President Obama has set new surveillance policy in response to National Security Agency spying unveiled by Edward Snowden. Critics aren’t convinced that it will make much difference. By Brad Knickerbocker As experts and advocates wade through the details of President Obama’s big speech on the National Security Agency, reviews are[...]
Here are 10 top stories Americans followed in 2013, ranked by respondents to a Christian Science Monitor/TIPP poll according to the percentage who said they followed the story very closely.It was a year of stormy headlines in 2013, from the fierce partisan rancor surrounding “Obamacare” to the emotionally charged divisions[...]
The judge, ruling in an ongoing civil lawsuit, ordered the NSA to stop collecting the plaintiffs’ telephone metadata, saying the intelligence gathering likely violates Fourth Amendment privacy guarantees. By Warren Richey In a forceful rebuke of the government’s controversial collection of telephone metadata, a federal judge in Washington has ordered[...]
Technology firms like Google and Facebook on Monday called on the U.S. government to curtail its online surveillance. If users no longer trust them, such companies could face big problems. By Harry Bruinius NEW YORK — The corporate giants of technology are urging the U.S. government to change its surveillance ways —[...]
According to NBC news, a German magazine reported Sunday, August 25, 2013, that the National Security Agency secretly monitored the United Nations’ New York headquarters by hacking into the organization’s video conferencing system. The weekly Der Spiegel cited documents provided by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden that show the[...]
Details of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program that feeds tips to federal agents and then instructs them to alter the investigative trail were published in a manual used by agents of the Internal Revenue Service for two years. The practice of recreating the investigative trail, highly criticized by former[...]
Editorials · Our Point of View
The “regular whistleblower”ere is no doubt in our minds, or anyone’s mind for that matter, that in the 237 years of being a nation we have seen lots of changes.From abolishing slavery, to women being allowed to vote — and then moving on to becoming part of the political world in[...]
By Jeremy Ravinsky Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked top-secret information revealing U.S. surveillance programs, has been languishing in a Moscow airport for over a week. But maybe he won’t be there for long.Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin have ordered the heads of their respective[...]
Editorials · Our Point of View
Edward Snowden first was a whistleblower, then he was called a spy, and then a traitor and many other things; but the fact is that he remains out there, a free man, in some unknown location with four laptops full of information of interest to any country he may[...]
I have been following with great interest the news of the whistleblower former CIA worker, Edward Snowden, who allegedly disclosed top secret national security programs.Mr. Snowden reported to some news media that he disclosed secret documents because innocent citizens deserve to know who is being investigated. He also stated that[...]
