There's A Huge New Snowden Leak — And No One Knows Where It Came From
On Tuesday, news site The Register published a story containing explosive "above top secret" information about Britain's surveillance programs, including details of a "clandestine British base tapping undersea cables in the Middle East." Reporter Duncan Campbell, who wrote the story, said it was based on documents "leaked by fugitive NSA sysadmin Edward Snowden" that other news outlets had declined to publish.
However, it's not necessarily clear how Campbell got his hands on Snowden's document stash.
Glenn Greenwald, who published the first stories based on Snowden's documents in The Guardian, told Business Insider on Tuesday that Snowden has "no source relationship" with Campbell.
"Snowden has no source relationship with Duncan (who is a great journalist), and never provided documents to him directly or indirectly, as Snowden has made clear," Greenwald said in an email. "I can engage in informed speculation about how Duncan got this document it's certainly a document that several people in the Guardian UK possessed but how he got it is something only he can answer."
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-snowden-leak-about-uk-spy-base-2014-6
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Exclusive Above-top-secret details of Britains covert surveillance programme - including the location of a clandestine British base tapping undersea cables in the Middle East - have so far remained secret, despite being leaked by fugitive NSA sysadmin Edward Snowden. Government pressure has meant that some media organisations, despite being in possession of these facts, have declined to reveal them. Today, however, the Register publishes them in full.
The secret British spy base is part of a programme codenamed CIRCUIT and also referred to as Overseas Processing Centre 1 (OPC-1). It is located at Seeb, on the northern coast of Oman, where it taps in to various undersea cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian/Arabian Gulf. Seeb is one of a three site GCHQ network in Oman, at locations codenamed TIMPANI, GUITAR and CLARINET. TIMPANI, near the Strait of Hormuz, can monitor Iraqi communications. CLARINET, in the south of Oman, is strategically close to Yemen.
British national telco BT, referred to within GCHQ and the American NSA under the ultra-classified codename REMEDY, and Vodafone Cable (which owns the former Cable & Wireless company, aka GERONTIC) are the two top earners of secret GCHQ payments running into tens of millions of pounds annually.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/03/revealed_beyond_top_secret_british_intelligence_middleeast_internet_spy_base/
Demeter
(85,373 posts)nothing to see here...
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Judgement and restraint are not possible, if it can be done, we must do it.
babylonsister
(171,104 posts)And yes, I will google.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)No particular to ax to grind there that I know of, except the usual nerd libertarian value system, and a British sense of humor.
I ran into the story yesterday, but waited until it was picked up today to post it. Still don't know that it's all that new really, but we will see soon enough.
Never heard of Duncan before, either.