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Edward Snowden calls Theresa May 'Darth Vader in the UK' over Investigatory Powers Bill
Edward Snowden has made his feelings known about Theresa May, describing the British Prime Minister as “a sort of Darth Vader in the United Kingdom”. The exiled NSA whistleblower compared Ms May to one of film's most notorious film villains over her Investigatory Powers Bill currently undergoing legislative scrutiny.
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Obama-era surveillance worse than Stasi, says Oliver Stone
US film director Oliver Stone on Thursday accused President Barack Obama's administration of implementing a surveillance system worse than that of the feared Stasi secret police in East Germany. Speaking at the San Sebastian film festival in northern Spain, where he presented his film "Snowden," Stone said many in the US had grown disillusioned with a president they once saw as "a man of great integrity."
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Playing Through the Pain
The Impact of Secrets and Dark Knowledge. By Richard Thieme.
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Three New Scandals Show How Pervasive and Dangerous Mass Surveillance is in the West, Vindicating Snowden
While most eyes are focused on the presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, three major events prove how widespread, and dangerous, mass surveillance has become in the west. Standing alone, each event highlights exactly the severe threats which motivated Edward Snowden to blow his whistle; taken together, they constitute full-scale vindication of everything he’s done.
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Donald Trump Will Have His Eye on You
Edward Snowden warned us about the abuses of our national security state. Now look who's in charge of it. By Graham Vyse.
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The NSA’s Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight
The NSA has operated a top-secret surveillance program out of an iconic AT&T building in Manhattan, documents indicate. By Ryan Gallagher and Henrik Moltke.
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Trump’s CIA Director Wants to Return to a Pre-Snowden World
He’s called for a “fundamental upgrade” to U.S. spying powers. By Kaveh Waddell.
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President Obama Claims He Cannot Pardon Snowden; He’s [Lying]
In a big interview with the German media outlet Der Spiegel, President Obama was asked about his interest in pardoning Ed Snowden in response to the big campaign to get him pardoned… By Mike Masnick.
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President Obama Claims He Cannot Pardon Snowden; He's Wrong
In a big interview with the German media outlet Der Spiegel, President Obama was asked about his interest in pardoning Ed Snowden in response to the big campaign to get him pardoned. Obama's response was that he could not, since Snowden has not been convicted yet...
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Edward Snowden loses Norway safe passage case
Edward Snowden's bid to guarantee that he would not be extradited to the US if he visited Norway has been rejected by the Norwegian supreme court. The former National Security Agency contractor filed the lawsuit in April, attempting to secure safe passage to Norway to pick up a free speech award. It had already been rejected by Oslo District court and an appeals court. Mr Snowden is a former NSA analyst who leaked secret US surveillance details three years ago.
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Bill Introduced To Push Back Approval Of DOJ’s Proposed Rule 41 Changes
Unless someone steps up to push this off course, the DOJ’s proposed changes to Rule 41 will become law December 1. That’s the key part: doing something. All that has to happen is nothing for the changes to become law. By Tim Cushing.
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Enter ‘The Glass Room,’ Where Privacy Goes To Die
A new temporary exhibition in New York City offers an up-close look at the tools of the surveillance state—and how to fight them. By Joshua Kopstein.
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Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and the Modern Whistle-Blower
In the summer of 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara commissioned a group of thirty-six scholars to write a secret history of the Vietnam War. The project took a year and a half, ran to seven thousand pages, and filled forty-seven volumes. Only a handful of copies were made, and most were kept under lock and key in and around the Beltway. One set, however, ended up at the rand Corporation, in Santa Monica, where it was read, from start to finish, by a young analyst there named Daniel Ellsberg.
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Edward Snowden in His Own Words
ACLU
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US intel official: The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to robots searching your emails
Yahoo Inc’s secret scanning of customer emails at the behest of a U.S. spy agency is part of a growing push by officials to loosen constitutional protections Americans have against arbitrary governmental searches, according to legal documents and people briefed on closed court hearings.
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A Plea to President Obama: Pardon Edward Snowden
The choice is simple: pardon him, or abandon him to the mercy of Trump. By Brian Beutler.
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Edward Snowden talks about FBI’s COINTELPRO, CIA’s MK-ULTRA and Black Lives Matter
In this interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden we talk about the history of intelligence agencies and some notable whistleblowers. From acTVism Munich 2017.
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Russia eyes sending Snowden to U.S. as 'gift' to Trump, official says
U.S. intelligence has collected information that Russia is considering turning over Edward Snowden as a "gift" to President Donald Trump — who has called the NSA leaker a "spy" and a "traitor" who deserves to be executed.
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Zakharova relates claims about Snowden with pressure on Trump
The refreshed "outdated stories" about extradition to the U.S. of the CIA former employee Edward Snowden and confirmed information compromising President Donald Trump are attempts to press the White House, spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova wrote on her Facebook page on Feb. 11. "Those are not statements from intelligence services, but information of the NBC and CNN television channels, referring to unnamed sources at intelligence services.
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Government accused of 'full-frontal attack' on whistleblowers
Outcry follows plans to radically increase prison terms for revealing state secrets and prosecute journalists. The government’s legal advisers have been accused of launching a “full-frontal attack” on whistleblowers over proposals to radically increase prison sentences for revealing state secrets and prosecute journalists. Downing Street believes a major overhaul of existing secrecy legislation is necessary because it has become outdated in a digital age when government employees can easily disclose vast amounts of sensitive information.
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