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...
The Chilling Effect of Privacy Invasion
Honestly, I thought I had personally put the NSA and Snowden topic to bed a couple of years ago. Thankfully the topic didn’t die. In fact, it keeps popping up in the news, directly and indirectly. Why do I say More...
Alan Dershowitz ‘shocked’ by liberals, talks of treason, accusations with ‘no evidence of crime’
Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz spoke with Fox News’s Jeanine Pirro, admitting that he sees no crime in Donald Trump Jr’s behavior. “I’m shocked as a civil libertarian, and a criminal lawyer and a More...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: ‘Snowden’ should start a conversation
While Oliver Stone’s Snowden biopic may not have reached the masses as much as he would have liked, star Joseph Gordon-Levitt told The Hollywood Reporter that he’s hopeful the film will start some conversations. “Once 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...
Matt Damon showcased in new ‘Jason Bourne’ clips full of car chases, action
A few new clips from Jason Bourne have been released online and fans get a great look at Matt Damon’s return as the titular character. Also returning is director Paul Greengrass, who worked with Christopher Rouse More...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in first ‘Snowden’ trailer, poster
The official trailer has dropped for Oliver Stone’s Snowden, the story of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley. JGL as Edward Snowden in Oliver Stone’s upcoming More...
Ted Cruz: Slippery on positions, a neoconservative and Glenn Beck
The unfortunate thing during the GOP presidential primary season today is for people that love liberty, smaller government both in foreign and domestic spending and a more reasonable foreign policy, there is truly More...
How Can We Trust People to Protect Us if They Can’t Even Protect Their Computers?
With the presidential race well and truly on, it seems the country is divided. We have certain presidential candidates spewing true hate speech and losing support even from their own party members while being stripped More...
Chris Christie attacks Rand Paul on NSA, says Edward Snowden is a ‘criminal’
New Jersey Governor and likely 2016 GOP Presidential candidate Chris Christie took aim at Republican Senators over the National Security Agency’s data collection program, the Patriot Act and Edward Snowden. Christie More...
NSA hacked SIM card maker to steal key codes to track cell phone users, data
Top secret documents previously provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have revealed that the US and Britain broke into the network of the world’s largest SIM card maker to compromise global communications. According More...
‘Justified’ star Timothy Olyphant set for ‘Edward Snowden’ film
Timothy Olyphant will go from deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens on the FX hit show series Justified to playing a CIA agent alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley in the feature film about Edward Snowden. Director More...
5 Big Cover-ups of the Last 5 Years
Some years, it feels like the media and the government are colluding against the people they serve. Despite claims of free press and public office transparency, the most powerful engines of news in the United States More...
Brits forced Guardian to destroy Snowden docs, White House
The White House was given a heads up that UK authorities were to force The Guardian newspaper to destroy hard drives containing top secret NSA documents says new July 11 reports. More details emerge surrounding More...
Edward Snowden and the NSA one year later
It’s important to reflect on the year that NSA monitoring of all Americans became public. Business Insider detailed a list of the facts we’ve learned from Edward Snowden and the subsequent leaked documents More...
Edward Snowden confirms NSA, other intel agencies can access your phone, even when it’s off
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden confirmed what many sources have stated: the NSA can not only listen to your cell phone call, they can actually access your phone even when it’s turned off. In an exclusive More...
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 nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Edward Snowden has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by two Norwegian lawmakers, who say the NSA whistleblower contributed to “transparency and global stability” by revealing the depth and sophistication 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...
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...
