Tag Archives: NSA scandal

Top notch stuff, Rusbridger

Posted on Tuesday 20 August 2013 by Rob Godfrey

The Guardian Editor, Alan Rusbridger, published a quite extraordinary piece last night. Below the line in the reader comments section I called the article ‘a quite substantial piece of history’. Another commentator described what I’d said as hyperbole, so let … Continue reading →

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Sheep, Blind Mice and Ostriches

Posted on Friday 9 August 2013 by Rob Godfrey

The Guardian ran a piece today about the Lavabit secure e-mail service, which has just been shut down by its owner, Ladar Levison, who said that he wouldn’t be “complicit in crimes against the American people” (here); ie, he wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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A state within a state and the Fourth Estate

Posted on Wednesday 10 July 2013 by Rob Godfrey

Today, Greenwald and the Guardian went for the jugular of the New York Times (here) and Washington Post (here), showing that they have openly lied about the Edward Snowden affair and accusing them of being mouthpieces of the US Government. … Continue reading →

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Smears, censorship and bananas

Posted on Saturday 29 June 2013 by Rob Godfrey

This week a smear campaign started against Glenn Greenwald (Greenwald, of course, is the reporter who’s breaking the Edward Snowden story). The New York Daily News, the New York Times and the Washington Post all published stories on Wednesday claiming … Continue reading →

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Mr Snowden answers questions

Posted on Monday 17 June 2013 by Rob Godfrey

This afternoon the Guardian ran a live question and answer session with Edward Snowden. It was unusual because Guardian readers were given the opportunity to put questions directly to Snowden. Amongst many startling things, Snowden explicitly said that the US … Continue reading →

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Bilderburg and Aunty Beeb

Posted on Sunday 9 June 2013 by Rob Godfrey

The UK foreign secretary, William Hague, went on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show this morning and said that it was “fanciful” and “nonsense” to suggest that GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) had illegally worked with America’s NSA (National Security Agency) to … Continue reading →

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