James Bamford | 11 May 2015 Last summer, after months of encrypted emails, I spent three days in Moscow hanging out with Edward Snowden for a Wired cover story. Over pepperoni pizza, he told me that what finally drove him to leave his country and become a whistleblower was his conviction that the National Security…
RT | 10 May 2015 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…
Washington Post | 7 May 2015 A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that the National Security Agency’s collection of millions of Americans’ phone records violates the Patriot Act, marking the first time an appellate panel has weighed in on a controversial surveillance program that has divided Congress and ignited a national debate over the…
NZ Herald | 5 May 2015 The Prime Minister’s office has said it has no factual basis for suggesting Edward Snowden documents which exposed GCSB secrets were “fabricated”. But it has also said some of those with access to the Snowden documents – apparently including journalist Glenn Greenwald – “have a track record of misrepresenting,…
Sputnik | 30 April 2015 The claims that Merkel’s government knew about German state intelligence spying on behalf of the Americans against the country’s own industrial interests raise disturbing questions about the i ntegrity of German government leaders. The apparent betrayal of German national interests by Chancellor Angela Merkel is not only evident over the…
Infowars.com | April 8, 2015 According to a story appearing in USA Today, the current NSA surveillance of Americans is based on an earlier, pre-9/11 program used by the DEA. For over two decades, the DEA and the Justice Department collected logs on every phone call from the United States to over a hundred foreign countries.…
Jon Oliver | Apr 5, 2015 There are very few government checks on what America’s sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA, the balance between privacy and security, and dick-pics. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360]
Washington’s Blog | 24 March 2015 Is Big Brother Blocking Your Mail? You send an email to a reporter saying that you’ve got proof of criminal wrongdoing by a government official … or a big bank. You never receive a response. Or you send an email to an expert on monetary policy asking if the…
NZ Herald | 23 March 2015 Exclusive – Secret document reveals Five Eyes software used for surveillance on candidates for WTO job. Our spies monitored email and internet traffic about international diplomats vying for the job of director-general of the World Trade Organisation – a job for which National Government Trade Minister Tim Groser was…
Glenn Greenwald | 19 March 2015 German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel (above) said this week in Homburg that the U.S. government threatened to cease sharing intelligence with Germany if Berlin offered asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden or otherwise arranged for him to travel to that country. “They told us they would stop notifying us of…