Edward Snowden

Alternative Nobel Prizes Recognize Snowden, McKibben And More

September 25, 2014 Staff, www.rightlivelihood.org Educate! Climate Change, Edward Snowden, Environment, Human Rights, Journalism, Surveillance

Ole von Uexkull, Executive Director of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation, said: "This year’s Right Livelihood Laureates are stemming the tide of the most dangerous global trends. With this year’s Awards, we want to send a message of urgent warning that these trends – illegal mass surveillance of ordinary citizens, the violation of human and civil rights, violent manifestations of religious fundamentalism, and the decline of the planet’s life-supporting systems – are very much upon us already. If they are allowed to continue, and reinforce each other, they have the power to undermine the basis of civilised societies."

Laura Poitras Film On Edward Snowden Premiers October 10

September 20, 2014 Brian Brooks, www.filmlinc.com Educate! Art, Edward Snowden, NSA

The third installment of a trilogy of nonfiction films that look at the post-9/11 era,CITIZENFOUR is set amid the recent revelation of a labyrinth of secret surveillance by the National Security Administration (NSA) within the U.S. and beyond. In association with Participant Media and HBO Documentary Films, RADiUS will release the film in the U.S. on October 24, 2014. In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself as “citizen four,” who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies.

Most Wanted Man In World Wrapped In US Flag

August 13, 2014 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

WIRED Magazine provides great coverage of Edward Snowden in their August issue that provides new details on Snowden’s background and experience, why he decided to blow the whistle as well as exposing important new aspects of the documents he has leaked. Snowden provides a history of his work at NSA that shows how he climbed the ladder to become a top technology person for the agency and in private industry thereby giving him access to all NSA documents. He also described how he was prepared to blow the whistle during the Bush administration but held out in the hope that President Obama would change course. He quickly became disenchanted with President Obama and decided there was no choice but to expose the NSA's activities.Snowden WIRED Cover WIRED has a series of stories but the centerpiece is by James Bamford. Bamford has been reporting on the NSA since the initials stood for “No Such Agency.” The New Yorker has described Bamford as the NSA’s Chief Chronicler.

Snowden Gets Permission To Stay In Russia

August 7, 2014 AP, www.AP.org Educate! Edward Snowden, Russia, Surveillance

Former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden, who is wanted by the U.S. for leaking details about once-secret surveillance programs, has been granted permission to stay in Russia for three more years, his lawyer said Thursday. Snowden last year was granted temporary asylum of one year in Russia, but that expired on Aug. 1. His lawyer, Analtoly Kucherena, was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying Snowden now has been granted residency for three more years, but that he had not been granted political asylum. That status, which would allow him to stay in Russia permanently, must be decided by a separate procedure, Kucherena said, without specifying if Snowden is seeking it. He faces espionage charges in the U.S. that carry a sentence of up to 30 years, but Russia has no extradition treaty with Washington. Snowden was stranded in a Moscow airport last year en route from Hong Kong to Cuba, shortly after he released extensive documentation about National Security Agency's surveillance programs. He reportedly spent a month in the airport before receiving the temporary asylum, but was seen only at one tightly restricted meeting with human rights representatives. Since receiving the temporary asylum, his whereabouts have not been made public. The case has been a significant contributor to the tensions between Russia and the U.S.

Another Snowden-Style NSA Leaker

August 7, 2014 Ben Mathis-Lilley, www.slate.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Privacy, Surveillance, Terrorism

The U.S. government believes that a new Edward Snowden–style leaker is giving national security documents to journalists affiliated with Snowden confidante Glenn Greenwald, a suspicion that Greenwald has hinted at confirming. From CNN: Proof of the newest leak comes from national security documents that formed the basis of a news story published Tuesday by the Intercept, the news site launched by Glenn Greenwald, who also published Snowden's leaks. The Intercept article focuses on the growth in U.S. government databases of known or suspected terrorist names during the Obama administration. The article cites documents prepared by the National Counterterrorism Center dated August 2013, which is after Snowden flew to Russia to avoid U.S. criminal charges. (It's not clear why the government believes there's "a" new leaker as opposed to multiple new leakers.)

Intelligence Community Contractors Need Protections

July 30, 2014 Keith Wrightson, www.dcmediagroup.us Organize! Congress, Edward Snowden, Whistleblowers

One year ago today, the Senate passed Resolution 202, establishing National Whistleblower Appreciation Day on July 30. Passage of Resolution 202 was led by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and was passed by unanimous consent. Truly remarkable in this era of partisan rancor. And it’s not just Congress that sees the importance of this issue. The Obama administration has also been doing its part to increase whistleblower protections for those who disclose waste, fraud and abuse. On November 27, 2012, President Obama signed into law the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA). The WPEA provides millions of federal workers with the rights they need safely to report government corruption and wrongdoing. President Obama also has issued Presidential Policy Directive 19 (PPD-19), which extends whistleblower protections to the federal government’s intelligence community employees. The directive provides for reinstatement, compensatory damages, restoration of back pay and other remedies in cases where retaliation for whistleblowing is substantiated.

Ellsberg & Snowden: Mutual Respect, Different Approaches

July 23, 2014 Nathan Schneider, www.wagingnonviolence.org Educate! Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, NSA, Whistleblowers

Just as Snowden claimed Ellsberg as an influence, Ellsberg found common cause with his inheritors today. He made a lengthy and passionate speech denouncing the ongoing evils of the modern U.S. security regime, and calling on more people in the security services to take risks and speak out. “A lot of blood has flowed because people bit their tongues or swallowed their whistles,” he cried. When the floor turned to Snowden after that, he fell quiet at first. “I’m still politically pretty moderate,” he began by saying. (He’d earlier described his political philosophy as “almost Stallman-esque,” referring to the anti-copyright, free-software advocate Richard Stallman.) He stressed that he doesn’t blame fellow contractors who haven’t followed his lead; rather, he put the burden on the hundreds of hackers in the room to create tools that will make whistleblowing easier and safer. Whereas Ellsberg spoke of resistance as a matter of moral urgency and heroic choice, Snowden saw it as an engineering challenge.

Highlights From The Edward Snowden Interview

July 23, 2014 Ewen MacAskill and Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA, Privacy, Russia, Surveillance

Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: "Actually quite some time ago. Contrary to popular belief I don’t think we are exactly in the Nineteen Eighty-Four universe. The danger is that we can see how [Orwell’s] technologies that are [in] Nineteen Eighty-Four now seem unimaginative and quaint. They talked about things like microphones implanted in bushes and cameras in TVs that look back at us. Nowadays we’ve got webcams that go with us everywhere. We buy cell phones that are the equivalent of a network microphone that we carry around in our pockets with us voluntarily as we go from place to place and move about our lives."

Edward Snowden Urges Professionals To Encrypt Client Communications

July 17, 2014 Alan Rusbridger and Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Encryption, Prison, Privacy, Surveillance

The NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, has urged lawyers, journalists, doctors, accountants, priests and others with a duty to protect confidentiality to upgrade security in the wake of the spy surveillance revelations. Snowden said professionals were failing in their obligations to their clients, sources, patients and parishioners in what he described as a new and challenging world. "What last year's revelations showed us was irrefutable evidence that unencrypted communications on the internet are no longer safe. Any communications should be encrypted by default," he said. The response of professional bodies has so far been patchy. A minister at the Home Office in London, James Brokenshire, said during a Commons debate about a new surveillance bill on Tuesday that a code of practice to protect legal professional privilege and others requiring professional secrecy was under review. Snowden's plea for the professions to tighten security came during an extensive and revealing interview with the Guardian in Moscow.

UN Human Rights Commissioner: Snowden Should Not Face Trial

July 17, 2014 Reuters, www.theguardian.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Human Rights, Privacy, Surveillance, UN

The United Nations's top human rights official has suggested that the United States should abandon its efforts to prosecute Edward Snowden, saying his revelations of massive state surveillance had been in the public interest. The UN high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, credited Snowden, a former US National Security Agency contractor, with starting a global debate that has led to calls for the curtailing of state powers to snoop on citizens online and store their data. "Those who disclose human rights violations should be protected: we need them," Pillay told a news conference. "I see some of it here in the case of Snowden, because his revelations go to the core of what we are saying about the need for transparency, the need for consultation," she said. "We owe a great deal to him for revealing this kind of information." The United States has filed espionage charges against Snowden, charging him with theft of government property, unauthorised communication of national defence information and wilful communication of classified communications intelligence to an unauthorised person.

Snowden Condemns Surveillance Bill

July 14, 2014 Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com Educate! Britain, Edward Snowden, Privacy, Surveillance

The NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has condemned the new surveillance bill being pushed through the UK's parliament this week, expressing concern about the speed at which it is being done, lack of public debate, fear-mongering and what he described as increased powers of intrusion. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian in Moscow, Snowden said it was very unusual for a public body to pass an emergency law such as this in circumstances other than a time of total war. "I mean we don't have bombs falling. We don't have U-boats in the harbour." Suddenly it is a priority, he said, after the government had ignored it for an entire year. "It defies belief." He found the urgency with which the British government was moving extraordinary and said it mirrored a similar move in the US in 2007 when the Bush administration was forced to introduce legislation, the Protect America Act, citing the same concerns about terrorist threats and the NSA losing cooperation from telecom and internet companies.

There Might Be A Second Edward Snowden Out There

July 11, 2014 Tom McKay, www.mic.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Internet Freedom, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance

The news: Newly leaked source code has revealed just what the NSA considers justification for storing your web browsing data indefinitely — and it probably didn't come from Edward Snowden. Lena Kampf, Jacob Appelbaum and John Goetz (who are all associated with the Tor Project) wrote on the German site Tagessschau that they have seen the "deep packet inspection" rules used in the NSA's XKeyScore program to determine which targets are worthy of deep surveillance. The rules are much broader than the NSA would like you to believe; for example, the NSA targets anyone who searches for information online about Tails or Tor. Anyone using Tor is also flagged for long-term surveillance. People deemed worthy of such intensive surveillance never have their data removed from NSA servers. What is the NSA trying to do? Their main goal seems to be separating the technological know-hows from folks who wouldn't know what an Onion router was if it hit them in the face. After making this distinction, the NSA will keep track of the former group, in case they ever become a potential threat.

Edward Snowden Applies To Extend Stay In Russia

July 10, 2014 AP, www.theguardian.com Resist! Edward Snowden, Russia, Surveillance

Edward Snowden has applied to extend his stay in Russia, his lawyer says. Anatoly Kucherena said the former National Security Agency contractor had made the application to Russia's migration authorities because his one-year permit was due to expire at the end of July, according to Russian news agencies. Kucherena refused to say what kind of migration status his client is seeking, saying that it is up to the federal migration service to make the decision. Snowden got stranded at Moscow's Domodedovo airport last year on his way from Hong Kong to Cuba, shortly after he revealed the NSA's sprawling use of phonetaps across the US and beyond. He received asylum in Russia, attracting the anger of the US. Snowden has kept a low profile in Russia and his precise whereabouts are unknown. Kucherena insisted that the secrecy is necessary for Snowden's protection.

Snowden Should Refuse To Play “Alice In Wonderland”

July 8, 2014 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Edward Snowden, Espionage Act, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, NSA

Edward Snowden submitting to prosecution in the United States would be like Alice going into the courtroom in Wonderland. Alice stood before the King and Queen of Hearts who served as the judges. Knaves were chained on the ground before them. The jurors, Alice realizes are ‘stupid things.’ The first witness against her was the Mad Hatter who is as mad as the culture he represents. The guinea pigs who protest are immediately “suppressed” by having the mouths tied up and being put into a bag and sat on by the King so their protests cannot be heard. The most important evidence in the trial was secret, a poem for which the author is unknown and concludes: For this must ever be a secret, Kept from all the rest, Between yourself and me.

The Latest Snowden Leak Is Devastating

July 8, 2014 Conor Friedersdorf, www.theatlantic.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance

Consider the latest leak sourced to Edward Snowden from the perspective of his detractors. The National Security Agency's defenders would have us believe that Snowden is a thief and a criminal at best, and perhaps a traitorous Russian spy. In their telling, the NSA carries out its mission lawfully, honorably, and without unduly compromising the privacy of innocents. For that reason, they regard Snowden's actions as a wrongheaded slur campaign premised on lies and exaggerations. But their narrative now contradicts itself. The Washington Post's latest article drawing on Snowden's leaked cache of documents includes files "described as useless by the analysts but nonetheless retained" that "tell stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes. The daily lives of more than 10,000 account holders who were not targeted are catalogued and recorded nevertheless." The article goes on to describe how exactly the privacy of these innocents was violated. The NSA collected "medical records sent from one family member to another, résumés from job hunters and academic transcripts of schoolchildren.

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