Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald cast a sweeping spotlight over pervasive, illegal “deep state” spying...
Wayne Madsen: British Intelligence Operation to Kidnap Snowden? Number One MI-6 Officer Working Undercover...
Britain's spy-infested embassy in Moscow has taken the lead among the "FIVE EYES» signals intelligence allies to locate the whereabouts of National Security Agency...
Snowden: UK spy agency wiretaps hotel rooms of diplomats
RT
A UK spy agency infiltrated international hotel booking systems for some three years, tracing high profile officials and wiretapping their suites, new leaks reveal....
NSA Chief: Snowden Leaked Up To 200,000 Secret Documents
Mark Hosenball
Reuters
November 15, 2013
Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked as many as 200,000 classified U.S. documents to the media, according to...
Snowden took up to 200,000 documents
NSA Director General Keith Alexander says American whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked as many as 200,000 classified US documents to the media.
�œSnowden has shared somewhere...
EXCLUSIVE: Snowden Level Documents Reveal Stealth DHS Spy Grid
Government documents obtained by Infowars expose massive DHS domestic spy grid designed to track citizens in real time through mega government databases.
Anthony Gucciardi &...
Snowden revelations lead to decline in support for US in Germany
By Johannes Stern12 November 2013
A new poll by the research institute Infratest shows that Edward Snowden's revelations exposing the worldwide spying apparatus of...
Snowden revelations lead to decline in support for US in Germany
By Johannes Stern12 November 2013
A new poll by the research institute Infratest shows that Edward Snowden's revelations exposing the worldwide spying apparatus of...
12 Years Before Edward Snowden, High-Level NSA Whistleblower Warned Congress About Mass Surveillance by...
CBS News Baltimore recently interviewed the original NSA whistleblower: William Binney. (See video below.)
Binney – the high-level NSA executive who created the agency's mass...
Time to thank Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden has forced a debate that is long overdue and that will slow or even reverse America's slide into a society of universal...
McCain: Snowden gives US info to Russia
Republican Senator John McCain believes that American whistleblower Edward Snowden has given US documents to Russian authorities.
�œIf you believe that Mr. Snowden didn't give...
Oliver North predicts Russians will kill Snowden: ‘He’s a dead man walking’
Matt Labo
bizpacreview.com
November 10, 2013
Ever the crack military analyst, Lt. Col. Oliver North predicted that the Russians will kill famed National Security Agency leaker Edward...
Snowden used others’ logins to get docs
US investigators say former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords of some fellow workers to access the classified material he later...
Snowden ‘asked’ for colleagues’ logins, passwords to access classified NSA data
RT
November 8, 2013
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden persuaded 25 fellow workers to give him login keys and passwords at their base in...
Al Gore: Snowden Revealed ‘Crimes Against the Constitution’
Former Vice President Al Gore said that the "outrageous" and "completely unacceptable" surveillance revealed by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden showed possible "crimes...
Germany Rejects Asylum for Snowden
Kurt NimmoInfowars.comNovember 6, 2013
Despite the fact more than 50 German public figures have called for the country to give whistleblower Edward Snowden asylum, the...
Snowden: A Manifesto for the Truth
by Edward Snowden
This article by Edward Snowden was published Sunday in Der Spiegel.
In a very short time, the world has learned much about...
Edward Snowden Pens ‘A Manifesto for the Truth’
Common Dreams
Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community.
Independent, non-profit newscenter since 1997.To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good. Source:...
Snowden justifies NSA leaks
William CummingsUSA TodayNovember 4, 2013
The German magazine Der Spiegel published an open letter it says was written by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden,...
German media, political parties debate granting Snowden asylum
By Peter Schwarz5 November 2013
The issue of how to deal with former American intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has dominated media and political debate...
Snowden Slams U.S. NSA and British GCHQ for Uncontrolled Surveillance
In an open letter published on November 3 by the German news magazine Der Spiegel, whistleblower Edward Snowden accused the U.S. National Security Agency...
Snowden in Exile
I was quoted in Steven Lee Myers's “In Shadows, Hints of a Life and Even a Job for Snowden,” published by the New York...
White House, lawmakers reject clemency for Snowden
Published time: November 04, 2013 05:33
The White House, Washington, DC (AFP Photo / Mandel Ngan)
The White House and Congress intelligence committee have...
Edward Snowden Releases “A Manifesto For The Truth”
zerohedge.comNovember 3, 2013
While Edward Snowden may be reviled at the top echelons of Western developed nations and is wanted in his native US on...
NSA employees following Snowden lead
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden speaking in Moscow on Oct. 9, 2013, after receiving an award from an organization of former US intelligence officials.
The "courage"...
Brits rule Snowden reporter’s partner involved in ‘espionage’ and ‘terrorism’
Mark Hosenballreuters.comNovember 2, 2013
British authorities claimed the domestic partner of reporter Glenn Greenwald was involved in “terrorism” when he tried to carry documents from...
Edward Snowden ready to provide testimony in Germany
By Ulrich Rippert2 November 2013
Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden says he is ready to provide testimony to the German authorities...
New threats against the Guardian newspaper and Snowden in Westminster debate
By Chris Marsden2 November 2013
Wednesday's debate in parliament's Westminster Hall on oversight of Britain's intelligence services was meant as a rebuttal to that...
‘Courage Is Contagious’: Additional NSA Employees Said to Be Following Snowden’s Lead
Homeland Security logo reflected in the eyeglasses of a cybersecurity analyst at the agency's secretive cyber defense facility in Idaho. The Government Accountability Project's...
Snowden: ‘Speaking the Truth Is Not a Crime’
German politician Hans-Christian Ströebele (right) with the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Russia. (Photograph: Hans-Christian Ströbele/EPA)In the short-term, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden appears unlikely...
‘Influx’ of NSA Whistleblowers Following Snowden’s Lead
The "courage" of Edward Snowden is "contagious," according to lawyer and transparency advocate Jesselyn Radack, who says that additional employees at the National Security...
Snowden Says He’s Willing to Assist Investigations Spurred by NSA Leaks
In the short-term, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden appears unlikely to travel to Germany in order to testify about his knowledge of how the U.S....
Human Rights Attorneys Have Been Working with German Politicians on Asylum for Snowden
(update below)
Jesselyn Radack reading a statement from Edward Snowden at the “Stop Watching Us” rally against mass surveillance in DC on October 26. (Credit:...
Snowden is a hero: 51% of Americans
Echoing previous survey, results of new poll show more than half of those in the U.S. view Edward Snowden as more of a whistleblower...
Snowden Is a Hero, say 51% of Americans
The results of the Angus Reid Global online poll, which surveyed 4,500 Canadians, Britons and Americans, were released to the Huffington Post on Wednesday.
The...
The Risk of Snowden Fatigue
Oh, the fury of the states at the peeping toms of Uncle Sam, the lusty search for data, material and subject matter. The...
Snowden Leaks Force Senate Intelligence Chair to Change Tune on NSA Spying
If Feinstein is “totally opposed” to the surveillance of foreign leaders, why has she given a blank check for such surveillance of most Americans,...
Obama, Congress Owe Snowden Thanks, and a Pardon
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/obama_congress_owe_snowden_thanks_and_a_pardon_20131028/
Posted on Oct 28, 2013
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Snowden’s message for anti-NSA rally
Thousands of outraged Americans gathered in Washington Saturday to declare: "Stop spying on us!"
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Snowden sends message to US rally
Edward Snowden has sent a message from exile to hundreds of activists protesting in Washington against US spying policies.
American whistleblower Edward J. Snowden has...
Snowden: No US Call Made ‘without leaving a record with the NSA’
Brendan Sasso
The Hill
October 25, 2013
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Thursday disputed Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) claim that the government's...
‘Stop Watching Us’: Snowden Reaches Out to Endorse DC Rally
'Stop Watching Us' coalition rally, planned for Saturday, receives endorsement from NSA whistleblowerAmid yet another round of explosive revelations about the activities of the...
Snowden Reaches Out to Endorse ‘Stop Watching Us’ Protest
'Stop Watching Us' coalition rally, planned for Saturday, receives endorsement from NSA whistleblowerAmid yet another round of explosive revelations about the activities of the...
US intelligence warning allies about sensitive Snowden leaks yet to be published – report
American officials have begun advising US allies that the ongoing National Security Agency disclosures made possible by whistleblower Edward Snowden include files detailing cooperation...
Stop Watching Us: Snowden supports largest privacy rally scheduled for Saturday in Washington DC
Published time: October 25, 2013 03:35
Edward Snowden (AFP Photo / Wikileaks)
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Strong Corporate Media Bias Against Edward Snowden
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When the State Department revoked Edward Snowden's passport four months ago, the move was a reprisal from a surveillance-and-warfare state that operates largely in...
Police claim Snowden leaks threaten ability to use new technologies
Published time: October 21, 2013 19:46
Reuters / Lucas Jackson
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The Cameron Response to Edward Snowden
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NSA failed to install anti-leak software at Snowden’s workplace – report
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Snowden: NSA Is Most Dangerous Because No Oversight Exists
Edward Snowden says there is no chance of leaked NSA documents falling into the hands of Russian or Chinese officials. (Photograph: AP)"There’s a zero percent chance the Russians or Chinese have received any documents.”
That's what NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, referring to a huge trove of classified files he has made available to select journalists in the name of the "public interest," told the New York Times during an online interview that took place this month and was published late Thursday.
Acccording to the exchange, which was carried out over encrypted email, Snowden says that he relinquished his own copies of the NSA documents before he left Hong Kong for China back in June.
“If the highest officials in government can break the law without fearing punishment or even any repercussions at all, secret powers become tremendously dangerous.” –Edward Snowden
“What would be the unique value of personally carrying another copy of the materials onward?” he said to the Times.
Whether or not Snowden's efforts to evade capture and imprisonment by the U.S. government had resulted in either the Russian or Chinese intelligence services obtaining the files has been a point of contention since he first went public as the source of the files, but this is the first time he has explain the confidence with which he asserts that the files have not been compromised.
According to the Times:
American intelligence officials have expressed grave concern that the files might have fallen into the hands of foreign intelligence services, but Mr. Snowden said he believed that the N.S.A. knew he had not cooperated with the Russians or the Chinese. He said he was publicly revealing that he no longer had any agency documents to explain why he was confident that Russia had not gained access to them. He had been reluctant to disclose that information previously, he said, for fear of exposing the journalists to greater scrutiny.
In a wide-ranging interview over several days in the last week, Mr. Snowden offered detailed responses to accusations that have been leveled against him by American officials and other critics, provided new insights into why he became disillusioned with the N.S.A. and decided to disclose the documents, and talked about the international debate over surveillance that resulted from the revelations.
Among the various topics covered in the interview, Snowden speaks specifically to the argument made by some that he could have played the role of whistleblower by following internal protocols and making his concerns known to his superiors at the NSA. According to Snowden, those complaints would have go nowhere fast. Again, from the Times:
Mr. Snowden added that inside the spy agency “there’s a lot of dissent — palpable with some, even.” But he said that people were kept in line through “fear and a false image of patriotism,” which he described as “obedience to authority.”
He said he believed that if he tried to question the N.S.A.’s surveillance operations as an insider, his efforts “would have been buried forever,” and he would “have been discredited and ruined.” He said that “the system does not work,” adding that “you have to report wrongdoing to those most responsible for it.”
Mr. Snowden said he finally decided to act when he discovered a copy of a classified 2009 inspector general’s report on the N.S.A.’s warrantless wiretapping program during the Bush administration. He said he found the document through a “dirty word search,” which he described as an effort by a systems administrator to check a computer system for things that should not be there in order to delete them and sanitize the system.
“It was too highly classified to be where it was,” he said of the report. He opened the document to make certain that it did not belong there, and after he saw what it revealed, “curiosity prevailed,” he said.
After reading about the program, which skirted the existing surveillance laws, he concluded that it had been illegal, he said. “If the highest officials in government can break the law without fearing punishment or even any repercussions at all,” he said, “secret powers become tremendously dangerous.”
He would not say exactly when he read the report, or discuss the timing of his subsequent actions to collect N.S.A. documents in order to leak them. But he said that reading the report helped crystallize his decision. “You can’t read something like that and not realize what it means for all of these systems we have,” he said.
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Guardian faces parliamentary investigation over Snowden revelations
The most significant support for state persecution of journalists, newspapers and whistleblowers such as Snowden again comes from the nominal “parliamentary opposition”, the Labour...
Guardian faces parliamentary investigation over Snowden revelations
By Chris Marsden
18 October 2013
Britain’s Guardian newspaper is facing an investigation by at least one parliamentary committee, in line with demands made by Prime Minister David Cameron, concerning the exposures of Edward Snowden, the whistleblower from America’s National Security Agency (NSA).
Accompanied with calls for criminal prosecutions and assertions of the newspaper’s having compromised national security, the move is a major escalation in the witch-hunt and clampdown launched in response to Snowden’s revelations of mass surveillance programmes operated by the NSA and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
On Wednesday, Cameron told parliament, “I think the plain fact is that what has happened has damaged national security, and in many ways the Guardian themselves admitted that when they agreed, when asked politely by my national security adviser and Cabinet Secretary [Sir Jeremy Heywood] to destroy the files they had, they went ahead and destroyed those files.
“So they know that what they are dealing with is dangerous for national security.”
The prime minister supported calls for a full parliamentary inquiry to determine whether the Guardian broke the law by printing Snowden’s revelations.
Cameron’s claim is as barefaced a lie as it is a reactionary move.
In June, according to Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger, he and other Guardian journalists were threatened with legal action and forced to destroy hard drives containing material from Snowden when “a very senior government official claiming to represent the views of the prime minister” made “an implicit threat that others within government and Whitehall favoured a far more draconian approach.”
According to Rusbridger, “two GCHQ security experts” oversaw the destruction. Now, Cameron cites the newspaper’s response to the government’s threats as proof of its guilt!
A spokesman for Guardian News and Media issued a statement declaring, “The prime minister is wrong to say the Guardian destroyed computer files because we agreed our reporting was damaging. We destroyed the computers because the government said it would use the full force of the law to prevent a newspaper from publishing anything about the NSA or GCHQ.”
Cameron made his statement in response to a question from former defence secretary Dr, Liam Fox, who asked for a “full and transparent assessment about whether the Guardian ’ s involvement in the Snowden affair has damaged Britain’s national security.” Making clear he was seeking criminal charges, Fox said it was “bizarre” that that people alleged to have taken part in newspaper phone hacking have been prosecuted, while people who leave security personnel “more vulnerable” have not.
Tory backbencher Julian Smith has been granted a parliamentary debate in Westminster Hall next Tuesday over the publishing of the top-secret documents. He earlier wrote to the Metropolitan Police calling for the Guardian to be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act and the Terrorism Act 2000. He said he would use the debate to “lay out the reasons why I believe that the Guardian has crossed the line between responsible journalism and seriously risking our national security and the lives of those who seek to protect us.”
The Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has already aligned himself with the moves against the Guardian, declaring that Snowden’s leaks have “gifted” terrorists with the ability to attack Britain. The calls for repression are being made in conjunction with the Security services. New head of MI5 Andrew Parker described leaks about the Prism and Tempora programmes as handing “the advantage to the terrorists. It is the gift they need to evade us and strike at will.”
The most significant support for state persecution of journalists, newspapers and whistleblowers such as Snowden again comes from the nominal “parliamentary opposition”, the Labour Party.
Following the debate in parliament, Fox wrote to the chairmen of five Commons select committees urging them to carry out an investigation into the Guardian ’s “reckless and potentially dangerous conduct.”
“A free press does not mean the freedom to make the UK, its people or its allies more vulnerable to serious organised crime or terrorism. I am writing to formally request, as both a Member of Parliament and a former Security of State for Defence, that your committee considers the elements of the Guardian ’ s involvement in, and publication of, the Snowden leaks.”
The first response came from Labour’s Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Committee.
Within hours, Vaz said he would look into “elements of the Guardian ’ s involvement in, and publication of, the Snowden leaks.”
“I will be writing to assure Dr. Fox that the committee is currently conducting an inquiry into counter-terrorism and we will be looking at this matter as part of it.”
The other committee heads petitioned by Fox are Sir Malcolm Rifkind of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), John Arbuthnot of the Defence Committee, Richard Ottaway at Foreign Affairs and Sir Alan Beith of the Liaison Select Committee.
The ISC is presently making a pose of investigating the extent of mass surveillance carried out by the GCHQ and NSA in an inquiry launched yesterday. It has been heavily criticised for its cosy relationship with the security services, forcing Rifkind to issue platitudes such as the need to strike a “balance” between “our individual right to privacy and our collective right to security.”
The committee is now supposed to determine whether the intelligence laws are “fit for purpose”.
The move by the Home Affairs Committee to investigate the Guardian for possible criminal action cuts through such a pose of impartiality.
The entire machinery of parliament and its parties are being lined up in defence of the secret state apparatus, beginning with a clampdown on press freedom. Its implications for democratic rights are chilling. The Guardian is being targeted for revealing criminal actions by the secret services targeting every man, woman, and child in the UK and internationally for unwarranted state surveillance. This is done without legal justification or even official sanction by parliament. This demonstrates that the United Kingdom has gone far down the road to a de facto police state. It testifies to the extraordinary political and moral decay of a ruling elite poisoned by wealth, which lives in mortal fear of the millions below them being plunged ever deeper into hardship and poverty.
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Guardian faces parliamentary investigation over Snowden revelations
By Chris Marsden
18 October 2013
Britain’s Guardian newspaper is facing an investigation by at least one parliamentary committee, in line with demands made by Prime Minister David Cameron, concerning the exposures of Edward Snowden, the whistleblower from America’s National Security Agency (NSA).
Accompanied with calls for criminal prosecutions and assertions of the newspaper’s having compromised national security, the move is a major escalation in the witch-hunt and clampdown launched in response to Snowden’s revelations of mass surveillance programmes operated by the NSA and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
On Wednesday, Cameron told parliament, “I think the plain fact is that what has happened has damaged national security, and in many ways the Guardian themselves admitted that when they agreed, when asked politely by my national security adviser and Cabinet Secretary [Sir Jeremy Heywood] to destroy the files they had, they went ahead and destroyed those files.
“So they know that what they are dealing with is dangerous for national security.”
The prime minister supported calls for a full parliamentary inquiry to determine whether the Guardian broke the law by printing Snowden’s revelations.
Cameron’s claim is as barefaced a lie as it is a reactionary move.
In June, according to Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger, he and other Guardian journalists were threatened with legal action and forced to destroy hard drives containing material from Snowden when “a very senior government official claiming to represent the views of the prime minister” made “an implicit threat that others within government and Whitehall favoured a far more draconian approach.”
According to Rusbridger, “two GCHQ security experts” oversaw the destruction. Now, Cameron cites the newspaper’s response to the government’s threats as proof of its guilt!
A spokesman for Guardian News and Media issued a statement declaring, “The prime minister is wrong to say the Guardian destroyed computer files because we agreed our reporting was damaging. We destroyed the computers because the government said it would use the full force of the law to prevent a newspaper from publishing anything about the NSA or GCHQ.”
Cameron made his statement in response to a question from former defence secretary Dr, Liam Fox, who asked for a “full and transparent assessment about whether the Guardian ’ s involvement in the Snowden affair has damaged Britain’s national security.” Making clear he was seeking criminal charges, Fox said it was “bizarre” that that people alleged to have taken part in n