they were very different as you said julian wanted to throw it all out and edward snowden set i don't want no part of this at all but i respect the process and if we take snowden on his face value as an idealistic young man who took the constitution very seriously and believes americans should be informed of the government to break the rule love what is existing between companies in the state and the people needed to have a view on that which i believe, then i think i understand why somebody would want to prosecute him he should have some protection. >> do you regard him as a hero? . >> i do actually. >> would you testify in his behalf quick. >> i would. >> just for the reasons that you argued quick. >> i did a conversation with him recently i was invited to talk to an audience in oslo the sometimes he speaks against the russians he doesn't want to be there but i haven't seen anyone seriously within the intelligence community suggest he is an agent of russia so i'm inclined to discount that and less the original publisher that has rather high ideals is the one that i tend to believe s

but nobody could argue that in fact edward snowden did trigger a debate valuable in the surveillance arena which is to say this question whether we should be collecting this meta data and if so under what circumstances and that debate led to legislation, the usa freedom act passed by congress and signed by the president, even though both the bush and obama administrations had continued this policy all the way until the day that law passed, right, continuously, almost from 9/11, forward, that ultimately did change the way that program functioned. interestingly, that program didn't go away. changed form. who held the data changed, the government didn't hold it anymore, the private sector held it but the data was still accessible under more limited circumstances, but fundamentally that program stayed in place. the program that had brought edward snowden to do the things, or so he say, to do the things he did. and so this tension about whether snowden was right or wrong, whether the paper should have published that information or not, famously in england, right, the british police went i

nobody can argue that in fact edward snowden did trigger a debate that was valuable in the surveillance arena which is to say this question whether we should be collecting all this data and if so, under what circumstances and that debate the legislation to the usa freedom by congress and signed by the president, even though both the bush andobama administration repeated this policy to the day that law passed by continuously almost before 9/11 , interestingly, that program didn't go away, it changed form. the data change, the government didn't hold anymore but it was still accessible under more limited circumstances but from the moment that program stayed in place , the government had brought edward snowden to do the things he did. and so this tension about whether snowden was right or wrong, whether they should have published that information or not, in england the british police went in and sees hard drives and computers. that didn't happen here but that tension is still there. but there's debate in the obama administration about whether or not the information about the alleged program

what brought edward snowden to do the things he did, he says. whether papers should publish the information or not, famously in england, british police seized hard drives and computers . it didn't happen here, but the tension is there. debate in the obama administration over whether or not the information about the alledge program to take on that to take down -- should have been revealed by newspapers. and the question of whether that harmed or helped national security, whether the administration was or was not involved in the disclosure, we prosecuted senior military officials over matters related to that week. in the bush administration, they prosecuted in part because of the leak of an identity of a cia officer. apparently, he along the way allegedly lied and this issue was brought to the courts. this intention of protecting national secrets, which are framers understood, was a are framers understood, was a core part of protecting and thinking about the nation, while on the other hand, protecting the right to free speech remains at the core o

border wiretapping political opponents the subversion of democracy cia whistleblower edward snowden now in refuge in russia says it is important to remember the history behind f.b.i. norm's why do i see this what i did up sort of this ancient history why do we sort of think about things that were back under.

our sons deserved a price i think a noble peace prize or something for his activity just like edward snowden deserved it in two thousand and it's the magazine gave the person of the year to journalists but they were not easily a good journalist who claimed to have been murdered by the russian secret agents who basically lied to he resigned wrecked it the next day arkady bob and he is still a person of the year before that time magazine you know gloss through a lot to us know how to proceed fire from the idea spiegel magazine he was several journalist crisis in the same years as also was seeking will be made there you know but it just shows that this panel in our viewers we live in the other universe from what the mainstream media it was i learned quickly ed ed because there was a few areas where they saw. involved of his articles he described to orphans who he invented whose parents died under the board also agrees and no they leave in turkey you walk in as garbage collectors and see uncle american dreams and these are never existed probably being raised by the gay grown. everybody should ha

border why it's happening political opponents the subversion of democracy cia whistleblower edward snowden now in refuge in russia says it is important to remember the history behind f.b.i. norm's why do i see this what i did up sort of this ancient history why do we sort of think about things that were back under j. edgar hoover's f.b.i. . well it's because these things continue this is not a radical departure from the operation of intelligence agencies this is what they do in the dark this is what happens when you're not looking this is what happens when they get an off leash when they get comfortable enough that they won't be held to the account of the public or the lall that history should also be remembered in the context of western foreign policy from cia backed regime change in chile to the attempted toppling of the democratically elected thing there were of syria bashar al assad supported by tourism a joining me now via skype is the m.p. for aleppo in syria far as xabi five things are coming back and going on the ground so what happened in aleppo thanks to rebels who have the same

they give us concessions on these tariffs then we'll let her go well you know the fact is when edward snowden released all those and i say documents what we found is it wasn't about all this like you know spying for national defense it was actually about trade war as well it was getting corporate espionage they showed that for brazil with the us they showed that with hacking angela merkel's phone it's all about getting trade secrets and knowing ahead of time for your you know in terms of global trade and competition so this is what it is is just raw competition i remember hallways the second largest smartphone maker in the world but in particular all this stuff has started to happen because just a few years ago china set about as a government policy to get up to the next level of ai telecom chips that's the semiconductor chips or the big. like battle ground we're fighting over a semiconductor chip who produces that that's like the new oil of our day so this is where what started out as the profit brock pierce has said life is basically a video game and people are competing for power boosts yo

border why it's happening political opponents the subversion of democracy cia whistleblower edward snowden now in refuge in russia says it is important to remember the history behind f.b.i. norm's why do i see this what i did up sort of this ancient history why do we sort of think about things that were back under j. edgar hoover's f.b.i. . once because these things continue this is not a radical departure from the operation of intelligence agencies this is what they do.

knows of what it speaks we know from edward snowden that the u.s. pioneered that sort of technique you know they would sort of cisco equipment be waiting for export and the n.s.a. would intercept it and stick a few bugs in and send it on its way so they know what they're talking about so what rubio and others are saying is look we've got a crack down now the administration is in a bind because it knows if it starts cracking down like that that it's going to put the trade talks in a great deal of jeopardy and so we had the u.s. trade representative on the sunday talk shows trying to say look what's happening with huawei is a totally separate matter it's a criminal justice matter it will have no impact on the talks he said. and in fact very importantly he said it's not his position that there should be any kind of ban on chinese telecommunications products so we are seeing that sort of balancing act between the hardliners especially the republican party but also democrats and the administration as well as we have the shadow of the trade talks in the b

was part of the pulitzer for public service for coverage of the american programs revealed by edward snowden. as you might imagine the months that he spent with his colleague have been quite intense and overwhelming. the story has come to encompass so many elements. the kremlin can be challenging. making sense of the connections also can be very difficult just given the day-to-day struggle of the reporting and the volume of breaking news. that's why he chose to step back a bit and write his new book which is called the apprentice. he wanted to lay out what is known as a detailed chronological narrative filling in some of the planks and blankd connecting the dots where he could through additional reporting. the result is a comprehensive and engaging and very, very useful work. it contains fresh detail and provides a lot of quite helpful context. it's quite a contribution to the russia trumped up scandal in how well it synthesizes the available information and describes for the readers the full scope of what has become an incredibly complicated tale so please join me in welcoming greg miller.

. >> edward snowden said i don't agree but he said he went outside the system because he saw how otherswere treated. i would debate if that was legitimate because that is what he thought and that's why he did what he did. >>. >> working for the united states army which just beat navy on saturday. [laughter] so to follow up on the comment to be more forthcoming on the hill. i will play devils advocate. if you had done that what are the odds somebody who disagreed with you would have leaked it to be adjudicated not through legitimate oversight but through the media cracks i am hearing you think more things need to be weighed by the public quick. >> i think from the beginning of the program early 2002 then it would have been supportive and with those congressional leaders at that point they were all tremendously supportive if we go through with the excruciating detail that reaction from both republican and democrats is this unique cracks now i don't know if they would have then. i never felt any opposition. four years later of cours course, after 911 and the political winds change i feel i

edward snowden revealed the extene extent. we know the issue generally. when you had to stand up and fight for the right to keep printing this and to keep your sources and all the rest, you came across officials of government who really wanted to close it down. intelligence officials right here in great britain. >> yeah. it's the difference between the national interest and what the government dictates to be the interest of the day. what we have understood what your previous guest that what richard nixon thought was the interest of the day might have been different from what the "new york times" thought, the pentagon papers. sometimes newspapers had to take their own judgment. my judgment was snowden was saying you can be like china where there is no firewall between social media and the big tech companies and the government. the government has a right to look at all aspects of your life. or you can be like what we thought america should be. we have a choice. but it's right that people should know what's going on. >> except that you did it and it all came

and that is because, as i began explaining on this program, in 2013 when people were accusing edward snowden of treason, it is impossible to commit treason and be convicted of treason in the united states because the constitution defines treason this way. treason against the united states, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. >>> and so, yes, everyone who joined the confederacy and fought against the united states in the civil war, committed treason according to the constitution. from robert e. leon down to the lowest-ranking soldier. but as part of trying to put the country back together, none of them were charged with treason. the other way to commit treason is to give aid and comfort to our enemies, and the courts have defined enemy to mean a country named in a declaration of war by the united states of america. and because we have not had a declaration of war since world war ii, we have not had a treason conviction since the cases that arose out of world war ii. the last person prosecuted for treason was an american

awarded the pulitzer for public service for coverage of american surveillance programs revealed by edward snowden. now, as you might imagine the months and months that has spent with his colleagues on the russia trump story have been quite intense and overwhelming at times. of the story has come to encompass 70 elements and so many players in parts of the government, the white house, cia , justice department, robert mueller investigation, congress, media companies, the kremlin and keeping them all straight in the comments-- is immensely challenging, even making sense of the connection of the pieces can be very difficult given the day to day struggle of reporting the volume of breaking news. that's why craig chose to step back a big write his new book which is called "the apprentice". he wanted to lay out what is known so far put together a detailed largely chronological narrative filling in some blanks connecting the knot-- dots where he could through additional reporting. of the result is a comprehensive, engaging and very very useful work. "the apprentice" contains fresh details and provides lo

tools to solve how own problems and flourish in the past republican has hosted a name such as edward snowdenchelsea manning who is a headline a if we can call about this here. well the main the keynote speaker for this year's event is fire read that now poor emma i might be saying you're wrong but she's a tall goalies a civil rights activist and she's pushing the far a must go campaign and what that campaign basically is about is they're trying to put an end to the current region in togo which is the longest autocratic governments in africa that family has been in power for the past fifty one years so that's the focus of how work and she spoke about how internet and digital tools even things like bluetooth i've helped to make our work easier she's working with all the activists on the ground in togo and we don't we don't only have activists here we have the cuts across different fields we have journalists we have there there are journalists and medical. dr oz even here just looking at how can we make the internet and digital tools our technology how do we make it relevant beyond being just e

has previously worked at wired and was part of the pulitzer prize-winning team to report on the edward snowden disclosure at the guardian. to his left, you're right, olivia martin was a cybersecurity train at the freedom of the press foundation. robert mahoney who the deputy executive director of the committee to protect journalists, and jack gillum who is a data focused reporter for propublica and has previously worked at the "washington post" and the associate press and has the rarest of rare unicorns, a political journalist with a serious technologist background of some sort. and so i want to begin by noting that i think partly because of the revelation but because we're seeing a pattern of increased government willingness at least in the united states to target reporters and leak investigations in part because changing technology has made so much easier to exfiltration significant volumes of data, that there is i think a growing awareness of the need for communication security to protect sources. but also a growing awareness of governance willingness to investigate journalist or to make th

edward snowden added his voice for google to stay out of china.he eve of the ceo's -- into congress, human activists want more details of google's potential plans. they want them to promise they will not create a search engine that will aid repression and censorship in china. geopolitical concerns making some investors nervous about 2019. the global economy is increasingly being seen as operating late in the cycle and have some muttering we might feel the shattering events of the past. paul tudor jones says the drama of a decade ago could happen again. >> there will be some point in 2019 when the market is up on the year and there will be a beta squeeze and all the deleveraging we see will go back in the market. 2007 is a great example. the last hike was in 2006. was fallingeconomy apart, but the stock market did great all the way until october. can we have a scenario like that again? i think it is possible. >> global news 24 hours a day, on air and at tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries

the problem is a lot of sources are not edward snowden. mina look at the kind of things done to reality when thomas drake and say that's not the kind of risk i want to take. so as reporters and from an institutional perspective, we solve that problem of not just educating the journalist, you have to enable them to educate the source, ideally pretty quickly. >> i have the luxury in reporting on national security, where i don't really have to do that so much. not as much as i have to make sure that both of us are using secure methods that we feel comfortable using and that has worked for us. there is never going to be anything that tops in person contact, the tried-and-true paper filing system. amongst the public, going back to the first user problem, one of the things that made me somewhat more confident is a lot of demand-side security which has expanded in reach and sophistication. i am finding more people spamming secure drops, just for general purposes. i don't know if there's an actual way of estimating the proportion. most is from --

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one-off focused on the nsa and inspired by the enormous information coming out as a rut of the edward snowden revelation and the following year i decided that it made sense to have a dedicated full day conference on surveillance, so this is the fifth year, we're running it under that name. i recall a year or two in, the excellent national security reporter at the new york times asked, do you think as the snowden headlines, do you think there will still be enough to talk about every year in the domain of surveillance? and i wouldn't say happy to say, but i can confidently say that it doesn't look like we're running into the problem of being short on subject matter for a conference anytime soon. before i introduce our first panel, i want to suggest i know a conference like this, people come in and out of the conference during the course of the day and following the conference, a docent from the smithsonian art museum has come and agreed to give a special tour for the attendees of the ongoing retrospective sights inseen. paglen explores the surveillance state and its many guises and work to use

i do like edward snowden, i like bradley manning i don't like reality winner.i think the idea that these 20 something year old kids are going to decide what should be in the public realm and what shouldn't is not a to you to decide that. if you think is that much malfeasance in government you can get to rand paul. if you take something to senator rand paul, the biggest champion for privacy, this idea of suddenly are going to dump it and put all this stuff out there i don't like that. also at the same time i don't like intrusive spying. i don't like the idea that the nsa has set up the facility in bluffdale, utah to store the metadata. would rather see tax breaks given to companies like verizon and sprint announce them to hold onto the metadata longer and if they have to give it up you have to give a warrant from a judge. i don't like the government doing that. if they're going to monitor phone calls, even the computer monitoring for keywords and stuff, if there's a keyword hit, does that mean i'll start listening to the next phone calls or does that mean the ke

able to become informed but the extent of government's -- not just through leaks from folks like edward snowden but via transparency reports that major platforms are increase leg producing to try to provide a measure of visibility by the public, not obviously into the specifics of who the government is looking for energies on but the scale what authorities are being used for that purpose. so we'll have two talks from major platforms about their transparency, or course, but start with facebook's head of strategic initiatives and response, alexander galloway. >> hello. i'm alex galloway and one thing our team is in charge of at facebook is our transparency hub. formerly known as the government request report but we have been expanding it significantly. so, i'll start without with high-level points on why do we do the transparency report? and so as julian just said, originally this was just focused on the government requests and that ways in aim of the report to hold governments conditionable for the information they request to provide insight into how often we provide data governments and the rig

employee and whistleblower edward snowden this is what he said to her it's last month about the company and its practices the n.s.o. group in today's world based on the evidence we have they are the worst of the worst in selling these burglary tools that are being actively currently used to violate the human rights of dissidents opposition figures activists. to some pretty bad players. but they're not alone. well dan ingleton is the deputy director for the technology division of amnesty international she joins us now from london thanks very much for being with us now you missed the international is suing the israeli government. over this just just tell us a little bit more about that the response the you've gotten from them and how you plan to move forward you know well actually we're looking at we're exploring our options to further get accountability for the attack and targeting of an amnesty international employee basically a number of months ago a colleague of ours received a text message that had saudi arabia related content and when i say big content i'm referring to sort of socia