Edward Snowden will nach Hause

Der frühere NSA-Mitarbeiter Edward Snowden will zurück in die USA, traut sich aber nicht. Denn in den USA warte auf ihn ein Leben im Gefängnis, sagte Snowden in seinem ersten Interview mit einem US-Fernsehsender.

Edward Snowden Exclusive Interview with NBC Brian Williams

Kerry Challenges NSA Leaker to 'Man Up'

May. 28, 2014 - 3:35 - Edward Snowden claims State Dept. trapped him in Russia

Edward Snowden: I Was a Trained Spy, Not Just a Computer Analyst

In an exclusive interview with NBC News, former NSA Contractor Edward Snowden says he was much more than a low-level systems administrator

Read the short Telegraph article here
NBC News Releases Clip From Brian Williams’ Interview With Edward Snowden »

NBC NEWS: EXCLUSIVE: Edward Snowden Tells Brian Williams: ‘I Was Trained as a Spy’ » | Erin McClam

Snowden's First Live: 'Constitution Being Violated on Massive Scale' (Full Video)

Courtesy: The Texas Tribune. ¶ Speaking remotely from Russia on Monday, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden told attendees at the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas that encryption is still a powerful deterrent against government surveillance.

Student Support: Snowden Elected Rector at Glasgow University

Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden may be in limbo over where his future lies, but one of the UK's most venerable institutions is happy to give him a position of trust. Students at Glasgow University in Scotland have nominated him as rector. Tesa Arcilla explains.

Edward Snowden élu recteur de l’Université de Glasgow »

Edward Snowden élu recteur de l'Université de Glasgow

LA PRESSE: L'ancien consultant de l'Agence américaine de sécurité (NSA) Edward Snowden, inculpé d'espionnage dans son pays et réfugié en Russie, a été élu au poste purement honorifique de recteur de l'Université de Glasgow, a annoncé mardi la faculté écossaise sur son compte twitter.

Edward Snowden avait accepté l'invitation d'un groupe d'étudiants à se présenter à ce poste.

Il a été préféré à l'ancien champion cycliste écossais Graeme Obree, à l'écrivain Alan Bissett et à l'ecclésiastique Kelvin Holdsworth. Il succède à l'ancien dirigeant du parti libéral démocrate britannique, Charles Kennedy.

Parmi les précédents recteurs figurent également Winnie Mandela et le lanceur d'alerte israélien Mordechai Vanunu.

«Nous sommes ravis de voir Edward Snowden élu nouveau recteur de l'Université de Glasgow», ont également écrit dans un communiqué le groupe d'étudiants qui l'avait sollicité. » | Agence France-Presse, Londres | mardi 18 février 2014

Data Protection: Angela Merkel Proposes Europe Network

BBC: German Chancellor Angela Merkel is proposing building up a European communications network to help improve data protection.

It would avoid emails and other data automatically passing through the United States.

In her weekly podcast, she said she would raise the issue on Wednesday with French President Francois Hollande.

Revelations of mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA) have prompted huge concern in Europe.

Disclosures by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden suggested even the mobile phones of US allies, such as Mrs Merkel, had been monitored by American spies.

Classified NSA documents revealed that large amounts of personal data are collected from the internet by US and British surveillance. » | Saturday, February 15, 2014

Angela Merkel Rebukes US and Britain over NSA Surveillance

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Chancellor says Germany and US still 'far apart' on sweeping surveillance and spying activities revealed by Edward Snowden

German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued a strong rebuke to the United States and Britain on Wednesday over sweeping surveillance and spying activities reported by fugitive IT contractor Edward Snowden.

In a major speech to parliament ahead of talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday, Merkel said that Western powers sacrificing freedom in the quest for security were sending the wrong signal to "billions of people living in undemocratic states".

"Actions in which the ends justify the means, in which everything that is technically possible is done, violate trust, they sow distrust," she said. "The end result is not more security but less." » | AFP | Wednesday, January 29, 2014

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Regierungserklärung der Kanzlerin: Merkel beklagt Vertrauensbruch durch US-Geheimdienste: Angela Merkel hat die Ausspähung durch ausländische Geheimdienste scharf kritisiert. "Das zerstört Vertrauen", sagte die Kanzlerin in ihrer Regierungserklärung im Bundestag. Gleichwohl gestalteten sich die Verhandlungen über ein No-Spy-Abkommen mit den USA schwierig. » | syd | Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2014

Snowden Requests Extra Security After Receiving Death Threats

Whistleblower Edward Snowden is reportedly set to request additional protection from Russian authorities after receiving a growing number of death threats. The former NSA contractor has been living at an undisclosed location in Russia since August when he received asylum from Washington's prosecution. RT's Marina Portnaya reports.

'Orwell's 1984 a Fairytale Compared to Reality': Snowden Delivers Christmas Message

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has delivered his 'Alternative Christmas Message' via a British TV channel. The whistleblower called for an end to mass spying by governments, stating that a child born today will have "no conception of privacy."

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NSA Mass Phone Surveillance Programme 'Unconstitutional'

Jay Carney

BBC: A US judge has ruled the National Security Agency's mass collection of telephone data unconstitutional.

The agency's collection of "metadata" including telephone numbers and times and dates of calls was brought to light by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

The White House dismissed the suggestion Mr Snowden receive amnesty if he stopped leaking documents.

In his ruling in a Washington DC federal court on Monday, Mr Leon called the NSA's surveillance programme "indiscriminate" and an "almost Orwellian technology that enables the government to store and analyze the phone metadata of every telephone user in the United States". 'Irreparable harm' » | Monday, December 16, 2013

Red-herring 'Inquisition': Guardian Editor Defends Snowden Leaks to MPs

Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger strongly defended his newspaper's publication of the Snowden leaks in response to a hostile grilling by a UK parliamentary committee Tuesday, as MPs attempted to show that national security was breached.

Guardian Journalists Could Face Criminal Charges Over Edward Snowden Leaks

Alan Rusbridger, Editor of 'The Guardian'

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Journalists at The Guardian newspaper are being investigated by anti-terror police over their roles in the Edward Snowden leaks, a senior policewoman confirms

Employees of The Guardian newspaper could face criminal charges over their role in publishing secrets leaked by Edward Snowden, Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism officer has signalled.

Cressida Dick, an assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard, confirmed for the first time that detectives were examining whether staff at the newspaper had committed an offence.

She also told MPs that her officers are looking at potential breaches of a specific anti-terrorism law which makes it unlawful to communicate information about British intelligence agents. The offence carries up to 10 years’ imprisonment. » | David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent | Tuesday, November 02, 2013

Terrorists Are 'Rubbing Their Hands with Glee' after Edward Snowden Leaks

Sir John Sawers, head of MI6, warns that terrorists are 'rubbing their hands with glee' after Edward Snowden leaks

Read the Daily Telegraph article here | Tom Whitehead, Gordon Rayner and Steven Swinford | Thursday, November 07, 2013

Debatte über Snowden: Gewähren Sie Asyl, Frau Bundeskanzlerin!

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Politiker und Prominente fordern im SPIEGEL Asyl für Edward Snowden. Tatsächlich liegt das Schicksal dieses modernen Helden jetzt in Merkels Hand. Denn in Europa wäre nur Deutschland stark genug, dem Zorn der USA zu widerstehen.

Asyl für Edward Snowden? Die Frage stellte sich schon im Sommer, und damals hat die Bundeskanzlerin abgelehnt. Sie versteckte sich hinter einer Floskel: "Das Bundesinnenministerium und das Auswärtige Amt sind nach ihrer Prüfung zu dem Ergebnis gekommen, dass die Voraussetzungen für politisches Asyl oder eine Aufenthaltsgewährung aus anderen Gründen nicht vorlagen."

Das war schon damals falsch.

Aber heute lässt sich das gar nicht mehr halten. Wir wissen jetzt, dass es den Amerikanern bei unserer Überwachung nicht um Sicherheit geht, sondern um Macht. Angela Merkel sollte also dem Mann Schutz und Asyl gewähren, der uns die Augen für das wahre Verhältnis von Sicherheit und Macht im digitalen Zeitalter geöffnet hat. Asyl für Snowden, das wäre ein mächtiges Signal dafür, dass wir unsere Rechte nicht der amerikanischen Herrschaft unterordnen - und überhaupt nicht der digitalen Herrschaft, denn das läuft heute auf dasselbe hinaus. » | Eine Kolumne von Jakob Augstein | Montag, 04. November 2013

White House Rejects Notion of Clemency for Edward Snowden

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Senior Obama aide and heads of House and Senate intelligence committees dismiss fugitive analyst Edward Snowden's appeal for clemency

A senior White House aide and top US lawmakers on Sunday rejected intelligence leaker Edward Snowden's request for clemency following his disclosures of widespread government surveillance.

White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer and the heads of America's Senate and House intelligence committees spoke just days after a German lawmaker published a letter from the fugitive and said Snowden was ready to testify to Congress to shed light on "possibly serious offences."

"Mr Snowden violated US law," Pfeiffer told ABC television's "This Week" program. "He should return to the US and face justice." But Senator Dianne Feinstein said the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor had missed his chance.

"He had an opportunity, if what he was was a whistleblower to pick up the phone and call the House Intelligence Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee and say, 'Look, I have some information you ought to see,'" she told CBS television's "Face the Nation." » | AFP | Monday, November 04, 2013

Germany 'Should Offer Edward Snowden Asylum after NSA Revelations'

THE GUARDIAN: Writing in Der Spiegel, more than 50 high-profile Germans add to increasing calls for Berlin to welcome NSA whistleblower

An increasing number of public figures are calling for Edward Snowden to be offered asylum in Germany, with more than 50 asking Berlin to step up it support of the US whistleblower in the new edition of Der Spiegel magazine[.]

Heiner Geissler, the former general secretary of Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, says in the appeal: "Snowden has done the western world a great service. It is now up to us to help him."

The writer and public intellectual Hans Magnus Enzensberger argues in his contribution that "the American dream is turning into a nightmare" and suggests that Norway would be best placed to offer Snowden refuge, given its track record of offering political asylum to Leon Trotsky in 1935. He bemoans the fact that in Britain, "which has become a US colony", Snowden is regarded as a traitor.

Other public figures on the list include the actor Daniel Brühl, the novelist Daniel Kehlmann, the entrepreneur Dirk Rossmann, the feminist activist Alice Schwarzer and the German football league president, Reinhard Rauball.

The weekly news magazine also publishes a "manifesto for truth", written by Snowden, in which the former NSA employee warns of the danger of spy agencies setting the political agenda. » | Philip Oltermann in Berlin | Sunday, November 03, 2013

SPIEGEL ONLINE: NSA-Affäre: US-Politiker wollen Snowden keine Gnade gewähren: "Wer die Wahrheit ausspricht, begeht kein Verbrechen", sagt Edward Snowden. Doch das Weiße Haus und der US-Geheimdienstausschuss teilen diese Meinung offensichtlich nicht - und sprechen sich gegen eine Begnadigung des ehemaligen Geheimdienstmitarbeiters aus. » | sun/AP/AFP | Sonntag, 03. November 2013

Snowden's Lawyer: Edward Will Lose Refugee Status If Goes to Germany

Edward Snowden passed a letter addressed to the German government and federal public prosecutor where he allegedly said he is ready to testify over Washington's probable wiretapping of Merkel's phone. For more on this, RT talks to Anatoly Kucherena - the lawyer representing Edward Snowden in Russia.