Gov’t Surveillance Is Invisible, Snowden Says: ‘If Your Phone Had Been Hacked, You Would Never Know’

After 9/11, the NSA whistleblower explained that Dick Cheney ‘conspired’ to change ‘the culture of surveillance in the intelligence community’ to enable widespread spying and data collection.

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By MintPress News Desk
A man looks at his cell phone as he walks on the street.

MINNEAPOLIS --- Modern technology and the ubiquity of Internet-connected devices makes surveillance almost inescapable, even for privacy experts like NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. “For me, for example, I really know what I’m doing, but if the NSA wants to pop my box, they’re going to do it,” he explained during an interview with VICE News

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Impact Of Snowden Leaks Echoes 3 Years Later, Yet Mass Surveillance Remains Pervasive

According to one digital rights activist, the conversation Snowden started ‘isn’t finished, and won’t be until the NSA surveillance wiretaps of the Internet are unplugged for good.’

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By MintPress News Desk
New documents, reports VICE, "call into question aspects of the US government's long-running narrative about Snowden's time at the NSA." (Photo: via VICE News)

MINNEAPOLIS --- Three years after the public first learned about top secret documents which proved that the U.S. government routinely spies on millions of people, mass surveillance remains a part of everyday life. On June 5, 2013, The Guardian published the first report on the NSA’s mass surveillance program based on thousands of classified

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Assange: Google Heavily Integrated With The US Establishment

US tech giant Google is heavily integrated with the US establishment and is allying with the US exceptionalism campaign, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said.

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As much as 80 percent of the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) budget is privatized, demonstrating the merger between Washington and corporate organizations, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday. A video link up with Julian Assange, journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, at the session, End of the Monopoly: The Open

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Come To Guantanamo & See The Iguanas: Snowden Files Offer Glimpse Inside NSA Culture

Newly released internal NSA documents show that torturing prisoners and water skiing were part of the daily routine for agents stationed in Guantanamo Bay during the Iraq War.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
A U.S. Coast Guard vessel patrols Guantanamo Bay,.

AUSTIN, Texas --- Water skiing in the morning, supervising the torture of a prisoner of the global war on terror in the afternoon -- that’s just a typical day for National Security Agency personnel. That’s one of the many glimpses of National Security Agency life found in newly released documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden’s leaks, which

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New Documentary ‘Risk’ Renews Attention To ‘Political Prisoner’ Julian Assange

The Oscar-winning filmmaker also revealed that she is under investigation by the U.S. government as an ‘anti-U.S.’ filmmaker.

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A figure depicts Julian Assange on a cross on top of a supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during a vigil outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. (AP /Sang Tan)

CANNES, France --- After earning an Oscar for her coverage of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, filmmaker Laura Poitras is back with a documentary on Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. “Risk” made waves when it premiered on May 19 at the Cannes Film Festival, a festival known for building buzz around important upcoming movies. Even

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Snowden Leaks Reveal NSA Role In Destabilizing Latin America

Documents leaked by whistle-blower Edward Snowden show the United States was training spies to influence events in the Americas.

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By teleSUR
A guest instructor debriefs students from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation and Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School after a field training exercise. (U.S. Navy photo)

The latest batch of National Security Agency documents revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden on Monday show that the NSA offered tailored training to staff on national security issues in Latin America in an effort to steer the region toward U.S. interests. A June 2003 edition of the SIDtoday newsletter, an internal publication run by the

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