Edward Snowden

Supreme Court Rejects Case Challenging NSA Phone Spying

November 18, 2013 David Kravets, www.wired.com Resist! Edward Snowden, NSA

The justices, without comment, declined to entertain a challenge from the Electronic Privacy Information Center seeking to halt the program that was disclosed in June by NSA leaker Edward Snowden. The court’s inaction means that the there isn’t likely to be any court resolution to constitutional challenges to the metadata program for years. Legislation, however, is pending to gut the program. What’s more, several cases challenging the snooping are pending in federal courts across the country. EPIC’s petition was unusual in that it went directly to the Supreme Court without first being litigated in the lower courts. The Washington, D.C. based non-profit privacy group went straight to the justices after Snowden’s leak because of the gravity of the phone spying, which includes telephone companies having to provide the NSA the phone numbers of both parties involved in all calls, the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) number for mobile callers, calling card numbers used in the call, and the time and duration of the calls.

Snowden Persuaded Other NSA Workers To Give Up Passwords

November 8, 2013 Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel, www.reuters.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to the media, sources said. A handful of agency employees who gave their login details to Snowden were identified, questioned and removed from their assignments, said a source close to several U.S. government investigations into the damage caused by the leaks. Snowden may have persuaded between 20 and 25 fellow workers at the NSA regional operations center in Hawaii to give him their logins and passwords by telling them they were needed for him to do his job as a computer systems administrator, a second source said. The revelation is the latest to indicate that inadequate security measures at the NSA played a significant role in the worst breach of classified data in the super-secret eavesdropping agency's 61-year history.

Sarah Harrison In Germany Speaking Out For Snowden & Whisleblowers

November 6, 2013 Sarah Harrison, www.wikileaks.org http://wikileaks.org/ Resist! Edward Snowden, NSA, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

WikiLeaks’ battles are many: we fight against unaccountable power and government secrecy, publishing analysis and documents for all affected and to forever provide the public with the history that is theirs. For this, we are fighting legal cases in many jurisdictions and face an unprecedented Grand Jury investigation in the United States. WikiLeaks continues to fight for the protection of sources. We have won the battle for Snowden’s immediate future, but the broader war continues. Already, in the few days I have spent in Germany, it is heartening to see the people joining together and calling for their government to do what must be done – to investigate NSA spying revelations, and to offer Edward Snowden asylum. The United States should no longer be able to continue spying on every person around the globe, or persecuting those that speak the truth.

No To Asylum, But Germans Want To Hear What Snowden Has To Say

November 4, 2013 Staff, www.dw.de Educate! Edward Snowden, Germany

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has again ruled out granting asylum to NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden. This comes amid growing calls for a way to be found for Snowden to meet with German parliamentarians. Germans want to question Snowden, but how? The chancellor's spokesman on Monday took great pains to stress the need to avoid a break with Washington over allegations of the mass surveillance of German citizens by the US National Security Agency (NSA), and possibly even the tapping of Merkel's mobile phone. “The trans-Atlantic alliance remains for us Germans of exceptional importance,” Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert told reporters in Berlin. He added that Germany had benefitted more than virtually any other nation from its friendly relations with the United States.

Snowden: Reforms Prove Leaks Were Justified

November 4, 2013 Staff, www.rt.com Resist! Edward Snowden, Human Rights, NSA

Snowden writes that his revelations have in fact been useful and society will benefit from it. "Instead of causing damage, the usefulness of the new public knowledge for society is now clear because reforms to politics, supervision and laws are being suggested," the ex-CIA employee and NSA contractor wrote, as cited by Reuters. Spying as a global problem requires global solutions, he said, stressing that "criminal surveillance programs" by secret services threaten open societies, individual privacy and freedom of opinion. "Citizens have to fight against the suppression of information about affairs of essential importance for the public,” Snowden said in his five-paragraph manifesto. Hence, “those who speak the truth are not committing a crime." Even with the existence of mass surveillance, spying should not define politics, Snowden said. "We have a moral duty to ensure that our laws and values limit surveillance programs and protect human rights."

Kafkaesque World Of Data Mining By The NSA, Search Engines And Social Media

November 1, 2013 Gilbert Mercier, www.newsjunkiepost.com/ Educate! Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, NSA, Surveillance, Whistleblowers

"In the surreal world we live in, reality has become stranger than fiction. The information super highway could have produced a completely transparent world, yet the elusive corporate and governmental nexus of Big Brothers has surrounded itself with layers of opacity, secrecy and deception. Meanwhile, ordinary citizens are probed, exposed and have become open books to organizations such as the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and corporations that run search engines and social media. In one case, it is done in the name of security and prevention of terrorist attacks, in the other it is done in the name of commerce. Factual and fictional have become so blurred that many dreams have a more logical structure than current events. It is as if reality is trapped, like a fly in a spider web, in the matrix of a nightmarish and grotesque virtual construct. Perhaps the best way to understand this layered reality — both hyper-connected and paradoxically disconnected — is to look into fiction, especially the work of Franz Kafka."

Snowden To Assist Germany Investigating US Spying

November 1, 2013 Staff, www.bbc.co.uk Resist! Edward Snowden, Germany, NSA

The German government says it is keen to hear directly from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden about the US spy agency's activities. "If the message is that Mr Snowden wants to give us information then we'll gladly accept that," said German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich. Mr Snowden has met a German Green MP, Hans-Christian Stroebele, in Moscow. Speaking to German ARD television, Mr Stroebele said that Mr Snowden "is fundamentally ready to help bring things to light". "The conditions for that have to be established. We had a long discussion about that." The MP said he had suggested that investigators could question Mr Snowden in Moscow about the NSA. Mr Snowden "made it clear that he knows a very great deal," he went on. Mr Stroebele described the former intelligence contractor as "amazingly talkative - he has a mission, an urge to communicate, he wants things to be put back on a legal basis".

Snowden Lands Website Support Job In Russia

October 31, 2013 Staff, www.en.ria.ru Educate! Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden has found a website maintenance job in Russia, his lawyer said Thursday. Snowden, who was granted temporary asylum in Russia this summer, will start work November 1 in maintaining one of Russia’s largest websites, Anatoly Kucherena said. Kucherena refused to reveal the name of Snowden’s new workplace “for security reasons.” Technology news website Digit.ru speculated that Snowden may have joined social networking site VKontakte.ru, Russia’s equivalent of Facebook. The website, an affiliate of RIA Novosti, said other major Russian online companies, including Yandex and Mail.ru, had categorically denied they had hired Snowden. VKontakte spokesman Georgy Lobushkin said he could not comment on the issue, but would not rule out his company had recruited Snowden.

NSA Infiltrates Links To Yahoo, Google Data Centers Worldwide

October 31, 2013 Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani, www.washingtonpost.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

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 Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials. By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans. The NSA does not keep everything it collects, but it keeps a lot. According to a top-secret accounting dated Jan. 9, 2013, the NSA’s acquisitions directorate sends millions of records every day from internal Yahoo and Google networks to data warehouses at the agency’s headquarters at Fort Meade, Md. In the preceding 30 days, the report said, field collectors had processed and sent back 181,280,466 new records — including “metadata,” which would indicate who sent or received e-mails and when, as well as content such as text, audio and video.

Donate To Edward Snowden’s Defense Fund

October 29, 2013 JSPDF, www.freesnowden.is Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

This fund is the only fund endorsed by Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks -- The Journalistic Source Protection Defence Fund raises money for Journalistic sources' legal defence. Periodically it will nominate sources it wishes to direct legal and campaign aide to. For its first source it has selected Mr. Edward Snowden whose revelations have exposed the extent to which the world is being mass surveilled by the United States. Derek Rothera & Company Charted Accountants is appointed to administer the Fund, which is governed by the laws of the United Kingdom. The Journalistic Source Protection Defence Fund is audited and can only spend funds on the legal defence campaign of the nominated journalistic sources.

Snowden Urges People To Attend Stop Watching Us Rally

October 25, 2013 Jon Queally, www.commondreams.org Resist! Edward Snowden, NSA

Snowden said: In the last four months, we've learned a lot about our government. We've learned that the U.S. intelligence community secretly built a system of pervasive surveillance. Today, no telephone in America makes a call without leaving a record with the NSA. Today, no internet transaction enters or leaves America without passing through the NSA's hands. Our representatives in Congress tell us this is not surveillance. They're wrong. Now it's time for the government to learn from us. On Saturday, the ACLU, EFF, and the rest of the StopWatching.Us coalition are going to D.C. Join us in sending the message: Stop Watching Us.

Claim On “Attacks Thwarted” By NSA Lack Evidence

October 24, 2013 Justin Elliott and Theodoric Meyer, www.propublica.org Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA, Surveillance

Two weeks after Edward Snowden’s first revelations about sweeping government surveillance, President Obama shot back. “We know of at least 50 threats that have been averted because of this information not just in the United States, but, in some cases, threats here in Germany,” Obama saidduring a visit to Berlin in June. “So lives have been saved.” In the months since, intelligence officials, media outlets, and members of Congress from both parties all repeated versions of the claim that NSA surveillance has stopped more than 50 terrorist attacks. The figure has become a key talking point in the debate around the spying programs.

Snowden: US Would Have Buried NSA Warnings Forever

October 20, 2013 Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com Resist! Edward Snowden, NSA

Edward Snowden, the source of National Security Agency leaks, has insisted that he decided to become a whistleblower and flee America because he had no faith in the internal reporting mechanisms of the US government, which he believed would have destroyed him and buried his message for ever. “The system does not work,” he said, pointing to the paradox that “you have to report wrongdoing to those most responsible for it.” If he had tried to sound the alarm internally, he would have “been discredited and ruined” and the substance of his warnings “would have been buried forever”.

Greenwald on Snowden Leaks: The Worst Is Yet To Come

October 19, 2013 Vivienne Walt, www.world,time.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, NSA, Surveillance

Although four months have passed since Edward Snowden’s explosive NSA surveillance leaks, the most revealing details have not yet been published, and could be rolled out in the international media over the coming weeks and months, beginning with U.S. spying activities involving Spain and France. That’s according to Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who broke the Snowden story last June, and whose life has been drastically upturned since. “There are a lot more stories,” he said on Monday in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives. “The archives are so complex and so deep and so shocking, that I think the most shocking and significant stories are the ones we are still working on, and have yet to publish.”

Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia

October 18, 2013 James Risen, www.nytimes.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, said in an extensive interview this month that he did not take any secret N.S.A. documents with him to Russia when he fled there in June, assuring that Russian intelligence officials could not get access to them. Mr. Snowden said he gave all of the classified documents he had obtained to journalists he met in Hong Kong, before flying to Moscow, and did not keep any copies for himself. He did not take the files to Russia “because it wouldn’t serve the public interest,” he said. “There’s a zero percent chance the Russians or Chinese have received any documents.”

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