"The White House is trying “to make the conversation not about the allegations,” ...“They want to talk about the whistleblower rather than the government’s own wrongdoing.”
Leopold: A bipartisan group of Washington lawmakers solicited details from Pentagon officials that they could use to "damage" former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's "credibility in the press and the court of public opinion."
Giroux: The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, its children, the ideals of democracy and its future.
Nichols: Carr was as sharp-witted as they came. And he had an eye that recognized every fumble by media moguls, elite anchormen, neo-Luddites and digital utopians. Yet, instead of calling them out for the sake of calling them out, he sought to understand and, ultimately, to explain the economic and technological and human demands that have thrown journalism and media into a new paradigm that is not evolving but, rather, coming at us at speeds now measured in gigabits.
Just hours before his sudden death, New York Times media columnist David Carr hosted a TimesTalk interview with Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and, via satellite, Edward Snowden about their Oscar nominated documentary Citizenfour. The hour-long conversation is now available online to watch in full. Watch video below, via NY Times: by Matt Wilstein | 11:07 pm, More
Whistleblowing was the buzzword of 2013 and 2014. Snowden and Assange are the big names splashed around headlines, but they’re not the only ones going to great lengths to preserve the Fourth Estate and, in doing so, saving democracy. By Frederick Reese MintPressNews.com December 22, 2014 Barrett Brown Photo: Nikki Loehr Occasionally, there are situations More
Filmmaker Laura Poitras was already hard at work on a documentary about government surveillance when Edward Snowden reached out to her. That event would change her own life, and the world. Truthdig.com October 10, 2014 —Posted by Peter Z. Scheer [youtube=http://youtu.be/XiGwAvd5mvM] Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times More
Binney explained: “At least 80 percent of fiber-optic cables globally go via the U.S. This is no accident and allows the U.S. to view all communication coming in. At least 80 percent of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the U.S. The NSA lies about what it stores.” by Norman Solomon Common More
At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US, says whistleblower William Binney – that's a 'totalitarian mentality'. Antony Loewenstein theguardian.com Thursday 10 July 2014 William Binney testifies before a German inquiry into surveillance. Photograph: Getty Images William Binney is one of the highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge from More
Tomgram: Glenn Greenwald, How I Met Edward Snowden By Glenn Greenwald Tom Dispatch.com May 13, 2014 Read Tom Englehardt's introduction here. [This essay is a shortened and adapted version of Chapter 1 of Glenn Greenwald’s new book, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Security State, and appears at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of More
The Pulitzer Prize committee’s opinion that Edward Snowden is a public servant rather than a traitor or criminal, as evidenced in its award to The Guardian and The Washington Post for their reporting from his trove of government documents, is a scandal on the American Right. But it is not a new scandal. Former Guardian More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/nwJRefYUqHc] By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | Video Report April 14, 2014 In their first return to the United States since exposing the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance operations, journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras were honored in New York City on Friday with the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting. Over the past 10 months, Poitras More
