Edward Snowden

30 Year Vet Of US Foreign Policy: US A “Turnkey Totalitarian State”

December 15, 2013 Saul Tannenbaum, www.cctvcambridge.org Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA, Wars and Militarism

The concluding paragraph from Ambassador Chas Freeman's prepared remarks: "Freedom requires checks and balances, not paternalistic monitoring by the government. It is now incontrovertible that we have failed to apply effective checks and balances to core national security and intelligence functions. No one in Washington or anywhere else should be in a position to turn a key and deprive us or our posterity of the blessings of liberty. It is past time to rethink and radically downsize both the warfare state and the undisciplined surveillance apparatus it has given birth to." Freeman described Edward Snowden's "act of civil disobedience" as "perhaps the most consequential such act for both our domestic liberties and our foreign relations in the more than two century-long history of our republic."

NSA Considers Amnesty For Snowden If He Stops Leaks

December 13, 2013 Staff, www.rt.com Resist! Edward Snowden, NSA

Senior National Security Agency officials in the United States say they've considered making a deal with former contractor Edward Snowden that would give amnesty to the leaker charged with espionage if he stops disclosing secret documents. Both the director of the NSA and the government official in charge of the agency's Snowden task force tell CBS News that they've considered the possibility of cutting a deal with the 30-year-old former contractor, who fled the US for Hong Kong earlier this year with a trove of top-secret documents. Snowden, who is reportedly now working in Russia after being granted temporary asylum there in August, might be able to return to the US and avoid prosecution if the American government agrees to an amnesty deal that would likely put an embargo on the stolen cache of files . Asked by CBS News 'John Miller on Thursday, the NSA Official tasked with leading A Specialized Group in Charge of the Snowden Case Said " it's Worth having A conversation About "A Possible Amnesty PACT with the subject of His probe.

Hedges: Shooting The Messenger

December 11, 2013 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Surveillance, Wars and Militarism, Whistleblowers

There is a deeply misguided attempt to sacrifice Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning and Jeremy Hammond on the altar of the security and surveillance state to justify the leaks made by Edward Snowden. It is argued that Snowden, in exposing the National Security Agency’s global spying operation, judiciously and carefully leaked his information through the media, whereas WikiLeaks, Assange, Manning and Hammond provided troves of raw material to the public with no editing and little redaction and assessment. Thus, Snowden is somehow legitimate while WikiLeaks, Assange, Manning and Hammond are not. “I have never understood it,” said Michael Ratner, who is the U.S. lawyer for WikiLeaks and Assange and who I spoke with Saturday in New York City. “Why is Snowden looked at by some as the white hat while Manning, Hammond, WikiLeaks and Julian Assange as black hats? One explanation is that much of the mainstream media has tried to pin a dumping charge on the latter group, as if somehow giving the public and journalists open access to the raw documents is irresponsible and not journalism.

Snowden Docs Had NYTimes Exec Fearing for His Life

December 11, 2013 Jose Pagliery, www.cnn.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

It was the IT help request from hell. British newspaper The Guardian provided the Times with top-secret electronic documents exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Pant oversaw the handoff between the Guardian and the New York Times. At the recent AppSec USA cybersecurity conference, the Times' chief technology officer described those tense initial moments. The Times had to quietly sneak hard drives containing the top-secret documents back to its New York headquarters. Pant didn't explain how the newspaper did it but said, "We smuggled it into the country, basically." After the Times set up a special, highly guarded room to isolate the sensitive files, Pant made sure he didn't take a single peek as the PowerPoint slides and files made their way into the newsroom's computers.

Wikileaks Sarah Harrison Wanted By UK and US Authorities

December 8, 2013 Sarah Oliver, www.dailymail.co.uk Resist! Edward Snowden, NSA, Sarah Harrison, Wikileaks

Harrison, 31, is the public school girl from the Home Counties who led American National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden to Moscow after he revealed the most extraordinary cache of Western secrets ever seen. The WikiLeaks journalist, and rumoured former lover of its boss Julian Assange, remained by Snowden’s side in the transit area of Russia’s Sheremetyevo airport for those 40 days until President Putin granted him temporary asylum. A month ago she relocated to Germany where she remains in a stand-off with our intelligence agencies, a self-proclaimed enemy of the British State. Harrison cannot return to the UK for fear of being detained and interrogated under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act, and surrendering the contents of her encrypted computer. She has been ‘spat out’ as she sees it, by her own Government.

NSA Morale Down After Edward Snowden Revelations

December 8, 2013 Ellen Nakashima, www.washingtonpost.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

Morale has taken a hit at the National Security Agency in the wake of controversy over the agency’s surveillance activities, according to former officials who say they are dismayed that President Obama has not visited the agency to show his support. Supporters of the NSA say staffers are not feeling the love. “The agency, from top to bottom, leadership to rank and file, feels that it is had no support from the White House even though it’s been carrying out publicly approved intelligence missions,” said Joel Brenner, NSA inspector general from 2002 to 2006. “They feel they’ve been hung out to dry, and they’re right.” NSA workers are polishing up their résumés and asking that they be cleared — removing any material linked to classified programs — so they can be sent out to potential employers. He noted that one employee who processes the résumés said, “I’ve never seen so many résumés that people want to have cleared in my life.”

Patriot Act Author Calls For Prosecution Of Obama’s Intel Chief

December 7, 2013 Brandan Sasso, www.thehill.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr., the original author of the Patriot Act, says Director of National Intelligence James Clapper should be prosecuted for lying to Congress. He said the Justice Department should prosecute Clapper for giving false testimony during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in March. During that hearing, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked Clapper whether the National Security Agency (NSA) collects data on millions of Americans. Clapper insisted that the NSA does not — or at least does "not wittingly" — collect information on Americans in bulk.

Audio/Video: Edward Snowden And The Future

December 7, 2013 Eben Moglen, www.snowdenandthefuture.info Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

This is a series of talks by Eben Moglen, sponsored by the Software Freedom Law Center and Columbia Law School, addressing the following questions: What has Edward Snowden done to change the course of human history? How does the evolution of surveillance since World War II threaten democracy? What does it mean that information can be both so powerful and so easily spread? In a network embracing all of humanity, how does democracy survive our desire for security? Eben Moglen is the Founder of the Software Freedom Law Center, Columbia law professor and historian.

UN Rapporteur Applauds Media In Snowden Leaks; Announces Investigation

December 4, 2013 Ben Emmerson, www.theguardian.com Resist! Edward Snowden, Media, NSA

There is, however, one issue on which I do not think reasonable people can differ, and that is the importance of the role of responsible media in exposing questions of public interest. I have studied all the published stories that explain how new technology is leading to the mass collection and analysis of phone, email, social media and text message data; how the relationship between intelligence services and technology and telecoms companies is open to abuse; and how technological capabilities have moved ahead of the law. These issues are at the apex of public interest concerns. They are even more important – dare I say it – than whether Hugh Grant's mobile was hacked by a tabloid. The astonishing suggestion that this sort of journalism can be equated with aiding and abetting terrorism needs to be scotched decisively.

Guardian News Staff May Face Terrorism Charges Over Snowden Leaks

December 4, 2013 William James and Michael Holden, www.reuters.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

British police are examining whether Guardian newspaper staff should be investigated for terrorism offenses over their handling of data leaked by Edward Snowden, Britain's senior counter-terrorism officer said on Tuesday. The disclosure came after Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, summoned to give evidence at a parliamentary inquiry, was accused by lawmakers of helping terrorists by making top secret information public and sharing it with other news organizations. The Guardian was among several newspapers which published leaks from U.S. spy agency contractor Snowden about mass surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain's eavesdropping agency GCHQ.

Sarah Harrison Contagious Courage

December 4, 2013 John Goetz and Bastian Obermayer, www.international.sueddeutsche.de Resist! Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Sarah Harrison, Wikileaks

Sarah Harrison closes her eyes. She’ll talk, but on the topic of Snowden and his situation in Moscow, she won’t say anything more than what was released in a statement made by Wikileaks on Wednesday. A statement? It’s more of a manifesto. A bit celebratory, as most manifestos are, and a little flat, but quite clear and angry. It begins laconically, “As a journalist, I have spent the last four months with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and arrived in Germany over the weekend.” It ends: “When whistleblowers come forward we need to fight for them, so others will be encouraged. When they are gagged, we must be their voice. When they are hunted, we must be their shield. When they are locked away, we must free them. Giving us the truth is not a crime. This is our data, our information, our history. We must fight to own it.” What a mission. And then just three words: “Courage is contagious.” What a sentence.

Buses In US Capitol Thank Edward Snowden For Exposing The Truth

November 27, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA, Surveillance

The Partnership for Civil Justice has organized a tremendous advertising campaign on buses in the nation's capitol as you can see from these videos and photos. The ad campaign highlights Edward Snowden for standing up and telling the truth despite the risk t his own freedom. The campaign, which puts forward a message of opposition to the US surveillance state, is off to an excellent start and now they are seeking to expand it. The Partnership writes: "The U.S. government is threatening to send whistleblower Edward Snowden to prison for life. But millions stand behind him. We thank him for standing up and telling the truth, at great personal cost. Join the movement to defend our constitutional rights and right to privacy." Now, they are raising money to expand this campaign: BUS AD CAMPAIGN NOW EXPANDING! Because of the enormous support this project has received from across the country, and worldwide, we have taken out ads on five additional buses!

NSA Insiders Government Worried: Snowden Has A Lot More To Leak

November 27, 2013 Mark Hosenball, www.reuters.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

U.S. officials and other sources said only a small proportion of the classified material Snowden downloaded during stints as a contract systems administrator for NSA has been made public. Some Obama Administration officials have said privately that Snowden downloaded enough material to fuel two more years of news stories. "The worst is yet to come," said one former U.S. official who follows the investigation closely. Snowden, who is believed to have downloaded between 50,000 and 200,000 classified NSA and British government documents, is living in Russia under temporary asylum, where he fled after traveling to Hong Kong. He has been charged in the United States under the Espionage Act. Cryptome, a website which started publishing leaked secret documents years before the group WikiLeaks or Snowden surfaced, estimated that the total number of Snowden documents made public so far is over 500.

Snowden Leak: NSA Has 50,000 Computer Malware ‘Sleeper Agents’

November 25, 2013 Darrell Etherington, www.techcrunch.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA, Video

Sleeper agents are among the most sinister spy assets: they lie in wait, wolves in sheep’s clothing, and then deliver a critical blow when activated. The NSA has 50,000 of those waiting for the literal push of a button, according to the latest batch of leaked Snowden documents, as seen by Dutch daily evening newspaper NRC. But these aren’t people, like Keri Russel and Matthew Rhys in The Americans – these are computers, infected with malware and untroubled by conscience or the risk of going native. The NSA reportedly infected 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software with the sole aim of harvesting sensitive information it wasn’t privy to, which is basically what you’d call textbook spy work in the digital age, from an agency tasked with spying. That’s not to excuse or dismiss the significance of this revelation, but we’ve heard from theWashington Post previously that the NSA was working on this sort of thing and that at least 20,000 computers had been infected by the program as of 2008. So to hear from Snowden documents via the NRC that it’s now climbed to 50,000 is hardly surprising.

‘Thank You Ed Snowden’ Bus Ads Planned In Washington, D.C.!

November 18, 2013 Educate! Edward Snowden

We are on the verge of rolling out the 'Thank You Ed Snowden' bus ads, which are expected to hit the streets of Washington, D.C., starting next week! We need everyone to do their part and help us tell Congress and the White House that we reject the criminalization of Ed Snowden. If you haven't made a donation, please do so right now by following this link. If you've already made a donation and can help again it will make a big difference. The Thank You Ed Snowden campaign is about to enter a new stage of mass visibility. Thanks to people like you who have helped this campaign get off the ground, the Thank You Ed Snowden ads will soon be appearing on Washington, D.C., buses that pass by the country's halls of power. This is the power of the grassroots: showing what we can do when we come together, use our collective resources and take a stand. See the image above for a glimpse of what the people and policymakers of Washington will be seeing over the next few weeks.

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