A 25-year-old intelligence contractor accused of leaking a top secret report on Russian meddling in last year’s US election wrote in a note that she wanted to “burn the White House down,” prosecutors said. Reality Winner appeared in federal court Thursday in Georgia and pleaded not guilty to a charge of “willful retention and transmission … Read more
It was a major scoop for The Intercept — documents suggesting a concerted Russian effort to hack US election systems — but the online news site is drawing fire in media circles following the arrest of the alleged source of the leak. The Intercept, the investigative arm of the First Look Media organization created by … Read more
Australia must be alert to foreign government interference in its democratic systems, former top US intelligence official James Clapper warned Wednesday, after China was accused of meddling in the country’s politics. Canberra has ordered an inquiry into espionage laws and foreign government activities after a media investigation this week into large political donations by two … Read more
The publication of a top secret National Security Agency report on Russian interference in the US election Monday was just the latest in a string of disruptive leaks. US authorities arrested a 25-year-old woman, Reality Leigh Winner, who worked for an NSA subcontractor, soon after the report was posted by The Intercept, a news website. … Read more
A US government contractor has been arrested on suspicion of leaking top-secret information to a news outlet. Reality Leigh Winner, 25, allegedly removed classified material from a government facility in the US state of Georgia. The charges were announced shortly after the Intercept published a National Security Agency briefing about alleged Russian political meddling. The … Read more
A top secret US report showing that hackers from Russian military intelligence tried repeatedly to break into US voting systems before last year’s presidential election raised new alarms Monday about the extent of Moscow’s meddling. But the alleged leak of the National Security Agency document by one of the tens of thousands of private contractors … Read more
The National Security Agency announced Friday it would end its controversial practice of sweeping up any email or text message an American exchanges with someone overseas that makes reference to a real target of NSA surveillance. The powerful US spy agency said that although it has the legal power to continue scooping up such communications, … Read more
A huge range of security weaknesses, said to be worth over $2m if sold on the black market, have been leaked online. The tools are said to have been created by the US National Security Agency (NSA), and accompanying documents appear to indicate a possible breach of the Swift global banking system. Such a hack … Read more
The White House will not repeat claims that British spies snooped on Donald Trump, Britain said on Friday after the UK spy agency dismissed them as “utterly ridiculous” in a rare public denial. Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman reiterated the GCHQ agency’s denial of a report — which had been repeated by the US president’s … Read more
The immediate past Minister of Sports, Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, has exclusively revealed to Joysports poor record-keeping at the ministry is responsible for the huge debt the National Sports Authority (NSA) is saddled in. The NSA has gone bankrupt with a debt in excess of GHc2 million in default of electricity bills, as well as owing Meridian … Read more
The NSA debts has been there for the last four years The bank accounts of the National Sports Authority (NSA) have been frozen after one of its creditors obtained a court order in bid to retrieve monies owed it over the past four years. Starrsportsgh.com has gathered that the NSA is also immersed in a … Read more
A new bipartisan report by the House Intelligence Committee depicts former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden as a “serial exaggerator and fabricator” who only began downloading highly classified documents after being reprimanded over a “workplace spat” with his bosses. The highly damning report, which accuses Snowden of doing “tremendous damage to national security,” was … Read more
US intelligence whistle blower Edward Snowden called on President Barack Obama to pardon him, saying in comments published Tuesday it had been morally “necessary” to shine a light on mass surveillance. The former intelligence contractor has spent three years in exile in Russia after initiating the largest data leaks in US history, fuelling a firestorm … Read more
Two of the most prominent human rights organisations in the United States are about to launch a campaign for the presidential pardon of Edward Snowden. The American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International are ready to launch the “Pardon Snowden” campaign. They are urging President Barack Obama to act before he leaves office in January … Read more