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Edward Snowden attacks Russia over human rights and hacking
The US whistleblower Edward Snowden has attacked his Russian protectors by criticising the Kremlin’s human rights record and suggesting that its officials have been involved in hacks on US security networks.
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'Edward Snowden did this country a great service. Let him come home'
Bernie Sanders leads a chorus of prominent public figures calling for clemency, a plea agreement or, in several cases, a full pardon for the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. Writing in the Guardian, the runner-up in the race to become Democratic presidential candidate argues that Snowden helped to educate the American public about how the NSA violated the constitutional rights of citizens with its mass surveillance program.
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Don’t just pardon Edward Snowden; give the man a medal
As Barack Obama’s second term comes to an end, an increasingly loud chorus of voices are calling for a dramatic final presidential act: the pardoning of..
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Clinton Is Not the Tech Privacy Candidate. Not Your Privacy Anyway
Podesta leak acknowledges her ‘instincts’ are to accept law enforcement’s claims on encryption access and surveillance. By Scott Shackford. (Oct. 13, 2016)
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Jury awards $7.3 million to Penn State whistleblower in Sandusky scandal
A jury in Pennsylvania on Thursday awarded more than $7 million in damages to a former Penn State University assistant football coach who said the school retaliated by firing him after he implicated Jerry Sandusky as a molester of young boys. The $7.3 million in compensatory and punitive damages Penn State was ordered to pay Michael McQueary was confirmed to Reuters by Kendra Miknis, chief administrator of the Centre County Court of Common Pleas in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.
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Chelsea Manning Tried Committing Suicide a Second Time in October
Ms. Manning says she tried to commit suicide at the start of a week of solitary confinement she was serving as punishment for a previous attempt to end her own life. By Charlie Savage.
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Chelsea Manning’s Statement for the Fourth Annual Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon
As read to the crowd at Aaron Swartz Day, at the Internet Archive, San Francisco, November 5, 2016.
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Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company—And His Family
After working at Theranos Inc. for eight months, Tyler Shultz decided he had seen enough. On April 11, 2014, he emailed company founder Elizabeth Holmes to complain that Theranos had doctored research and ignored failed quality-control checks. The reply was withering. Ms. Holmes forwarded the email to Theranos President Sunny Balwani, who belittled Mr. Shultz’s grasp of basic mathematics and his knowledge of laboratory science, and...
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Why the World Needs WikiLeaks
We keep the powerful accountable — and that will be even more important in the coming years. By Sarah Harrison.
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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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Why I told the Senate that Jeff Sessions thought civil rights groups were ‘un-American’
My job was threatened if I said what I knew about Sessions, but I did it anyway. Now he’s poised to lead the Justice Department. By J. Gerald Hebert.
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WikiLeaks releases 2,000 files from German inquiry into NSA spying scandal
Owners of the Sequim Bee Farm are looking for answers after they say vandals poisoned 20 of their hives, killing upward of 300,000 honey bees, The Peninsula Daily News reported Wednesday. “We knew a bear wouldn’t just stop pushing over with all the honey in the hive,” Sequim Bee Farm co-owner Buddy Depew told the newspaper. “I got to looking, and the rest of the hives, the bees, were all gone.”
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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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US Intel Vets Dispute Russia Hacking Claims
As the hysteria about Russia’s alleged interference in the U.S. election grows, a key mystery is why U.S. intelligence would rely on “circumstantial evidence” when it has the capability for hard evidence, say U.S. intelligence veterans.
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Edward Snowden in His Own Words
ACLU
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If Donald Trump Targets Journalists, Thank Obama
Obama has laid all the groundwork Trump needs for a crackdown on reporters. By James Risen.
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Ten journalists battle efforts to make them testify in a San Bernardino county corruption case
Ten Southern California journalists are fighting an effort by prosecutors to compel them to testify in the San Bernardino County corruption trials of a developer, a former supervisor and other former county officials. By Paloma Esquivel.
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UN Independent Expert On Promotion Of Democracy Calls On Governments To Stop Persecuting Whistleblowers
Alfred de Zayas, who is the UN's "Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and international order" has put out quite a statement in support of President Obama's decision to commute Chelsea Manning's sentence. But de Zayas didn't stop there. He went on to point out that the US government and other governments have been persecuting many other whistleblowers around the world, including Ed Snowden and Julian Assange, and that should stop...
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