The Intercept | Whistleblowers are always accused of helping America’s enemies (top Nixon aides accused Daniel Ellsberg of being a Soviet spy and causing the deaths of Americans with his leak); it’s just the tactical playbook that’s automatically used. So it’s of course unsurprising that ever since Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing enabled newspapers around the world to…
Activist Post | 30 Oct 2015 This week, the European Parliament voted to offer Edward Snowden asylum and protection and drop all criminal charges against him. When at one time most of the world was bullied by the US government into pressing charges against Snowden and forcing him into exile, the entire European continent has…
Glenn Greenwald | 14 June 2015 Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it’s hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, then uncritically accept those anonymously voiced claims as…
Stanford Daily | 18 May 2015 ‘If I Had Taken [the NSA] Documents to Congress, I Would’ve Gone to Jail’ Edward Snowden, former NSA infrastructure analyst turned whistleblower, spoke on May 15 to Cubberley Auditorium to discuss the philosophical tensions of whistleblowing and government surveillance. The 2015 Symbolic Systems Distinguished Speaker, Snowden spoke via video…
Aaron Mamiit | Tech Times | January 25, 2015 Edward Snowden, the infamous former contractor for the National Security Agency who leaked thousands of pages of previously classified NSA intelligence documents, reportedly thinks that Apple’s iPhone has “special software” that authorities can activate remotely to be able to gather information about the user. “Edward never…
Melanie Newman | Bureau of Investigative Journalism | 23 Jan 2015 The increasing use of encryption technologies in everyday emails and messaging services will lead to “ethically worse” behaviour by the intelligence agencies, a former head of GCHQ has predicted. Sir David Omand warned there would be greater intrusion on individuals’ privacy, not less, if agencies are…
Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher | The Intercept | 17 Oct 2014 Agents from New Zealand’s national police force ransacked the home of a prominent independent journalist earlier this month who was collaborating with The Intercept on stories from the NSA archive furnished by Edward Snowden. The stated purpose of the 10-hour police raid was to identify the source for allegations that…
Wake Up Kiwi | 16 Sept 2014 The following is a brief summary taken as-it-happened: (See below for video) Laila Harre introduced the panel and speaks about democracy and the global importance of this event, making reference to the ‘Powers that Were’. Glenn Greenwald Greenwald gave Key a fairly good dressing down over his unprofessional…
Edward Snowden | The Intercept | 15 Sept 2014 Like many nations around the world, New Zealand over the last year has engaged in a serious and intense debate about government surveillance. The nation’s prime minister, John Key of the National Party, has denied that New Zealand’s spy agency GCSB engages in mass surveillance, mostly…
by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | July 3, 2014 According to John Young and Cryptome Snowden documents rumoured to be released this month will prevent a war planned by the United States. On the previous day Cryptome said the whole Snowden mother load will be made public. See tweets The tweet seems to suggest this…