| | *Snowden leaks details a program that trained approximately 10,000 [[jihad]]i fighters at a cost of $1 billion a year.<ref>http://fair.org/home/down-the-memory-hole-nyt-erases-cias-efforts-to-overthrow-syrias-government/</ref> | | *Snowden leaks details a program that trained approximately 10,000 [[jihad]]i fighters at a cost of $1 billion a year.<ref>http://fair.org/home/down-the-memory-hole-nyt-erases-cias-efforts-to-overthrow-syrias-government/</ref> |
| | *A secret memo exposed by NSA [[whistleblower]] Edward Snowden discusses how the US, along with British intelligence, is collecting information “directly from the servers of …[[Microsoft]], [[Yahoo]], [[Google]], [[Facebook]], PalTalk, [[AOL]], [[Skype]], [[YouTube]], [[Apple Inc.|Apple]].”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html?hpid=z1&utm_term=.c188c8af0ba0</ref> | | *A secret memo exposed by NSA [[whistleblower]] Edward Snowden discusses how the US, along with British intelligence, is collecting information “directly from the servers of …[[Microsoft]], [[Yahoo]], [[Google]], [[Facebook]], PalTalk, [[AOL]], [[Skype]], [[YouTube]], [[Apple Inc.|Apple]].”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html?hpid=z1&utm_term=.c188c8af0ba0</ref> |
| | + | *''[[The Guardian]]'' story, soon to be known as the ''Snowden leaks'', is more evidence Obama Director of National Intelligence (DNI) [[James Clapper]] misled Congress and public about the true nature and extent of domestic intelligence gathering in his 12 March sworn testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. |