NYT Remembers David Carr
Posted: February 13, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Andrew Lack, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Boston University, David Carr, Dean Baquet, Glenn Greenwald, Jr., Laura Poitras, media, The Media Equation, The New York Times, The Times 1 CommentNYT newsroom gathers to remember David Carr. pic.twitter.com/BHlhymdnXf
— Alastair Coote (@_alastair) February 13, 2015
[PHOTO] Snowden Taking A Selfie With Glenn Greenwald In A Moscow Reunion
Posted: May 22, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Russia | Tags: Edward Snowden, Facebook, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, National Security Agency, RUSSIA, Snowden, Vladimir Putin 1 Comment
Facebook/David Miranda
Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who first disclosed information leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, is in Russia today with Snowden.
[Glenn Greenwald‘s book: No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State is available from Amazon.com]
Greenwald’s partner, David Miranda, posted a pair of photos to Facebook — including a selfie of Greenwald, Snowden, Miranda, and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who was also involved in the early disclosures. Read the rest of this entry »
NSA Journalist Glenn Greenwald’s Partner Reportedly Detained at Airport for 9 Hours, Questioned Under Terrorism Act
Posted: August 18, 2013 Filed under: Breaking News | Tags: Glenn Greenwald, Guardian, Laura Poitras, London, London Heathrow Airport, National Security Agency, Rio de Janeiro, Terrorism Act 2000 Leave a commentAuthorities in London on Sunday reportedly detained and questioned for nine hours the gay partner of Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who has authored a series of recent articles exposing mass surveillance programs by the National Surveillance Agency (NSA).
The Guardian, Greenwald’s employer, reports the journalist’s partner, David Miranda, was held for nearly nine hours and questioned under the Terrorism Act at the UK’s Heathrow airport. Officials also confiscated Miranda’s electronics, including his cell phone, laptop, camera, and memory sticks, according to The Guardian, without saying when they would return the items.
FILE — Journalist Glenn Greenwald speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 14, 2013. (AP)
According to the report, Miranda was stopped by UK airport officials at 8:30 AM and told he would be detained for questioning under schedule seven of the Terrorism Act of 2000. The law, reportedly allows officers to search and detain individuals at key transportation areas.
Snowden: NSA targeted journalists critical of government after 9/11
Posted: August 13, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Glenn Greenwald, Guardian, Laura Poitras, National Security Agency, New York Times Magazine, NSA, Snowden, United States Leave a commentSnowden: NSA targeted journalists critical of government after 9/11
By Jonathan Easley
Leaker Edward Snowden accused the National Security Agency of targeting reporters who wrote critically about the government after the 9/11 attacks and warned it was “unforgivably reckless” for journalists to use unencrypted email messages when discussing sensitive matters.
Snowden said in an interview with the New York Times Magazine published Tuesday that he came to trust Laura Poitras, the documentary filmmaker who, along with Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, helped report his disclosure of secret surveillance programs, because she herself had been targeted by the NSA.
“Laura and [Guardian reporter] Glenn [Greenwald] are among the few who reported fearlessly on controversial topics throughout this period, even in the face of withering personal criticism, and resulted in Laura specifically becoming targeted by the very programs involved in the recent disclosures,” Snowden said for the article, a profile of Poitras.
Snowden didn’t detail how Poitras was targeted by the NSA surveillance programs he disclosed, but suggested the agency tracked her emails and cautioned other journalists that they could be under surveillance.
BREAKING: U.S. charges Snowden with espionage
Posted: June 21, 2013 Filed under: Breaking News, War Room | Tags: Edward Snowden, Facebook, Glenn Greenwald, Hong Kong, Laura Poitras, National Security Agency, NSA, United States Leave a comment
Video: U.S. defense contractor Edward Snowden discusses his motivation behind the NSA leak and why he revealed himself as the whistleblower behind the major story. Courtesy of Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald.
By Peter Finn and Sari Horwitz, Friday, June 21, 3:04 PM
Rational Paranoid thought for the Day: What If China Hacks the NSAs Massive Data Trove?
Posted: June 9, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: Barton Gellman, Bradley Manning, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, National Security Agency, NSA, Richard Engel, Washington Post Leave a commentBy Conor Friedersdorf
Reuters
Bradley Manning proved that massive amounts of the government’s most secret data was vulnerable to being dumped on the open Internet. A single individual achieved that unprecedented leak. According to the Washington Post, “An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.” And this week, we learned that the FBI, CIA and NSA were unable to protect some of their most closely held secrets from Glenn Greenwald,Richard Engel, Robert Windrem, Barton Gellman, and Laura Poitras. Those journalists, talented as they are, possess somewhat fewer resources than foreign governments! So I naturally started to think about all the data the NSA is storing.
In the wrong hands, it could enable blackmail on a massive scale, widespread manipulation of U.S. politics, industrial espionage against American businesses;,and other mischief I can’t even imagine.
The plan is apparently to store the data indefinitely, just in case the government needs it for future investigations. Don’t worry, national security officials tell us, we won’t ever look at most of it.
Do you trust the government to keep it secure, forever, if others try to look?
If so, why?
Here are 5 terrifying scenarios:
1) China manages to get the NSA data.
2) Russia manages to get the NSA data. (It isn’t like they never succeeded in placing spies in our government before.)
3) Pakistan manages to get the NSA data. (They pulled off stealing the West’s nuclear secrets.)
4) Iran manages to get the NSA data.
5) Saudi Arabia manages to get the NSA data.
Of course, it could be a non-state actor that gets ahold of the data too. Perhaps a successor to Al Qaeda.
What if one of these entities breached the database’s security without our even knowing?
Even assuming the U.S. government never abuses this data — and there is no reason to assume that! — why isn’t the burgeoning trove more dangerous to keep than it is to foreswear? Can anyone persuasively argue that it’s virtually impossible for a foreign power to ever gain access to it? Can anyone persuasively argue that if they did gain access to years of private phone records, email, private files, and other data on millions of Americans, it wouldn’t be hugely damaging?
Think of all the things the ruling class never thought we’d find out about the War on Terrorism that we now know. Why isn’t the creation of this data trove just the latest shortsighted action by national security officials who constantly overestimate how much of what they do can be kept secret? Suggested rule of thumb: Don’t create a dataset of choice that you can’t bear to have breached.
via The Atlantic.
Related articles
- Officials: NSA mistakenly intercepted emails, phone calls of innocent Americans (openchannel.nbcnews.com)
- Anonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents (gizmodo.com)
- Anonymous Goes Tit-for-Tat and Leaks a Trove of NSA Documents (gizmodo.co.uk)
- If the NSA Trusted Edward Snowden With Our Data, Why Should We Trust the NSA? (slate.com)
- Here’s The NSA’s Supposedly Non-Existent Tool To Track Global Metadata (gawker.com)
