Obama administration to ramp up surveillance on federal employees to prevent another whistleblower
The Obama administration is ramping up their surveillance of federal employeers in an effort to prevent future Edward Snowden whistleblowers and prevent scandals involving the NSA. photo Charles Fettinger via Flickr U.S. More...
Edward Snowden warns world to guard online info, governments ‘can kill you, jail you’
Former National Security analyist Edward Snowden, who leaked thousands of secret documents, spoke publicly Monday for the first time since fleeing the United States. Edward Snowden addressing audience 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...
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board declares bulk metadata telephony program illegal
PRESS RELEASE (Washington, DC) – An independent bipartisan agency within the Executive Branch has issued a landmark 238-page report that concludes the bulk metadata telephony program conducted by the National 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...
NSA collects 200 million text messages daily, including locations and financial transactions
The NSA has been gathering nearly 200 million text messages a day from around the world, gathering data on people’s travel plans, contacts and credit card transactions, The Guardian reported on Thursday. Code-named More...
Glenn Greenwald compares defending Edward Snowden to MSNBC defending Obama
Glenn Greenwald on Thursday dismissed claims that he is an anti-American mouthpiece for NSA leaker Edward Snowden, calling such statements “ludicrous” and defending his reporting on the government’s expansive More...
Susan Rice: NSA officials didn’t lie, they ‘inadvertantly made false representations’
National Security Advisor Susan Rice appeared on Sunday night’s 60 Minutes with Lesley Stahl and discussed the fallout from the Edward Snowden leaked documents. photo Fibonacci Blue via Flickr “Officials More...
New documents show NSA surveillance program began in 2001
New documents declassified by the Director for National Intelligence, James Clapper, reveal how the NSA was first approved for “collecting bulk communication data in the hunt for Al-Qaeda terrorists after More...
Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands linked to NSA program as ‘third party partner’ making 9 EU states total
Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands and several other EU countries were named among “third party partners” in the NSA-led global signal intelligence program, a new leak submitted by journalist Glenn Greenwald More...
Glenn Greenwald says the goal of the NSA program is ‘destroy privacy’ worldwide
The NSA’s ultimate goal is to destroy individual privacy worldwide, warned former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, during an EU inquiry to discuss the NSA and their “ability to destroy privacy.” Greenwald, More...
Judge rules NSA program unconstitutional, no proof it stops terrorist attacks
A federal judge has ruled Monday that the National Security Agency program which collects information on nearly all telephone calls made to, from or within the United States is likely to be unconstitutional. U.S. More...
Recommended NSA Overhaul: Civilian leadership replaces military, tighter standards to get phone records from companies
President Obama’s task force has put forth their recommendations to overhaul the NSA surveillance program in the wake of Edward Snowden’s public revelations. The Wall Street Journal was given a preview of the More...
NSA collects 5 billion cell phone locations daily, tracking movements and relationships
The National Security Agency is gathering approximately 5 billion records a day on the location of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials, More...
Edward Snowden lied and ‘asked’ NSA colleagues for login passwords to gain access to more classified data
Former NSA analyst Edward Snowden is under attack again after new reports that he approached 25 co-workers to give him login keys and passwords to give him access to classified material. Edward Snowden doesn’t 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...
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...
White House reportedly stops monitoring world leaders, President Obama ‘unaware’ of tracking
The Obama administration has been deflecting attacks from world leaders after the news of the NSA tapping the phones and monitoring top world figures around the globe. photo Donkeyhotey [email protected] The More...
‘Lost’ star, Evangeline Lilly produces and hosts new NSA video
Award winning actress, Evangeline Lilly narrates and executive produces a new video on the National Security Agency (NSA), which was released yesterday, according to Fight for the Future and Demand Progress. NSA More...
NSA collecting data from address books and IM accounts worldwide
The National Security Agency is collecting information from email address books and instant messaging accounts around the world, including many belonging to Americans, the Washington Post reports. What is the NSA More...
