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Denmark's top foreign intelligence chief has been suspended for spying on Danish citizens illegally for up to six years after a whistleblower released a trove of documents to government regulators. In a press release yesterday, the independent regulator of the Danish security services said it had received information from a whistleblower in November that revealed the country's foreign intelligence service "Had withheld key and crucial information," and given "Incorrect information on matters relating to the collection of the service and disclosure of information."
Attorney General William Barr said he would be "Vehemently opposed" to any attempt to pardon former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, after the president suggested he might consider it. "There are many, many people - it seems to be a split decision that many people think that he should be somehow treated differently, and other people think he did very bad things," Trump said of Snowden at a news conference on Saturday.
Bart Gellman's long-awaited book on Edward Snowden, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State, will finally be published in a couple of weeks. It's an interesting read, mostly about the government surveillance of him and other journalists.
Court Rules That Former NSA Contractor Violated Nondisclosure AgreementA federal judge ruled this week that the U.S. government is entitled to proceeds from Edward Snowden's memoir and his paid...
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden violated secrecy agreements with the U.S. government that allow it to claim proceeds from a memoir he published earlier this year, a judge...
Merry Christmas! A federal judge has ruled that the US government can collect royalties from the sale of ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden's memoir Permanent Record and any fees from related public...
Former national intelligence director James Clapper discusses lessons learned from the 2013 Snowden leak as well as the top cyberthreats that the U.S. is currently facing.
Technology has given internet giants "irresistible power" when they work in concert with governments, whistleblower Ed Snowden told the Web Summit that opened in Lisbon on Monday. read more
We really needed to take a look before you published The US government has gone back to court in a bid to get a summary judgment against whistleblower Edward Snowden and Macmillan – the publisher...
We really needed to take a look before you published The US government has gone back to court in a bid to get a summary judgement against whistleblower Edward Snowden and Macmillan – the publisher...