Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

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US President Barack Obama trims National Security Agency's phone monitoring powers

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has dismissed President Barack Obama's
proposals to curb the reach of the National Security Agency (NSA), saying they
would change very little.

In a speech intended to quell the furore over surveillance programs leaked by
Edward Snowden, Obama said spy taps on friendly world leaders would be halted
while foreigners caught in US data mining would be given new protections.

Obama, however, argued that bulk data collection must be allowed to continue in
order to protect America from terrorists.

Assange described Obama's speech as "embarrassing'', telling CNN in an interview
from London that the proposals would have little effect.

Obama had been "dragged, kicking and screaming'' into making Friday's comments,
only because of revelations from Snowden and other intelligence leakers before
him, Assange said on Friday.





Obama NSA Surveillance

President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's
permission before accessing phone records.Picture: AP

"It's embarrassing for a head of state to go on like that for 45 minutes and say
almost nothing,'' Assange told CNN.

"He is being very reluctant to make any concrete reforms. And unfortunately today
we also see very few concrete reforms.''

Assange was sceptical that a move obliging NSA agents to seek endorsement from
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), before accessing data on a
specific target would be effective.


"The FISA court ... is known to be the most secret captive court in the United
States that's producing secret judge-made law,'' Assange said.





Angela Merkel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told US President Barack Obama that friends
don't spy on other friends' phone calls. He also said the appointment of a public
advocate to sit on the FISA court was "unlikely to produce a decent result''.

A pledge not to spy on friendly world leaders was also meaningless, Assange said.

"We're not going to spy on (German Chancellor) Angela Merkel or (British Prime
Minister) David Cameron. Or the Australian prime minister. Sure. But let me just
spy on everyone else they talk to. It doesn't mean anything to not spy on world
leaders.''

Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadoran embassy in London since 2012, where
he is fighting extradition to Sweden.





Julian Assange

Julian Assange says the US President is being very reluctant to make any concrete reforms.

His lawyers fear if sent to Sweden to face questioning over sexual assault
allegations he may then in turn be sent to the United States for prosecution over
the leaks of classified American military and diplomatic documents.

Obama's proposals seemed to represent a search for a compromise between
demands of civil liberties advocates - who see all bulk data collection as
unconstitutional - and resistance from the US intelligence community.

At the heart of the changes is a commitment from the president to end the NSA's
hoarding of telephone "metadata" detailing the duration and destination of calls but
not their content.

"I believe critics are right to point out that without proper safeguards, this type of
program could be used to yield more information about our private lives, and open
the door to more intrusive, bulk collection programs," Obama said.

"I believe we need a new approach. I am therefore ordering a transition that will
end the Section 215 bulk metadata program as it currently exists, and establish a
mechanism that preserves the capabilities we need without the government holding
this bulk meta-data."

Obama called on Attorney-General Eric Holder and the NSA to come up with
alternative ways to hold the data within 60 days.

Possible alternatives include keeping data with telecommunications firms that are
currently compelled to turn it over to the NSA or to deposit it with a third party.

Phone companies have, however, baulked at involvement.

Obama also said that from now on, NSA agents would have to require court
permission before accessing data on a specific target of interest, for instance in an
anti-terror investigation.

The NSA will also now only be permitted to access call data from people at two
removes from a terror suspect. Previously it could probe three "hops" beyond a
suspect call.

But the president made clear that the retention of phone data could provide a vital
tool for US spies to trace links between terror suspects and must continue.

"Being able to quickly review telephone connections to assess whether a network
exists is critical to that effort," Obama said.

The president also said that he had already ordered a halt to dozens of phone taps
of friendly foreign leaders and heads of state.

"I have made clear to the intelligence community that - unless there is a compelling
national security purpose - we will not monitor the communications of heads of
state and government of our close friends and allies."

The move followed a furor over claims by Snowden, the fugitive US contractor now
exiled in Russia, that US spies had eavesdropped on the mobile phone of German
Chancellor Angela Merkel and other leaders.

Obama is also taking the unprecedented step of extending personal protections
enjoyed by Americans to foreigners caught in internet data sweeps.

The measures include restrictions on how long data can be held and on how US
spies can access the content of internet surfing, a senior US official said.

Obama's efforts appeared to be an attempt to restore public confidence in secretive
US espionage activity and to clip the wings of intelligence agencies, without
crushing their power to thwart terror attacks on US soil.

Snowden has fuelled months of revelations by media organisations over data
mining and spying on foreign leaders by the NSA in one of the biggest security
breaches in US history.

The disclosures have infuriated US allies, embarrassed Obama administration
diplomats and shocked privacy campaigners and MPs.

The president, who has demanded Snowden return home to face trial, only
mentioned the US nemesis in passing.

"The sensational way in which these disclosures have come out has often shed
more heat than light, while revealing methods to our adversaries that could impact
our operations in ways that we may not fully understand for years to come,"
Obama said.

While Obama's proposed reforms appear tangible, they are unlikely to satisfy civil
liberties campaigners who want an end to all bulk data collection.

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Obama tackles NSA reforms, preserves bulk collection

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jj_k6eACy-E

Published on 17 Jan 2014


After seven months of National Security Agency disclosures revealing a vast dragnet
of surveillance around the globe, President Barack Obama finally came forward with
reforms to the spy agency. Most significantly, the president announced reforms to
the controversial Section 215 bulk telephone metadata collection program. He also
announced reforms to add more transparency to the NSA's spying programs and
new protections for non-US citizens whose communications are swept up by the
NSA. RT's Sam Sacks breaks down what was said and what wasn't said in the
President's speech today.

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Glenn Greenwald: ‘When There Is Controversy Obama Pretends To Change Things To Placate Public Anger’

Saturday 18th January 2014 at 03:09 By David Icke

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nKJsGJCFXpc

Published on 17 Jan 2014


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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-HzK7zgj1ZI

Published on Jan 19, 2014

After mounting criticism of the National Security Agency's surveillance program, U.S. President Barack Obama has announced new restrictions on how the agency collects citizens' data. CCTV's Jessica Stone asks James Lewis, cyber-security expert and former U.S. Foreign Service officer, about the changes.

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Pentagon & NSA Officials say They Want Snowden Extrajudicially Assassinated

Monday 20th January 2014 at 03:27 By David Icke





‘President Obama claims the right to extrajudicially execute American citizens,
keeps a so-called “kill list,” and has bragged he’s “really good at killing people.”
This isn’t bluster. Obama has backed this up with action, having killed U.S. citizens
— including a 16-year-old boy – without charging, much less convicting, any of
them with a single crime.

The implications are profound (and profoundly disturbing), and raise questions
about Americans’ constitutional right to due process, the most basic constraints on
presidential power, and our treatment of whistleblowers. Indeed, how can anyone
expect those who witness executive-branch crimes to blow the whistle when the
head of the executive branch asserts the right to instantly execute anyone he
pleases at any time?’

Read more: Pentagon & NSA Officials say They Want Snowden Extrajudicially
Assassinated

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/17-5

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This should further help to vindicate Edward Snowden as a whistleblower.

Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End

WASHINGTON — An independent federal privacy watchdog has concluded that the National Security Agency’s program to collect bulk phone call records has provided only “minimal” benefits in counterterrorism efforts, is illegal and should be shut down.

The findings are laid out in a 238-page report, scheduled for release by Thursday and obtained by The New York Times, that represent the first major public statement by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which Congress made an independent agency in 2007 and only recently became fully operational.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/us...d.html?hp&_r=0

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Edward Snowden did a live session, answering questions. I read the transcript, read it and then closed the window. Now, I cannot find it again because it has disappeared. Can anyone else have better luck in finding it and posting it here?

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Snowden requests extra security after receiving death threats

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=whjsaRT65rM

Published on 23 Jan 2014


Whistleblower Edward Snowden is reportedly set to request additional protection
from Russian authorities after receiving a growing number of death threats. The
former NSA contractor has been living at an undisclosed location in Russia since
August when he received asylum from Washington's prosecution. RT's Marina
Portnaya reports.

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Edward Snowden did a live session, answering questions. I read the transcript, read it and then closed the window. Now, I cannot find it again because it has disappeared. Can anyone else have better luck in finding it and posting it here?

I think this is it...

Snowden addresses Obama's NSA reforms

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JuMoSpHxOGU

Published on 23 Jan 2014


National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden held an online question-
and-answer session on Thursday. Many people asked Snowden about his response
to President Barack Obama's speech that outlined his proposals to reform the NSA.
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board also weighed in on Obama's reforms
Thursday, releasing a report that the NSA's bulk phone records collection program
is illegal and useless for preventing terrorism. RT's Ameera David talks to political
commentator Sam Sacks, who has been following Snowden's chat session closely.

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Independent review finds NSA bulk metadata program illegal

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Published on 23 Jan 2014


The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board concluded the National Security
Agency's bulk phone metadata program is illegal, according a report released
Thursday on their independent review of the program. "The Section 215 program
has contributed only minimal value in combating terrorism beyond what the
government already achieves through these and other alternative means," the
report said. "Cessation of the program would eliminate the privacy and civil liberties
concerns associated with bulk collection without unduly hampering the
government's efforts." RT's Ameera David talks to retired Col. Morris Davis, a law
professor at Howard University, about the PCLOB report and how it differs from
President Barack Obama's proposed NSA reforms, outlined in a speech last Friday.

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MSNBC interviewing some congresswoman on NSA when anchor interrupts here from some "Breaking News out of Miami" which turns out to be some thing about Justin Beiber facing a judge live on video

26seconds - watch and weep

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GH68bSJXGE8

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[QUOTE=Anchor;788733]MSNBC interviewing some congresswoman on NSA when anchor interrupts here from some "Breaking News out of Miami" which turns out to be some thing about Justin Beiber facing a judge live on video


Priorities naturally! We're going to get stuck with him unless he is exonerated and is allowed to stay!

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MSNBC interviewing some congresswoman on NSA when anchor interrupts here from some "Breaking News out of Miami" which turns out to be some thing about Justin Beiber facing a judge live on video

26seconds - watch and weep

In the prophetic words of Meatloaf which applies here to MSN...." Read um and Weep "..LOL

More interest in celebrity gossip than in the truth !! great smokescreen....

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The smearing of Snowden & Russia by Mike Rogers continues in Washington....

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Rep. Mike Rogers: Russia & Norway Behind Snowden Leak - Putin got help from Michael Hayden?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YAMp9DUudLg

Published on 20 Jan 2014


The Firm, the Varangians & the Kievan Rus -- Putin Rurik Quisling Rudolf Abel
Vereide Prytz Olsen Grandhagen Faremo Hauge & Co
-- The head of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said on
Sunday he is investigating whether former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden
had help from Russia (and Norway) in stealing and revealing U.S. government
secrets (to Red China). Rogers said: 'Some of the things we're finding we would call
clues that certainly would indicate to me that he had some help.'
-- KGB General Vlado Todorov used to brag about having "turned" Hayden when he
was stationed in Sofia in 1984. In April 1992, Bill Colby arrived in Sofia to collect
evidence. He got killed in April 1996.

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20 January 2014 Last updated at 11:15

Edward Snowden 'may have been working with Russia'An image grab taken from a
video released by Wikileaks on 12 October 2013 shows US intelligence leaker
Edward Snowden speaking during a dinner with US ex-intelligence workers and
activists in Moscow on 9 October 2013



Moscow granting Mr Snowden asylum was no coincidence, a senior US lawmaker
says US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden may have collaborated with Russia,
the chairman of the US House Intelligence Committee has alleged.

"I believe there's a reason he ended up in the hands, the loving arms, of an agent
in Moscow," Rep Mike Rogers told CBS's "Face the Nation" programme.

Mr Rogers offered no firm evidence to back his theory, and the FBI is said to remain
sure Mr Snowden acted alone.

Mr Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia.

The former National Security Agency contractor faces espionage charges over his
actions, but denies turning over documents to any foreign government.


'We don't know'

Mr Rogers - a Republican who represents Michigan - told NBC that some of the
things Mr Snowden did were "beyond his technical capabilities".

It appeared "he had some help and he stole things that had nothing to do with
privacy", such as large amounts of data on the US military, Mr Rogers alleged.

And it would cost the US "billions and billions" to put right its capabilities following
the intelligence breaches, he said.

"I don't think it was a gee-whiz luck event that he ended up in Moscow under the
handling of the FSB," he added, referring to the Russian state security organisation.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Californian Democrat who heads the Senate
intelligence committee, told the same programme Mr Snowden "may well have" had
help from Russia, but "we don't know at this stage".

Last week, the latest leaks to emerge via Mr Snowden suggested that the US had
been collecting and storing almost 200 million text messages every day across the
globe, according to the UK's Guardian newspaper and Channel 4 News.

US President Barack Obama has defended the collection of large amounts of data,
but has proposed such "metadata" be held by a third party, with the NSA requiring
legal permission to access them.

In its reporting of the accusations against Mr Snowden, the New York Times
newspaper quoted a senior official with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation as
saying that it was still the bureau's belief Mr Snowden had acted alone.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25806855

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Glasgow University...





21 January 2014 Last updated at 16:40


Intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden is to stand for the post of student
rector at Glasgow University.The nomination of the former US intelligence officer,
who has temporary asylum in Russia, was arranged by a group of students through
his lawyer.Elections for the three-year post will take place next month.

Other candidates for rector are cyclist Graeme Obree, author Alan Bissett and
Scottish Episcopal clergyman Kelvin Holdsworth.Previous rectors include Winnie
Mandela and Mordechai Vanunu. The position is currently held by former Liberal
Democrat leader Charles Kennedy.

'Brave whistleblower'

Glasgow University said all the nominees had personally agreed to take part in the
election.

Mr Snowden is a former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor.

Cyclist Graeme Obree, author Alan Bissett and Clergyman Kelvin Holdsworth Cyclist
Graeme Obree, author Alan Bissett and Clergyman Kelvin Holdsworth are also
standing for rector He now lives in Russia after fleeing the United States via Hong
Kong in May, having revealed extensive internet and phone surveillance by US
intelligence.

A spokesman for the group of students who arranged Mr Snowden's nomination
said: "Edward Snowden's candidacy is a unique opportunity to show our gratitude
to a brave whistleblower.

"He has shown a spirit of daring and self-sacrifice that is virtually absent in our
public life.

"We call on Glasgow University students as individuals, and all student bodies
committed to ending state intrusion into our private lives, to declare their support
for Edward Snowden's candidacy."

The rector is the elected representative of the students and serves for a period of
three years.

Among the post-holder's key duties are to attend the university court, which
administers resources, work with the students' representative council, and to bring
student concerns to the attention of university management.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-west-25830364

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23 January 2014 Last updated at 21:27


US privacy watchdog advises NSA spying is illegalWoman uses a phone (file image)



The bulk collection of phone call data by US intelligence agencies is illegal and has
had only "minimal" benefits in preventing terrorism, an independent US privacy
watchdog has ruled.

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board advised by a 3-2 majority that the
programme should end.

In a major speech last week, President Barack Obama said he was ordering curbs
on the use of such mass data.

But he said the US must continue collecting data to prevent attacks.

The report from the PCLOB is the latest of several reviews of the National Security
Agency's (NSA) mass surveillance programme, the details of which caused
widespread anger after they were leaked by Edward Snowden.

Washington has argued it is lawful to collect information on phone calls - known as
metadata - under a section of the George W Bush-era Patriot Act which gives the
FBI the power to demand from businesses information deemed relevant to their
investigations.

Sharp divisions

However, three of the five panel members concluded that the NSA spying
programme "lacks a viable legal foundation" under the Patriot Act.

It "represents an unsustainable attempt to shoehorn a pre-existing surveillance
programme into the text of a statute with which it is not compatible", they said.

The programme also raised constitutional concerns, including "serious threats to
privacy and civil liberties as a policy matter, and has shown only limited value".

"As a result, the board recommends that the government end the programme,"
said the report

However two panel members - both lawyers from the Bush administration -
strongly dissented, saying the issue of legality should be left to the courts to
decide.

One, Rachel Brand, also argued that declaring the process illegal could affect the
morale of intelligence agencies and make them overly cautious.

But all members agreed that data should be deleted sooner, and access to it
tightened.

The report also concluded that the daily collection of phone records was ineffective.

"We have not identified a single instance involving a threat to the United States in
which the program made a concrete difference in the outcome of a
counterterrorism investigation,'' it said.

"We are aware of no instance in which the program directly contributed to the
discovery of a previously unknown terrorist plot or the disruption of a terrorist
attack.''

Vid on link.....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25856570


A summary of US spying allegations brought about by Edward Snowden's leak of
classified documents

The independent bipartisan panel is charged with analysing the government's anti-
terror measures and balancing them against protection of civil liberties. It briefed
Mr Obama on its key findings before his speech last week.

New limits on data

The panel's advisory report is the latest of several reviews of the legality and
constitutionality of the NSA surveillance programme.


How intelligence is gathered



Accessing internet company data
Tapping fibre optic cables
Eavesdropping on phones
Targeted spying
How the US spy scandal unravelled
Profile: Edward Snowden
UK 'complacent' over spying leaks

In December, a federal judge ruled the programme was "likely unconstitutional" as
it violated the right to protection from unreasonable searches. However a week
later another federal judge ruled the opposite, saying it was a "counter-punch"
against al-Qaeda.

Also in December another White House panel, the Review Group on Intelligence and
Communications Technology, recommended significant curbs on surveillance and
more transparency at the FISC.

President Obama acted on some of those recommendations in his much-anticipated
speech last week, in which he acknowledged "the potential for abuse", and said he
was ending the system "as it currently exists".

But he defended the work of US intelligence and said bulk data collection would
continue as it had prevented terror attacks.

He said he had asked the attorney general and the intelligence community to draw
up plans for metadata to be held by a third party, with the NSA requiring legal
permission to access them. He said he had also limited the chain of calls the NSA
could track.

Mr Obama said the US would stop monitoring the personal communications of
foreign allies and create a panel of independent privacy advocates to sit on the
FISC.

Civil liberties groups have said the changes do not go far enough in protecting the
privacy of individuals.


Analysis
image of Gordon Corera


Security correspondent, BBC News



Of all the Snowden revelations, the first - the collection of bulk phone call records -
remains the most controversial politically within the US.

The debate centres both on its legality and its effectiveness. President Obama and
supporters have claimed it is legal under existing laws and that it has helped in
stopping terrorist attacks.

But critics are sceptical of both of these propositions and this latest report will
provide them with more ammunition, with questions over what benefits it provides
as well as whether it should continue.

President Obama has said he wants to move the holding of the phone records away
from NSA, but the signs are that it may prove extremely hard to find someone able
to take on such a controversial role. Despite the president's announcements of
reform, his headaches over this specific programme do not look to be over.




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23 January 2014 Last updated at 22:54

Edward Snowden: 'No chance' of a fair US trial An undated handout file picture received from Channel 4 on 24 December 2013


Edward Snowden: 'Especially frustrating' that 'I cannot have a fair trial'


Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden has said he
has "no chance" of a fair trial in the US and has no plans to return there.He said
that the 100-year-old law under which he has been charged "forbids a public
interest defence"."There's no no way I can come home and make my case to a
jury," he said in an online Q&A.The 30-year-old has temporary asylum in Russia
after leaking details of US electronic surveillance programmes.

'Minimal value'

He said that his predicament over not having a fair trial was "especially frustrating".



Attorney General Eric Holder (17 January) US Attorney General Eric Holder insists
that Mr Snowden must accept responsibility for leaking government secrets

"Returning to the US, I think, is the best resolution for the government, the public,
and myself, but it's unfortunately not possible in the face of current whistleblower
protection laws, which, through a failure in law, did not cover national security
contractors like myself," he told the "Free Snowden" website.

"Maybe when Congress comes together to end the programs... They'll reform the
Whistleblower Protection Act, and we'll see a mechanism for all Americans, no
matter who they work for, to get a fair trial."


In December Mr Snowden delivered an "alternative" Christmas message to Britain's
Channel 4 TV, in which he called for an end to mass surveillance.

Earlier on Thursday an independent US privacy watchdog ruled that the bulk
collection of phone call data by US intelligence agencies is illegal and has had
only "minimal" benefits in preventing terrorism.

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board advised by a 3-2 majority that the
programme should end.

The report from the PCLOB is the latest of several reviews of the NSA's mass
surveillance programme, the details of which caused widespread anger after they
were leaked by Mr Snowden.

In a separate development on Thursday, US Attorney General Eric Holder told told
MSNBC television that he was unlikely to consider clemency for Mr Snowden.

Mr Holder said that the US authorities "would engage in conversation" about a
resolution of the case if Mr Snowden accepted responsibility for leaking government
secrets.

But he said granting clemency "would be going too far".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25872723

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Russia to extend Snowden's asylum beyond August

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QAweuLjKThE

Published on 24 Jan 2014


Over half a year after he leaked 1.7 million classified National Security Agency
documents to the world, Edward Snowden took to the internet for the second time
ever on Thursday to answer questions from the public. The former NSA contractor
talked about where President Barack Obama's NSA reform speech fell short,
addressed the threats on his life and defended his decision to flee the US. On
Friday, Alexei Pushkov, head of the foreign affairs committee of Russia's lower
house of parliament, said that Russia would extend Snowden's asylum beyond the
end of his one-year temporary grant that ends in August. Glasgow University
students are campaigning to get the whistleblower elected as rector of the Scottish
school. RT correspondent Meghan Lopez brings us a wrap-up of the latest Snowden
news.

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Microsoft, Facebook: Obama's NSA proposals don't go far enough

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=K8B-fbqrVKI

Published on 20 Jan 2014


President Barack Obama announced sweeping reforms to the way the National
Security Agency collects digital information in a speech at the Justice Department
on Friday. The proposed changes include more oversight by the Executive Branch,
reworking national security letters that force private companies to turn over
customers' information to the NSA and an end to Section 215 of the Patriot Act,
which allows for bulk metadata collection. RT's Meghan Lopez talks to Matthew
Kellegrew, a legal fellow at the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, to see if the
president's proposal goes far enough to appease privacy advocates who have been
critical of the NSA since Edward Snowden began leaking information on the spy
agency last year.

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Snowden: Bulk data collection is euphemism for mass surveillance

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KAjZyFnWRAo

Published on 23 Jan 2014


NSA leaker Edward Snowden has held his first live Q&A session, answering questions online
about the agency, whistleblowing and America's mass surveillance. Marina Portnaya reports.
Read more here http://on.rt.com/giibvr