"Collect It All": Glenn Greenwald on NSA Bugging Tech Hardware, Economic Espionage & Spying on U.N. | Democracy Now!
"Collect It All": Glenn Greenwald on NSA Bugging Tech Hardware, Economic Espionage & Spying on U.N. | Democracy Now!
Nearly a year after he first met Edward Snowden, Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald continues to unveil new secrets
about the National Security Agency and the surveillance state. His new
book, "No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State," is being published today. It includes dozens of previously secret NSA documents, including new details on how the NSA
routinely intercepts routers, servers and other computer hardware
devices being exported from the United States. According to leaked
documents published in the book, the NSA then implants backdoor surveillance tools, repackages the devices with a factory seal and sends them on. This gives the NSA access to entire networks and all their users. The book includes one previously secret NSA file that shows a photo of an agent opening a box marked CISCO.
Below it reads a caption: "Intercepted packages are opened carefully."
Another memo observes that some signals intelligence tradecraft is "very
hands-on (literally!)."
Greenwald joins us in the studio to talk about this and other new revelations about the NSA,
including its global economic espionage, spying at the United Nations,
and attempting to monitor in-flight Internet users and phone calls. For
his reporting on the NSA, Greenwald recently
won a George Polk Award and was part of the team from The Guardian that
just won the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.
"Once people understood that this extraordinary system of
suspicionless surveillance, which was truly unprecedented in scope, had
been created completely in the dark, it became more than a surveillance
story," Greenwald says. "It became a story about government secrecy and
accountability and the role of journalism, and certainly privacy and
surveillance in the digital age."
