{"id":36466,"date":"2018-08-05T10:55:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T15:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36466"},"modified":"2018-08-05T10:55:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T15:55:58","slug":"edward-snowden-5-years-in-russia-and-still-relevant-as-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36466","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden: 5 years in Russia and still relevant as ever"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Edward Snowden: 5 years in Russia and still relevant as ever<\/a><\/h3>\n

Edward Snowden changed the practices of both the internal and external focused US and global intelligence agencies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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TASS reported that August 1 was the five year anniversary<\/a> of Edward Snowden\u2019s being granted temporary asylum in the Russian Federation. This happened after his release of an enormous trove of information showing clandestine and illegal practices being carried out by the US intelligence agencies to gather information on just about anyone in the world, for any \u2013 or no \u2013 reason at all.<\/p>\n

Edward Snowden, 35, is a computer security expert. In 2005-2008, he worked at the University of Maryland\u2019s Center for Advanced Study of Language sponsored by the National Security Agency (NSA) and at the global communications division at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. In 2007, Snowden was stationed with diplomatic cover at the US mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2009, he resigned from the CIA to join the Dell company that sent him to Hawaii to work for the NSA\u2019s information-sharing office. He was particularly employed with the Booz Allen Hamilton consulting firm.<\/p>\n

In June 2013, Snowden leaked classified information to journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, which revealed global surveillance programs run by US and British intelligence agencies. He explained the move by saying that he wanted to tell the world the truth because he believed such large-scale surveillance on innocent citizens was unacceptable and the public needed to know about it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Guardian and The Washington Post published the first documents concerning the US intelligence agencies\u2019 spying on Internet users on June 6, 2013. According to the documents, major phone companies, including Verizon, AT&T and Sprint Nextel, handed records of their customers\u2019 phone conversations over to the NSA<\/strong> and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), who also had direct access to the servers of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Skype, YouTube, Paltalk, AOL and Apple.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Edward Snowden: 5 years in Russia and still relevant as ever Edward Snowden changed the practices of both the internal and external focused US and global intelligence agencies. TASS reported that August 1 was the five year anniversary of Edward Snowden\u2019s being granted temporary asylum in the Russian Federation. This happened after his release of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4102,135,249,551,577,694,18459,10651,14514,15112],"class_list":["post-36466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-cia","tag-edward-snowden","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nsa","tag-russia","tag-seraphim-hanisch","tag-tass","tag-the-duran","tag-us-intelligence-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36467,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36466\/revisions\/36467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}