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The war on whistleblowers and journalism | Glenn Greenwald

Discussing press freedoms with Julian Assange, David Coombs, Alexa O'Brien and others

I'm working on several stories, so posting this week will be difficult. Until then, below is the video of the 90-minute event I did this week at the Sydney Opera House on the war on whistleblowers and journalism, along with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning's lawyer David Coombs, the intrepid independent journalist Alexa O'Brien, and the Australian commentator Robert Manne, hosted by the Austr...

Inside the mind of NSA chief Gen Keith Alexander | Glenn Greenwald

A lavish Star Trek room he had built as part of his 'Information Dominance Center' is endlessly revealing

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It has been previously reported that the mentality of NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander is captured by his motto "Collect it All". It's a get-everything approach he pioneered first when aimed at an enemy population in the middle of a war zone in Iraq, one he has now imported onto US soil, aimed at the domestic population and everyone else.

But a perhaps even more disturbing and...

NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel

• Secret deal places no legal limits on use of data by Israelis
• Only official US government communications protected
• Agency insists it complies with rules governing privacy
• Read the NSA and Israel's 'memorandum of understanding'

The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals.

Details of the intelligence-shari...

NSA encryption story, Latin American fallout and US/UK attacks on press freedoms | Glenn Greenwald

The implications of the prior week's reporting of NSA stories continue to grow

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I'm currently working on what I believe are several significant new NSA stories, to be published imminently here, as well as one very consequential story about NSA spying in Brazil that will first be broadcast Sunday night on the Brazilian television program Fantastico (because the report has worldwide implications, far beyond Brazil, it will be translated into English and then quickly published on th...

Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security

• NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records
• $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products
• Security experts say programs 'undermine the fabric of the internet'

• Q&A: submit your questions for our privacy experts

US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online tra...

Revealed: How US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security

• NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records
• $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products
• Security experts say programs 'undermine the fabric of the internet'

US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails, according to top-secret docume...

Obama, Congress and Syria | Glenn Greenwald

The president is celebrated for seeking a vote on his latest war even as his aides make clear it has no binding effect

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It's a potent sign of how low the American political bar is set that gratitude is expressed because a US president says he will ask Congress to vote before he starts bombing another country that is not attacking or threatening the US. That the US will not become involved in foreign wars of choice without the consent of the American people through their represent...

Ongoing NSA work | Glenn Greenwald

Anti-journalism journalists, US/UK attacks on press freedom, and candidate Obama on non-authorized military attacks

For the past seven-plus years, I've written more or less every day. That pattern has obviously changed over the last three months, during which time my posting has been more infrequent. That's because I've been prioritizing my work on these NSA documents and articles, which take a fair amount of time to process, report and then write. I'm currently working on several NSA/GCHQ sto...

Snowden: UK government now leaking documents about itself | Glenn Greenwald

The NSA whistleblower says: 'I have never spoken with, worked with, or provided any journalistic materials to the Independent'

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The Independent this morning published an article - which it repeatedly claims comes from "documents obtained from the NSA by Edward Snowden" - disclosing that "Britain runs a secret internet-monitoring station in the Middle East to intercept and process vast quantities of emails, telephone calls and web traffic on behalf of Western intelligence agencies...

'Sending a message': what the US and UK are attempting to do | Glenn Greenwald

State-loyal journalists seem to believe in a duty to politely submit to bullying tactics from political officials

Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger on Monday night disclosed the remarkable news that UK authorities, several weeks ago, threatened the Guardian UK with prior restraint if they did not destroy all of their materials provided by Edward Snowden, and then sent agents to the basement of the paper's offices to oversee the physical destruction of hard drives. The Guardian has more...