In an interview with the Associated Press on Sunday, Glenn Greenwald said NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has “blueprints” that explain how the NSA operates. Greenwald described the documents as "basically the instruction manual for how the NSA is built,” and said they are detailed enough to allow readers to evade or…
Two days ago a Redditor who goes by the handle SexualWeasel posted a "quick" drawing he randomly sketched of a proposed logo for the NSA modeled after Pixar's iconic vanity card.
It's not just the U.S.: Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and other Latin American countries are subject to the NSA's wide-ranging data-mining operations, Brazil's O Globo reported yesterday, citing leaked documents from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Edward Snowden, the ex-contractor who leaked NSA documents to the Guardian and Washington Post, has accepted Venezuela's offer of asylum, AFP reports. Update: Or maybe not! The tweet cited by AFP has been deleted.
Daniel Ellsberg, the man who gave the Pentagon Papers to the press in 1971, was the most famous government leaker before Edward Snowden. Today, Ellsberg says that Snowden was right to flee America. No shit!
Edward Snowden, presumably still stuck in Russia's transit zone, or maybe on the Bolivian president's plane, or maybe he never really existed at all, has apparently applied for asylum in six additional countries. Wikileaks made the announcement, but will not identify the countries due to "attempted US interference."
The Washington Post, the pre-Politico newsletter of choice for The Political Establishment, has the worst opinion section in America. Today, they once again prove why: the paper, which helped to break the NSA Prism spying story, editorializes that the U.S. government must stop Edward Snowden from leaking any more of…
We still don't know where NSA leaker Edward Snowden, still technically "in transit" in Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, will end up next. But now that more than a third of the countries from which he's applied for asylum have said "no," we can get a good sense of where he's not going.
On the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his nation would not hand over NSA leaker Edward Snowden, Snowden, who remains ensconced in Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, has allegedly released a statement of his own—but not everybody is buying it.
In the aftermath of the revelations about the NSA's secret spying programs, there is plenty of anger to go around. American citizens are pissed that they were spied on. European governments are pissed that they were spied on. Nobody, it seems, is happy with being spied on. So why is spying such an accepted institution?
Russia will never hand NSA leaker Edward Snowden over to the U.S., Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday, but also unless Snowden "stops his work aimed at harming our American partners" he won't be allowed to stay in Russia. So... that's Sheremetyevo Airport for the foreseeable future, then?
In an interview with the Associated Press on Sunday, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa cast some doubts on Edward Snowden's reported plans to seek asylum in his country, saying the Ecuadorean consul in London made a “serious error” when it issued a letter of safe passage for Snowden.
The European Union reached out to the United States to respond to claims over the weekend that the U.S. bugged E.U. offices in the Unites States and accessed the internal computer networks of their biggest ally and trading partner.
The father of Edward Snowden sent a letter to the Justice Department on Thursday, laying out a series of arrangements that he believes would convince his son to give himself up to the United States (not that he's talked to his son about these proposals).
Where in the world is Edward Snowden? As of now, it looks like he's still holed up somewhere in Russia's Sheremetyevo Airport, unable to leave as Ecuador considers his plea for asylum. Welcome to The Terminal 2.
Some people say that Edward Snowden is a hero because the secret NSA spying program that he exposed was ripe for abuse. Other people say Edward Snowden is a villain, because the program seemed to be well-run and lawful. Both of these positions are grounded in fantasy. Nobody knows whether the government's power was…
NSA leaker Edward Snowden is—as many have reported—in the "in transit" zone of Sheremetyevo Airport, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirms, and Russia won't extradite him. If you're heading through Sheremetyevo, drop us a line at tips@gawker.com!
Wherever NSA leaker Edward Snowden is, one thing's for sure: It's not Russia's problem. "We are in no way involved with either Mr. Snowden," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday. "He has not crossed the Russian border." Wait... what? Didn't he land in Russia on Sunday? How is that possible?
On Sunday morning, Edward Snowden boarded an Aeroflot flight in Hong Kong, landing in Moscow more than 13 hours later. We think. The truth is, no one's quite sure where the NSA leaker is—Moscow? Havana? Quito? Reykjavik? (He's not on Aeroflot Flight 180, we know that much.) But we can reconstruct his movements—and…
NSA Leaker Edward Snowden was supposed to be on Aeroflot Flight 180 from Moscow to Havana. He wasn't. But "dozens" of journalists are. It just took off. And there's no booze service on board. Welcome to the Cuban Whistleblower Crisis.
