NSA Secrets

Government Spying in the Internet Age

The Washington Post

• Publisher: Diversion Books
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781626812123
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The Pulitzer Prize–winning investigation into surveillance abuses and the Edward Snowden case that brought them to light.
 
The NSA's extensive surveillance program has led Americans to question threats to their privacy. As reported by the Washington Post, in their Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of whistleblower Edward Snowden's NSA leaks, NSA Secrets delves into the shadowy world of information gathering, exposing how data about you is being collected every day.
 
From his earliest encrypted exchanges with reporters, Edward Snowden knew he was a man in danger. Sitting on a mountain of incriminating evidence about the NSA surveillance programs, Snowden was prepared to risk his freedom, and his very life, to let the world know about the perceived overreach of the NSA and the massive collection of personal information that was carried out in the name of national security by the U.S. government.
 
The Washington Post's complete coverage of the NSA spying scandal, which it helped break, is now collected in one place to give as comprehensive a view of the story as is known. From the first contact with Snowden to the latest revelations in worldwide cellphone tracking, the award-winning reporters at the Post have vigorously reported on the scope of the NSA's surveillance. Snowden called the internet "a TV that watches you," and accused the government of "abusing [it] in secret to extend their powers beyond what is necessary and appropriate." Here, the secrets of those who tried in vain to remain in the shadows are revealed.

Table of contents

• NSA Secrets: Government Spying in the Internet Age
• NSA Secrets
• Copyright
• Introduction
• U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program
• From obscurity to notoriety, Snowden took an unusual path
• Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning and the risk of the low-level, tech-savvy leaker
• U.S. surveillance architecture includes collection of revealing Internet, phone metadata
• Metadata reveals secrets of social position, company hierarchy, terrorist cells
• New documents reveal parameters of NSA's secret surveillance programs
• President's surveillance program worked with private sector to collect data after Sept. 11, 2001
• For NSA chief, terrorist threat drives passion to ‘collect it all, observers say
• NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds
• FISA court: Ability to police U.S. spying program limited
• NSA gathered thousands of Americans' e-mails before court ordered it to revise its tactics
• U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary
• NSA paying U.S. companies for access to communications networks
• To hunt Osama bin Laden, satellites watched over Abbottabad, Pakistan, and Navy SEALs
• U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, documents show
• Spy agencies spend millions to hunt for insider threats, document shows
• Top-secret files show new levels of distrust of Pakistan
• U.S. documents detail al-Qaeda's efforts to fight back against drones
• Obama administration had NSA restrictions reversed in 2011
• Declassified court documents highlight NSA violations in data collection
• FISA court releases opinion upholding NSA phone program
• U.S. officials dodge questions on scope of surveillance
• NSA report on the Tor Encrypted Network
• Dual-leadership role at NSA and Cyber Command stirs debate
• NSA tries to regain industry's trust to work cooperatively against cyber-threats
• Effort underway to declassify document that is legal foundation for NSA phone program
• NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally
• Documents reveal NSA's extensive involvement in targeted killing program
• NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say
• NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show
• Judge: NSA’s collecting of phone records is probably unconstitutional
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