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The WikiLeaks disclosure of material from Hillary Clinton’s paid speeches includes an April 2014 address to the University of Connecticut in which she admits to being under heavy attack by hackers.

In a lengthy article at CounterJihad.com, Christine Brim asks, “Should Family Affiliation With Foreign Islamist Movements Prevent a Security Clearance?”

National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Harold Thomas Martin III was arrested Wednesday for downloading “Sensitive Compartmented Information” to his home computer.

(Reuters) — A Norwegian appeals court has rejected a lawsuit from fugitive former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden against the Norwegian government, upholding the verdict of a lower court, it said on Wednesday.

The big push accompanying Oliver Stone’s new biopic to pardon Edward Snowden doesn’t appear to be moving the White House.

Actress Shailene Woodley believes she knows a way to get teenage pregnancy rates to come down — namely, by teaching young women how to masturbate in school.

Snowden star Joseph Gordon-Levitt said he was “flattered” after being selected to play the notorious former NSA contractor in Oliver Stone’s upcoming biopic, which premiered Tuesday night in New York City.

Notorious former NSA analyst-turned fugitive Edward Snowden is set to appear live in U.S. theaters via satellite along with director Oliver Stone for a special one-night event ahead of the highly anticipated biopic Snowden.

A group of hackers called the “Shadow Brokers” claim to have stolen the National Security Agency’s “omnipotent” cyber-weapons and are auctioning them off to the highest bidder.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sean Hannity is ripping into Wall Street Journal deputy editorial page editor Bret Stephens.

Oliver Stone and the team behind the upcoming Edward Snowden biopic may have violated federal law by making a film about his life, according to a report from government watchdog Judicial Watch.

Edward Snowden, who released classified documents from the National Security Agency in 2013, has criticised Wikileaks for what he describes as their “hostility to modest curation.”

Filmmaker Oliver Stone railed against the U.S. government, technology giants and the presidential candidates of both parties during a Wednesday press junket in France for his upcoming Edward Snowden biopic.

President Barack Obama does not agree with his former Attorney General Eric Holder, who said Edward Snowden had provided a “public service” by revealing government surveillance secrets to the world.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder sent a decidedly mixed message on host David Axelrod’s podcast by saying that fugitive NSA contractor Edward Snowden “harmed American interests” by revealing government secrets – even putting the lives of American agents at risk! – but saluting him for performing a “public service” anyway.

In an appearance to promote his memoir “The Long Game,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reacted to comments from former Attorney General Eric Holder’s remarks on Edward Snowden during Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends.” Holder

In an interview with former Obama adviser David Axelrod for his CNN podcast “The Axe Files,” former Attorney General Eric Holder addressed former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s leaking classified information and claiming whistle-blower status in doing so. Holder said what

With the FBI and NSA demanding that tech companies surrender encryption back doors to access customer data, Silicon Valley start-ups and established companies are giving customers exclusive possession of encryption keys to access their data.

A recently released report details the story of John Crane, who worked to protect NSA whistleblowers during his time as a top Pentagon official.

The first official trailer for Oliver Stone’s upcoming Edward Snowden biopic, Snowden, was released online Wednesday.

In an interview with National Public Radio, the deputy director of the National Security Agency Richard Ledgett claimed the NSA has lost track of about 1,000 intelligence targets since 2013 because of NSA leak Edward Snowden’s revelations, including a terrorist group that was planning attacks against the United States and Europe.

Echoing recent FBI sentiments, President Barack Obama is strongly urging Apple to open up backdoor access to their smartphones so that the government can reveal potentially critical information about criminal activity.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone was so nervous while shooting his upcoming Edward Snowden biopic that he moved the entire production to Germany to avoid interference from the National Security Agency.

With the pubic distracted by the FBI battling Apple for an iPhone backdoor, President Obama is secretly working to trash President Ronald Reagan’s restrictions on the number of federal agencies that can spy on Americans and others.

The New York Times used a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to obtain a National Security Agency report from 2015, in which the agency’s Inspector General looked at those controversial Internet surveillance programs and determined they are far less extensive than widely suspected.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was hijacked by Black Lives Matter in the Bay Area on Monday as members of the movement blocked traffic on the Bay Bridge in Emeryville, citing recent police shootings as they chained themselves to five cars and formed a line, backing commuters up for nearly 45 minutes.

The magazine Wired has published a document purported to be the operational security manual for the Islamic State: a 34-page PDF file uncovered by the Combating Terrorism Center at the West Point military academy, and somewhat loosely translated from Arabic.

The long-running debate over privacy vs. government surveillance – which is the high-tech iteration of the ancient struggle between liberty and security – gained new urgency after the Paris terror attack. Intelligence officials across the Western world are worried that terrorists have found new means of coordinating their efforts that cannot be monitored.

There have been several high-profile accusations that material leaked by Edward Snowden helped ISIS terrorists conceal their operations from Western intelligence agencies, including planning and execution of the horrific terrorist attack in Paris on Friday.

Speaking at a global security forum hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CIA Director John Brennan warned that the Islamic State is probably planning more attacks like the massacre in Paris.

Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter published an interview with Edward Snowden Friday in which Snowden described how he wound up stuck in Russia and why being an exile is not what it used to be.

The UK Home Secretary, Theresa May, unveiled the government’s controversial Draft Investigatory Powers Bill in Parliament today. Dubbed ‘The Snooper’s Charter’ by critics, the bill will overhaul the surveillance powers of police and security services.

Signal, an app for encrypting texts and calls on smartphones, is coming to Android phones.

British police have used anti-terrorism laws to seize the laptop of a young journalist at Newsnight, the BBC’s flagship evening news programme.

At the first Democratic Presidential Debate, we learned there is at least one consensus belief among all the presidential candidates: whistleblower Edward Snowden should be punished.

LOS ANGELES — The first annual Politicon event on Saturday featured a live webcast discussion with fugitive NSA informant Edward Snowden and far-left political satirist group the Yes Men.