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...
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 monitoring VISA, SWIFT transactions for ‘Follow the money,’ FTM, branch and database ‘Tracfin’
The NSA has been widely monitoring international banking and credit card transactions, a new report says referencing Edward Snowden’s leak. The agency targeted Visa customers and global financial service SWIFT More...
President Obama cancels meeting with Vladimir Putin over Edward Snowden asylum, but notes other ‘tensions’
President Barack Obama on Wednesday canceled his Moscow summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The decision is highly impacted over Russia granting asylum to the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, but the More...
Edward Snowden seeks asylum in Russia, maintains he has ‘no regrets’
Edward Snowden announced Friday that he is submitting a request for political asylum in Russia, where he has been stranded at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport since June 23. The former NSA contractor said in a meeting More...
Protesters gather to protest NSA data center in Utah
Privacy advocates and self-described patriots came together on the 4th of July to denounce a government they believe is unconstitutionally spying on its own people. The rally was in response to NSA surveillance More...
Retired Marine Gen James ‘Hoss’ Cartwright being investigated by DOJ as ‘leaker’ of classified information
Retired Marine Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright became the target of US Justice Department’s criminal investigation into a leak of classified information, NBC News reported on Friday. NBC reported citing More...
Vladimir Putin tells US ‘no extradiction treaty,’ no Edward Snowden
President Vladimir Putin revealed Tuesday that Edward Snowden was indeed in Moscow but would not be handed over, confirming that there was no extradition treaty between the two nations. photo donkeyhotey donkeyhotey.wordpress.com “Mr More...
NSA Whisteblower Edward Snowden on the run, but not on Moscow flight to Cuba
Former CIA analyst whose leaks on NSA surveillance have caused global controversy expected to seek asylum in Ecuador after stopping off in Cuba. Edward Snowden allegedly booked a flight to Havana, but the authorities More...
NSA Leaker, Edward Snowden, comes forward saying ‘I have done nothing wrong’
The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz More...
