Making a Killing

The NSA’s New Partner in Spying: Saudi Arabia’s Brutal State Police

Glenn Greenwald, Murtaza Hussain
The National Security Agency last year significantly expanded its cooperative relationship with the Saudi Ministry of Interior, one of the world’s most repressive and abusive government agencies. An April 2013 top secret memo provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden details the agency’s plans “to provide direct analytic and technical support” to the Saudis on “internal […]

Snowden Archive

Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet

Glenn Greenwald
The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, “amplif[y]” sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor video content judged to be “extremist.” The capabilities, detailed in documents provided by NSA […]