From Electronic Frontier Foundation’s press release –
US Rep. John Conyers Jr., “Pentagon Papers” whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and actor Maggie Gyllenhaal join a chorus of prominent voices calling for an end to mass suspicionless surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA) in a new short video released by the StopWatching.us coalition. [Read more…]
Below the fold is today’s World at One audio interview with the Guardian’s editor Alan Rushbridger.
Here’s a snippet –
Kearny: “You also describe how this all ended up with officials coming into the Guardian offices to destroy computers there?” [Read more…]
During today’s interview with Glenn Greenwald, Amy Goodman asks him to respond to a comment Sen. Chambliss made over the weekend on Meet the Press. Greenwald’s response shouldn’t come as a surprise to T-Room readers – [Read more…]
The father of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden on Friday blasted U.S. lawmakers for not reining in the U.S. electronic spy program made public by his son, accusing them of being “complicit or negligent.” [Read more…]
“Establishment journalists love leaks that serve the interests of political officials, but [b]hate leaks that disclose what those officials want to keep suppressed[/b]” says Glenn Greenwald in his latest update on the NSA Illegal Spying [Read more…]
Katie Glueck
Politico
June 7, 2013
The journalist who broke the news that the government is monitoring vast quantities of American phone records made the rounds is claiming the U.S. is building a “massive” snooping apparatus committed to destroying privacy worldwide. [Read more…]