The Drone Leaker
Daniel Hale exposed the machinery of America’s clandestine warfare. Why did no one seem to care?
Edward Snowden
Snowden's Box
A personal account of the human network behind the leak.
Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and the Modern Whistle-Blower
Leaking from the inside, leaking from the outside.
Playboy Interview: Michael Hayden
A conversation with the former head of the NSA.
How Snowden Escaped
The story of two weeks when the most wanted man in the world was hidden in the depths of a Hong Kong slum.
Edward Snowden’s Long, Strange Journey to Hollywood
Oliver Stone wanted a hit—and the chance to put America’s most iconic dissident onscreen. The subject wanted veto power. The Russian lawyer wanted someone to option the novel he’d written. The American lawyer just wanted the whole insane project to go away. Somehow a film got made.
The Great Swiss Bank Heist
Hervé Falciani, a computer engineer working at HSBC, stole the bank’s list of secret accounts. But was he out to expose tax cheats or get rich himself? Perhaps both.
The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle
Documents from Edward Snowden show that the intelligence agency is arming America for future digital wars—a struggle for control of the Internet that is already well underway.
The Edward Snowdens of 1971
In March 1971, John and Bonnie Raines broke into an FBI office, stealing documents that revealed that the government was spying on its own citizens. Today, they’re hailed as heroes. Is this what the future holds for Edward Snowden?
The Holder of Secrets
A profile of Laura Poitras.
The Most Wanted Man in the World
Catching up with Edward Snowden in Moscow.
In NSA Net, Ordinary Web Users Eclipse Legal Targets
In the latest revelation from Edward Snowden, the U.S. government is shown to collect and retain massive amounts of data on nearly 900,000 people with the most minimal of connections to official NSA targets. The collected information tells our “stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes.”
Edward Snowden's Lawyer Will Keep Your Secrets
A profile of Jesselyn Radack, who represents whistleblowers.
The Secret to Getting Top-Secret Secrets
A profile of reporter Jason Leopold, who has reinvented himself after journalistic scandal by becoming what he calls a “FOIA terrorist.”
He Remade Our World
Dick Cheney and the political history of warrantless surveillance.
Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA Revelations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished
“Let them say what they want. It’s not about me.”
The Men Who Leaked the Secrets
The twisting paths that brought together Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald.
After 30 Years of Silence, the Original NSA Whistleblower Looks Back
A profile of Perry Fellwock, a.k.a. Winslow Peck, who exposed the NSA in an 1972 article for Ramparts magazine.
Enemy of the State
A visit to Glenn Greenwald’s house in Rio.
No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A.
Inside the N.S.A.’s mission to spy on just about everyone.
The Real Story of Lavabit's Founder
Meet Ladar Levison, Edward Snowden’s email provider.
How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets
A profile of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who last January received “a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key.”
How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe
Countries that the NSA has defined as close friends, or “2nd party,” include the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. These countries, documents indicate, cannot targetted. “3rd Party” nations, like Germany, are offered no such protection and spying all the way up to the office of the Chancellor is suspected.
How Glenn Greenwald Became Glenn Greenwald
“Before Glenn Greenwald was the journalist who broke and defended the most important story of 2013, he was many other things: an underage South Florida politician, a lawyer at a high-powered corporate firm, Kips Bay’s most combative tenant, and even the legal arm of his business partner’s gay porn distribution company.”
