NSA Surveillance Programs

NSA surveillance programs: He risks decades in jail for the disclosures if the United States can extradite him from Hong Kong where he says he has taken refuge, according to 660 News. Both newspapers have published a series of top-secret documents outlining two NSA surveillance programs. One gathers hundreds of millions of U.S. phone records while searching for possible links to known terrorist targets abroad, and the second allows the government to tap into nine U.S. Internet companies to gather all Internet usage to detect suspicious behaviour that begins overseas and WASHINGTON The man who gave classified documents to reporters, making public two sweeping U.S. surveillance programs and touching off a debate on privacy versus security, has revealed his own identity. Edward Snowden, 29, who says he worked as a contractor at the National Security Agency and the CIA, allowed the Guardian and the Washington Post newspapers to reveal his identity Sunday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.