The Bipartisan Illicit Cash Act Would Fight Corruption, Protect Whistleblowers
These days in Washington, the word bipartisan is not frequently used. But Senate Bill 2563, the Illicit Cash Act, is legislation that four Republicans and four Democrats from the Senate Banking Committee have introduced. More...
NSA whistleblower Reality Winner sentenced to 5 years, Trump says it’s ‘unfair’
A former government contractor accused of leaking confidential information to the media has been sentenced to more than five years in prison. On Thursday, a federal judge in Georgia approved a plea deal that called More...
Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ challenges audiences on NSA spying, but fails to deliver much entertainment
Who is Edward Snowden? Is Ed Snowden a whistleblower or a traitor? Those two of the driving questions for director Oliver Stone with his latest biopic, Snowden, centering on the NSA contractor who went public with More...
Details of US pressure on Norway to detain, deport Edward Snowden released
The US repeatedly asked Norway to detain and deport whistleblower Edward Snowden if he tried to enter the country in the aftermath of his leaks on mass US global surveillance, Norwegian media revealed citing formal More...
Massachusetts court: NSA metadata collection not legal through Patriot Act
photo Donkeyhotey [email protected] The Patriot Act does not approve and authorize the collection of metadata by the government, according a court ruling in the Northeast. Massachusett’s Second Circuit More...
Edward Snowden talks about Russia, drone use, cyber attacks, NSA
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden spoke in a new interview about life in Russia and reviewed many of the surveillance topics, the use of cyber technology and much more. Speaking with James More...
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange compares Google to NSA, ‘collecting, storing and selling’ info
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange compared Google with the National Security Agency and GCHQ, saying the tech giant has become “a privatized version of the NSA,” as it collects, stores, and indexes people’s More...
Yahoo tried to protect ‘your information,’ Feds threatened $250K daily fine
The US government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it refused to hand over user data to the National Security Agency, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday. In a blogpost, the company said More...
Jesse Ventura says he’d pardon Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning
During the latest episode of Off the Grid, former Governor Jesse Ventura discusses one of his first actions if he were to run for President in 2016 and win. “Within the first week I would pardon Edward Snowden More...
President Obama pleases no one with NSA reform plans
President Barack Obama laid out a vision of modest changes for the National Security Agency in a speech that will likely please neither reformers nor agency defenders. In response to the leaked documents from Edward More...
Richard Higbie, State Department whistleblower, has gmail account hacked and 4 years of emails deleted
State Department whistleblower Richard Higbie’s personal Gmail account was hacked and roughly four years’ worth of emails were deleted, the New York Post is reporting. “They took all of his emails More...
John Bolton says ‘no amnesty’ for Snowden, in fact, Bolton thinks he should be hung
The debate over whether the United States should give National Security Agency “whistleblower” amnesty has basically been answered by White House officials Monday when spokesperson for the National More...
LA Times calls for end to NSA metadata program, ‘End it don’t mend it’
Edward Snowden’s defection to Russia and outing of NSA monitoring details has renewed the conversations and debates surrounding the government monitoring and tracking to protect Americans. Noting that the issue More...
Edward Snowden finds a job in Russia, calls to drop charges are voiced
Former National Security Agency (NSA) and whistleblower Edward Snowden has lined up a job with an unnamed wbsite in his temporary home of Russia, according to a The Guardian report Thursday. Image/PCJF Just months More...
NSA tapped into Google, Yahoo accounts worldwide, according to Edward Snowden leaked documents
The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward More...
NSA program XKeyscore enables widespread surveillance through everything a user does on the Internet
The National Security Agency is operating a massive database system that allows analysts to comb through individuals’ emails, chats and Internet browsing histories at will, according to a new report from The More...
Eric Holder says Edward Snowden won’t face the death penalty, Lon Snowden thinks his son is better off in Russia
US Attorney General Eric Holder has assured the Russian government that if NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was returned to the United States, he would not be tortured or face the death penalty, according to a More...
Edward Snowden is learning Russian and reading ‘Crime and Punishment’ as he awaits word on his asylum request
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, who fled to Moscow’s airport June 23, has the goal of staying in Russia for the near future and learn the country’s culture and language, his lawyer More...
Daniel Ellsberg, of ‘Pentagon Papers’ fame, hopes Edward Snowden can find safe haven
“Pentagon Papers” leaker, Daniel Ellsberg, said in a Op-Ed Sunday in the Washington Post, that he doesn’t blame NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden for fleeing the US to seek asylum elsewhere after More...
Bolivia and Nicaragua join Venezuela in offering asylum for Edward Snowden
Just a few days ago, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, appeared to really be struggling to find a country to take him in after numerous asylum requests were denied. Edward Snowden doesn’t have a clue, Rep. More...
