The NSA Files

By The Guardian

The Guardian series on the biggest intelligence leak in US history.

Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the 'pathetic' American media
The Guardian - Lisa O'Carroll
Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which,
Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security
The Guardian - James Ball, Julian Borger and Glenn Greenwald
The NSA files,NSA,GCHQ,Surveillance,US news,World news,US national security,Privacy,Technology,Internet,Data protection,Data and computer security,UK news • NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect
XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
The Guardian - Glenn Greenwald
• XKeyscore gives 'widest-reaching' collection of online data • NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches • Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history • NSA's XKeyscore
Edward Snowden's father says FBI asked him to fly to Moscow
The Guardian - James Meikle
The father of the whistleblower Edward Snowden has said the FBI tried to persuade him to fly to Moscow so that he could encourage his son to return to the United States. "I said: 'I want to be able to
NSA surveillance: narrow defeat for amendment to restrict data collection
guardian.co.uk - Spencer Ackerman in Washington
The first major legislative challenge to the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone records from millions of Americans was defeated by …
Tech firms should be allowed to publish more data on US surveillance
guardian.co.uk - Ryan Budish
Following the leaks about NSA surveillance, people demanded information about the scope and scale of the US government's data collection. In …
Secret court lets NSA extend its trawl of Verizon customers' phone records
guardian.co.uk - Ed Pilkington in New York
The National Security Agency has been allowed to extend its dragnet of the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon through a court …
Edward Snowden accuses US of illegal, aggressive campaign
guardian.co.uk - Alec Luhn and Miriam Elder in Moscow, Paul Lewis in Washington
The American whistleblower Edward Snowden has accused the US of waging a campaign of "historically disproportionate aggression" against him during an …
Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
guardian.co.uk - Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras, Spencer Ackerman and Dominic Rushe
Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National …
NSA surveillance: French human rights groups seek judicial investigation
guardian.co.uk - Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
Two human rights groups have filed a lawsuit in Paris seeking an investigation into whether the US National Security Agency violated French privacy …
NSA leaks: UK blocks crucial espionage talks between US and Europe
guardian.co.uk - Ian Traynor in Vilnius
Britain has blocked the first crucial talks on intelligence and espionage between European officials and their American counterparts since the NSA …
US privacy group challenging NSA and FBI collection of phone records
guardian.co.uk - Dan Roberts in Washington
The US supreme court will be asked to suspend the blanket collection of US telephone records by the FBI under an emergency petition due to be filed …
Edward Snowden: 'The US government will say I aided our enemies' – video interview
guardian.co.uk - Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald in Hong Kong, Source: Guardian US
In the second part of an exclusive interview with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden contemplates the reaction …
Snowden's Venezuela offer 'last chance' for political asylum – Russian official
guardian.co.uk - Matt Williams and agencies
Venezuela's offer of asylum could be NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's "last chance" to avoid extradition to the US, an influential member of the …
The NSA's mass and indiscriminate spying on Brazilians
guardian.co.uk - Glenn Greenwald
I've written an article on NSA surveillance for the front page of the Sunday edition of O Globo, the large Brazilian newspaper based in Rio de …
Senators accuse government of using 'secret law' to collect Americans' data
guardian.co.uk - Dan Roberts in Washington
A bipartisan group of 26 US senators has written to intelligence chiefs to complain that the administration is relying on a "secret body of law" to …
The world must hear from Edward Snowden again
guardian.co.uk - Mark Weisbrot
In the case of Edward Snowden and the secret surveillance abuses that he has exposed, it's us against them. But who is "us" and who is "them?" This …
Edward Snowden arrives in Moscow
guardian.co.uk - Tania Branigan in Hong Kong and Miriam Elder in Moscow
Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower, has arrived in Moscow after Hong Kong authorities allowed him to leave despite a US request for his arrest. In …
NSA leaks: US and Britain team up on mass surveillance
guardian.co.uk - Peter Beaumont
Twelve years ago, in an almost forgotten report, the European parliament completed its investigations into a long-suspected western intelligence …
Snowden spy row grows as US is accused of hacking China
guardian.co.uk - Toby Helm, Daniel Boffey and Nick Hopkins
Edward Snowden, the former CIA technician who blew the whistle on global surveillance operations, has opened a new front against the US authorities, …
The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant
guardian.co.uk - Glenn Greenwald and James Ball
Top secret documents submitted to the court that oversees surveillance by US intelligence agencies show the judges have signed off on broad orders …
Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions
guardian.co.uk
5.43pm BST Final question from Glenn Greenwald: Anything else you’d like to add? Answer: Thanks to everyone for their support, and remember that just …
G20 summit: NSA targeted Russian president Medvedev in London
guardian.co.uk - Ewen MacAskill, Nick Davies, Nick Hopkins, Julian Borger and James Ball
American spies based in the UK intercepted the top-secret communications of the then Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, during his visit to Britain …
Apple follows Facebook's lead and reveals US surveillance requests
guardian.co.uk - Dominic Rushe in New York and Stuart Dredge
Apple has joined rivals including Facebook, Google and Twitter in calling on the US government to allow it to publish more details of the secret …
GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits
guardian.co.uk - Ewen MacAskill, Nick Davies, Nick Hopkins, Julian Borger and James Ball
Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored and their phone calls …
Edward Snowden: the truth about US surveillance will emerge
guardian.co.uk - Ewen MacAskill in New York
The NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned that the truth about the extent of surveillance carried out by US authorities would emerge, even if …
Welcome to Utah, the NSA's desert home for eavesdropping on America
guardian.co.uk - Rory Carroll in Bluffdale
Drive south down Camp Williams Road, a highway outside Salt Lake City, and your eye is drawn to the left. A gun-mounted helicopter and other military …
US intelligence outlines checks it says validate surveillance
guardian.co.uk - Dan Roberts and Spencer Ackerman in Washington
The US intelligence community has written to Congress to confirm the existence of two sweeping surveillance programmes revealed by the Guardian, but …
Edward Snowden is a 'traitor' and possible spy for China – Dick Cheney
guardian.co.uk - Matt Williams in New York
Senior officials from the current and previous US administrations lined up on Sunday to defend the government sweep of phone and internet records and …