The Obama administration reportedly threatened to “cut off” Germany from its vast intelligence resources if it provided legal aide to leaker Edward Snowden.“They told us they would stop notifying us of plots and other intelligence matters,’ German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said this week,” according to the Intercept.
US threatened to ‘cut off’ Germany over Snowden
The Hill
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“British police claim a criminal investigation they launched into journalists who have reported on leaked documents from Edward Snowden has to be kept a secret due to a “possibility of increased threat of terrorist activity.”
UK POLICE DEEM SNOWDEN LEAK INVESTIGATION A STATE SECRET
The Intercept
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“I want to tell the jury why I did it,” Snowden said. “I want to tell the court what these programs are. I want the jury to decide whether it was right or wrong that our rights were being violated in secret. I’m forbidden from doing that.”
Edward Snowden Would Like to Explain Himself to a Jury, but He Can’t
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