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Snowden Leaks 2013

Edward Snowden’s NSA disclosures in 2013, which exposed broad signals and diplomatic intercepts and cooperation with Britain’s GCHQ.

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Jan 30, 2026
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What encryption and secure communication methods did journalists use to interact with Snowden?

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How do scholars evaluate Obama's use of executive orders and surveillance programs?

Scholars broadly judge ’s use of executive orders and surveillance authorities as a study in contradiction: praised for modest transparency reforms and restraint in executive-order frequency, but crit...

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Which intelligence services have historically leaked intercepted conversations to media outlets, and what motives or consequences have been documented?

Intelligence services from democracies and authoritarian states alike have been implicated—directly or via insiders—in the and related intercept-derived documents to media outlets, most prominently th...

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