Tag: Edward Snowden

  • The access to state secrets has to end

    The access to state secrets has to end

    US President Barack Obama has issued an executive order to ensure “responsible sharing and safeguarding of classified networks”. The order calls for “structural reforms to ensure responsible sharing and safeguarding of classified networks”. This comes after former US National Security Council official Edward Snowden leaked thousands of classified State Department and Defense Department secrets to…

  • Key legislators were granted access to classified documents

    The former US Justice Department “leak czar” Brandon Van Grack has said that “national security damage has certainly been done” by the leaked classified documents found in President Joe Biden’s house. Van Grack, who was part of Edward Snowden’s team, led the investigation into Snowden after he leaked thousands of documents. “There’s a lot that…

  • We know what happened with the major intelligence leak

    We know what happened with the major intelligence leak

    US President Donald Trump has directed Attorney General Jeff Sessions to lead the investigation into former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden’s alleged leak of thousands of classified files, an administration official said. The incident is “extremely serious”, Trump wrote in a letter to Sessions. “I urge you to take swift, decisive action against those…