Snowden: US govt allows top officials to lie to Congress, yet prosecutes truth-tellers

Edward Snowden hasn't been seen by the wider public since he received political asylum in Russia until now. Wikileaks has released new footage of the NSA whistleblower. They did not reveal exactly where it was filmed though, because of concerns about his security. RT's Lucy Kafanov reports

"Edward Snowden Has Done This Country A Service": ACLU Praises Leaker For Kickstarting NSA Debate

As Edward Snowden's father, Lon, arrives in Moscow to try to visit his son, we speak to American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero about Snowden and the significance of his leaks about the National Security Agency. "Edward Snowden has done this country a service," Romero says. "He has kickstarted a debate that we didn't have. This debate was anemic." Hossam Bahgat of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights adds, "We are all affected by the NSA program. We cannot do our work in Egypt, in Canada or Israel or Kenya when we cannot communicate, when we know our emails could be intercepted by the United States security apparatus."

Spilling the NSA Secrets: Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger on the Inside Story of Snowden Leaks

Spilling the NSA's Secrets: Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger on the Inside Story of Snowden Leaks

http://www.democracynow.org - Three-and-a-half months after National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden came public on the the U.S. government's massive spying operations at home and abroad, we spend the hour with Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of The Guardian, the British newspaper that first reported on Snowden's leaked documents. The Guardian has continued releasing a series of exposés based on Snowden's leaks coloring in the details on how the NSA has managed to collect telephone records in bulk and information on nearly everything a user does on the Internet. The articles have ignited widespread debate about security agencies' covert activities, digital data protection and the nature of investigative journalism. The newspaper has been directly targeted as a result -- over the summer the British government forced the paper to destroy computer hard drives containing copies of Snowden's secret files, and later detained David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald. Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian for nearly two decades, joins us to tell the inside story of The Guardian's publication of the NSA leaks and the crackdown it's faced from its own government as a result.

Edward Snowden Reveals the Black Budget

Edward Snowden reveals the US 'black budget' of secret intelligence spending



 Edward Snowden has leaked documents via The Washington Post revealing details about the secret intelligence spending in the US. The "black budget" shows how the NSA, the CIA and other intelligence agencies spend their money and whether or not they are meeting their targets. They also reveal a huge increase in intelligence spending since 2004.

Edward Snowden, A Truth Unveiled (Documentary)

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln.
Democratic and Republican Senators and Representatives are nothing more than puppets being controlled by black-hearted industrial Tyrants. If the public does not pick up on this fact soon, and remove them from power through the democratic process, then the military will have no choice but to try them for treason and espionage under military courts in order to protect our Constitution.

Stefan Molyneux ~ The Truth About Edward Snowden

Stefan Molyneux discusses the truth about Edward Snowden and breaks down the, history, origin, legality, and the terrifying reality of warrentless wiretapping, data collection and government spying.

There are no free markets. Governments all regulate and franchise markets in favor of their supporters. Corporations are part of the government bureaucracy. Free Markets in themselves are of little concerns to libertarians. It's only when I wish to acquire a product or service and am forced to pay a monopolistic price or a tax that my libertarian emotions are aroused.

Snowden caught on camera: No state has basis to limit my asylum

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says he wants temporary political asylum in Russia, and promised to stop releasing leaks that harm Washington to secure it. He told Russian and international human rights activists of his wishes at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, where he's been stuck in a transit area for more than two weeks.

BREAKING : Snowden asks Russia for Asylum

NSA leaker & former CIA employee Edward Snowden has asked for political asylum in Russia, saying he could not fly to Latin America, according to Human Rights Watch representative who met the whistleblower. Thirteen Russian and international human rights advocates and lawyers have gathered at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport for a meeting with Snowden

Snowden Human Rights Meeting a Hint at Next Move?

Moscow bureau chief Greg White explains what Edward Snowden's planned meeting with human rights groups might mean for the future of the NSA whistleblower. Photo: AP

Snowden "Considering Venezuela Asylum"

American journalist Glenn Greenwald says he believes former spy contractor Edward Snowden will soon seek refuge in Venezuela.

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Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who first published top-secret information on U.S. surveillance programmes using data leaked by former spy contractor Edward Snowden.

Speaking from his home in Rio de Janeiro, The Guardian blogger and columnist said he had spoken to Snowden about the fugitive's asylum plans via an encrypted online chat on Tuesday.

[Glenn Greenwald, American Journalist]:
"There are news reports today that he has formally accepted the asylum offer from Venezuela. Whether those news reports are accurate or not, I don't want to comment on but, I think personally, just speaking for myself, that of the three options, that one seems like the more plausible."

Snowden, seen here speaking to The Guardian Newspaper, is wanted by the United States on espionage charges.

He is believed to be holed up in the transit terminal of Moscow's main airport, where he has been stuck for weeks after the U.S. voided his passport and threatened consequences for any country that offered the American refuge.

Greenwald says conversations with the wanted man have led him to believe Snowden's trove of National Security Agency documents are not in the hands of foreign governments.

Meanwhile, Venezuela's foreign minister said the contractor had not officially accepted his country's offer of asylum, as of Tuesday.

Edward Snowden on Why He Stood Up to the NSA: Mass Spying "Not Something I'm Willing to Live Under"

In a newly released interview conducted just before he came forward early last month, Edward Snowden explains why he has devoted his life to expose how the United States is spying on the world. Snowden says he thinks the biggest revelation to emerge from his leaks is the National Security Agency's collection of all communications into and out of the United States -- despite NSA claims that it only targets foreign traffic. Snowden also predicts that the U.S. government would seek to demonize him and accuse him of aiding America's enemies. Journalist Laura Poitras filmed the exchange, and Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald asked the questions. "America is a fundamentally good country," Snowden says. "We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing, but the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedoms of all."

US Spying Scandal & National Security

Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old system administrator and former undercover CIA employee, has revealed himself as the source behind the biggest intelligence leaks in the National Security Agency (NSA)'s history. Snowden admitted his role in the leaks in a 12-minute video interview recorded in Hong Kong where he is currently staying, The Guardian reported on Sunday.

The British newspaper said Snowden flew to Hong Kong on May 20 after copying the last set of documents he intended to disclose at the NSA's office in Hawaii. The paper pointed out that it was revealing Snowden's identity at his own request. In the interview, he denounced what he described as systematic surveillance of innocent US citizens, saying his " sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them."

Is The Five Eyes Alliance watching you?

Edward Snowden's whistleblowing has revealed the secret snooping conducted by the NSA, GCHQ and other western intelligence agencies. But this sort of signal intelligence sharing goes back way further than you might think - Truthloader looked into The Five Eyes Alliance (the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) and another secret project named ECHELON.

WikiLeaks Blasts U.S. for Leaving Snowden "Stateless" as NSA Leaker Withdraws Asylum Bid in Russia

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has reportedly abandoned his effort to permanently stay in Russia, but has submitted asylum requests to 20 other countries. His decision comes one day after President Vladimir Putin said Snowden could only seek asylum in Russia if he stopped leaking U.S. secrets. When Snowden arrived in Russia last week, it was initially believed he was on his way to Ecuador, but that prospect is now in doubt. For more, we're joined by Kristinn Hrafnsson, spokesperson for WikiLeaks, which is assisting Snowden in his attempt to seek political asylum. Hrafnsson is a longtime investigative reporter who was named Icelandic journalist of the year three times.

Obama on What's Going On With Edward Snowden

7/1/13 - Barack Obama on What's Going On With Edward Snowden: US president Barack Obama implies that European countries could be spying on the US, saying there are plenty of European leaders who want to know what he is thinking, during a press conference in Tanzania.

Putin : Edward Snowden Must Quit Leaking Secrets

July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Russia should protect Edward Snowden, the fugitive U.S. leaker stranded in a Moscow airport without a passport, and offer him asylum if he asks for it, said the head of President Vladimir Putin's human rights council. Bloomberg Contributing Editor Richard Falkenrath reports on Bloomberg Television's "Market Makers." (Source: Bloomberg)

BREAKING NEWS - NSA Whisleblower Snowden Seeks Asylum in Russia!

Fox news reports...http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/...
 Edward Snowden reportedly is seeking asylum in Russia, as the NSA leaker faces diminishing options for getting out of the Moscow airport where he is believed to be staying.
The Interfax news agency cited Kim Shevchenko, the duty officer at the Russian Foreign Ministry's consular office in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, as saying that Snowden's representative, Sarah Harrison, handed over his request for political asylum on Sunday.
The confirmation, though, comes after Russia's President Vladimir Putin publicly issued a condition for any asylum request from Snowden -- he must stop leaking America's secrets.

URGENT - Is NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden A Double Agent?? You Decide!!

Donald Trump, a man who has previously and may once again tout himself as a presidential candidate, believes that the American justice system is too slow and cumbersome to deal with whistleblowers like former NSA analyst Edward Snowden.

Labeling Snowden a "spy", Trump went on Fox News to advocate his immediate "execution".

In a vomit inducing interview with Fox and Friends, Trump, in his infinite wisdom, stated:

"You know, spies in the old days used to be executed."

Edward Snowden left Russia for Cuba ??

June 24 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg News' Phil Mattingly and Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass discuss the whereabouts of NSA leaker Edward Snowden as he was checked-in, but not on, a flight that was supposed to take him to Cuba. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Surveillance."

Snowden Still in Russia, where is he going next?

Edward Snowden is on the run. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said he believes Snowden is still in Russia after fleeing Hong Kong on Sunday. Where will the man who leaked NSA secrets go next? RT Correspondent Liz Wahl takes a look at where he's been and where he could be going.