9 Famous Whistle-Blowers: Where Are They Now?
It's one of the big questions concerning Edward Snowden, the self-confessed leaker and National Security Agency whistle-blower: What next? While legal experts debate whether he will be extradited from...
View ArticleOnly One Big Telecom CEO Refused To Cave To The NSA ... And He's Been In Jail...
Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio is currently serving a six-year sentence after being convicted of insider trading in April 2007 for selling $52 million of stock in the spring of 2001 as the...
View ArticleGOP CONGRESSMAN: Glenn Greenwald Should Be Prosecuted
U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said Wednesday afternoon that Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald should be prosecuted for his reporting that exposed new details about the National Security Agency and...
View ArticleNSA DIRECTOR: Phone Surveillance Has Prevented 'Dozens' Of Terrorist Attacks...
Gen. Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency, told a Senate committee on Wednesday that the agency's phone surveillance programs have helped foil "dozens" of terrorist plots in...
View ArticleCIA Deputy Director Michael Morell Has Resigned
CIA deputy director Michael Morell has resigned, the Associated Press is reporting.The Washington Post reported earlier Wednesday that Morell planned to resign and will be replaced with White House...
View ArticleHow To Send An Email That The Feds Can't Read
Maybe you want to fight Prism and keep your communications very private. Maybe you just like secret codes.There's an awesome free tool called Infoencrypt that will garble up your messages and make them...
View ArticleNSA DIRECTOR: Edward Snowden Was Lying When He Said He Could Tap Into...
Gen. Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency, told a Senate committee on Wednesday that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was wrong when he claimed he had the ability to tap...
View ArticleREVEALED: Edward Snowden's Dorky Teenage Years
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Long before he became known worldwide as the NSA contractor who exposed top-secret U.S. government surveillance programs, Edward Snowden worked for a Japanese...
View ArticleStrange Photos That Appear To Show A Young Edward Snowden Have Been Found Online
Following a Reuters article that looked over NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's online past, internet sleuths have begun digging — and they appear to be finding a trail that Snowden may have hoped to...
View ArticleThe True Origin Of The 'Tin Foil Hat' And Why It's The Stupidest Thing To...
The recent revelations that the NSA has been collecting the detailed phone records of Americans since 2001 has a lot of citizens saying that claims of the NSA operating a vast domestic dragnet have...
View ArticleOld Internet Comments Appear To Show Edward Snowden Was Angry About The NSA...
Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who has been at the center of a surveillance scandal, was revealed to have been using the online pseudonym "The True HOOHA" when he worked for an anime company...
View ArticleTop General Fires Back On Benghazi Claims
Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, has offered a different set of events about the U.S. military response to a terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 11 of last year. A prominent U.S....
View ArticleWHITE HOUSE: Syria Has Been Using Chemical Weapons On Rebels
The U.S. and European allies have concluded that Syria has used chemical weapons against rebels "multiple times," and the White House said it would provide additional assistance to Syrian opposition...
View ArticleThese Are Supposedly The Words That Make The NSA Think You're A Terrorist
This is an (admittedly huge) list of words that supposedly cause the NSA to flag you as a potential terrorist if you over-use them in an email.We found this on Reddit, where James Bamford, a veteran...
View ArticleIntelligence Officials Concerned Snowden May Defect To China
Recent comments from prolific National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden have caused alarm in the intelligence community that he may defect to China, reports ABC.Snowden recently said China was...
View ArticleUS Military Intervention In Syria Could Start In Jordan
For the last two years, the bloody conflict in Syria has careened toward a tipping point.Ladies and Gentlemen, we may be there.The timing of this is a little bit crazy:A deputy national security...
View ArticleRussian Bombers Reportedly Violate Finnish Airspace
Finland’s Ministry of Defence has recently revealed that two Russian military aircraft violated the airspace of the northern European country earlier this week. The official statement was published on...
View ArticleWhy Russia Will Almost Certainly Back Down In Syria
Russia's spokesman for international cooperation in fighting terrorism Alexander Zmeyovsky said that Russia is "gravely concerned" about U.S. reports of Assad's chemical weapons use in Syria, according...
View ArticleIRAQ 2009: US Special Forces Captured Groom At Wedding, But The Aftermath Was...
By 2009, insurgents and terrorists in Iraq had gotten fairly wily. For years, the U.S. Special Operations Task Force had been churning through the enemy. I played a small part in that endeavor in 2005,...
View ArticleChina To Weigh Snowden's Fate
China will consider whether NSA leaker Edward Snowden is an asset or liability to China's state security, Teddy Ng and Zhang Hong of the South China Morning Post report.And after China determines that,...
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