After a week of debate, Congress on Friday reauthorized section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Congress spent the past week in a fractious debate over a major government surve...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/12/what-is-fisa-warrant-surveillance
Joshua Bowles, 29, carried out reconnaissance before stabbing victim in Cheltenham in March A former UK intelligence worker has been jailed for life for a terrorist attack on an American woman ...
Prosecutors say Jareh Dalke, facing up to 22 years in prison, gave security files to FBI agent that he thought was Russian operative A former National Security Agency (NSA) employee from Colora...
How Lars Findsen and Claus Hjort Frederiksen came to be facing trial for allegedly disclosing ‘state secrets’ that had been in public domain for years Lars Findsen was in police custody whe...
But whistleblower says 2013 surveillance ‘child’s play’ compared to technology today Edward Snowden has warned that surveillance technology is so much more advanced and intrusive today i...
Ten years on, Nick Hopkins recalls how the Guardian defied the intelligence agencies to publish revelations of mass state surveillance The phone call came at an unfortunate moment. It was lat...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/07/edward-snowden-mi5-nsa-prism-ghcq
The whistleblower forced US intelligence agencies to admit extensive spying on their own citizens. Some reforms were enacted but Snowden still faces potentially 30 years in prison It was the da...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/07/edward-snowden-10-years-surveillance-revelations
Pulitzer-winner James Risen calls the late Democratic senator an ‘American Cicero’ – and makes a strong case Frank Forrester Church sat in the US Senate for 24 years. His tenure was conse...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/07/last-honest-man-frank-church-book-james-risen-review
Former NSA intelligence contractor was given asylum in Russia after leaking secret files in 2013 Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday granting Russian citizenship to the US whistleblower Ed...
The NSA’s surveillance of Americans’ internet use raises serious constitutional concerns, but the government claims a lawsuit against the program would compromise ‘state secrets’ Imagin...
Ronald Pelton, convicted of espionage in 1986, said he accepted money from America’s cold war enemy because he was desperate A former National Security Agency analyst who was arguably its mo...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/12/nsa-analyst-ronald-pelton-soviets-secrets-dies
Head of GCHQ rebuffed late-night request from National Security Agency amid strained relations in Five Eyes intelligence coalition The US National Security Agency (NSA) tried to persuade its Br...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/31/edward-snowden-nsa-gchq-guardian-book
Former NSA contractor says in interview ‘I knew it was secret … but I also knew that I had pledged service to the American people’ A former intelligence contractor who was imprisoned for ...
Research concludes it ‘was probable’ that Menwith Hill was used to assist in the controversial assassination Campaigners have called on ministers to explain whether the secretive Menwith Hi...
It took Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers to reveal the staggering extent of the government’s spying on its own people as institutional checks failed On the morning of 11 September 2001...
Spencer Ackerman, once of the Guardian, displays a masterful command of the facts but sometimes lets his prejudice show This 11 September will be the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the Worl...
Ex-intelligence contractor convicted of leaking report on Russian interference in US election released for good behavior Reality Winner, a former intelligence contractor convicted of leaking a ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/14/reality-winner-nsa-whistleblower-released-prison
Media reports claim US National Security Agency used Danish cables to spy on senior officials Reports that Denmark’s military intelligence agency helped the US to spy on leading European poli...
When Mike Beck developed a rare form of Parkinson’s US intelligence concluded he was the victim of a hi-tech weapon When the first reports surfaced of a mysterious disorder that was afflictin...
Government sued Snowden over Permanent Record publication US alleges book in violation of agreements whistleblower signed The United States is entitled to more than $5.2m from former National ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/01/edward-snowden-book-permanent-record-court