Tag: snowden
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Shocker! Snowden a Spy ‘At All Levels’
from ndtv.com: US fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden “trained as a spy” and worked “undercover overseas” for intelligence agencies, he told NBC News in excerpts of an interview aired Tuesday. In his first interview in US media, Snowden hit back at claims that he was merely a low-level contractor, saying he worked “at all levels…
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German TV Does First Snowden Interview, Uploads to LiveLeak
from reason.com: German TV interviewed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the video of the 30 minute interview is now available at LiveLeak. Not surprisingly, a good bit of the interview focused on NSA spying alliances, activities and capabilities in Europe. The German reporter did, however, ask if Snowden was worried about threats to his life.…
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#NSA Fallout Hits American Defense Contractors To The Tune Of $4b
from falkvinge.net: Brazil ditches Boeing’s F/A-18 in favor of SAAB’s JAS 39 Gripen over the NSA’s rogue behavior. In a press conference tonight, Brazil’s defense department announces that Brazil will buy the Swedish fighter jet, according to multiple Brazilian sources. The direct reason for rejecting Boeing’s F/A-18 was the United States’ hostile and unacceptable spying…
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#Twitter, #Facebook Demand Sweeping Changes to US #Surveillance
from theguardian.com: The world’s leading technology companies have united to demand sweeping changes to US surveillance laws, urging an international ban on bulk collection of data to help preserve the public’s “trust in the internet”. In their most concerted response yet to disclosures by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook,…
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New #Snowden Leak Reveals Secret $52.6 Billion Budget for Intelligence Agencies
from IntelliHub.com: A new leak from Edward Snowden shows a massive budget for the military spy industrial complex that is hidden from the public. The original leaks made my Edward Snowden were enough to totally change the whole collective dialogue about government spying, but those initial leaks were merely the tip of the iceberg. There…
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U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011
from washingtonpost.com: U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and war, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Washington Post. That disclosure, in a classified intelligence budget provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, provides new…
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UK government now leaking documents about itself
from theguardian.com: The Independent this morning published an article – which it repeatedly claims comes from “documents obtained from the NSA by Edward Snowden” – disclosing that “Britain runs a secret internet-monitoring station in the Middle East to intercept and process vast quantities of emails, telephone calls and web traffic on behalf of Western intelligence…
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‘Snowden data destruction won’t harm our reporting’ – Guardian’s Alan Rusbridger
from Russia Today: The British government’s attempts to stem the tide of articles on mass surveillance have gone beyond intimidating the journalist behind the publications. Just a day after Glenn Greenwald’s partner was detained at Heathrow airport, The Guardian’s editor, Alan Rusbridger, came forward describing how the authorities pressured the newspaper to destroy documents provided…


