Whistleblower Edward Snowden and wife Lindsay Mills reveal pics of their new baby

Fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden and his wife Lindsay Mills have shared pictures of their first child, a baby boy.   The news was first shared by Mills in an Instagram post, in which the acrobat and blogger also posted several images of her and Snowden with his arms around her baby bump.  In another image, … Read more

CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden agrees to forfeit more than $5m from book proceeds to US government

Edward Snowden’s book, Permanent Record, was released last year.  It offers by far the most expansive and personal account of how Snowden turned from obscure NSA worker to whisleblower, a move which set off a national debate about the extent of government surveillance by intelligence agencies desperate to avoid a repeat of the September 11 attacks.  … Read more

NSA’s surveillance program exposed by Edward Snowden was illegal, court rules 

Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the US intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth. In a ruling handed down on Wednesday, the US … Read more

Trump says he will ‘look very strongly’ at pardoning Edward Snowden after calling him a ‘traitor’

Edward Snowden’s book, Permanent Record, was released last year.  It offers by far the most expansive and personal account of how Snowden turned from obscure NSA worker to whisleblower, a move which set off a national debate about the extent of government surveillance by intelligence agencies desperate to avoid a repeat of the September 11 attacks.  … Read more

Whistleblower Edward Snowden warns citizens’ privacy will suffer after the coronavirus is over

Edward Snowden, the famous whistleblower who leaked information from the National Security Agency in 2012, has come out of hiding to share a warning with the world about the coronavirus. Snowden told Vice that governments could exploit the coronavirus pandemic in order to keep their control over the public. The cautionary words comes at a … Read more