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I
can’t say it better than Kevin Hester
“I
urge everyone to go and see the new movie out by Laura Potras and
Glenn Greenwald who attended the Moment of Truth conference last year
in Auckland. These fascists in conjunction with our P.M John Key have
been spying on Everyone on the planet with a USA watch list of
1.2million people and as they are stalking Russia via the Ukraine and
bombing most of the countries in the M.E. JK signs us up for their
wars.
“We
are in our 1939 moment when 6 short years later 50 million people
were dead, this war mongering coincides with the unraveling of our
biosphere. Catastrophic times coming.”
Snowden
files expose NZ's part in America's spy network
New
Zealand's role in the vast United States spy network is about to be
revealed, giving an unprecedented insight into the workings of our
intelligence agencies.
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4
March, 2015
The
Herald - with investigative journalist Nicky Hager -
is working on stories based on files from the United States National
Security Agency (NSA), taken by whistleblower Edward Snowden in the
biggest intelligence breach in history.
Internationally,
the information obtained by Snowden has sparked concerns about the
behaviour of the intelligence agencies in the grouping of Five Eyes
nations, of which New Zealand is a member.
Fierce
debate has raged over diplomatic breaches, the intrusion into
citizens' privacy and a shift towards a "collect it all"
policy.
Hager
obtained access to files from the Snowden trove through a partnership
with the news site The
Intercept, set up by campaigning journalist Glenn
Greenwald after he revealed Snowden as a whistleblower who took a
vast number of files from his former employer because he was
concerned by the extent of the agency's actions and reach.
Hager
said the information would show New Zealand was "far more
involved than most people realise".
"The
discussion about GCSB [Government Communications Security Bureau] in
New Zealand has always been about GCSB spying on New Zealanders. What
this is going to be about is all the other countries New Zealand
spies on.
"Some
of that won't be a surprise and some of it will be a great surprise."
Hager
said the information would not only surprise the public but also
"people all through the foreign policy and intelligence
bureaucracy who will know much more about this subject at the end of
these revelations than they did before.
"When
I read through this material and see that New Zealand is doing these
things, it seems bizarre to me - like it is from another era."
The
collaboration with The Intercept extends to a series of stories with
three newspapers - the New
Zealand Herald, the Herald
on Sunday and the Sunday
Star-Times.
Hager
said the collaboration was driven by The
Intercept's wish to ensure the material was made
widely available.
Whistleblower's greatest hits
Spying
on foreign leaders
Edward Snowden revealed the United States had monitored phones of 35 world leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff. Australia targeted the Indonesian President while Britain's spies were monitoring emails of politicians at two G20 meetings in London.
Edward Snowden revealed the United States had monitored phones of 35 world leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff. Australia targeted the Indonesian President while Britain's spies were monitoring emails of politicians at two G20 meetings in London.
Cable
tapping
The Five Eyes spy partners have tapped into the world's internet and telecoms cables, Snowden revealed, giving it the ability to suck up almost all the data which passes through them.
The Five Eyes spy partners have tapped into the world's internet and telecoms cables, Snowden revealed, giving it the ability to suck up almost all the data which passes through them.
XKeyscore
The so-called "Google for spies" is a search tool which trawls the massive pool of data acquired by the NSA and its partners. It operates at 150 sites, according to one Snowden document, including one in New Zealand.
The so-called "Google for spies" is a search tool which trawls the massive pool of data acquired by the NSA and its partners. It operates at 150 sites, according to one Snowden document, including one in New Zealand.
Mobile
phone encryption
The US and UK hacked into the world's biggest sim card manufacturer, taking encryption keys. It gives the potential to bypass security and listen in on content passing across networks in dozens of countries.
The US and UK hacked into the world's biggest sim card manufacturer, taking encryption keys. It gives the potential to bypass security and listen in on content passing across networks in dozens of countries.
Hack
attacks
The NSA's Tailored Access Operations unit can hack info from protected computer systems and is able to install malicious software on computers and phones.
The NSA's Tailored Access Operations unit can hack info from protected computer systems and is able to install malicious software on computers and phones.
Edward Snowden would go to the US if he was sure that he would face a fair trial there, the former NSA contractor’s lawyer Anatoly Kucherena says.
"Edward Snowden is ready to return to the US, but on the condition that he be given guarantees to receive a fair and impartial trial," Kucherena told journalists on Tuesday, as cited by TASS.
The lawyer has said he received a letter from the US attorney-general promising no capital punishment for Snowden should he return to America.
“So what we are being guaranteed is not the fair trial, but that Snowden will not be executed,” Kucherena said. “And it’s done by a prosecutor, who according to the law, is not in any way able to determine a court’s decision.”
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