On Wednesday, The Intercept published the
most documents ever released at once from the cache provided by NSA
whistleblower Edward Snowden: 294 articles from an internal NSA news
site, SIDtoday, many of them classified. After combing through the
documents, staffers Margot Williams, Micah Lee, and Talya Cooper wrote
an overview of their findings,
which included revelations on how U.S. spies misused a covert network
for personal business and the many ways the U.S. tried to bug Iraq after
removing Saddam Hussein. Longtime contributor Nick Turse separately
used the NSA documents to investigate how the spy agency helped a draconian regime in Ethiopia exponentially expand its surveillance network, while investigative reporter Ryan Gallagher revealed how the NSA secretly operated drones from a base in the English countryside.
Ahead
of this flood of information on electronic spying by the U.S.
government, The Intercept’s Sam Biddle reminded readers of the
unparalleled surveillance powers of a private American corporation,
Facebook. Academics told him that
Facebook’s behavior in handling cloaked advertising from the Russian
government was “stunning” and raised “crucial questions” about “most of
the public’s personal data.” Biddle called for CEO Mark Zuckerberg to
testify before Congress. |
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