All Articles on Edward Snowden
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News Further Vindicating Righteousness of Snowden's Whistleblowing, NSA Bulk Spying Ruled Illegal "I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA's activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them. And yet that day has arrived," said Edward Snowden in response to the ruling. Read more |
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News Dems Urged to Say, 'Yes, Snowden Should Be Pardoned' After Trump Floats Possibility The comment from the president prompted fresh praise for the former intelligence contractor who "blew the whistle on illegal government activity kept secret for years." Read more |
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News Forget Your Feelings About Trump, Say Allies of NSA Whistleblower, 'Snowden Pardon Would Be a Major Win' "Edward Snowden is a patriot. Our democracy is better off because of him," tweeted the ACLU. "As we said four years ago, the president should pardon him." Read more |
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News Senate Committee Takes Up EARN IT Act Decried by Rights Advocates as 'Sneak Attack on Encryption' "That such a law is even being considered by Congress," says whistleblower Edward Snowden, "is a national disgrace." Read more |
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News Presidential Candidates Should Declare Their Stance on "Costly Failure of the NSA's Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance Program," Says Snowden The whistleblower's call follows reporting by the New York Times showing the agency's sprawling photo data collection effort came with a $100 million pricetag and nearly no success. Read more |
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News Snowden Warns Targeting of Greenwald and Assange Shows Governments 'Ready to Stop the Presses—If They Can' "The most essential journalism of every era," says the NSA whistleblower, "is precisely that which a government attempts to silence." Read more |
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News 'An Absolute Red Alert': Snowden Joins Journalists and Rights Advocates Worldwide Rallying to the Side of Glenn Greenwald "It should be clear to anyone—no matter their political persuasion—that the Bolsonaro administration is taking these actions in a purely retaliatory manner in an attempt to criminalize journalism." Read more |
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News Edward Snowden: If I Came Back to the U.S., I Would Likely Die in Prison for Telling the Truth At Wednesday’s The Right Livelihood Awards, Amy Goodman interviewed Snowden in front of the award ceremony’s live audience via video link from Moscow. Read more |
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Views The Ukraine Whistleblowers and the Rise of Partisan Whistleblowing This moment should spark a conversation about the place of national security whistleblowing in a democratic society. Read more |
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News 'Without Encryption, We Will Lose All Privacy': Snowden Condemns US, UK, and Australian Push for 'Backdoor' Into Facebook Messaging Apps "Should they succeed in their quest to undermine encryption, our public infrastructure and private lives will be rendered permanently unsafe." Read more |