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Journalist Who Helped Break Snowden's Story Reflects On His High-Stakes Reporting
In a new book, Dark Mirror, Barton Gellman writes about his relationship with Edward Snowden and the high-stakes reporting that ultimately garnered him, Poitras and Greenwald a Pulitzer Prize.
Edward Snowden Speaks Out: 'I Haven't And I Won't' Cooperate With Russia
In 2013, Edward Snowden was an IT systems expert working under contract for the National Security Agency when he traveled to Hong Kong to provide three journalists with thousands of top-secret documents about U.S. intelligence agencies' surveillance of American citizens.
Hackers Demanding Ransoms Paralyze City Computer Systems In The U.S.
NY Times cybersecurity correspondent Nicole Perlroth says hacking tools developed by the NSA were stolen, posted online and are now being used in cyberattacks, including one on the city of Baltimore.
An In-Depth Look At The U.S. Cyber War, The Military Alliance And Its Pitfalls
In the book @War, Shane Harris reports that U.S. intelligence agencies, sometimes aided by corporations, are trying to dominate cyberspace. It's "changing the Internet in fundamental ways," he says.
'Citizenfour': A Paranoid Conspiracy Documentary About Edward Snowden.
Laura Poitras' new film isn't artfully shaped like her other documentaries. But she captures scenes as history is being made — and it will make you look both ways when you're on the street.
'Frontline' Doc Explores How Sept. 11 Created Today's NSA
PBS looks at the origins of the agency's surveillance program and the extraordinary steps top government officials took to give it legal cover and keep it hidden.
Edward Snowden: From 'Geeky' Dropout To NSA Leaker
What motivated the former NSA contractor to divulge careful guarded NSA secrets? A new Vanity Fair article takes a look back at the "kid from the Maryland suburbs."
While Warning Of Chinese Cyberthreat, U.S. Launches Its Own Attack
The NSA managed to penetrate the networks of the giant Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei, documents show. Journalist David Sanger says cyber-espionage is an "entirely new field of conflict."
Reporter Had To Decide If Snowden Leaks Were 'The Real Thing'
Before whistle-blower Edward Snowden became a household name, he was an anonymous source. The Washington Post's Barton Gellman recounts how he began corresponding with Snowden and the process of reporting on the government's Internet data mining program.
'The Watchers' Have Had Their Eyes On Us For Years
Shane Harris, an author and journalist who covers intelligence, surveillance and cybersecurity for a number of publications, says that the revelations about the NSA from Edward Snowden are nothing new, and that such programs have a significant recent history in the United States.