Latest NSA leak details PRISM's bigger picture
New "top secret" slides released by The Washington Post on Saturday shed further light on the U.S. National Security Agency's (NSA) PRISM program, which was first publicly disclosed through a series of leaks by former government contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden earlier this month.
The additional four slides expand on the original leaks released by the publication The Guardian. They further back claims of widespread borderline illegal mass surveillance by Snowden, whose airside location at a Moscow airport caused a stand-off between the two former Cold War superpowers on a new diplomatic front.
The original disclosure blew the lid on government surveillance and the scope in which the U.S. government worked with the U.K. intelligence network, and stirred further anger over alleged secret interpretations of the Patriot Act and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
