Edward Snowden Provides ‘The Intercept’ with a Top-Secret Document Revealing the CIA’s Campaign to Break Apple’s Code and Steal their Secrets
RESEARCHERS WORKING with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Intercept. The security researchers presented their latest tactics and achievements at a secret annual gathering, called the “Jamboree,” where attendees discussed strategies for exploiting security flaws in household and commercial electronics. The conferences have spanned nearly a decade, with the first CIA-sponsored meeting taking place a year before the first iPhone was released. By targeting essential security keys used to encrypt data stored on Apple’s devices, the researchers have sought ...
Federal Prosecutors Try to Keep a Department of Justice Whistleblower’s Testimony out of Court in Landmark California Wildfire Case
Federal prosecutors are trying to keep a Department of Justice whistleblower’s testimony out of court and disqualify every defense attorney who helped collect it in a landmark wildfire case that has sparked allegations of official evidence tampering and government corruption. The Nov. 24 move came barely a month after the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California’s chief judge issued an ultimately unsuccessful order recusing all eight federal judges in the district from the case due to doubts about the potential “impartiality” of the court, given allegations that it was the victim of fraud. Individual judges were left ...
UN Whistleblower: Head of World Intellectual Property Agency Stole Employees’ DNA Samples
A senior UN official alleges that Francis Gurry, the Australian head of the world body’s intellectual property agency, engineered the theft of personal items from employees to extract DNA samples, and then covered it up by intimidation and by suppressing attempts to investigate it, according to a legal complaint filed recently at a UN tribunal in Geneva. The allegations are expected to hurt Gurry’s chances for reelection next week as director-general of the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a bid already weakened amid controversy over his role in running what a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers described as “a ...
DHS Whistleblower Reveals Fast-Tracked Visas for Foreign Investors Created National Security Risk
A former DHS employee has cried foul on a suspected “green-card-for-sale” program, in which green card applications for high-dollar foreign investors were expedited at the behest of DHS officials, potentially creating dangerous gaps in national security. The whistleblower’s statements shine light on investor visas that were speedily approved by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) for GreenTech Automotive, an electric car company originally chaired by Virginia gubernatorial candidate and former Clinton campaign head Terry McAuliffe. GreenTech came under Securities and Exchange Commission investigation earlier this year for allegedly soliciting foreign investors and guaranteeing returns.The former citizenship service analyst, whose name ...
Navy SEAL Vet: Obama Asking If Military will Fire Upon U.S. Citizens
Former Navy SEAL Ben Smith warns that the Obama administration is asking top brass in the military if they would be comfortable with disarming U.S. citizens, a litmus test that includes gauging whether they would be prepared to order NCOs to fire on Americans. Smith provoked headlines last week when he appeared on Fox News to assert that the federal government was trying to provoke veterans into violence as an excuse to implement martial law. Speaking exclusively to the Alex Jones Show, Smith stated, “Going back to the beginning of this administration, I’ve had friends within the community talking about how ...
Former CIA Agent Edward Snowden Begins Leaking Docs on NSA Spying of Every American
Edward Snowden is an American computer professional from N.C., a former Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) employee, and former contractor for the United States government who copied and leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 without prior authorization. His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments. (1) Snowden's father described Edward as "the smartest one in the family", "a deep thinker" and "a sensitive, caring young man." In accounts published in June 2013, interviewers noted that Snowden's laptop displayed stickers supporting ...
Whistleblower Emma Reilly Reports to Top UN Officials that Sr. UN Official, Eric Tistounet, had been Giving the Beijing Dictatorship Names of Chinese Human Rights Activists
As early as 13 February 2013, UN human-rights officer Emma Reilly reported to the top UN human-rights official at the time that another senior UN official, Eric Tistounet, had been giving the Beijing dictatorship the names of Chinese human-rights advocates who were planning to attend a session of the UN “Human Rights Council” in Geneva examining the Communist Chinese regime's human-rights record. Reilly believed that giving the names of those activists to the brutal dictatorship, which has a long history of mass murder and brutal persecution of dissidents, would put them in danger and potentially prevent them from appearing ...
FBI Whistleblower Darin Jones Exposes Serious Procurement “Improprieties… Is Later Fired.
Most whistleblowers either suffer in anonymity or are personally, professionally, socially and financially ruined for speaking truth to power. Darin Jones is one of those people. He’s one of the people silenced in Barack Obama’s war on whistleblowers. And he continued to suffer under Donald Trump. Jones was an FBI supervisory contract specialist who in 2012 reported evidence of serious procurement improprieties to his superior. Jones maintained that Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) had been awarded a $40 million contract improperly because a former FBI official with responsibility for granting the contract then was hired as a consultant at CSC. Jones said, rightly, that ...
Panel of Whistleblowers Discuss National Security Secrecy & Surveillance
A panel discussion on National Security, Secrecy and Surveillance in New York City was sponsored by the Open Society Foundations and the Government Accountability Project, and moderated by Steven Aftergood, the renowned editor of Secrecy News for the Federation of American Scientists. The speakers were Thomas Drake, the courageous former intelligence officer who blew the whistle on National Security Agency/contractor corruption during the Bush administration and was wrongly prosecuted by the Obama administration as a result; his equally courageous attorney, Jessylyn Radek, who is a whistle-blower herself for exposing the barbaric treatment of the so-called “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh in the days after 9/11; Jameel Jaffer of the ACLU, who has ...
U.S. Government Retaliation Charges of Espianage Act Violations Against NSA Whisleblower Thomas Drake Dropped
In April 2010, the government alleged that Thomas Drake - a former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), a decorated U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy veteran, and a whistleblower - mishandled documents, one of the several Espionage Act cases in U.S. history, as retaliation and persecution for challenging the unconstitutional domestic spying Trailblazer Project. He is the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling and co-recipient of the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award. On June 9, 2011, all 10 original charges against him were dropped. Drake rejected several deals because he refused to "plea bargain with the truth" ...
