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NSA files and David Miranda detention - latest news and reaction

Andrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of all the latest developments relating to detention of David Miranda and the government getting the Guardian to destroy computer files with leaked documents about NSA surveillance

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David Miranda detention - latest developments and reaction

Andrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of the latest developments and reaction following the detention of David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald's partner, at Heathrow

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Reaction to the detention of David Miranda at Heathrow airport – as it happened

White House says US was given 'heads up' before the detention of David Miranda at Heathrow airport

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Glenn Greenwald: detaining my partner was a failed attempt at intimidation

The detention of my partner, David Miranda, by UK authorities will have the opposite effect of the one intended

At 6:30 am this morning my time - 5:30 am on the East Coast of the US - I received a telephone call from someone who identified himself as a "security official at Heathrow airport." He told me that my partner, David Miranda, had been "detained" at the London airport "under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act of 2000."

David had spent the last week in Berlin, where he stayed with Laura Po...

Michael Hayden, Bob Schieffer and the media's reverence of national security officials | Glenn Greenwald

The former NSA director is held up by the Face the Nation host as an objective authority when he is everything but that

In 2006, the New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize for having revealed that the NSA was eavesdropping on Americans without warrants. The reason that was a scandal was because it was illegal under a 30-year-old law that made it a felony, punishable by up to 5 years in prison for each offense, to eavesdrop on Americans without those warrants. Although both the Bush and Obama DO...

Email service used by Snowden shuts itself down, warns against using US-based companies | Glenn Greenwald

Edward Snowden: 'Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, and the rest of our internet titans must ask themselves why they aren't fighting for our interests the same way'

A Texas-based encrypted email service recently revealed to be used by Edward Snowden - Lavabit - announced yesterday it was shutting itself down in order to avoid complying with what it perceives as unjust secret US court orders to provide government access to its users' content. "After significant soul searching, I have de...

On Obama's cancellation of summit with Putin and extradition | Glenn Greenwald

The US frequently refuses extradition requests where, unlike with Snowden, it involves serious crimes and there is an extradition treaty

(updated below)

President Obama today canceled a long-scheduled summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in part because the US president is upset that Russia defied his personal directive to hand over Edward Snowden despite the lack of an extradition treaty between the two nations. That means that US media outlets will spend the next 24 hours or so channe...

On Obama's cancellation of summit with Putin and extradition [ Glenn Greenwald

The US frequently refuses extradition requests where, unlike with Snowden, it involves serious crimes and there is an extradition treaty

(updated below)

President Obama today canceled a long-scheduled summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in part because the US president is upset that Russia defied his personal directive to hand over Edward Snowden despite the lack of an extradition treaty between the two nations. That means that US media outlets will spend the next 24 hours or so channe...

Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA | Glenn Greenwald

Documents provided by two House members demonstrate how they are blocked from exercising any oversight over domestic surveillance

• Morgan Griffith's requests for NSA information
• Alan Grayson's requests for NSA information

Members of Congress have been repeatedly thwarted when attempting to learn basic information about the National Security Agency (NSA) and the secret FISA court which authorizes its activities, documents provided by two House members demonstrate.

From the beginning of the NSA...

XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

• XKeyscore gives 'widest-reaching' collection of online data
• NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches
• Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history
• NSA's XKeyscore program – read one of the presentations

A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower...