It's Becoming Clear That The NSA's Nightmare Has Just Begun Michael Kelley
Dec. 5, 2013, 9:25 AM 13,864 45 The National Security Agency and its allies face a long, painful drip of classified documents relating to their intelligence operations. The quantity and range of leaks facilitated by Edward Snowden have become clear in recent news stories. First, The Australian reports that Edward Snowden stole as many as 20,000 Aussie signals intelligence files from the NSA's systems. Australia's attorney general called the disclosures the most damaging in the country's history. That, combined with 58,000 documents from Britain's GCHQ intelligence agency and an unknown but substantial number of NSA files, means the claim Snowden took as many as 200,000 files is not far-fetched. Second, on Thursday Swedish television reported that Sweden's signals intelligence agency, the FRA, has been a key partner for the United States in spying on Russia and its leadership. A previous report said that Sweden is also a key partner of the GCHQ. Glenn Greenwald, who provided the documents for at least the Swedish TV report, tweeted: 'The closeness of the US/Sweden relationship cannot be overstated - this is just the first of many stories that will show this." The Swedish TV report is especially striking because the disclosures seem to fly in the face of something Greenwald told the Daily Beast in June: "We won't publish things that might ruin ongoing operations from the U.S. government that very few people would object to the United States doing." Russia is one of America's top five priority spying targets and the NSA's primary mission is foreign signals intelligence. It's hard to fathom that many people object to the U.S. spying on the Kremlin. No matter the editorial parameters, there is clearly more material to report: As of November 27, about 552 pages of Snowden's documents have been published in a variety of media outlets. This week Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger testified that the paper published 1% of the 58,000 files it had received from Snowden. And given that the leaks appear to be exposing not only government spying on citizens but also basic functions of the NSA and the documents provided to Greenwald spurred the creation of a new media organization, this could theoretically go on for years. A further concern is that Snowden apparently had documents that he didn't give to journalists - including 30,000 documents that do not deal with NSA surveillance, "but primarily with standard intelligence about other countries' military capabilities, including weapons systems" - and it is unclear what he did with those files. Snowden currently lives under Kremlin protection in Russia. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-leaks-could-have-just-begun-2013-12#ixzz2 mdTRAflI ========================================== (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with "Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of "Fair Use" was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. "Fair Use" legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include "criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research." Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a "fair use". A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of "fair use". Rather, "fair use" is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. __._,_.___ __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
