Edward Snowden

Greenwald to Release New NSA Revelations Soon, Speaking With Snowden ‘Every Day’

August 8, 2013 Anthony Boadie, www.reuters.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

Greenwald said Snowden, who was in hiding in Hong Kong before flying to Russia in late June, was happy to leave a Moscow airport after being granted temporary asylum, and pleased that he had stirred up a worldwide debate on internet privacy and secret U.S. surveillance programs used to monitor emails. "I speak with him a lot since he left the airport, almost every day. We use very strong encryption to communicate," Greenwald told the Brazilian legislators. "He is very well ... He is very pleased with the debate that is arising in many countries around the world on internet privacy and U.S. spying. It is exactly the debate he wanted to inform."

Obama’s Abuse Of The Espionage Act Is Modern-Day McCarthyism

August 6, 2013 John Kiriakou, www.theguardian.com Educate! Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Whistleblowers

Only ten people in American history have been charged with espionage for leaking classified information, seven of them under Barack Obama. The effect of the charge on a person's life – being viewed as a traitor, being shunned by family and friends, incurring massive legal bills – is all a part of the plan to force the whistleblower into personal ruin, to weaken him to the point where he will plead guilty to just about anything to make the case go away. I know. The three espionage charges against me made me one of "the Obama Seven".

Are Embassy Closures to Protect NSA Spying?

August 6, 2013 Spencer Ackerman and Dan Roberts, www.alternet.org Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

US embassies in the Middle East are to remain closed for the rest of the week as supporters of the National Security Agency's sweeping surveillance powers used the unspecified terror alert to bolster the case against reining in the controversial measures. The closures follow the alleged interception of al-Qaida communications in Yemen, which intelligence committee members in Congress have been told were collected overseas using powers granted to the NSA under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act – not the bulk surveillance programs disclosed by the Guardian and the Washington Post thanks to whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Obama Starting to Lose It Over Snowden

August 3, 2013 Staff, www.nakedcapitalism.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, NSA

It is clear the President is losing his famed poise, at least as far as Snowden and the surveillance state revelations are concerned. I’m not sure yet whether his missteps are simply the result of personal obsession, or whether Obama recognizes he’s slipping into lame duck status, and his frustration with his declining power is most evident where he is most stressed, which is on the NSA revelations front. One sign that Obama is off balance is his unforced errors in dealing with Russia. The bizarre assumption from the get-go seemed to be that Putin would cooperate and hand over Snowden once the Russian leader was prodded a bit. Then, he suddenly schedules unusual meeting with Democratic Caucus to conflict with Glenn Greenwald testimony on the Hill, pushing back the testimony to prime time -- September.

Security State Keeps Getting Caught in NSA Lies

August 2, 2013 Steven Rosenfeld, www.alternet.org Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance

The meta-data explanation has now been unmasked as a mega-lie, according to the latest revelations from exiled National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. When Snowden first disclosed the extent of America’s national security state spying on the electronic lives of Americans, the Obama administration led by the president himself said the government was not looking at the details of one’s electronic communications, web searches and sites visited. Instead, it was looking at so-called “meta-data,” which was akin to a phone bill listing calls but not listening in. On Wednesday, the White House declassified documents remaking that same argument. But Wednesday’s disclosure by Snowden, reported by the U.K. Guardian, exposes that spin as a security state lie.

Popular Resistance Newsletter: A Smarter, Stronger Movement

August 1, 2013 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Environment, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Guantanamo Bay, Tar Sands

As one would expect, the opponents of change have developed strategies to undermine social movements. Steve Horn reports, based on leaked documents from the private security firm StratFor, that their strategy is to divide activists into four groups: Radicals, Idealists, Realists and Opportunists. Opportunists are in the movement for themselves and can be pulled away for their own self-interest. Realists can be convinced that transformative change is not possible and settle for what is possible. Idealists can be convinced they have the facts wrong and pulled to the Realist camp. And finally, Radicals who see a corrupt system as corrupt that requires transformation. They work to isolate and discredit this last group. Using false charges to assassinate their character is a common tactic. They divide and weaken movements to protect the status quo.

Snowden Granted 1-Year Asylum In Russia, Leaves Airport

August 1, 2013 Staff, www.rt.com Educate! Edward Snowden

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia and is allowed to enter the country’s territory. The whistleblower has been granted temporary political asylum in Russia, Snowden's legal representative Anatoly Kucherena said. His attorney Kucherena showed a photocopy of the document to the press. According to it, Snowden is free to stay in Russia until at least July 31, 2014. His asylum status may be extended annually upon request. With his newly-awarded legal status in Russia, Snowden cannot be handed over to the US authorities, even if Washington files an official request. He can now be transported to the United States only if he agrees to go voluntarily.

What Does the Manning Verdict Mean for Edward Snowden?

July 31, 2013 Elias Groll, www.foreignpolicy.com Educate! Chelsea Manning, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Edward Snowden, Whistleblowers

Though the military court acquitted Manning of the most serious charge -- aiding the enemy -- it convicted him on five charges of espionage under a legal rationale similar to the one presented by prosecutors in indicting Snowden under the 1917 Espionage Act. In past cases in which the government pressed espionage charges against members of the intelligence community who provided classified information to the media, the government had to prove "bad faith" -- that the accused intended to harm U.S. interests. If there was ever to be a legal reprieve for men like Manning and Snowden, it lay in the "bad faith" provision and the argument that these whistleblowers had in fact acted in the best interests of the nation. But that provision has been jettisoned in more recent rulings, a precedent continued by Lind.

Edward Snowden’s Legacy, A Movement To Prevent Surveillance

July 31, 2013 K. Titchenell, PopularResistance.org Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance

Revelations about personalized information gathering by agencies of the US government have attracted some attention to issues of privacy and the resultant notoriety of these practices may well spell the demise of intrusive network assaults on individual privacy. There do exist a few solid safeguards that individuals can use to prevent surveillance and tracking of correspondence and online activity, but current use of these remains largely restricted to a few obsessive and highly savvy activists together with the well prepared criminals and covert operatives who use them as a matter of course. When Edward Snowden initiated communications with journalist Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian newspaper, he insisted that Greenwald install and use PGP (Pretty Good Privacy: http://www.gnupg.org) encryption for correspondence. Greenwald found the setup process daunting and was only able to install it later with assistance. Snowden’s endorsement of and Greenwald’s difficulty with the package sum up PGP and most privacy technology nicely: Privacy is possible but safeguards are not easy to implement. Privacy and anonymity is already possible on the net! But that fact is likely to have negligible impact upon data acquisition until it becomes so simple that no thought or effort is required to implement it.

Video-Noam Chomsky: The State Fears Its Own People

July 30, 2013 Staff, www.alternet.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Democracy, Edward Snowden, Government, NSA, Surveillance, Video

Noam Chomsky said that whistleblower Edward Snowden, who remains in Russia after releasing a trove of documents about secret NSA surveillance, should be honored. "He was doing what every citizen ought to do," Chomsky says in the video below. "He was telling Americans what the government is doing." Chomsky goes on to explain that governments always claim security as their justification for civil liberties abuses, but that overwhelmingly the security in question is that of the state ... from its own population. To smatterings of applause, Chomsky goes on to explain how America's drone campaign abroad is a far bigger threat to our security than leaked information about surveillance.

Manning and Snowden Show Way To A Better United States

July 28, 2013 Yochai Benkler, www.guardian.co.uk Educate! Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, NSA, Surveillance

America is not the land of the general warrant and pervasive state surveillance. Only a traumatized America would stand for what Snowden's leaks exposed. But that is not all we need to fix. Rejection of indefinite detention without trial was the very foundation of Anglo-American constitutionalism in the Magna Carta. And yet, Guantánamo persists even for scores of prisoners cleared for release. America is not the land of torture, and yet, the administration asserts state secrets privilege to prevent known innocent victims of American torture from seeking redress in our courts; refuses to formally abandon the practice of "extraordinary rendition"; and has granted immunity to the torturers, while fighting to keep secret the Senate's findings that the torture program never added an ounce of security.

Letter To Obama: Civil Disobedience, Edward J. Snowden, and the Constitution

July 26, 2013 Bruce Fein and Lon Snowden, www.msnbcmedia.msn.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Surveillance

From the commencement of your administration, your secrecy of the National Security Agency’s Orwellian surveillance programs had frustrated a national conversation over their legality, necessity, or morality. That secrecy (combined with congressional nonfeasance) provoked Edward’s disclosures, which sparked a national conversation which you have belatedly and cynically embraced. Legislation has been introduced in both the House of Representatives and Senate to curtail or terminate the NSA’s programs, and the American people are being educated to the public policy choices at hand. A commanding majority now voice concerns over the dragnet surveillance of Americans that Edward exposed and you concealed. It seems mystifying to us that you are prosecuting Edward for accomplishing what you have said urgently needed to be done!

Did Kerry Convince Russia To Keep Snowden In Airport?

July 25, 2013 Maria Antonova, www.afp.com Educate! Edward Snowden

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke with US Secretary of State John Kerry about Snowden's case Wednesday but it was not clear if their discussion had an impact on the fugitive's fate. Washington wants to put the 30-year-old former National Security Agency contractor on trial for revealing details of vast US surveillance programmes, but Moscow has rejected demands to hand him over. The US ambassador to Russia on Thursday reiterated that Washington wants Moscow to hand over Snowden, despite the absence of an extradition agreement between the two countries. "The US is not asking for 'extradition', but simply the return of Mr Snowden. We have sent many people back to Russia," ambassador Michael McFaul wrote on Twitter.

Snowden Asylum Still Under Review, Stays In Airport For Now

July 24, 2013 Staff, www.rt.com Educate! Edward Snowden

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden will have to stay at a Moscow airport for a little longer as his asylum plea is still being reviewed by Russian Immigration Authorities, according to his lawyer. Lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said that today Snowden will not leave Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, but confirmed that the NSA-leaker will live in Russia. He assured that Snowden is staying in good conditions. Here is video of his lawyer briefly speaking to media in Russian as he leaves airport. However, Kucherena did not give any specific date when documents should be issued. Asked about reasons for that, he explained that the delay in issuing all necessary documents to Snowden is due to the uniqueness of the situation.

Snowden To Leave Moscow Airport, Change in Plans See Update Below

July 24, 2013 Staff, www.english.ruvr.ru Educate! Edward Snowden

Former CIA employee Edward Snowden may leave the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport within the next few hours, the Voice of Russia correspondent reports. "The American is preparing to leave now. New clothes will be brought to him. Lawyer Anatoly Kucherena will hand him a paper entitling him to leave the Sheremetyevo Airport's transit area," the source familiar with the situation said. Snowden, who had been living in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo Airport since the day he arrived from Hong Kong on June 23, applied for temporary asylum in Russia last week.

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