So now we know that story is worse: in addition to phone data mining, the government has spying on your Internet use via an ongoing program started late in the Bush era called PRISM, as well as working with credit card companies on surveillance.
Where are all these leaks coming from? Who's informing us of this?
We saw an elaborate PowerPoint presentation of the PRISM program in The Washington Post and The Guardian. Which led to this exchange on Twitter between Marcy Wheeler and Marc Ambinder:
@marcambinder Maybe China. They have access to our internet anyway, right?
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 6, 2013
Is Marcy serious about this? I'm not sure, but she did retweet this:
Fascinating that these leaks abt our surveillance practices come in the 2 days before a tough mtg w/the Chinese about theirs.
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) June 6, 2013
And tweet this:
In fact, if I were a SciFi writer, I'd have China--which has access to this anyway--getting and leaking these documents to fuck w/O/Xi mtg.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 6, 2013
And now ... where is Glenn Greenwald? He lives in Brazil, right?
Well, yes. But he's not in Brazil right now:
Greenwald, an American, is at this moment in Hong Kong, out of reach of U.S. jurisdiction.And I just heard an NPR interview with Greenwald in Hong Kong.
Coincidence?
