Catalog of the Snowden Revelations. This page catalogs various revelations by Edward Snowden, regarding the United States’ surveillance activities. Each disclosure is assigned to one of the following categories: tools and methods, overseas USG locations from which operations are undertaken, foreign officials and systems that NSA has targeted, encryption that NSA has broken, ISPs or platforms that NSA has penetrated or attempted to penetrate, and identities of cooperating companies and governments.
Each entry includes the date the information was first published. The page will be updated from time to time and is intended as a resource regarding Snowden and the debate over U.S. surveillance. Comments and suggestions thus are welcomed, and should be sent to staff.lawfare@gmail.com. In addition to this page, Lawfare has cataloged and summarized the FISA documents the government has declassified in response to the Snowden controversy in the Wiki Document Library. 1. 2. 3. 4. U.S. lawmaker investigates whether Russia behind Snowden's leaks.
UT Documents: Reuters on Snowden. 5 Intriguing New NSA Revelations From Edward Snowden. Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is reportedly hunkered down at Moscow's international airport, but over the weekend his disclosures about US surveillance programs continued to send shock waves through the international community. On Friday, the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald gave a sneak preview of a yet-to-be released document detailing the startling number of phone traffic the NSA collects daily. On Saturday, the Washington Post released more top-secret slides showing how the NSA's PRISM program captures information from tech giants. And the German magazine Der Spiegel dropped a bombshell report about US spying on European Union diplomats. As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange warned on Sunday, "Look, there is no stopping the publishing process at this stage…Great care has been taken to make sure that Mr.
Snowden can't be pressured by any state to stop the publication process. " 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Additional reporting by AJ Vicens. Obama, Congress Owe Snowden Thanks, and a Pardon. Now we know that even the president needs leaks from Edward Snowden to be fully informed about the dastardly acts of his own top spy agency. It was Snowden’s recent revelations that led Obama to order an investigation into spying on private communications of 35 world leaders, including our closest allies, a clear betrayal of the trust needed to establish a more peaceful world. An image grab taken from a video released by Wikileaks on October 12, 2013 shows US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden speaking in Moscow on October 9, 2013 (Wikileaks/AFP/File) According to a Wall Street Journal account from senior U.S. officials, the president had been kept in the dark as to the extent of the NSA spy program: “President Barack Obama went nearly five years without knowing his own spies were bugging the phones of world leaders.
Officials said the NSA has so many eavesdropping operations under way that it wouldn’t have been practical to brief him on all of them. . © 2013 TruthDig.com. As Europe Erupts Over US Spying, NSA Chief Says Government Must Stop Media. The most under-discussed aspect of the NSA story has long been its international scope. That all changed this week as both Germany and France exploded with anger over new revelations about pervasive NSA surveillance on their population and democratically elected leaders. NSA Director General Keith Alexander, earlier this month. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP As was true for Brazil previously, reports about surveillance aimed at leaders are receiving most of the media attention, but what really originally drove the story there were revelations that the NSA is bulk-spying on millions and millions of innocent citizens in all of those nations.
The favorite cry of US government apologists -–everyone spies! – falls impotent in the face of this sort of ubiquitous, suspicionless spying that is the sole province of the US and its four English-speaking surveillance allies (the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand). There are three points worth making about these latest developments. © 2013 The Guardian. Prism Entier. NSA and Israeli intelligence: memorandum of understanding – full document | World news. Obama, Congress and Syria | Glenn Greenwald. (updated below) It's a potent sign of how low the American political bar is set that gratitude is expressed because a US president says he will ask Congress to vote before he starts bombing another country that is not attacking or threatening the US.
That the US will not become involved in foreign wars of choice without the consent of the American people through their representatives Congress is a central mandate of the US Constitution, not some enlightened, progressive innovation of the 21st century. George Bush, of course, sought Congressional approval for the war in Iraq (though he did so only once it was clear that Congress would grant it: I vividly remember watching then-Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Joe Biden practically begging the Bush White House to "allow" Congress to vote on the attack while promising in advance that they would approve for it).
More to the point, his aides are making clear that Obama does not view the vote as binding, as Time reports: Bombing. Exclusive Glenn Greenwald Interview: "I Won't Be Kept Out of My Country for Doing Journalism!" Glenn Greenwald. (Photo: Agência Senado / Flickr) Glenn Greenwald, the US lawyer-turned-blogger-turned-journalist, has been writing about state-sponsored repression, surveillance, torture and leaks for years. He has four best-selling books but nothing compared to the watershed event in June when Greenwald and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras received a cache of top secret documents from NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden. On August 21, from his home in Rio de Janeiro, Greenwald described the latest twists and revelations in the NSA spy scandal.
Jonathan Franklin: Your partner, David Miranda, was detained and held at Heathrow airport for 9 hours; all his electronics were taken away, and he was interrogated about your reporting on the NSA. Glenn Greenwald: That if we continue to report on what the NSA and [the UK surveillance agency] GCHQ are doing, they will continue to target us for all sorts of retribution. JF: Puts a different meaning to the term "Miranda" warning, eh? Glenn Greenwald: Q&A. Want to discuss drones? Leave your questions in the comments. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images (updated below [several times]) Today beginning at 11am, we're trying out a new feature at the Guardian: a live question-and-answer session between myself and readers regarding columns I've written over the last month.
From 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm ET, I'll be here (in the comments) live to answer selected questions. The exchange will then be posted in a form similar to this one previously done by the Guardian with Clay Shirky. The Guardian has several really good ideas for maximizing the involvement of and interaction with readers in the journalism that it does - a goal that has been important to me since I first began writing about politics online - and this is the first of the features we'll try in pursuit of that end. Leave your questions in the comments and check back around 2pm. Thanks for all these great questions. Ending of session This concludes the Q-and-A session. Glenn Greenwald.