The impact of a leaked al-Qaeda terrorist plot has caused more immediate damage to US counterterrorism efforts than the thousands of classified documents disclosed by former National Security...
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- Oct 3, 2013
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Edward Snowden
30-year-old American Edward Snowden, a contract employee at the National Security Agency, is the whistleblower behind significant revelations that surfaced in June 2013 about the US government's top secret, extensive domestic surveillance programmes. Snowden flew to Hong Kong from Hawaii in May 2013, and supplied confidential US government documents to media outlets including the Guardian.
30 Sep 2013
Jeremy Scahill, a contributor to The Nation magazine and best-selling author of Dirty Wars, will be working with Glenn Greenwald, the Rio-based journalist who has written stories about US...
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28 Sep 2013
US authorities secretly tapped the overseas phone calls of prominent critics of the Vietnam war, including Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali and two actively serving US senators, newly declassified...
3:27AM
28 Sep 2013
The top US intelligence official has sidestepped questions from a senator about whether the National Security Agency has used Americans' mobile phone signals to collect information on their...
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22 Sep 2013
For the first time since Barack Obama took office, a year of his presidency is likely to end without him toasting an ally at a glitzy White House state dinner. One had been scheduled for October...
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20 Sep 2013
The company that scrutinised former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden for a US government security clearance said on Thursday it also checked the background of the Navy Yard shooter, allowing...
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Rousseff, who was infuriated by the spying reports, decided to cancel despite a 20-minute telephone call from US President Barack Obama on Monday night in a last-minute attempt to salvage the trip...
5:02AM
US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden is living under guard at a secret location in Russia but is able to travel incognito and is expecting family visits, his Russian lawyer said in excerpts from...
5:21PM
Vienna is a fabled city for spying - and now its cloak-and-dagger legend has a 21st century twist. A stately villa in a leafy district of the Austrian capital is at the centre of a row over...
2:58AM
Leaks from Edward Snowden triggered a much needed debate about surveillance in America, even if they jeopardised national security, the country's spy chief admitted.
3:01AM
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...
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US intelligence officials have released secret documents showing that a judge reprimanded the National Security Agency in 2009 for violating its own procedures and misleading the nation's...
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