Secret documents newly disclosed by the German news magazine <em>Der Spiegel</em> on Saturday shed more light on how aggressively the National Security Agency and its British counterpart have targeted Germany for surveillance. <!--more-->
Top-secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency is dramatically expanding its ability to covertly hack into computers on a mass scale by using automated systems that reduce the level of human oversight in the process. <!--more-->
Intercept editors Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras have won the George Polk Award, one of the highest prizes in journalism, for revealing expansive National Security Agency surveillance programs detailed in documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. They shared the national security reporting award with the Guardian's Ewen MacAskill and the Washington Post's Barton Gellman. <!--more-->
This morning, I see that some people are quite abuzz about a new Pando article "revealing" that the foundation of Pierre Omidyar, the publisher of First Look Media which publishes <em>The Intercept</em>, gave several hundred thousand dollars to a Ukraininan "pro-democracy" organization opposed to the ruling regime. <!--more-->
Top-secret documents from the National Security Agency and its British counterpart reveal for the first time how the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom targeted WikiLeaks and other activist groups with tactics ranging from covert surveillance to prosecution.
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