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NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Gets Three-Year Residence Permit in Russia

Posted: October 12, 2014 at 6:49 pm

MOSCOW NSA-leaker Edward Snowden was granted a three-year residence permit in Russia today and will be able to apply for a Russian citizenship in five years.

Snowden's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena announced the decision made by the federal migration service (FMS) at a news conference in Moscow on Thursday afternoon.

"Speaking about [Snowden's] subsequent status, he will be now free to travel abroad for a period of up to three months," he said.

According to Kucherena, Snowden did not apply for political asylum in Russia. "We are not talking about political asylum here. We are talking about temporary residence," he said. "Political asylum is a totally different procedure. It is granted by a presidential decree."

Snowden, who raised controversy last summer when he leaked a number of classified documents to the press, arrived at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport in late June 2013 and spent more than five weeks at the airport's transit zone before obtaining temporary asylum, which allowed him to enter Russian territory.

STORYRussia's Biggest Movie Theater to be Inaugurated

As Snowden's story came to public attention, it almost immediately attracted filmmakers. Last September, a parody character based on Snowden was featured in the U.S. cartoon series South Park, bringing the ratings of the episode, Let Go, Let Gov, to a two-year high.

Classified: The Edward Snowden Story, a Canadian independent movie centered on the former NSA contractors story, is slated for release this September.

In June 2014, director Oliver Stone had bought the rights to Kucherena's novel based on Snowden's life and will use it alongside Luke Harding's nonfiction book, The Snowden Files, as a basis for the screenplay of his movie, which is due to begin production later this year.

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Former NSA Director Keith Alexander Invested Heavily In Tech Firms, Agency Denies Conflict Of Interest

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Former National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander held multiple personal investments in several technology companies, according to NSA documents obtained by Vice NewsFriday. Alexanders supervisors indicated his financial reports did not reflect any conflicts of interest during his tenure as NSA director, but, before they were released, the agency claimed they could compromise the national interest of the United States.

Among Alexanders personal portfolio companies were Synchronoss Technologies Inc., a firm that provides mobile carriers such as AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. with cloud storage, Ars Technica reported. They also included Datascension Inc., a data-gathering company and several outfits that specialize in different types of surveillance, such as air-traffic control, radar and video, Vice said.

The documents represented Alexanders financial reports from 2009 to 2014. Each report claimed Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper concluded his investments were unrelated to his prospective duties and no conflicts appear to exist, Vice said.

The NSA previously refused Vice journalist Jason Leopolds request for Alexanders financial reports under the Freedom of Information Act. After a lawsuit was filed, the agency released the documents.

Alexander was the head of the NSA during the year when NSA leaker Edward Snowden provided to the media many classified documents revealing embarrassing details about the agencys spying. Alexander resigned in March 2014 and has since opened a cybersecurity company that sells protection to financial institutions, Ars Technica noted.

Alexander charges between $600,000 and $1 million a month for his services, Bloomberg News reported.

U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., criticized Alexanders company in a letter to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, or Sifma, in June. Grayson claimed there is no way Alexander could offer his services without disclosing classified information made available to him through his former position at the NSA.

In his letter, Grayson requested Sifma hand over all information regarding its negotiations with Alexander so that Congress can verify whether or not he is selling military and cybersecurity secrets to the financial services industry for personal gain. He wrote, Without the classified information that he acquired in his former position, he literally would have nothing to offer you.

Alexander denied the implication to the Associated Press in August. Ive been in government for 40 years, he said. I fully understand the importance and sanctity of classified material.

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"Tall, White" Space Aliens Control America, NSA leaked documents reveal – Video

Posted: October 11, 2014 at 1:50 pm


"Tall, White" Space Aliens Control America, NSA leaked documents reveal
An unidentified flying object, or UFO, in its most general definition, is any apparent anomaly in the sky that is not identifiable as a known object or phenomenon. Such anomalies may later...

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NSA Chief takes turn at the Ghana-Brazil 2014 WorldCup Commission of Inquiry – Video

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NSA Chief takes turn at the Ghana-Brazil 2014 WorldCup Commission of Inquiry
The Director General of the National Sports Authority (NSA), Mr.Joe Kpenge, today briefed the three-man Presidential commission of inquiry on some challenges...

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Ex-NSA chief admits govt secrets are cover-ups – Video

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Australia #39;s The Canberra Times just ran an article called "Government secrecy cannot disinfect, or hide, dirty laundry." It focuses on how governments keep information secret from the press...

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Prepare for cyber false flag — JPMorgan links arms with NSA – Video

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The Real JPMorgan Data Breach Danger Is Still on Its Way http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-levin/the-real-jpmorgan-data-br_b_5956104.html We Need Cyber Legislation: Ex-NSA Chief Alexander.

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GCSB and The NSA, Dr Katherine Albrecht with Vinny Eastwood 29July2013 1of6 – Video

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Beyond Borders – Spies, Whistle Blowers and the NSA – BBIF 2014 – Video

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NSA May Have Undercover Operatives in Foreign Companies

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As a much-anticipated documentary about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden premiers in New York this evening, new revelations are being published simultaneously that expose more information about the NSAs work to compromise computer networks and devices.

Newly-brought-to-light documents leaked by Snowden discuss operations by the NSA working inside China, Germany and South Korea to help physically subvert and compromise foreign networks and equipment, according to a report published by The Intercept. They also suggest the NSA may have undercover agents planted inside companies to provide assistance in gaining access to systems in the global communications industry. And they bolster previous reports that the NSA works with U.S. and foreign companies to weaken their encryption systems.

The new report is written by Peter Maass and Laura Poitras. Poitras is the celebrated documentary filmmaker who Snowden contacted in 2013 to provide her with a trove of NSA documents and who has interviewed him in Hong Kong and Moscow for her film CitizenFour.

Among the new documents, which are seen in the film, is a 13-page brief dating from 2004 about Sentry Eagle, a term the NSA used to describe a collection of closely held programs whose details were so tightly controlled that, according to the document, they could be disclosed only to a limited number of people approved by senior intelligence officials.

Unauthorized disclosure . . .will cause exceptionally grave damage to U.S. national security, the document states. The loss of this information could critically compromise highly sensitive cryptologic U.S. and foreign relationships, multi-year past and future NSA investments, and the ability to exploit foreign adversary cyberspace while protecting U.S. cyberspace.

The brief reveals new details about six categories of NSA operations that fall under the Sentry Eagle rubric. These are also known as the NSAs core secrets and are identified as:

Sentry Hawkwhich involves computer network exploitation (aka CNE), the governments term for digital espionage. (For example, programs like Flame would fall into this category.)

Sentry Falconwhich involves computer network defense.

Sentry Ospreywhich appears to involve overseeing NSA clandestine operations conducted in conjunction with the CIA, FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency and Army intelligence. These operations involve human intelligence assets, or HUMINT assets (Target ExploitationTAREX) to support signals intelligence (SIGINT) operations.

This is one of the biggest reveals of the report. Apparently, under Sentry Osprey, people responsible for target exploitation operations are embedded in operations conducted by the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, and FBI to provide technical expertise these agencies lack. This would include covert or clandestine field activities as well as interception, or interdiction of devices in the supply chain to modify equipment or implant bugs or beacons in hardware. The TAREX group specializes in physical subversionthat is, subversion through physical access to a device or facility, rather than by implanting spyware remotely over the internet. The report doesnt indicate if the kinds of modifications made to equipment involve sabotage, but its possible the alterations made could include planting logic bombs in software to destroy data or equipment, as the Stuxnet worm did in Iran.

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