SBS Dateline Exclusive Interview with Christopher Falcon Boyce LeakSourceTV2 2014-02-19 | 02/18/2014In the 1970s, Christopher Boyce's name became inextricably linked with the political tensions of the time when he was jailed for selling classified US information to the KGB in the Soviet Union.The spy's story was also made famous by the movie, The Falcon and The Snowman, but in recent decades Boyce has been off the radar.Mark Davis tracks him down to the mountains of Oregon, where he's been living in virtual anonymity since his release from prison. In an explosive interview, Boyce recounts his time working for a CIA subsidiary that provided satellite equipment to the spy base at Pine Gap in central Australia.And he makes claims that during the time of Gough Whitlam's troubled government, the CIA was interfering in Australian politics and its trade unions.http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/christopher-falcon-boyce-i-thought-my-government-betrayed-me-long-before-i-betrayed-it-sbs-dateline-exclusive-interviewtwitter.com/LeakSourceNews
Video Shows Moment El Chapo Escapes Mexico Maximum Security Prison Cell (+ Tunnel Footage) LeakSourceTV2 2015-07-15 | 07/14/2015On Tuesday night, Mexico released video footage of the moment that Chapo made his second implausible escape. In it, a man dressed in sweatpants and a sweatshirt is seen pacing in a cell, then putting on shoes, then ducking below a waist-high barrier of the shower stall in his cell. The time stamp on the video reads 8:52pm. After that, the man is not seen again.More: http://leaksource.info/2015/07/15/video-shows-moment-el-chapo-escapes-mexico-maximum-security-prison-cell-tunnel-footagetwitter.com/LeakSourceInfo
PACE - Improving the Protection of Whistleblowers (feat. Edward Snowden) LeakSourceTV2 2015-06-24 | Snowden appears @39:5006/23/2015The United States should allow whistle-blower Edward Snowden to return to his home country “without fear of criminal prosecution under conditions that would not allow him to raise the public interest defence”, according to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The 1917 Espionage Act – under which he has been charged in the United States – does not allow for any form of public interest defence.Mr Snowden, speaking via video-link from Moscow shortly after the resolution was voted, on the second day of the Assembly’s summer plenary session in Strasbourg, said PACE’s position would be very helpful to whistleblowers everywhere. “If you can’t mount a full and effective defence – make the case that you are revealing information in the public interest – you can’t have a fair trial,” he pointed out, speaking to participants at a fringe-meeting.Backing a report by Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD), the parliamentarians said whistle-blowers “threatened by retaliation in their home countries” should be granted asylum in Council of Europe member and observer States, as well as the EU, provided their disclosures met a set of conditions for ethical whistle-blowing.Whistle-blower protection laws should also cover employees of “national security or intelligence services and private firms working in this field”, the Assembly said.The parliamentarians called for a binding multilateral treaty on whistle-blower protection to be drawn up by the Council of Europe, also open to non-member States, based on an existing recommendation from the Organisation’s ministerial body.The US is an observer state to the Council of Europe, the 47-nation body upholding human rights and democracy.http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/News-View-EN.asp?newsid=5672&lang=2&cat=8------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------http://LeakSource.infotwitter.com/LeakSourceInfo
Seymour Hersh Details Story on Bin Laden Killing & Responds to White House/Media Backlash LeakSourceTV2 2015-05-19 | 05/12/2015Four years after U.S. forces assassinated Osama bin Laden, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has published an explosive piece claiming much of what the Obama administration said about the attack was wrong. Hersh claims at the time of the U.S. raid bin Laden had been held as a prisoner by Pakistani intelligence since 2006. Top Pakistani military leaders knew about the operation and provided key assistance. Contrary to U.S. claims that it located bin Laden by tracking his courier, a former Pakistani intelligence officer identified bin Laden’s whereabouts in return for the bulk of a $25 million U.S. bounty. Questions are also raised about whether bin Laden was actually buried at sea, as the U.S. claimed. Hersh says instead the Navy SEALs threw parts of bin Laden’s body into the Hindu Kush mountains from their helicopter. The White House claims the piece is "riddled with inaccuracies." Hersh joins Democracy Now! to lay out his findings and respond to criticism from government officials and media colleagues.http://leaksource.info/2015/05/18/bin-laden-pakistan-isi-prisoner-saudi-financed-walk-in-tip-off-not-torture-more-sy-hersh-obliterates-us-gov-raid-cover-storytwitter.com/LeakSourceInfo
All the Presidents Psychologists: APAs Secret Complicity w/ Govt in Support of CIA Torture Program LeakSourceTV2 2015-05-09 | 05/05/2015New details have emerged on how the American Psychological Association, the world’s largest group of psychologists, aided government-sanctioned torture under President George W. Bush. A group of dissident psychologists have just published a 60-page report alleging the APA secretly coordinated with officials from the CIA, White House and the Pentagon to change the APA ethics policy to align it with the operational needs of the CIA’s torture program. Much of the report, "All the President’s Psychologists: The American Psychological Association’s Secret Complicity with the White House and US Intelligence Community in Support of the CIA’s 'Enhanced' Interrogation Program," is based on hundreds of newly released internal APA emails from 2003 to 2006 that show top officials were in direct communication with the CIA. The report also reveals Susan Brandon, a behavioral science researcher working for President Bush, secretly drafted language that the APA inserted into its ethics policy on interrogations. We are joined by two of the report’s co-authors: Dr. Steven Reisner, a founding member of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology and member of the APA Council of Representatives, and Nathaniel Raymond, director of the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.READ FULL REPORT HERE: http://leaksource.info/2015/05/08/all-the-presidents-psychologists-apa-secret-complicity-with-govt-in-support-of-cia-torture-programtwitter.com/LeakSourceInfo
Edward Snowden on 2d Cir. Ruling NSA Phone Records Program Unlawful LeakSourceTV2 2015-05-08 | 05/08/2015The day after a New York federal appeals court ruled that the NSA’s mass collection of telephone records is unlawful, the whistleblower responsible for bringing this program to light gave his first public reaction to the ruling at the Nordic Media Festival. Edward Snowden was interviewed on livestream by Tor expert and Forbes contributor Runa Sandvik, who first met Snowden while he was still an NSA contractor when they threw a cryptoparty together in Hawaii.More: http://leaksource.info/2015/05/08/second-circuit-court-of-appeals-rules-nsa-bulk-collection-of-americans-phone-records-unlawfultwitter.com/LeakSourceInfo
Wyden/Greenwald on 2d Cir. Ruling NSA Phone Records Program Unlawful LeakSourceTV2 2015-05-08 | 05/07/2015A federal appeals court in New York ruled that the NSA's bulk collection of millions of Americans' phone records is illegal. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon and Glenn Greenwald join to discuss.More: http://leaksource.info/2015/05/08/second-circuit-court-of-appeals-rules-nsa-bulk-collection-of-americans-phone-records-illegaltwitter.com/LeakSourceInfo
US Drone Strike Kills American/Italian Hostages & Al Qaeda-Linked US Citizen in Pakistan LeakSourceTV2 2015-04-25 | 04/23/2015A U.S. drone killed an American and an Italian held hostage in a January attack on an al Qaeda compound in Pakistan, sparking new questions about the use of the controversial and still-evolving weapon.The intelligence that underpinned the drone strike turned out to have been tragically incomplete, U.S. officials and lawmakers said Thursday. As a result, American development expert Warren Weinstein and Italian aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto lost their lives after years as captives of the militants.Along with Weinstein and Lo Porto, the strike on the compound killed Ahmed Farouq, an al Qaeda leader and American citizen, the officials said. Until Thursday, Farouq was a little-known militant leader, and many experts were unaware that he held U.S. citizenship. The State Department said he also held Pakistani citizenship.More: http://leaksource.info/2015/04/25/us-drone-strikes-kill-american-italian-hostages-weinstein-lo-porto-al-qaeda-linked-us-citizens-gadahn-farouq-in-pakistantwitter.com/LeakSourceInfo
SPYCRAFT: The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda Book Discussion LeakSourceTV2 2015-04-17 | 06/03/2008Robert Wallace and Keith Melton, co-authors of Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda, talked about the gadgets used by the Central Intelligence Agengy (CIA) going back to the mid-20th century. Following their remarks, the authors took questions from audience members. Robert Wallace is the former director of the CIS’s Office of Technical Service and founder of the Artemus Consulting Group. Keith Melton is a historical consultant for the CIA and a professor at the Center for Counterintelligence and Security Studies.READ/DOWNLOAD "SPYCRAFT: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CIA'S SPYTECHS FROM COMMUNISM TO AL-QAEDA" (2008) HERE: http://leaksource.info/2015/04/16/spycraft-the-secret-history-of-the-cia-spytechs-from-communism-to-al-qaeda-2008-the-official-cia-manual-of-trickery-and-deception-2009twitter.com/LeakSourceInfo
Secret Transcripts Reveal How FBI Turned Retarded Fool Into a Terrorist with Hollywood Ending LeakSourceTV2 2015-03-20 | 03/19/2015"How the FBI Created a Terrorist." That’s the subtitle of a new exposé in The Intercept by Trevor Aaronson, a journalist who investigates the FBI’s use of informants in sting operations. The article tells the story of Sami Osmakac, a mentally disturbed, financially unstable young man who was targeted by an elaborately orchestrated FBI sting in early 2012. The operation involved a paid informant who hired Osmakac for a job, when he was too broke to afford inert government weapons. The FBI provided the weapons seen in a so-called martyrdom video Osmakac filmed before he planned to deliver what he believed was a car bomb to a bar in Tampa, Florida. His family believes Osmakac never would have initiated such a plot without the FBI. And transcripts of conversations obtained by Aaronson show FBI agents appeared to agree, describing him as a “retarded fool” whose terrorist ambitions were a “pipe-dream scenario.” The transcripts show how the agents worked to get $500 to Osmakac so he could make a down payment on the weapons — something government prosecutors wanted to prove their case. In November 2014, Osmakac was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison, despite a court-appointed psychologist diagnosing him with schizoaffective disorder. We are joined by Avni Osmakac, the older brother of Sami Osmakac, and Trevor Aaronson, contributing writer at The Intercept and executive director of the nonprofit Florida Center for Investigative Reporting.More: http://leaksource.info/2015/03/20/secret-transcripts-reveal-how-fbi-turned-retarded-fool-into-a-terrorist-with-hollywood-ending-sami-osmakac-stingtwitter.com/LeakSourceInfo
Sami Osmakac FBI Sting Surveillance LeakSourceTV2 2015-03-20 | http://leaksource.info/2015/03/20/secret-transcripts-reveal-how-fbi-turned-retarded-fool-into-a-terrorist-with-hollywood-ending-sami-osmakac-stingtwitter.com/LeakSourceInfo
Glenn Greenwald & Former GCHQ Director David Omand on ISC Surveillance Report - Newsnight LeakSourceTV2 2015-03-13 | 03/12/2015The Intelligence and Security Committee of the UK Parliament (ISC) issued a lengthy report today on the surveillance practices of GCHQ. Invoking the now-standard Orwellian tactic of claiming that “bulk collection” is not “mass surveillance,” the Committee predictably cleared GCHQ of illegality, but it did announce that it has “serious concerns” over the agency’s lack of transparency and oversight. Citing the Snowden disclosures, it called for a significant overhaul of the legal framework governing electronic surveillance.firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/12/uk-parliament-finally-offers-evidence-mass-surveillance-stops-terror-attackshttp://LeakSource.infotwitter.com/LeakSourceInfo
Greenwald Meets Bernstein: From Watergate to Snowden LeakSourceTV2 2015-03-09 | 03/06/2015Glenn Greenwald and Carl Bernstein in a discussion with Fredrik Laurin, head of investigative journalism, Swedish Radio.A state that aspires to absolute control over every action and thought of its people through clandestine and constinuous surveillance both today and before the internet is a topic that unites two reporters that has changed the world. Is the abuse of power the same today? What is the power of the free press? Where does investigative journalism belong today, in a classical newspaper like the Washington Post or on the internet?http://LeakSource.infotwitter.com/LeakSourceInfo
Edward Snowden Testimony @ Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) - 04/08/2014 LeakSourceTV2 2014-04-09 | 04/08/2014US whistleblower Edward Snowden, testifying by video-link to a PACE hearing on mass surveillance.More: http://leaksource.info/2014/04/09/edward-snowden-testimony-parliamentary-assembly-of-the-council-of-europe-pace-04-08-2014twitter.com/LeakSourceInfo
Recorded Future Webinar: Tracking Anonymous/RedHack/Syrian Electronic Army LeakSourceTV2 2014-04-02 | 01/30/2014http://leaksource.info/2014/04/02/recorded-future-webinar-tracking-anonymous-redhack-syrian-electronic-armytwitter.com/LeakSourceInfo
Edward Snowden via Beam Robot @ TED2014 LeakSourceTV2 2014-03-19 | 03/18/2014http://leaksource.info/2014/03/18/edward-snowden-via-beam-robot-ted2014twitter.com/LeakSourceInfo
Law Enforcement & Hacking: When Cops Control Your Webcam LeakSourceTV2 2014-02-26 | 02/18/2014http://leaksource.info/2014/02/26/law-enforcement-hacking-when-cops-control-your-webcamtwitter.com/LeakSourceInfo
Julian Assange & Michael Ratner on NSA/GCHQ Surveillance of WikiLeaks and Supporters LeakSourceTV2 2014-02-19 | 02/18/2014Top-secret documents from the National Security Agency and its British counterpart reveal for the first time how the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom targeted WikiLeaks and other activist groups with tactics ranging from covert surveillance to prosecution.The efforts -- detailed in documents provided previously by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden -- included a broad campaign of international pressure aimed not only at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but at what the U.S. government calls "the human network that supports WikiLeaks." The documents also contain internal discussions about targeting the file-sharing site Pirate Bay and hacktivist collectives such as Anonymous.More: http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2014/02/19/anticrisis-girl-nsagchq-surveillance-of-wikileaks-and-human-network-that-supports-themtwitter.com/LeakSourceNews
Committee to Protect Journalists: Attacks on the Press in 2013 LeakSourceTV2 2014-02-14 | 02/12/2014Speakers: Mr. Joel Simon, CPJ Executive Director; Ms. Nina Ognianova, CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator; Mr. Mohamed Keita, CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator; Mr. Sherif Mansour, CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator.Digital surveillance, the unchecked murder of journalists, and indirect commercial and political pressures on the media are three of the primary threats to press freedom highlighted in the Committee to Protect Journalists annual assessment, Attacks on the Press, released today.More: http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/committee-to-protect-journalists-attacks-on-the-press-in-2013twitter.com/LeakSourceNews
Glenn Greenwald on President Obamas NSA Reforms (CNN Compilation/3 Interviews) LeakSourceTV2 2014-01-18 | 01/17/2014Glenn Greenwald responds to President Obama's NSA reforms.More: http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/obama-announces-nsa-reforms-w-presidential-directive-greenwald-assange-responsestwitter.com/LeakSourceNews
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing with Presidents NSA Review Group LeakSourceTV2 2014-01-15 | 01/14/2014Starts @ 15:10http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-with-presidents-nsa-review-grouptwitter.com/LeakSourceNews
Activists Who Stole FBI Documents in 1971 Revealing COINTELPRO Speak Out LeakSourceTV2 2014-01-09 | 01/08/2014One of the great mysteries of the Vietnam War era has been solved. On March 8, 1971, a group of activists — including a cabdriver, a day care director and two professors — broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania. They stole every document they found and then leaked many to the press, including details about FBI abuses and the then-secret counter-intelligence program to infiltrate, monitor and disrupt social and political movements, nicknamed COINTELPRO. They called themselves the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI. No one was ever caught for the break-in. The burglars' identities remained a secret until this week when they finally came forward to take credit for the caper that changed history. Today we are joined by three of them — John Raines, Bonnie Raines and Keith Forsyth; their attorney, David Kairys; and Betty Medsger, the former Washington Post reporter who first broke the story of the stolen FBI documents in 1971 and has now revealed the burglars' identities in her new book, "The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI."More: http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/citizens-commission-burglars-who-exposed-fbis-cointelpro-in-1971-come-forward-for-the-first-timetwitter.com/LeakSourceNews
Big Ears in the Mountains (NSA/Sugar Grove) (2006) LeakSourceTV2 2014-01-06 | March 2006This story looks at the role a secluded base in Sugar Grove, West Virginia, plays in the federal government's surveillance of communications. It first aired in March of 2006 on the program "Outlook," just a few months after the revelation of the Bush Administration's domestic surveillance program.More: http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/nsa-sugar-grove-wv-listening-posttwitter.com/LeakSourceNews
Sandy Hook Report: Inside the Lanza Home LeakSourceTV2 2013-12-28 | http://LeakSource.wordpress.comtwitter.com/LeakSourceNews
Glenn Greenwald @ LIBE Committee Inquiry on Electronic Mass Surveillance of EU Citizens LeakSourceTV2 2013-12-18 | 12/18/2013twitter.com/ggreenwaldhttp://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/libe-committee-inquiry-on-electronic-mass-surveillance-of-eu-citizens-soghoian-greenwaldtwitter.com/LeakSourceNews
Christopher Soghoian @ LIBE Committee Inquiry on Electronic Mass Surveillance of EU Citizens LeakSourceTV2 2013-12-18 | 12/18/2013twitter.com/csoghoianhttp://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/libe-committee-inquiry-on-electronic-mass-surveillance-of-eu-citizens-soghoian-greenwaldtwitter.com/LeakSourceNews
Guardians Alan Rusbridger Home Affairs Committee Testimony Re: Snowden/NSA Leaks LeakSourceTV2 2013-12-03 | 12/03/2013http://LeakSource.wordpress.comtwitter.com/LeakSourceNews
4 School Officials Charged with Steubenville Rape Cover-Up (Press Conference) LeakSourceTV2 2013-11-26 | 11/25/2013Officials in Steubenville, Ohio have indicted four new individuals with charges related to the 2012 sexual assault of a 16-year-old West Virginia girl and the scandal surrounding it.Ohio Atty. Gen. Mike DeWine announced during a Monday afternoon press conference that the superintendent of the Steubenville school system and three others have now been charged with crimes, expanding even further a widespread scandal that has soured the town's reputation and already led so far to the incarceration of two teenagers.More: http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/after-anonymous-exposure-4-school-officials-charged-with-steubenville-rape-cover-uptwitter.com/LeakSourceNews
Encryption vs. Surveillance - EuroParl Privacy Platform feat. Ladar Levison & Jacob Appelbaum LeakSourceTV2 2013-10-17 | 10/15/2013Recent reports have revealed that the NSA has access to encryption keys and has paid tech companies to introduce backdoors in encryption protocols. The Privacy Platform on the 15th of October is dedicated to the question whether or not (certain) encryption is worthwhile, and what is the state-of-the-art in encryption and surveillance techniques. The purpose of the meeting is to get better insight into encryption techniques and the possibilities of secret services to intercept and read encrypted messages.Panel:0:11:53 Ladar Levison - Founder, Lavabit0:23:48 Troels Oerting - Director of Cyber Crime Center, Europol0:31:27 Jacob Appelbaum - Encryption and security software developer and research journalist0:46:32 James Heather - Computer security researcher, University of Surrey, United Kingdom1:01:14 Q&A/Debate---------------------------------------------------------------------------------http://LeakSource.wordpress.comtwitter.com/LeakSourceNews
