Edward Snowden comes forward as source of NSA leaks. A 2. 9- year- old man who says he is a former undercover CIA employee said Sunday that he was the principal source of. He said he disclosed secret documents in response to what he described as the systematic surveillance of innocent citizens. In an interview Sunday, Snowden said he is willing to face the consequences of exposure. Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten . They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.
He said there was no single event that spurred his decision to leak the information, but he said President Obama has failed to live up to his pledges of transparency. Several former officials said he easily could have been part of a surge in computer experts and technical hires brought in by the CIA in the years after the Sept. Still, several officials said the CIA will now undoubtedly begin reviewing the process by which Snowden may have been hired, seeking to determine whether there were any missed signs that he might one day betray national secrets. More broadly, the CIA and the NSA may be forced to reexamine their relationships with contractors, who were employed in roles ranging from technical support to paramilitary operations before concerns about the outsourcing of.
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- A 29-year-old man who says he is a former undercover CIA employee said Sunday that he was the principal source of recent disclosures about
- A former CIA officer and diplomat who's repeatedly denied playing a role in one of the most notorious U.S.
- A former CIA agent said Wednesday she will be extradited to Italy to serve a prison sentence for her part in the U.S.
- On January 25, 1993, outside the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters campus in Langley, Virginia, a gunman killed two CIA employees and wounded three others. The perpetrator, later identified as Pakistani national.
Ex-CIA officer loses extradition fight to Italy over kidnap operation. A Portuguese court rejects an appeal involving the abduction of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street in 2003. 1968 : The A-12 Blackbird spy plane was retired. Lockheed Martin had built 15 such planes, a forerunner to the SR-71 Blackbird. It had originated as part of the CIA’s “Oxcart” program.
A former CIA officer who was convicted for helping the agency abduct a terrorism suspect off the streets of Milan lost her extradition battle Wednesday and said she fears she’ll end up in an Italian prison while.
One former CIA official said that it was extremely unusual for the agency to have hired someone with such thin academic credentials, particularly for a technical job, and that the terms Snowden used to describe his agency positions did not match internal job descriptions. Snowden. The agency does employ technical specialists in overseas stations, the former official said, . Later in the week, the Guardian and The Post reported the existence of a separate program, code- named PRISM, that collects the Internet data of foreigners from major Internet companies. Snowden expressed hope that the NSA surveillance programs will now be open to legal challenge for the first time. This year, in Amnesty International v.
Clapper, the Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit against the mass collection of phone records because the plaintiffs could not prove exactly what the program did or that they were personally subject to surveillance. Soon after, though, reporters noted that public documents suggested that regular police work was responsible for thwarting the attack, rather than a secret government intelligence program.
Feinstein said the programs were valuable in both the New York case and in another involving an American plotting to bomb a hotel in India in 2. She noted that she could talk about those two cases because they have been declassified, but she suggested that the surveillance programs also assisted in other terrorism- related cases. A chief critic of the efforts, Sen. Rand Paul (R- Ky.), said he is considering filing a lawsuit against the government and called on 1.