Meet some of the people under NSA surveillance
UPDATE July 9th, 2014: Greenwald’s big story was finally released last night. Tonight, Glenn Greenwald will be interviewed on CNN and other media together with actual targets of NSA surveillance. The following is an interview with Faisal Gill, a longtime Republican Party operative and target of the NSA.
Faisal Gill from The Intercept on Vimeo.
The NSA also surveilled a U.S. citizen while he ran for political office: https://t.co/UzFya8ltmj pic.twitter.com/3jZdsYxQRG
— Matt Ford (@fordm) July 9, 2014
@rlove It wasn’t govt objections – those we rejected months ago – it was an issue about accuracy of one claim – and it’s coming very soon. — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 5, 2014
Greenwald seems to confirm (retweeting) that his upcoming report will include content:
Woah. What? @ggreenwald suggests in passing that Snowden cache included some “raw communications of individuals that NSA has collected.” — Julian Sanchez (@normative) March 10, 2014
In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are: Files provided by Snowden show extent to which ordinary Web users are caught in the net. LINK. (Now several days ago) We are less than 10 minutes away from what is suppose to be the release of Glenn Greenwald’s latest expose on the NSA. He has promised to name names of actual individual human targets of the NSA. The implication has been clear that these ‘targets’ are clearly not your run-of-the-mill ‘terrorists.’ It is expected that these individuals will include critics of the NSA and non-establishment friendly activists. Minutes ago, Glenn tweeted the following:
After 3 months working on our story, USG today suddenly began making new last-minute claims which we intend to investigate before publishing — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 1, 2014
Glenn Greenwald has certainly raised expectations about tonight’s bombshell, saying,
As with a fireworks show, you want to save your best for last. The last one is the one where the sky is all covered in spectacular multicolored hues…One of the big questions when it comes to domestic spying is, “Who have been the NSA’s specific targets?” Are they political critics and dissidents and activists? Are they genuinely people we’d regard as terrorists? What are the metrics and calculations that go into choosing those targets and what is done with the surveillance that is conducted? Those are the kinds of questions that I want to still answer.
You can watch for the new release here in this Twitter feed: Tweets from https://twitter.com/irootsorg/lists/greenwald