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Edward Snowden: The Truth About U.S. Surveillance Will Emerge
In a live Q&A with Guardian readers from a secret location in Hong Kong, Snowden hinted at more disclosures to come and that their publication could not be prevented by his arrest or – more chillingly – his death.
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Outsourcing Big Brother: How the FBI and CIA Use Private Contractors to Monitor Social Media
Companies like Palantir Technologies Inc, Booz Allen Hamilton and i2 are mining your Facebook and Twitter data to discern whether you're a terrorist, have ties to terrorists — or maybe just have the potential to someday become one.
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NSA Spying Extends to Contents of U.S. Phone Calls
The National Security Agency disclosed in a secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls, e-mail and text messages.
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From Greenwald to Assange: Prosecuting Our Watchdogs of Democracy
As the mainstream media has a field day eviscerating Obama’s secret NSA spying program, a separate clandestine debate is beginning to trickle into public discourse: how to prosecute journalists who publish big leaks.
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Secret Surveillance Court Judge Who Signed Verizon Order Attended Koch-Funded Terrorism Seminar
A U.S. District Judge and member of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered Verizon to give the NSA millions of Americans' telephone records after attending expenses-paid, Charles Koch-funded seminars.
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World Leaders Want More Answers on NSA Surveillance Program
Data protection chiefs and analysts in E.U., Pakistan, South Africa and Canada expressed concerns at the news of broad surveillance programs that spy on Americans.
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The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning
The documents that detail the crimes, torture and killing Manning revealed, because they are classified, have been barred from discussion in court, effectively removing the fundamental issue of war crimes from the trial.
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Stop Watching Us: New Petition Website Demands Congressional Investigation of NSA Surveillance
A coalition of 85 technology companies, organizations and privacy advocates launched a website Tuesday calling for a special congressional committee to investigate the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance program.
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"Boundless Informant" Revealed: The NSA's Secret Tool to Track Global Surveillance Data
The Guardian has acquired top-secret documents about the NSA datamining tool, called Boundless Informant, that details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information it collects from computer and telephone networks.
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Our Historic Challenge: Supporting the Moral Actions of Edward Snowden
In Washington, where the state of war and the surveillance state are one and the same, top officials have begun to call for Edward Snowden’s head.
