1 July 2013 — RT
The US has been spying on dozens of foreign embassies and missions belonging to its rivals and allies in America to keep tabs on disagreements between them, new documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed.
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Behind the Curtain of America’s Security State By William Boardman
30 June 2013 — Global Research
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-OR: “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?”
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper: “No, sir.”
Greenwald on ‘coming’ leak: NSA can obtain one billion cell phone calls a day, store them and listen
30 June 2013 — RT
The NSA has a “brand new” technology that enables one billion cell phone calls a day to be redirected into its data hoards and stored, according to the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald, who said that a new leak of Snowden’s documents was ‘coming soon.’
New NSA leaks show email surveillance under Obama
27 June 2013 — RT
The Obama administration permitted the National Security Agency to continue collecting vast amounts of records detailing the email and Internet usage of Americans for more than two years, new documents reveal.
Inventor of World Wide Web accuses West of hypocrisy
27 June 2013 — RT
Sir Tim Berners-Lee has lashed out at Western governments, calling them hypocritical for spying on the internet while reproaching other oppressive nations for doing the same; adding that the revelations may change the way people use computers.
Snowden sought Booz Allen job to gather evidence on NSA surveillance By Lana Lam
24 June 2013 — South China Morning Post
Fugitive whistle-blower reveals for first time he took job at US government contractor with the sole aim of collecting proof of spying activities
Under Electronic Surveillance of US Special Services By Nil NIKANDROV
24 June 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
The CIA and the NSA (the US National Security Agency) whistleblower Edward Snowden (who temporarily had found refuge in Hong Kong and now [is someplace else]) has demonstrated once more the global reach of US electronic surveillance which, no doubt, is a kind of criminal activity. He looked really deep into what the NSA does and was terrified by the things he found out. So the man is on his way looking for a safe shelter to continue the revelations…
Video: Where is Edward Snowden? Glenn Greenwald on Asylum Request, Espionage Charge; More Leaks to Come
24 June 2013 — Democracy Now!
The international mystery surrounding National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has deepened after the former U.S. intelligence contractor failed to board a flight as expected from Moscow to Havana today. (inc. transcript)
NSA Spying: So They Are Listening In, After All By Tom Burghardt
24 June 2013 — Anti-fascist Calling…
Despite a stream of mendacious twaddle from President Obama, congressional grifters and spook agency mouthpieces like Office of the Director of National Intelligence head James Clapper, FBI Director Robert Mueller and NSA chief General Keith Alexander, it turns out our guardians are listening in to America’s, and most of the world’s, telephone conversations after all.
Washington v. Edward Snowden: The “Russia -China Connection” By Stephen Lendman
24 June 2013 — Global Research
Events are fast-moving. On June 23, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s (HKSAR) press release said:
“Mr Edward Snowden left Hong Kong today (June 23) on his own accord for a third country through a lawful and normal channel.”
US: One Step Removed From Full-Blown Fascism By Rob Urie
24 June 2013 — Greanville Press
The conspicuously nonsensical efforts by President Barack Obama and NSA spy chief Alexander to assure Americans massive corporate-government spy operations had prevented terrorist attacks were supported by only a few easily disproved lies. More broadly, the history of recent decades has government spy agencies hiring ‘private’ companies to carry out the activities they are legally prohibited from carrying out. This makes government assertions regarding spying on citizens a game of three-card monte—the testimony of government officials is calculated to be irrelevant to actual activities.
Our man in Quito By Pepe Escobar
24 June 2013 — Asia Times
HONG KONG – So it’s going to be Our Man in Quito. The narrative may not be as elegant as Graham Greene’s, but the plot certainly beats the Bourne trilogy – because it’s happening live, in real time, right in front of our eyes.
Democratic rights are at stake in fight to defend Edward Snowden By Barry Grey
24 June 2013 — WSWS
There is something profoundly unsettling about seeing a young person fleeing a vindictive government for having exposed a massive political conspiracy against the democratic rights of the American people and the people of the world.
Video: ‘Snowden exposes criminals, criminals are going for him now’
23 June 2013 — RT
Information that NSA leaker Edward Snowden is exposing can lead to trials against those involved in war crimes in Afghanistan or Iraq or in money laundering and that is why “the West is so afraid,” investigative journalist Tony Gosling told RT.
Video: 'Russia safe for Snowden for now as it will not be pressured'
23 June 2013 — RT
Russia is “a very safe place” for the NSA leaker Edward Snowden as it will not be pressured by the US, former MI5 agent Annie Machon told RT as the whistleblower arrived in Moscow reportedly en route to a third country.
“Intelligence,” Corporatism, and the Dance of Death By Arthur Silber
18 June 2013 — Power of Narrative
You may at first think the following is a bad joke, but I assure you it is not a joke at all. At the very end of this NYT story about Booz Allen and the complex interconnections between nominally “private” business and the national intelligence community, we read: Continue reading
Follow the Money: The Secret Heart of the Secret State By Chris Floyd
23 June 2013 — Empire Burlesque
No one, anywhere, has been writing about the deeper and wider implications of the Snowden revelations than Arthur Silber. (I hope you’re not surprised by this.) In a series of powerful, insightful essays, Silber has, among other things, laid bare the dangers of the oddly circumscribed ‘gatekeeper’ approach of the journalistic guardians (at, ironically, the Guardian) of Snowden’s secrets, particularly their slow drip-feed of carefully self-censored tidbits from the famous Powerpoint presentation that Snowden secreted from the bowels of the United Stasi of the American intelligent apparat. Continue reading
Video: NSA leaker Snowden arrives in Moscow en route to ‘third country’ with WikiLeaks help
23 June 2013 — RT
The plane carrying whistleblower Edward Snowden has landed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. The former CIA contractor, who left Hong Kong in a bid to elude US extradition on espionage charges, is on his way to a ‘third country’ via Russia.
The Stunning Hypocrisy of the U.S. Government
22 June 2013 — Washingtonsblog
The Government’s Hypocrisy Is the Core Problem
Congress has exempted itself from the prohibition against trading on inside information … the law that got Martha Stewart and many other people thrown in jail.
Britain’s Surveillance State: The Secret Ops of the “Government Communications Headquarters” (GCHQ) By Colin Todhunter
22 June 2013 — Global Research
“The innocent have everything to fear, mostly from the guilty, but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear.’” Terry Pratchett (British author), in Snuff (Doubleday, 2011).
The New Dark Age 