Edward Snowden

... After becoming chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2009, she supported the Obama administration s controversial drone strike policy and said NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was guilty of treason...

... In the years since, it has been employed by the Justice Department against whistle-blowers like Daniel Ellsberg, whose Pentagon Papers leak shone a light on the Vietnam War, and Edward Snowden, a former intelligence worker who revealed a sweeping domestic surveillance programme...

... The NSA leaksIn 2013, Edward Snowden leaked a tranche of intelligence documents to the Guardian and the Washington Post, showing that the US government was illegally collecting citizens phone data...

... But Mr Lomas notes that previous security breaches - such as leaks by Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning - have demonstrated that security guidelines are not always rigorously followed...

... More recently, the Espionage Act has been applied to whistleblowers and people who have leaked sensitive information, including Wikileaks source Chelsea Manning and ex-CIA contractor Edward Snowden...

... Poitras, who won a best documentary Oscar in 2014 for Citizenfour, about ex-CIA contractor Edward Snowden, thanked the Venice Film Festival jury at the time for " recognising that documentary is cinema"...

... In another interview for the programme Sir Jeremy rejected the idea that GCHQ had been dragged into the open by Edward Snowden s revelations, claiming the former US intelligence employee publishing details of secret programmes had cost the UK " blood and money"...

... His sacking marked the beginning of the chaotic Musk era - so might Mr Musk want some stability and bring him back? Edward Snowden One of the only people to throw their hat into the ring, albeit jokingly, is Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency whistleblower...