Making a Killing

The NSA’s New Partner in Spying: Saudi Arabia’s Brutal State Police

Glenn Greenwald, Murtaza Hussain
The National Security Agency last year significantly expanded its cooperative relationship with the Saudi Ministry of Interior, one of the world’s most repressive and abusive government agencies. An April 2013 top secret memo provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden details the agency’s plans “to provide direct analytic and technical support” to the Saudis on “internal […]

Snowden Archive

Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On

Glenn Greenwald, Murtaza Hussain
The National Security Agency and FBI have covertly monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-Americans—including a political candidate and several civil rights activists, academics, and lawyers—under secretive procedures intended to target terrorists and foreign spies. According to documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the list of Americans monitored by their own government includes: • Faisal […]
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Snowden Archive

The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas

Ryan Devereaux, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras
The National Security Agency is secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio of virtually every cell phone conversation on the island nation of the Bahamas. According to documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the surveillance is part of a top-secret system – code-named SOMALGET – that was implemented without the knowledge or consent of the Bahamian […]