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N.S.A. Leaker Denies Giving Secrets to China
www.nytimes.com-June 18, 2013
Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who has confessed to disclosing troves of highly classified documents detailing American surveillance at home and abroad, said Monday that he had not given any classified materials to the government of China.
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Leaker's Ties to China Probed
www.online.wsj.com-June 14, 2013
U.S. lawmakers briefed Thursday on the recently revealed NSA surveillance programs trained their fire on the self-described source of the leaks, Edward Snowden, suggesting he may be cooperating with the Chinese government.
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NSA director says dozens of attacks were stopped by surveillance programs
www.washingtonpost.com-June 13, 2013
The head of the National Security Agency defended his agency’s broad electronic surveillance programs Wednesday, saying that they have helped thwart dozens of terrorist attacks and that their recent public disclosure has done “great harm” to the nation’s security.
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FBI director faces grilling by House panel on Benghazi, data leaks
www.foxnews.com-June 13, 2013
Members of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday will question outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller on investigations of the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, the Boston Marathon bombings, and recent leaks of classified government information.
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Google details how it hands over data to federal officials
www.washingtonpost.com-June 13, 2013
Google on Wednesday downplayed its role in a secret government surveillance program, detailing for the first time how it typically hands over data to federal officials.
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N.S.A. Chief Says Phone Logs Halted Terror Threats
www.nytimes.com-June 13, 2013
The director of the National Security Agency told Congress on Wednesday that “dozens” of terrorism threats had been halted by the agency’s huge database of the logs of nearly every domestic phone call made by Americans, while a senator briefed on the program disclosed that the telephone records are destroyed after five years.
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Storage Wars: Government’s Vast Lockers of Data Threaten Basic Individual Freedoms
www.nationaljournal.com-June 13, 2013
I’m going to try to tie together strands of information NSA-style and see if a pattern emerges. I will be looking for signs that America’s historic definition and understanding of privacy are being eroded. I will also try to understand if that erosion could fundamentally alter an individual American’s relationship to government power.
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Investigators looking into how Snowden gained access at NSA
www.washingtonpost.com-June 11, 2013
Counterintelligence investigators are scrutinizing how a 29-year-old contractor who said he leaked top-secret National Security Agency documents was able to gain access to what should be highly compartmentalized information, according to current and former administration and intelligence officials.
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NSA leaks put focus on intelligence apparatus’s reliance on outside contractors
www.washingtonpost.com-June 11, 2013
The unprecedented leak of top-secret documents by National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden raises far-reaching questions about the government’s rush to outsource intelligence work to contractors since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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NSA whistleblower whereabouts reportedly unknown as authorities consider charges
www.foxnews.com-June 11, 2013
As Justice Department officials consider charges against Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who claims to be source of classified leaks, the whereabouts of the 29-year-old computer expert appear to be unknown after he reportedly checked out of his Hong Kong hotel.
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Edward Snowden comes forward as source of NSA leaks
www.washingtonpost.com-June 10, 2013
A 29-year-old man who says he is a former undercover CIA employee said Sunday that he was the principal source of recent disclosures about top-secret National Security Agency programs, exposing himself to possible prosecution in an acknowledgment that had little if any precedent in the long history of U.S. intelligence leaks.
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NSA whistle-blower who sought to 'inform the public' in surveillance leak faces jail
www.foxnews.com-June 10, 2013
The source of the bombshell leaks about the U.S. government gathering information on billions of phone calls and Internet activities risks decades in jail for the disclosures if the U.S. can extradite him from Hong Kong, where he says he has taken refuge after saying his sole motive was to “inform the public.”
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Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations
www.guardian.co.uk-June 10, 2013
The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell.
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Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
www.washingtonpost.com-June 07, 2013
The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post.
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U.S. Confirms That It Gathers Online Data Overseas
www.nytimes.com-June 07, 2013
The federal government has been secretly collecting information on foreigners overseas for nearly six years from the nation’s largest Internet companies like Google, Facebook and, most recently, Apple, in search of national security threats, the director of national intelligence confirmed Thursday night.
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