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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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Dianne Feinstein on NSA: ‘It’s called protecting America’
www.politico.com-June 07, 2013
The top two leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee said today that the widespread monitoring of phone records revealed by Wednesday’s Guardian report has been going on for years and that Congress is regularly briefed about it.
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Obama administration defends 2nd mass surveillance project
www.foxnews.com-June 07, 2013
The Obama administration found itself defending -- and beginning to explain -- yet another surveillance effort after leaked documents revealed information about two secret National Security Agency intelligence-gathering programs.
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Obama to press China's Xi to stop cyber attacks
www.la.times.com-June 06, 2013
In January 2010, when Google accused Chinese hackers of infiltrating its network to track emails of human rights activists, the Obama administration didn't disclose what U.S. diplomats in Beijing believed: China's Politburo had directed the attack.
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Chinese, U.S. Military Chiefs Break the Ice
www.online.wsj.com-June 03, 2013
Even as tensions run high between U.S. and Chinese militaries over cyberspying and shows of force by both sides in the Pacific, American and Chinese military chiefs at a security conference in Singapore aren't showing it.
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China says looking forward to cyber talks with US
http://news.yahoo.com-May 31, 2013
China is looking forward to "even-tempered talks" on cybersecurity when a Chinese military delegation meets with U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel over the weekend, the Foreign Ministry said Friday, as Washington continues to press Beijing over the issue ahead of a summit next week.
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Drone strike reportedly kills a long-sought target in Pakistan
www.la.times.com-May 30, 2013
For three long years, the CIA hunted the Pakistani militant who had helped send a suicide bomber deep into a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan. The audacious mission killed seven U.S. intelligence officers and contractors, one of the deadliest days in agency history.
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Pentagon Defends Weapons After Report of Hacker Attacks
www.bloomberg.com-May 29, 2013
The Pentagon vouched for the capabilities of U.S. weaponry, responding to a report that Chinese hackers had gained access to sensitive information about major American weapons systems.
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Confidential report lists U.S. weapons system designs compromised by Chinese cyberspies
www.washingtonpost.com-May 28, 2013
Designs for many of the nation’s most sensitive advanced weapons systems have been compromised by Chinese hackers, according to a report prepared for the Pentagon and to officials from government and the defense industry.
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In Terror Shift, Obama Took a Long Path
www.nytimes.com-May 28, 2013
The pivot in counterterrorism policy that President Obama announced last week was nearly two years in the making, but perhaps the most critical moment came last spring during a White House meeting as he talked about the future of the nation’s long-running terrorism war. Underlying the discussion was a simple fact: It was an election year. And Mr. Obama might lose.
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Pivoting From a War Footing, Obama Acts to Curtail Drones
www.nytimes.com-May 24, 2013
Nearly a dozen years after the hijackings that transformed America, President Obama said Thursday that it was time to narrow the scope of the grinding battle against terrorists and begin the transition to a day when the country will no longer be on a war footing.
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