Government agencies charged with fighting terrorism are ratcheting up their game in fighting whistleblowers and journalists. That explains why the British authorities recently detained David Miranda married to journalist Glenn Greenwald who had published former NSA contractor Andrew Snowden’s revelations about domestic spying in the U.S. Journalists know their e-mails are not secure so they send family members on trips with important messages. Agencies respond by detaining the family members, writes ex-CIA operative Barry Eisler in his blog, August 22, 2013.
Journalists are beginning to work together against governments as The New York Times and ProPublica, protected by the First Amendment, are collaborating with the Guardian. British intelligence has prevented the Guardian from publishing more of the Snowden leaks. (PressThink, August 26, 2013, by Jay Rosen)
The British government is on edge after the Snowden revelation that it has established a Middle East internet surveillance base. (The Independent, August 23, 2013, by Duncan Campbell, Oliver Wright, James Cusick, and Kim Sengupta)
Snowden denied working with The Independent amid speculation that the story about the Middle East surveillance was a British government plant to discredit disclosures of The New York Times and The Washington Post. (paidContent, August 23, 2013, by David Meyer)