EU Parliament votes to protect Edward Snowden – CNN.com

The vote, which has no legal force, was 285-281. The resolution urges nations to drop criminal charges and "consequently prevent extradition or rendition by third parties, in recognition of his status as whistle-blower and international human rights defender."

Snowden, a former contractor at the U.S. National Security Agency, leaked documents about top secret mass surveillance programs. He fled the United States in 2013 and spent more than a month living in Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport before being granted asylum.

"This is not a blow against the US Government, but an open hand extended by friends. It is a chance to move forward," he wrote.

The Justice Department has said Snowden would face criminal prosecution if he returns to the United States. He's been charged with three felony counts, including violations of the U.S. Espionage Act.

Snowden told the BBC this month that he has offered "many times" to go to prison in the United States as part of a deal to return from exile in Russia, but is still waiting for an answer from the American government.

In response to Thursday's vote, U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. policy on Snowden has not changed.

"He needs to come back to the United States and face the due process and the judicial process here in the United States. That's been our position from the beginning. It's our belief that the man put U.S. national security in great danger and he needs to be held account to that," Kirby said.

CNN's Jethro Mullen contributed to this report.

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Edward Snowden called the EU parliaments vote extraordinary and a game-changer, but the US government stood by its vow to prosecute him should he return. Photograph: The Guardian

Edward Snowden on Thursday hailed as extraordinary and a game-changer a vote in the European parliament calling on member states to prevent his extradition to the US.

Related: US court refuses to stop NSA phone surveillance during 180-day 'transition'

The parliament voted 285-281 to pass a largely symbolic measure, a resolution that called on European Union member states to drop any criminal charges against Edward Snowden, grant him protection and consequently prevent extradition or rendition by third parties, in recognition of his status as whistleblower and international human rights defender.

Snowden has lived in exile in Russia since revealing secret US government surveillance programs in June 2013.

The European parliament is a directly elected legislature with members from all 28 EU member states. Its legislative authority is limited. The resolution amounted to a request that member states reject attempts by the US to arrest and prosecute Snowden.

This is not a blow against the US government, but an open hand extended by friends, Snowden tweeted. It is a chance to move forward.

The US government did not, however, seem to see it that way.

Our position has not changed, Ned Price, spokesperson for the National Security Council, said in a statement emailed to the Guardian. Mr Snowden is accused of leaking classified information and faces felony charges here in the United States. As such, he should be returned to the US as soon as possible, where he will be accorded full due process.

While the US has promised Snowden due process, it has charged him under the Espionage Act of 1917, which forbids the disclosure of state secrets and which would not allow Snowden to argue in his defense that his disclosures had a public benefit.

We welcome todays decision of the European parliament recognizing Edward Snowden as a human rights defender and calling upon member states to grant him protection from prosecution, Wolfgang Kaleck, Snowdens lawyer in Berlin, said in an email.

It is an overdue step and we urge the member states to act now to implement the resolution.

Related: NSA mass phone surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden ruled illegal

In its legislative action on Thursday, the parliament also called for new assurances that data transfers to the US are subject to an effective level of protection and raised concerns about recent laws in some member states including France, the UK and the Netherlands that extend surveillance capabilities of intelligence bodies.

The vote came as a federal appeals court allowed a delay in the mothballing of a dragnet domestic surveillance program first exposed by Snowden.

The second US circuit court of appeals ruled on Thursday to permit a 180-day orderly transition period until the NSA would be required to cease the warrantless bulk collection of telephone metadata in the United States.

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UPDATE: Wikileaks Has Made Its First Release of CIA Director …

UPDATE October 21, 2015 at 3:15 PM: Wikileaks has released six documents, allegedly from the email of CIA director John Brennan. It doesnt show any actual emails yet,but the blog post that came with it says the documents were obtained from his non-government email. Apparently even spies forward work home.

Wikileaks says it has the contents of CIA Chief John Brennans email, in a tweet posted today. It doesnt specify whether the emails are from hispersonal or professional email addresses.

Motherboard covered an alleged hack of the spy chiefs personal, AOL email yesterday. The group claiming credit goes by Crackas With Attitude. The link goes, supposedly, to its Twitter account, though it also appears that Twitter keeps cancelling their accounts (as it did with Vince, the Twitter user who claimed responsibility for the Patreon hack).

Representatives from Wikileakswere not immediately available for comment about whether or not the data came from the hacking group or not.

CWA followed the Wikileaks tweet with the following:

In an interview with a member claiming to be part of the hacking group yesterday, Motherboard reported that the team used social engineering to get access to his email. In this case, the hacker claimed the team called Verizon, posing as Verizon staff, and secured Mr. Brennans social security number. Then, they went to AOL and requested a password reset, using that social security number.

The team also gave numerous clues to their identity in the interview (such as being a team of very young people, some of whom know each other from school). These clues are very likely to be designed to confuse investigators, however.

AOL is currently listed as one of the email providers that still does not provide two-factor authentication, on Two Factor Auth. Various news accounts reported that the company was working on it last Fall.

Two-factor authentication is a way to make an account much more secure by, for example, only permitting access after the correct password has been entered and a one-time use code has been texted (as an example) to the users mobile.

Its rather surprising that the nations chief intelligence officer isnt serious about security.

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Bradley Manning, Now Chelsea, Fights for Hormone Treatment …

Pvt. Bradley E. Manning, now known as Chelsea and convicted of leaking classified military documents to Wikileaks, will soon be moved to Leavenworth Federal Prison to serve 35 years in an all-male facility as a transgender female.

"I am female," she said in a statement Thursday, asking media and others to use female pronouns to refer to her.

"Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible," she said. "I hope that you will support me in this transition."

Bradley "Chelsea" Manning Denied Transgender Treatment

Manning has declared her intention to begin the gender transition with hormones, but it's not clear how she will manage to do this, because the military does not allow hormone treatment or further surgeries to realize a sex change.

Department of Defense spokeswoman Catherine T. Wilkinson told ABC News today that "there is no mechanism in place for the U.S. military to provide hormone therapy or gender-reassignment surgery for inmates."

But transgender advocacy groups sharply criticized the U.S. Army response, saying health care standards in U.S. federal prisons must be applied in military prisons.

"This is America -- we do not deny health care to prisoners," said Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center on Transgender Equality.

"The Constitution has a prohibition in the Eighth Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment. Denying health care is cruel and unusual punishment. If an inmate breaks a leg, they have to set it. If you have diabetes, they have to treat it. If you develop schizophrenia, they have to treat it.

And, said Keisling, when an inmate is diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the latest diagnosis for what used to be called gender identity disorder, and there is a recommended course of treatment, "they have to provide that treatment."

Bradley "Chelsea" Manning to serve 35 years in prison.

"[The military] can argue that transgender-related care is not health care, but that is not a winning argument anymore. The medical profession is unified in the belief that transition-related care for transgender people is legitimate and beneficial health care to treat someone with a serious, underlying condition."

But Department of Defense spokeswoman Wilkinson said that inmates in military correctional facilities are "treated equally regardless of race, rank, ethnicity or sexual orientation. ... [They] are considered soldiers and are treated as such with access to mental health professionals, including a psychiatrist, psychologist, social workers and behavioral science noncommissioned officers with experience in addressing the needs of military personnel in pre- and post-trial confinement."

During Manning's court martial and pre-trial hearings, Manning referred to himself using the female name Breanna. His lawyers argued that his judgment had been clouded by his struggle with gender identity problems. Photos that Manning took of himself dressed as a woman were also used as evidence.

Several court cases have affirmed the right to receive treatment for gender dysphoria in federal prisons.

A federal judge last year ordered the Massachusetts Department of Corrections to provide sex reassignment surgery for Michelle Kosilek, a transgender woman serving a sentence for murder. He ruled that the state had violated the inmates' constitutional rights in denying the surgery.

Rates of incarceration among transgender Americans are significantly higher than for the general population, according to a 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey, which found that 16 percent of the nearly 6,500 respondents reported having ever been incarcerated, mostly for less than a year, in county jails.

This far exceeds the 2.7 percent of all Americans who have reported being imprisoned.

A study of California's men's prisons identified more than 330 transgender inmates out of a population of approximately 160,000. All these inmates were transgender women.

In federal prisons, guidelines for housing of transgender inmates in sex-segregated facilities are regulated by the Prison Rape Elimination Law.

Manning's lawyer, David Coombs, said his client's goal was not to be placed in a women's prison. Rather "the ultimate goal is to be comfortable in her skin, and to be the person that she's never had the opportunity to be," according to an interview on the "Today" show.

Coombs said he hoped Fort Leavenworth "would do the right thing and provide" the hormone treatments. If not, he said he would "do everything in my power to make sure that they are forced to do so."

Masen Davis, executive director of the Transgender Law Center in Oakland, Calif., told ABCNews.com that its attorneys were "looking at every recourse that Manning will have in military prison" to obtain necessary medical treatment.

"He has a right to access to care, including a prescription for estrogen," she said. "Medical treatment should be determined by a doctor, and not bias against trans people."

The Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign also weighed in on the issue with a statement today:

"Regardless of how she came to our attention, Pvt. Chelsea Manning's transition deserves to be treated with dignity and respect," the statement read.

"As Pvt. Manning serves her sentence, she deserves the same thing that any incarcerated person does -- appropriate and competent medical care and protection from discrimination and violence.

"The care she receives should be something that she and her doctors -- including professionals who understand transgender care -- agree is best for her."

ABC News' Luis Martinez contributed to this story.

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Edward Snowden Wikipdia, a enciclopdia livre

Origem: Wikipdia, a enciclopdia livre.

Edward Joseph Snowden[1][2] (Elizabeth City, 21 de junho de 1983) um analista de sistemas, [3] ex-administrador de sistemas da CIA e ex-contratado da NSA [4] que tornou pblicos detalhes de vrios programas que constituem o sistema de vigilncia global da NSA americana[5][6][7] .[8][9]

A revelao deu-se atravs dos jornais The Guardian e The Washington Post, dando detalhes da Vigilncia Global de comunicaes e trfego de informaes executada atravs de vrios Programas[10] , entre eles o programa de vigilncia PRISM dos Estados Unidos.[11][12][13][14] Em reao s revelaes[15] , o Governo dos Estados Unidos acusou-o de roubo de propriedade do governo, comunicao no autorizada de informaes de defesa nacional e comunicao intencional de informaes classificadas como de inteligncia para pessoa no autorizada.[16]

Em junho de 2013, Edward Snowden, falando de seu trabalho para a NSA e dos motivos por que decidiu correr os riscos de revelar a existncia dos programas de vigilncia e espionagem mundial, disse:

"Eu sou apenas mais um cara que fica l no dia a dia em um escritrio, observa o que est acontecendo e diz: 'Isso algo que no para ser decidido por ns; o pblico precisa decidir se esses programas e polticas esto certos ou errados." (Snowden, junho de 2013)[17][18]

Em 2015, o filme Citizenfour, foi o ganhador do Oscar[19] na categoria de melhor documentrio. O documentrio dirigido por Laura Poitras aborda a extenso da vigilncia global e espionagem pelos Estados Unidos, feitas atravs da NSA bem como, em filmagem feita durante o desenrolar dos eventos, documenta como se deram os encontros com Edward Snowden antes e depois de sua identidade ser revelada ao pblico.[20][21]

Em Novembro de 2014, Oliver Stone anunciou que ir produzir e realizar uma cinebiografia de Edward Snowden. O ator Joseph Gordon-Levitt foi o escolhido para interpretar o personagem de Snowden[22] .

Edward Joseph Snowden nasceu em Elizabeth City, Carolina do Norte,[23] e cresceu em Wilmington, Carolina do Norte.[24] Seu pai, Lonnie Snowden, residente de Pennsylvania, era um oficial da Guarda Costeira dos Estados Unidos,[25] e sua me Elizabeth, conhecida como Wendy, residente de Baltimore, Maryland, uma funcionria de um tribunal federal de Maryland.[24][26]

Em 1999, Snowden mudou-se com a famlia para Ellicott City, Maryland.[24] Estudou computao na Anne Arundel Community College[24] para obter os crditos necessrios para obter um diploma de ensino mdio, mas no concluiu o curso.[27] O pai de Snowden explicou que seu filho perdeu vrios meses de escola devido a doenas e, ao invs de voltar, se props a fazer os exames e passou um General Educational Development em uma faculdade comunitria local.[28][14][29][14][29] Snowden obteve mestrado on-line da University of Liverpool em 2011.[30] Tendo trabalhado em uma base militar dos EUA no Japo, Snowden criou profundo interesse em cultura japonesa chegando a estudar o idioma japons[31] e mais tarde trabalhar em uma empresa de anime.[32][33] Ele tambm disse ter um conhecimento bsico de mandarim e estar profundamente interessado em artes marciais, listando tambm o Budismo como sua religio.[34]

Em 7 de maio de 2004, Snowden alistou-se no Exrcito dos Estados Unidos, como um soldado das Foras Especiais, mas no completou o treinamento por haver quebrado as duas pernas em um acidente de treinamento.[35][36][37] Ele disse que queria lutar na guerra do Iraque, porque "sentiu que tinha a obrigao como um ser humano de ajudar a libertar as pessoas da opresso".[14]

Seu emprego seguinte foi como guarda de segurana no Centro de Estudos Avanados de Lngua na Universidade de Maryland,[38][39] antes, ele disse ter se reunido Agncia Central de Inteligncia (CIA) para trabalhar em segurana em TI.[40] Em maio de 2006, Snowden escreveu na Ars Technica, um site de notcias de tecnologia e informao, que no tinha problemas para conseguir trabalho, porque ele era um "gnio da computao". Em agosto, ele escreveu sobre seu possvel encaminhamento para um servio no governo, talvez envolvendo China, que "simplesmente no parece ser to "divertido" como "alguns dos outros lugares."[37]

Do Hava, onde trabalhou na Booz Allen Hamilton e antes de revelar documentos sigilosos aos jornalistas, Snowden viajou para Hong Kong em 20 de maio de 2013. As autoridades norte-americanas ao tomar conhecimento de sua presena em Hong Kong, solicitaram sem sucesso sua extradio.[41]

Em Hong Kong, ele ento se reuniu com o jornalista Glenn Greenwald e a cineasta e jornalista Laura Poitras[42][43][44][45] e lhes entregou os documentos que comprovavam as suas afirmaes da existncia dos programas de Vigilncia em massa.[46][47]

Em 22 de junho de 2013, as autoridades federais dos Estados Unidos apresentaram acusaes formais contra o ex-agente da CIA pelo vazamento de dados secretos do governo que revelaram detalhes do projeto de monitoramento global, denominado PRISM, que monitorou as conversas telefnicas e transmisses na Internet de cidados dos EUA e de outros pases. De acordo com a declarao de funcionrios americanos imprensa local, Snowden tambm foi acusado de espionagem, roubo e transferncia de propriedade do governo em um documento confidencial, apresentado em um tribunal federal da Virgnia.[48]

No dia 31 de outubro, o secretrio americano de Estado, John Kerry, admitiu que os Estado Unidos"foram longe demais"em alguns casos de espionagem, mas justificou as prticas de Inteligncia e coleta de informaes como parte da luta contra o terrorismo e a preveno de atentados.

Em 23 de junho de 2013, Snowden embarcou em um avio comercial da Aeroflot, de Hong Kong com destino a Moscou,[49] sob os cuidados de Sarah Harrison, jornalista britnica, pesquisadora legal e editora de WikiLeaks. Sarah trabalha com a equipe de defesa legal de Julian Assange e da WikiLeaks.[50][51]

Na manh de 24 de junho de 2013, ficou detido na rea de trnsito do Aeroporto Internacional Sheremetyevo enquanto Harrison trabalhava para obter asilo para Snowden juntamente com advogados russos. Em 1 de agosto de 2013, Snowden saiu do aeroporto Sheremetyevo aps passar mais de um ms na zona de trnsito local.[52]

Em 29 de dezembro de 2013, no 30 Congresso de Comunicao Chaos[53] , Sarah Harrison foi ovacionada por longo tempo por ser considerada como tendo salvo a vida de Snowden, bem como por sua participao ativa em tentar proteger os direitos de Chelsea E. Manning.[54]

Em 23 de junho de 2013, o Ministro dos Negcios Estrangeiros equatoriano, Ricardo Patio, informou pelo Twitter que Edward Snowden pediu asilo poltico ao Equador, que posteriormente no foi processado por dvidas e complexidade.[55][56][57]

O presidente da Rssia, Vladimir Putin, ofereceu asilo em seu pas em 1 de julho de 2013, mas, para isso, exigiu que Edward Snowden parasse de divulgar segredos norte-americanos. Entre tempo enviou pedidos de asilo a 21 pases, entre eles: Alemanha, ustria, Bolvia, Brasil, China, Cuba, Finlndia, Frana, ndia, Itlia, Irlanda, Pases Baixos, Nicargua, Noruega, Polnia, Espanha, Sua e Venezuela.[58][59][60]

No dia 5 de julho, Nicols Maduro, presidente da Venezuela, anunciou a aceitao do pedido de asilo poltico de Snowden.[61]

Em 2 de julho, o avio em que viajava o presidente da Bolvia, Evo Morales, proveniente de Moscou, foi forado a fazer um pouso de emergncia, por falta de combustvel, em Viena e a l permanecer por 14 horas, depois que Portugal, Frana, Espanha e Itlia revogaram as permisses de aterrissagem e sobrevoo dos seus espaos areos, sob presso dos Estados Unidos, que suspeitavam que Snowden estivesse a bordo. [62][63][64][65] Em 6 de julho, Evo Morales ofereceu asilo humanitrio a Snowden.

Com a descoberta de que o Brasil alvo de espionagem por parte dos rgos de inteligncia dos Estados Unidos, vrios senadores defenderam que Brasil concedesse asilo a Edward Snowden.[66]

Em 1 de agosto de 2013, s 15h30, hora local,[67] Edward Snowden entrou em territrio russo, depois de ter recebido documentao do Servio de Migrao russo que lhe concedeu asilo por um ano na Rssia.[68]

O professor de sociologia da Sucia, Stefan Svallfors, indicou Snowden, ao Prmio Nobel da Paz.[69] Em carta endereada ao Comit Nobel noruegus, Svallfors afirmou que os feitos de Snowden so "heroicos e significaram grandes sacrifcios pessoais".[70] No mesmo documento, afirmou ainda que a atitude do ex-analista da Agncia de Segurana Nacional estimula que pessoas envolvidas em atos contrrios aos direitos humanos possam denunci-los.[71] Ele foi laureado para o nobel da paz em 2015 tambm.[72]

Em 2013, Snowden recebeu a Sam Adams Award. O prmio concedido anualmente a um profissional de inteligncia que seja reconhecido por haver assumido uma posio de integridade e tica.

Em 18 de Fevereiro de 2014, vencendo trs concorrentes e recebendo mais da metade dos 6.560 votos,[73][74] Snowden foi eleito para servir como Reitor da Universidade de Glasgow[75]

Aps a eleio, Snowden emitiu um comunicado dizendo que estava "honrado e grato pela declarao histrica em defesa dos nossos valores compartilhados". Ele continuou:"Somos lembrados por esta deciso ousada que a base de todo aprendizado ousada. A coragem de investigar, experimentar, perguntar. Se no contestar a violao do direito fundamental de pessoas livres de no serem molestados em seus pensamentos, associaes e comunicaes - de serem livres de suspeita, sem causa - teremos perdido a base da nossa sociedade pensante. A defesa dessa liberdade fundamental o desafio de nossa gerao, um trabalho que exige a criao de novos controles e protees para limitar os poderes extraordinrios de Estados sobre o domnio da comunicao humana".[76] Snowden suceder o ex-lder do Partido Liberal Democrata britnico Charles Kennedy. O cargo simblico mas a escolha feita por eleio. [77]

Em abril de 2014, juntamente com Laura Poitras, Snowden recebeu o Prmio Ridenhour por expr a verdade.[78][79]

Em 18 de maro de 2014, falando da Rssia atravs de um rob conectado via Internet, Edward Snowden apareceu na conferncia TED. Foi saudado e chamado de heri por Tim Berners-Lee, criador da WWW, pelas revelaes sobre a vigilncia global pela NSA[81][82]

Desde as revelaes de vigilncia global da NSA, Snowden tem recebido ameaas de morte annimas, feitas por agentes de vrias organizaes americanas incluindo o Pentgono e a NSA.[83]

Em depoimento ao Parlamento Europeu em 7 de maro de 2014, Snowden afirmou que os Estados Unidos teriam pedido sua execuo[84] .

A grande mdia dos EUA como o The New York Times, CNN e outros estabelecimentos tm permanecido em silncio sobre o assunto de que funcionrios do governo dos EUA tm afirmado que pretendem assassinar Edward Snowden.

A primeira vez que a situao foi levada a pblico foi atravs da Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), um servio pblico de rdio difuso e televiso, com sede em Hamburgo, na Alemanha e do site BuzzFeed.

Em entrevista ao vivo NDR dada por Snowden em 26 de janeiro de 2014, as ameaas de morte a Snowden foram tratadas como notcia extremamente importante.[85]

Em janeiro de 2014, o BuzzFeed publicou um artigo intitulado: "Espies americanos querem Edward Snowden morto".[86]

O artigo citou um oficial do Pentgono dizendo:

"Eu gostaria de colocar uma bala na cabea dele."

Outro indivduo identificado apenas como sendo um analista da NSA disse:

"Em um mundo onde eu no estaria impedido de matar um americano, eu iria mat-lo pessoalmente."

Um oficial de alta patente do exrcito americano chegou a descrever o cenrio que ele e seus colegas imaginam para matar Snowden. Disse o oficial ao BuzzFeed:

"Eu acho que se tivssemos a oportunidade, acabaramos com isso rapidamente. Apenas de maneira bem casual, quando ele (Snowden) vai andando nas ruas de Moscou, voltando de comprar seus mantimentos. No caminho de volta para seu apartamento, ele recebe um esbarro aparentemente acidental por um transeunte. Ele nem pensa muito sobre isso no momento em que acontece mas pouco depois se sente um pouco tonto e pensa que um parasita da gua local. Dai, ele vai para casa muito inocentemente e a prxima coisa que voc fica sabendo que ele morreu no chuveiro.

Outro funcionrio foi citado, dizendo que Snowden no merece qualquer julgamento e deve ser imediatamente enforcado.

Varias outras ameaas tm sido publicadas. Snowden afirmou em junho de 2013 que sabia que ir contra a agencia de inteligncia mais poderosa do mundo colocaria sua vida em perigo. Em dezembro de 2013, vendo que as revelaes causaram uma resposta por parte de vrios pases, ele afirma que considera sua misso cumprida.[87]

O advogado russo de Snowden, Anatoly Kucherena, afirma que as ameaas so srias e que o governo americano precisa explicar o fato. Ele desafiou o governo dos EUA a nomear os funcionrios que fizeram tais ameaas. Anatoly disse a imprensa:[88]

"Acreditamos que o governo dos EUA precisa prestar ateno a tais declaraes"..."As pessoas que fazem declaraes extremistas fazem- lo, escondidos em uma mscara sem revelar suas identidades.

"Mas temos publicaes impressas especficas dessas entrevistas. Vamos pedir que as mscaras dessas pessoas sejam retiradas. Precisamos saber quem este oficial NSA e de quem d as ordens sobre maneiras de eliminar Edward Snowden.

Desde que recebeu asilo temporrio na Rssia, em agosto de 2013, Snowden vem sendo protegido por Moscou, o que causou ultraje aos EUA a ponto de Barack Obama recusar um convite para um encontro de cpula vindo de Vladimir Putin. Desde que a Rssia concedeu asilo a Snowden e deu-lhe proteo, o governo americano passou a tratar o pas com hostilidade ainda mais evidente do que anteriormente.

Cpias dos documentos originais j publicados[89][90] pela impressa internacional, bem como informaes sobre os programas e ligaes para publicaes pela imprensa internacional[91] , vm sendo disponibilizadas ao pblico desde 9 de agosto de 2013, no stio eletrnico da "The Courage Foundation" (Fundao Coragem, em portugus), na seo "Revelaes" (Revelations, no site). Anteriormente chamada "Fundo para Proteo e Defesa de Fontes Jornalsticas" (traduo em portugus), uma entidade situada no Reino Unido que tem como objetivo ajudar na defesa e campanhas de apoio judicirio a fontes jornalsticas.

A "The Courage Foundation" publica tambm informaes atualizadas sobre as ameaas que Edward Snowden enfrenta, como ele est sendo protegido e sobre campanhas para apoi-lo.

Entre as publicaes, esto includos os documentos revelados referentes as parcerias da NSA com empresas e entidades privadas bem como os referentes aos pases parceiros da NSA, uma vez que, atravs das revelaes do Programa de Vigilncia Global, iniciadas em junho de 2013 com base nos documentos revelados por Edward Snowden, mais informaes vieram a pblico sobre as atividades conjuntas de vigilncia global dos pases signatrios do Tratado de Segurana UK-USA referidos como "Cinco Olhos" (Five Eyes - em ingls): Estados Unidos, Canad, Austrlia, Nova Zelndia e Reino Unido[92][93] , e de seus parceiros privados.

Originalmente em lngua inglesa, os documentos so ricos em ilustraes esclarecedoras, uma vez que grande parte do material consta de inmeros slides ilustrados de apresentaes em PowerPoint.[94][95]

Glenn Greenwald, uma das poucas pessoas a quem Edward Snowden entregou os documentos revelando os programas de vigilncia e espionagem global, vem publicando no The Intercept[96] os documentos que servem de base para as publicaes na imprensa das informaes sobre cada programa de vigilncia revelado, bem como a documentao dos acordos entre pases participantes da vigilncia global.

A Electronic Frontier Foundation tambm coleta os documentos j publicados e disponibiliza-os ao pblico.[97] Alguns jornais de lngua portuguesa tiveram acesso e publicaram parte dos documentos e slides com informaes na lngua portuguesa.[98]

Em julho de 2014 foi noticiado que Edward Snowden teria publicado documentos revelando que Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, lder do Da'ish, seria na verdade Simon Elliott, de ascendncia judia, recrutado pelo Mossad para criar discrdia entre os muulmanos, fomentar a guerra entre o Oriente e o Ocidente e assim reforar a posio do Estado de Israel no Oriente Mdio.[99] . Segundo os documentos supostamente revelados por Snowden, a nica soluo para a proteo do Estado judeu seria "criar um inimigo perto de suas fronteiras"[100]

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WikiLeaks has released documents it said had been collected from CIA director John Brennans personal AOL account, the first in what the group said would be a series of publications.

The personal email account of the USs top spy was compromised by hackers who claimed to be high school students. Those hackers had threatened on Twitter to release the same documents.

The embarrassing leaks include a questionnaire for the officials security clearance marked: Review copy Do not retain.

Other documents included an early version of the Limitations on Interrogations Techniques Act of 2008, a bill defining the limits of interrogation methods. Also released was a letter from Missouri Republican senator Christopher Bond, then a member of the Senate select committee on intelligence.

All the documents in the WikiLeaks cache are from 2008 and before. Brennan assumed office in 2013.

The hack is an embarrassment not just for Brennan and for the CIA, but also for AOL and parent company Verizon. The sensitivity of the material in the account notwithstanding, the hackers have said that they were able to obtain a Verizon employee ID number and, with that, the last four digits of Brennans credit card on file, which was all that was needed to reset the email password for the USs top intelligence official.

The leak arrived one day before former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton was scheduled to testify about her own personal email accounts before a congressional panel established to investigate the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, but has grown increasingly focused on the vulnerability of government information on her communications.

The people behind the breach, who call themselves CWA (Crackas With Attitude), said they had breached Brennans account and followed up with screenshots containing social security numbers, cellphone numbers and email addresses. The cell numbers and email addresses appeared to be genuine.

Authorities told CNN that Brennans account did not contain any classified information.

Multiple Twitter accounts associated with CWA have been deleted or suspended. Another account, used by a member calling him or herself PHPhax, is still live, but has not been active for 13 hours after a near-constant stream of information, teasers about the kind of data in the account and jokes about how the accounts user would soon be v& (vanned) taken away in a van. His last tweet was: What are those flashing lights.

One hacker, who first spoke to the New York Post, claimed to be American high school student who is not Muslim and was motivated by opposition to US foreign policy and support for Palestine. The Twitter timeline for PHPhax includes many references to the UK. Its not clear which members of CWA are using any of the accounts at a given time.

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CIA director John Brennan makes a point during a news conference at CIA Headquarters in Virginia, December 11, 2014. Wikileaks posted material Wednesday that appears to be from Brennans personal emails.Photo by Larry Downing/Reuters

WASHINGTON The Wikileaks organization has posted material from what appears to be CIA director John Brennans personal email account, including a draft security clearance application containing personal information.

The material presumably was taken in a compromise of Brennans email account by a hacker who says he is a high school student protesting American foreign policy. The hacker claims he posed as a Verizon employee and tricked another employee into revealing Brennans personal information.

It was not immediately clear whether any national security information was compromised in the release of the clearance application, which includes his wifes Social Security number and the names of people Brennan worked with over a long prior career at the CIA. The application predated his job as White House counter terrorism adviser.

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WikiLeaks Posts CIA Directors Personal Info

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Information from the private email account of CIA Director John Brennan is being made public, just days after hackers bragged they had broken in.

WikiLeaks on Thursday posted several documents from the account, including what appear to be drafts of papers about the challenges facing the U.S. intelligence community and recommendations for how the U.S. should deal with Iran.

The anti-secrecy website also posted a draft of Brennans security clearance application, which contained personal information, such as a Social Security number.

WikiLeaks defended its actions, saying Brennan used the account occasionally for several intelligence-related projects, adding that it planned to release additional documents in the coming days.

CIA counters

A CIA spokesman rejected the websites claims.

There is no indication that any of the documents released thus far are classified, the spokesman said, describing them instead as documents that a private citizen with national security interests and expertise would be expected to possess.

The spokesman also called the hacking a crime.

The Brennan family is the victim, the spokesman said. The private electronic holdings of the Brennan family were plundered with malicious intent and are now being distributed across the Web.

The documents posted on WikiLeaks appear to have come from a high school student who told the New York Post earlier this week that he'd hijacked the CIA directors personal email account to protest American foreign policy.

The documents posted by WikiLeaks on Thursday all date to a time before Brennan joined the administration of President Barack Obama.

Draft paper

One paper from 2007, titled The Conundrum of Iran, warns that Tehrans ongoing use of terrorism is particularly alarming and insidious, but also bemoans the gratuitous labeling of Iran as part of an 'axis of evil' by President Bush following the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the U.S.

The draft paper recommends the next president of the United States tone down the rhetoric.

Irans importance to U.S. strategic interests and to overall stability in the region necessitates the establishment of direct and senior-level dialogue, Brennan wrote, suggesting Washington hold out meaningful carrots as well as sticks.

The paper also suggested naming former Secretary of State Colin Powell as a special U.S. envoy to Iran to facilitate the process.

WikiLeaks posted a 2008 letter from former U.S. Senator Kit Bond to other senators about Bonds own proposal to curb CIA interrogation techniques. It also posted what appeared to be Bond's draft legislation.

Theres unlikely to be any real geopolitical fallout, said Patrick Skinner, a former U.S. intelligence official who is now director of special projects at the Soufan Group, a private intelligence firm.

Other intelligence agencies would look for information to either blackmail or socially engineer a pitch, but the CIA director isn't a realistic target for those services, Skinner said. This is much more narrow and personal.

Vulnerabilities exposed

Government officials and private experts say the incident also demonstrates the vulnerabilities of an environment in which a need for fast and easy communication has outpaced the ability of agencies and companies to safeguard information.

It is one of the most critical threats right now, said Saryu Nayyar, CEO of Gurucul, a company that provides identity-based threat detection.

Its happening many times a day at any organization, she said. Hackers get into an environment, behave like insiders and exfiltrate critical intellectual property and confidential data.

Law enforcement officials say they are looking into the hijacking of the CIA directors private email account.

The FBI is investigating this matter jointly with the U.S. Secret Service, the FBI said in a statement. Because this is an ongoing investigation, we are restricted from commenting further.

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CIA Director John Brennan (center) last month at a hearing on "World Wide Cyber Threats" at the House Intelligence Committee in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The e-mails include Brennan'sSF86, a form that he had to fill out to get his current position and security clearance. The form, from 2008, "reveals a quite comprehensive social graph of the current Director of the CIA with a lot of additional non-governmental and professional/military career details," according to WikiLeaks' description of the document.

The published materials also include Brennan'srecommendations to the US President about how to manage affairs related to Iran anda letter from Senator Kit Bond, vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, that details how to "make future interrogation methods 'compliant' and 'legal,'" WikiLeaks states.

CWAalso claimed to have breached an e-mail account belonging to Jeh Johnson, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Officials told The New York Times that Johnson didn't actively use that account, which may have come as part of a Comcast cable package.

The Times further reported that there isnothing "classified or hip" in Brennan's AOL account, and it dates to the days when he was CIA station chief in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.However, if accurate, the material is at least sensitive, given that the SF86 formdiscloses contact information for Brennan'srelatives and professionalconnections.

The files published earlier by the hackerinclude a spreadsheet with contact information for high-levelgovernment employees, which appears to be some kind of access list for an event.CWAsaid he accessedBrennan's account by tricking Verizon employees into giving out his personal information.

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