Tag Archives: Edward Snowden

Why police ‘investigation’ of journalists involved in Snowden disclosures is flawed

Posted on 26 July, 2015 by

The recent admission that Britain’s Metropolitan Police Service – specifically S015 (Counter-Terrorism) division – is continuing its ‘investigation’ (or ‘scoping’) into alleged breaches of Section 58A of the Terrorism Act by persons or media involved in the 2013 Edward Snowden … Continue reading →

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Rupert Murdoch flips | Sunday Times article on Snowden rife with errors

Posted on 15 June, 2015 by

Today, Times Newspapers Ltd (TNL), the company that owns the Sunday Times, issued a copyright infringement notice to the legal owners of First Look/The Intercept, the online news magazine. The ostensible reason for this is that TNL believe that The … Continue reading →

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Entire Stellar Wind (CIA/NSA ‘president’s surveillance program’) document here

Posted on 4 May, 2015 by

A copy of the 400+ pages (700+ pdf) of the CIA/NSA ‘Stellar Wind’ (aka ‘President’s Surveillance’) Program is provided below. Recent commentaries are also included.  Stellar Wind was launched in 2001 and continued into the first two years of the … Continue reading →

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Which is more reprehensible: censorship of a movie, or censorship of US war crimes?

Posted on 20 December, 2014 by

We live in surreal times. In the same week that saw the publication of the heavily-redacted US Senate report into CIA torture; the refusal by the British Government that it knew about US renditions flights using UK territory; and the … Continue reading →

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Barrett Brown: the journalist imprisoned for being in the wrong place at the wrong time

Posted on 22 November, 2014 by

Barrett Brown On November 24th journalist and online investigative researcher Barrett Brown is to be sentenced to a possible eight years or more imprisonment for basically carrying out his job. Brown is based not in Egypt, or Iran, or North … Continue reading →

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50 international ‘celebrities’ demand end of persecution of whistleblowers and leaks publishers

Posted on 11 November, 2014 by

The Courage Foundation has just published a press release on how top actors and Nobel laureates – includes 50 signatories such as Russell Brand, Susan Sarandon, Roddy Doyle, Ken Loach, Viggo Mortensen – are stepping forward to support persecuted whistleblowers, … Continue reading →

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