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Scope and Scale of NSA Surveillance
Transparency (of total surveillance by the NSA) was one of the magic terms in President Obama’s press conference at the White House yesterday. Simultaneously, the NSA published a 7-page statement [pdf]...
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Show of Force – Symbolic
The physical pulverization of several hard discs in the basement of The Guardian’s KIng’s Cross offices by a senior editor and a computer specialist last month, closely supervised and monitored by...
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Official Leaks to Discredit Greenwald?
British newspaper The Independent has an exclusive story today on new documents, leaked by Edward Snowden, that Britain runs a Middle East internet surveillance base. “The station is able to tap into...
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Merkel’s Mobile Phone
That NSA’s interception of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone is just another scandal in Barack Obama’s all-too-sad presidential term. That Ms. Merkel had directly complained to Obama only...
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Snowden May Testify in German Parliamentary Board of Inquiry
Member of German Parliament (Bundestag) Hans-Christian Ströbele of the Green Party has met with Edward Snowden in Moskow and discussed whether there is a possibility to testify in the Merkel NSA...
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Greenwald vs. Sackur
HARDtalk Stephen Sackur’s task at the BBC is “to hold people accountable” with “[i]n-depth interviews with hard-hitting questions and sensitive topics being covered as famous personalities from all...
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What Kind of Damage?
CBS reports that the U.S. intelligence community is split over the possibility of granting NSA total surveillance whistle-blower Edward Snowden amnesty after it has realized that just one per cent of...
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Collecting Metadata is More Intrusive
Glenn Greenwald has testified yesterday before the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties and Home Affairs via a video link from Rio, Brazil. The journalists who had mostly reported on...
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Dubious Company
Based on documents which had been leaked by Edward Snowden to reporters of the Guardian and Washington Post in June last year in Hong Kong, Der Spiegel reports today, among other widespread spying...
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No Place To Hide
At the outset of his new book, Glenn Greenwald quotes Senator Frank Church’s 1975 statement, who was critically assessing intelligence activities in the U.S., “The United States government has...
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