Edward Snowden: experts divided over extradition of NSA whistleblower - video. "This Award Is for Snowden": Greenwald, Poitras Accept Polk Honor for Exposing NSA Surveillance. In their first return to the United States since exposing the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance operations, journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras were honored in New York City on Friday with the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting.
Over the past 10 months, Poitras and Greenwald have played key roles in reporting the massive trove of documents leaked by Edward Snowden. They were joined by colleagues Ewen MacAskill of The Guardian and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post, with whom they shared the award. In their acceptance speeches, Poitras and Greenwald paid tribute to their source. "Each one of these awards just provides further vindication that what [Snowden] did in coming forward was absolutely the right thing to do and merits gratitude, and not indictments and decades in prison," Greenwald said. "None of us would be here … without the fact that someone decided to sacrifice their life to make this information available," Poitras said.
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In 2009, Ed Snowden said leakers “should be shot.” Then he became one. Ed Snowden was 23 years old when he moved to Geneva in 2007.
Soon after arriving, he was looking for a taste of home. It wasn't that he was unhappy. Snowden's life was becoming the adventure he'd been looking for. Moving to Switzerland hadn't been his first choice—his dream picks were in Asia and Australia—but it certainly wasn't bad. Hired by the CIA and granted a diplomatic cover, he was a regular old IT guy whose life was elevated by a hint of international intrigue.
Snowden would soon move into a four-bedroom apartment covered by the agency. But as his first spring dawned in Switzerland, it must have felt cold, foreign, and expensive. The $15 hamburgers weren't even as good as McDonald's; they tasted "like greasy cardboard. " Snowden logged on to the public IRC chat room with the same username he used across the Web: TheTrueHOOHA. An acerbic user, at home on #arsificial IRC isn't Twitter. And he could be abrasive. Any handle can be adopted in IRC. Life in Switzerland.
Snowden 'highly likely to be refused entry' in Britain. Dan Kennedy: If Edward Snowden Is in Trouble, So Is Journalism. The editors of the New York Times appear to have forgotten an important principle: The First Amendment is for all of us, and does not grant any special privileges to the institutional press.
Thus if Edward Snowden is prosecuted for leaking classified documents about the National Security Agency's secret surveillance programs, the news organizations that published those documents could face criminal charges as well. The possibility that journalists could be in legal jeopardy for doing their jobs seems not to have occurred to whoever wrote an editorial in today's Times, which argues that Snowden should be prepared to pay the price for civil disobedience by way of his leaks to the Guardian and the Washington Post.
Though the editorial dismisses the absurd notion that Snowden has committed treason, it concludes with this observation, which comes across as semi-sympathetic but contains toxic implications: "Mr. This is a moment of great peril for journalism.
Ex-CIA techie Edward Snowden: I am the NSA PRISM deepthroat. High performance access to file storage A former CIA technician has broken cover to reveal himself as the mole who leaked information about PRISM - the US government's massive web surveillance programme.
Edward Snowden, 29, outed himself as the source of revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) has tapped up American internet giants for data on foreigners' online activities. He made the claims during interviews with the Guardian. Snowden told the newspaper: "The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. "I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things … I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded.
"I don't want public attention because I don't want the story to be about me. He now fears for his life, warning: "If they want to get you, over time they will. "
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To date, Snowden's revelations compromised three national security items. FISA Court directed provision of telephone call data: The court which handles the various request formulated under the provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) issued court orders which directed various service providers, Verizon was specifically identified to provide the metadata (call data records, time, location, duration, etc) for all calls within the United States which transited their network.
USG PRISM program: The leaked documents contained power point slides which implicated a number of companies as complicit in providing their user's data to the U.S. government.
Edward Snowden Shouldn't Have Gone to Hong Kong. Inside the ‘Q Group,’ the Directorate Hunting Down Edward Snowde. 10 things to know about Edward Snowden. Edward Snowden’s tricky path to justice. Edward Snowden: saving us from the United Stasi of America. Link to video: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things' In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.
Snowden's whistleblowing gives us the possibility to roll back a key part of what has amounted to an "executive coup" against the US constitution. Since 9/11, there has been, at first secretly but increasingly openly, a revocation of the bill of rights for which this country fought over 200 years ago. In particular, the fourth and fifth amendments of the US constitution, which safeguard citizens from unwarranted intrusion by the government into their private lives, have been virtually suspended. For the president then to say that there is judicial oversight is nonsense – as is the alleged oversight function of the intelligence committees in Congress. That has now happened. Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance. The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.
Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell. The Guardian, after several days of interviews, is revealing his identity at his request. From the moment he decided to disclose numerous top-secret documents to the public, he was determined not to opt for the protection of anonymity. "I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong," he said. Snowden will go down in history as one of America's most consequential whistleblowers, alongside Daniel Ellsberg and Bradley Manning. Despite his determination to be publicly unveiled, he repeatedly insisted that he wants to avoid the media spotlight. CIA, NSA contractor admits to leaking secret programs.
The criminal investigation into who leaked key documents on the government's secret electronic snooping programs had only just started when a 29-year-old federal contract employee came forward and claimed responsibility.
Now, Edward Snowden is holed up in a Hong Kong hotel room, seeking to avoid the criminal prosecution he knows is inevitable. Former C.I.A. Worker Says He Leaked Surveillance Data. Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations. Link to video: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things' The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.
Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell. The Guardian, after several days of interviews, is revealing his identity at his request. Meet The High School Dropout Turned CIA Operative Behind the NSA Leaks.
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