Edward Snowden

CIA ‘Accidentally’ Destroyed Torture Report?

May 27, 2016 Carey Wedler, www.theantimedia.org Educate! CIA, Edward Snowden, Torture, Whistleblowers

By Carey Wedler for ANTIMEDIA - The world’s most famous whistleblower, Edward Snowden, took Twitter by storm when he created an account last year. Since, he has criticized everyone from the FBI to Google, so his latest post on the CIA should come as no surprise. Commenting on revelations the CIA “inadvertently” destroyed a copy of the 6,700-page torture report, Snowden questioned the agency’s official story.

Intercept Releasing Major Batch Of Snowden Documents

May 17, 2016 Glenn Greenwald, www.theintercept.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

By Glenn Greenwald for The Intercept - FROM THE TIME we began reporting on the archive provided to us in Hong Kong by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we sought to fulfill his two principal requests for how the materials should be handled: that they be released in conjunction with careful reporting that puts the documents in context and makes them digestible to the public, and that the welfare and reputations of innocent people be safeguarded. As time has gone on, The Intercept has sought out new ways to get documents from the archive into the hands of the public, consistent with the public interest as originally conceived.

Edward Snowden Invokes Martin Luther King To Defend Whistleblowing

May 14, 2016 Melissa Chan, www.time.com Resist! Edward Snowden, MLK

By Melissa Chan for Time - Edward Snowden on Thursday invoked Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent civil disobedience to condemn the U.S. for how it treats whistleblowers, warning that others may not stand up for alleged wrongdoing if they fear punishment. The former National Security Agency contractor, who in 2013 revealed a trove of classified secrets on the intelligence agency’s surveillance programs, defended his leaks as an act of “public service” while virtually addressing a crowd at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.

Snowden Derides ‘Traitor Versus Hero’ Media Coverage

May 14, 2016 James Warren, www.poynter.org Resist! Edward Snowden, Media

By James Warren for Poynter - Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor now hiding in Russia from U.S. espionage charges, Thursday chided the media for making too big a deal of him. "I was very forceful in my first interviews: I am the least important part of the story," he said on a secure video channel to a packed audience at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics. "How does media sell attention? How do they buy attention? How do they get you to watch them? People care about characters, for whatever reason. So they simply would not let me go."

Ex-Intelligence Analyst: We Need More Snowdens

May 14, 2016 Dan R. Sendik, www.wtsp.com Resist! Edward Snowden, Whistleblowers

By Dan R. Sendik for WTSP - I was an active duty United States Marine working in Signals Intelligence in 2013 when Edward Snowden exposed the mass surveillance programs of the National Security Agency. Snowden’s alleged espionage had a lasting effect both on my work and on my attitude toward it. As a cryptologic linguist and intelligence analyst, my day-to-day activities were directly compromised when I was suddenly unable to use certain methods and tools due to the leak.

Snowden: Whistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking; Act Of Resistance

May 4, 2016 Edward Snowden, www.theintercept.com Resist! Edward Snowden, Resistance, Whistleblowers

By Edward Snowden for The Intercept - I’VE BEEN WAITING 40 years for someone like you.” Those were the first words Daniel Ellsberg spoke to me when we met last year. Dan and I felt an immediate kinship; we both knew what it meant to risk so much — and to be irrevocably changed — by revealing secret truths. One of the challenges of being a whistleblower is living with the knowledge that people continue to sit, just as you did, at those desks, in that unit, throughout the agency, who see what you saw and comply in silence, without resistance or complaint.

Snowden & Panama Leaks Show: Scandal Is What Has Been Legalized

April 7, 2016 Glenn Greenwald, www.theintercept.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Leak, Panama Papers

By Glenn Greenwald for The Intercept - FROM THE START of the reporting based on Edward Snowden’s leaked document archive, government defenders insisted that no illegal behavior was revealed. That was always false: Multiple courts have now found the domestic metadata spying program in violation of the Constitution and relevant statutes and have issued similar rulings for other mass surveillance programs; numerous articles on NSA and GCHQ documented the targeting of people and groups for blatantly political orlegally impermissible purposes; and the leak revealed that President Obama’s top national security official (still), James Clapper, blatantly lied...

Edward Snowden Meets Arundhati Roy And John Cusack

December 2, 2015 Arundhati Roy, www.theguardian.com Resist! Edward Snowden

By Arundhati Roy for The Guardian - The Moscow Un-Summit wasn’t a formal interview. Nor was it a cloak-and-dagger underground rendezvous. The upshot is that John Cusack, Daniel Ellsberg (who leaked the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam war) and I didn’t get the cautious, diplomatic, regulation Edward Snowden. The downshot (that isn’t a word, I know) is that the jokes, the humour and repartee that took place in Room 1001 cannot be reproduced. The Un-Summit cannot be written about in the detail that it deserves. Yet it definitely cannot not be written about. Because it did happen. And because the world is a millipede that inches forward on millions of real conversations. And this, certainly, was a real one.

4 Tips From Edward Snowden To Keep Your Private Data Private

November 16, 2015 Katie Bo Williams, www.thehill.com Resist! Edward Snowden

By Katie Bo Williams for The Hill - If there’s one person that knows how to dodge electronic detection, it’s Edward Snowden. The ex-NSA contractor remains one of the most controversial figures in American privacy policy — and a prolific commentator on cybersecurity issues. Snowden eluded U.S. officials, fleeing the country in 2013 after leaking information on the NSA’s warrantless collection of individuals’ phone metadata to the press. Now living Russia, he has repeatedly lobbed criticisms at the U.S. intelligence community for its approach to individual privacy.

Despite US Pressure, EU Parliament Clears Path For Snowden Asylum

October 30, 2015 Kevin Gosztola, www.shadowproof.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Whistleblowers

By Kevin Gosztola for Shadow Proof - In the face of global pressure from the United States, the European Parliament passed a resolution which may pave the way for a European Union country to grant asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. By a vote of 285 to 281, members of Parliament called on EU member states to “drop any criminal charges against Edward Snowden, grant him protection and consequently prevent extradition or rendition by third parties, in recognition of his status as whistle-blower and international human rights defender.” Snowden described the development as a “game-changer” and added, “This is not a blow against the U.S. government, but an open hand extended by friends. It is a chance to move forward.”

Edward Snowden Weighs In On CISA: “It’s A Surveillance Bill.”

October 28, 2015 Staff, www.tumblr.fightforthefuture.org Educate! Edward Snowden, Rights, Surveillance, Whistleblowers

By Staff of Fight For The Future - WASHINGTON - Last night, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden joined Fight for the Future’s Q&A session on reddit to weigh in on the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA,) the controversial “cybersecurity” bill that is expected to see a vote on the Senate floor this afternoon. “CISA isn't a cybersecurity bill,” Snowden wrote in the reddit “IAmA” thread, “It's not going to stop any attacks. It's not going to make us any safer. It's a surveillance bill. What it allows is for the companies you interact with every day -- visibly, like Facebook, or invisibly, like AT&T -- to indiscriminately share private records about your interactions and activities with the government.”

Snowden & Ellsberg Hail New Drone Whistleblower

October 18, 2015 Tom McCarthy , www.theguardian.com Resist! Daniel Ellsberg, Drones, Edward Snowden, Wars and Militarism, Whistleblowers

By Tom McCarthy for the Guardian - American whistleblowers hailed the release on Thursday of a collection of classified documents about US drone warfare as a blow on behalf of transparency and human rights. “It’s wonderful,” Ellsberg said. “I waited 40 years to see somebody, for Chelsea Manning, to put out a comprehensive, sufficiently voluminous number of long-held secrets, enough to make the case clear. “I waited 40 years for Chelsea. Three more for Snowden. And so it’s wonderful that somebody is telling the truth about this series of crimes. I’m very glad to see it.” Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who in 2013 leaked classified documents about surveillance programs to journalist Glenn Greenwald – then at the Guardian, now at the Intercept – hailed the new leak on Twitter. Ellsberg said of the source: “I hope they stay anonymous. Nothing at all would be gained by their suffering the fate of exile like Snowden [who now lives in Russia], or isolation or imprisonment like Chelsea [who was given a 35-year jail term]. Or the life sentences that I faced, or that others have faced. “It comes down to this. Hundreds could have done what I did, literally. And should have. Hundreds of people could and should have done what Edward Snowden did. And hundreds of people could and should have done what Chelsea Manning did."

Ed Snowden Pardoned, Visits Los Angeles

October 12, 2015 the Yes Lab, www.yeslab.org Resist! Edward Snowden, Snowden pardon, Yes Men

By the Yes Lab - On Saturday, a capacity crowd at the Los Angeles Convention Center saw Edward Snowden make a surprise in-person public appearance, his first on U.S. soil since receiving a pardon from President Obama last week. The crowd at thebi-partisan event immediately burst into cheers, jumped to their feet, and rushed in to take Snowden's photo. US presidents have pardoned thousands of people accused of or convicted of crimes, often because their actions were deemed to be in the public interest. "Edward Snowden's actions launched an extraordinary global debate and led to the most significant reforms in intelligence oversight in a generation," said Ben Wizner of the ACLU. "He should be thanked, not charged with espionage and locked in a cage."

Edward Snowden: US Has Not Offered Me Plea Deal

October 7, 2015 Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com Resist! Edward Snowden, NSA

By Ewen MacAskill for The Guardian, The US justice department has made no effort to contact Edward Snowden to discuss a plea deal that would see him return from exile in Russia, the NSA whistleblower said in an interview on BBC Panorama to be broadcast on Monday night. Snowden, who is wanted under the Espionage Act after leaking tens of thousands of top secret documents, said he had offered to do time in prison as part of a deal. “We are still waiting for them to call us back,” he said. His comments come just months after Eric Holder, who was US attorney-general until April, said Snowden’s revelations had “spurred a necessary debate”. He also said the “possibility exists” of a plea deal. But senior figures in the security services in both the US and UK are unforgiving, wanting him to serve a long sentence both as punishment and to act as a deterrent to others.

The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story Is Journalism At Its Worst

June 15, 2015 Glenn Greenwald, www.firstlook.org Educate! Edward Snowden, Journalism, Media, Surveillance

By Glenn Greenwald in Firstlook - Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it’s hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, then uncritically accept those anonymously voiced claims as Truth. But they’ve learned no such lesson. That tacticcontinues to be the staple of how major US and British media outlets “report,” especially in the national security area. And journalists who read such reports continue to treat self-serving decrees by unnamed, unseen officials – laundered through their media – as gospel, no matter how dubious are the claims or factually false is the reporting.

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