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Last Monday, the website The Intercept started publishing larger batches of documents from the Snowden trove, so they can now also be examined by the public. It's a new phase after previously documents were generally disclosed as part of journalistic reports, but the number of such publications steadily declined over the last two years. For how it was to work with the Snowden documents can be learned from an interesting interview with two journalists from the German Magazine Der Spiegel. They not only published a whole range of articles based upon the Top Secret NSA documents, but also a book which is much more informative than that of Glenn Greenwald. The interview with Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark from Der Spiegel, as well as with Svea Eckert from the German broadcaster NDR, was part of the Network Research ( Netzwerk Recherche ) annual conference, which was held on July 3 and 4, 2015: Interview with Marcel Rosenbach, Holger Stark and Svea Eckert, July 2015 (in German) ...

(Latest UPDATE : July 19, 2017) Since June 2013, numerous top secret documents from the American signals intelligence agency NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ have been disclosed. The overwhelming majority of them came from the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden . But what many people probably didn't notice, is that some of these documents (some being very compromising and embarrassing for NSA) were not provided by Snowden, but by other leakers. Often, the press reports didn't mention that very clear, and it was only by not attributing such documents to Snowden, that it became clear they apparently came from someone else. So far, the following classified documents have been disclosed without having been attributed to Snowden: 2013: - Chancellor Merkel tasking record - TAO's ANT product catalog 2014: - XKEYSCORE rules: TOR and TAILS - NCTC watchlisting guidance - NCTC terrorist watchlist report 2015: - XKEYSCORE rules: New Zealand - Ramstein AFB supporting drone oper...

(UPDATED July 5, 2017) During his very first interview , former NSA contractor Edward Snowden pretended that he, sitting behind his desk " certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you, or your accountant, to a federal judge, or even the President if I had a personal e-mail ". Right from the beginning, intelligence experts doubted that individual NSA analysts would have such far-reaching powers. By looking at the legal authorities and procedures that regulate NSA's collection efforts, it becomes clear that it is highly unlikely that Snowden, or other analysts could have done that in a legitimate way. Targeting US citizens under FISA authority The National Security Agency (NSA) collects foreign signals intelligence outside the US, but in a few special cases, it is also allowed to collect data about US citizens or to collect data inside the US. This is shown in the following decision tree: Diagram with a decision tree showing the various legal authorities under ...

(Updated: May 24, 2015) Earlier this month, it was the one year anniversary of the Snowden-leaks, by far the biggest disclosure ever of highly secret documents from the US National Security Agency (NSA). Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald are using these documents to show how eager NSA is to collect every bit of communication that travels around the world. But by taking a close and careful look at the original slides and reports which have been published so far it comes out that they contain no hard evidence for a massive abuse of power or violation of the law, not even for the alleged mass surveillance of innocent people all over the world. - No Place To Hide - NSA's military tasks - NSA's goals - NSA collection worldwide - - Metadata collection - Collection inside the US - Conclusion - Headquarters of the National Security Agency at Fort George G. Meade (screenshot from PBS Frontline - United States of Secrets)   No Place To Hide Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald cl...