Prism was publicly revealed when classified documents about the program were leaked to journalists of the washington post and the guardian by edward snowden at the time an nsa contractor during a visit to hong kong. Guardian journalist and blogger glenn greenwald s partner was detained by uk law enforcement at heathrow airport for around nine hours. Prism whistleblower edward snowden in his own words. Reporter who broke snowden story is leaving the guardian. I began the exchange when i questioned why glenn greenwald and the guardian waited two weeks to release nsas minimization procedures, which revealed extensive limitations on how nsa handles. Glenn greenwald, the reporter at the guardian who broke the story about national security agency domestic surveillance programs, discusses the information received from whistleblower edward snowden, saying the federal government is now trying to scare the american people to justify its massive spying program. The company specializes in data mining, management, and interpretation software, and openly states that it has clientele in. Glenn greenwald and ewan macaskills account of the nsas prism program in the guardian is woefully short on technical details of how the program works. What the prism stories tell us about the press skating. The leaked documents included 41 powerpoint slides, four of which were published in news articles the documents identified several technology companies as participants in. In a meeting with the foreign relations committee of the brazilian senate, glenn greenwald, edward snowdens primary contact at the guardian, said that he had plenty more, to expose about the nsas practices.
Agency tried to create dummy version of development software that would allow it. Consider the tech giants public stance on privacy, which coincidentally or not happens to be good for business, says greenwald. Snowden docs detail collaboration between nsa and microsoft. Today, in his regular on security and liberty guardian column, glenn greenwald sought to address some of the criticisms of his prism reporting. In doing so, the washington post has achieved an ignominious feat in u. What the prism stories tell us about the press but both of the protagonists have now defended themselves, so im posting their messages, with commentary. When edward snowden, the man who leaked the details of the prism program, first contacted glenn greenwald at the guardian in february, he asked the journalist to set up pgp on his computer so the. Video courtesy of the guardian, glenn greenwald and laura poitras. Greenwald and poitras share a george polk award for national security reporting with the guardian s ewen macaskill and barton gellman, who has led. Its this easy for the nsa to spy on your entire internet life the. Some parts of nsa story wont be published were not engaged in a mindless, indiscriminate document dump, and our source didnt want us to be, said glenn greenwald, the author of the guardian story about the government monitoring phone and internet records.
Prism repercussion on the tor network accessessecurity affairs. The article proposes the analysis of the impact on the use of the tor network of the events related to prism surveillance program disclosure. Nsa whistleblower answers reader questions englisch in. The absolute joy of the guardians sting over prism and. That two news outlets would publish stories on a secret government program so close together is striking, and the timing suggests there was a. Glenn edward greenwald born march 6, 1967 is an american attorney, author and journalist who published a series of reports published detailing previously unknown information on american and british global surveillance programs based on classified documents disclosed by edward snowden greenwald worked as a constitutional attorney for ten years before he began blogging on national security. How did mainstream media get the nsa prism story so hopelessly. By laura poitras and glenn greenwald for the past week, the guardian and washington post have been reporting on some extraordinary revelations. Glenn greenwald names the 5 americans targeted by nsa surveillance 792014 a new investigation published today by the intercept reveals the five muslimamerican leaders targeted by nsa surveillance.
Guardian reveals nsa leak source jump to media player a former cia technical worker. I do not expect to see home again glenn greenwald, ewen macaskill and laura poitras in hong kong tue 11 jun 20 09. Shortly afterward he made contact with glenn greenwald of the british newspaper the guardian, gellman wrote. Nsa surveillance, edward snowden and the end of privacy. And its all done with no need to go to a court, with no need to even get supervisor approval on the part of the analyst. Edward snowden, the nsa and the us surveillance stateis available now. Edward snowden is nsa prism leak source the guardian. Glenn greenwald opened his laptop, scanned through his email, and made a decision.
Guardian the purpose of xkeyscore is to allow analysts to search the metadata as well as the content of emails and other internet activity, such as browser. It looks like the guardian observerhas managed to get itself mightily stung over a revelation about prism and the nsa. According to tech experts, glenn greenwald has made a big mistake on a key component of his work on the nsas prism program. How the guardian is quietly and repeatedly spying on you. A former cia technical worker has been identified by the uks guardian newspaper as. Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by the atlantic, one of americas top 10 opinion writers by newsweek, and one of the top 100 global thinkers for 20 by foreign policy, greenwald is a former constitutional law and civil rights. The latest articles about prism from mashable, the media and tech company.
Addressing many of the issues arising from last weeks nsa stories. Greenwald and poitras share a george polk award for national security reporting with the guardian. The guardians glenn greenwald, a wellknown political commentator. Surveillance state, glenn greenwald, the author and then wellestablished journalist with the guardian, describes the sequence of events from when snowden first contacted him to share the documents and describes the precautions he had to take to ensure the details were revealed. After a series of stunning reports from the guardian s glenn greenwald on the nsas data collection programs. Ever since last weeks news stories began to appear in the guardian, snowden has vigilantly watched tv. Arguments over the value of what edward snowden revealed to glenn greenwald of the guardian have been out there ever since the story broke. The intercept releasing docs leaked by nsa whistleblower snowden. Glenn greenwald is the author of several bestsellers, including how would a patriot act. Bbc newsnight exclusive interview with journalist glenn greenwald on edward snowden, the prism revelations and mass surveillance.
Which is all very amusing given the papers part in the glenn greenwald. Journalist glenn greenwald, who wrote the initial stories based on top secret nsa documents provided by. Greenwald said that he would publish more of the documents snowden gave himaccording to greenwald, 20,000 in totalin. The guardians glenn greenwald, who broke the verizon story, shared a byline on the prism story with washington bureau chief ewen macaskill. How the washington post lost the prism exclusive the. The newest information is on a program called xkeyscore, a comprehensive. On the page containing glenn greenwald s latest post, nsa encryption story, latin american fallout and usuk attacks on press freedoms, 92. The guardian approached the national security agency, the white house and the department of justice for. From there, greenwald published in the guardian the phone records and prism stories that began the string of revelations about the us national security agencys vast domestic surveillance programs.
The intercept releasing docs leaked by nsa whistleblower. On prism, partisanship and propaganda glenn greenwald. I have a column in the guardian s newspaper edition tomorrow. Agency tried to create dummy version of development software that would allow it to insert surveillance back doors into apps. In the firstperson piece, gellman wrote that the post declined to make snowden any guarantees regarding publishing leaked slides from a powerpoint presentation about prism. Edward snowden was nsa prism leak source guardian bbc news.
Glenn greenwald at the guardian has revealed yet another bombshell from edward snowdens leak of classified nsa documents. As when asked about his direct access claims in a recent interview, greenwald again framed his prism. The company worked with the fbi this year to allow the nsa easier access via prism. Since the first revelations from snowden were published in glenn greenwald s june 6, 20, guardian article, nsa collecting phone records of millions of verizon customers daily, nearly. Glenn greenwald, as you reported, the prism programnot to be confused with prison, the prism programis run with the assistance of the companies that participate, including facebook and apple, but all of those who responded to a guardian request for comment denied knowledge of any of the program. Using software that generates a computer voice, the video instructed me in an easy, stepbystep fashion how to install encryption software, complete with charts and visuals. Pulitzer awarded to the guardian and washington post for. Glenn greenwald full interview on snowden, nsa, gchq and. According to the guardian s glenn greenwald, lowlevel nsa analysts can, via systems like xkeyscore, listen to whatever emails they want, whatever telephone calls, browsing histories, microsoft word documents.
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