A 2008 email from the HSBC whistleblower to HMRC has been published, as the government is accused of failing to act on allegations of large-scale tax evasion.
In his first live public appearance since leaking thousands of classified intelligence documents and fleeing to Russia, Edward Snowden has accused the NSA of “setting fire to the future of the internet”.
It was a danger as soon as Edward Snowden stepped foot on Russian soil: becoming trapped in the clutches of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is now enjoying a rare position of moral high ground over both the whistleblower and the US forces seeking to capture him. Now, looking woefully in over his head in his airport prison, Snowden’s attempts at both upholding moral integrity and avoiding US jail time seem to have become two mutually exclusive paths.
Lavabit, the US-based email provider to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, has reportedly been forced to shut down
There are many more revelations to come from the leaks about US spying from Edward Snowden, with journalist Glenn Greenwald testifying that he had received around 20,000 files from the American whistleblower.