BREAKING: New Leaker Disclosing U.S. Secrets
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Source: CNN
@cnnadam: EXCLUSIVE: US govt has concluded there's a new leaker exposing national security documents post-Snowden, @evanperez reporting. More soon.
CNN Breaking News - A new leaker is exposing national security documents, U.S. officials tell CNN. Reply STOP 2 unsub
updated 3:27 PM EDT 08.05.14
New leaker disclosing U.S. secrets
By Evan Perez, CNN
(CNN) - The federal government has concluded there's a new leaker exposing national security documents in the aftermath of surveillance disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, U.S. officials tell CNN.
Proof of the newest leak comes from national security documents that formed the basis of a news story published Tuesday by the Intercept, the news site launched by Glenn Greenwald, who also published the Snowden's leaks.
The Intercept article focuses on the growth in U.S. government databases of known or suspected terrorist names during the Obama administration.
The article cites documents prepared by the National Counterterrorism Center dated August 2013, which is after Snowden flew to Russia to avoid U.S. criminal charges.
Greenwald has suggested there was another leaker. In July, he said on Twitter "it seems clear at this point" that there was another. Government officials have been investigating to find out who.
The biggest database, called the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, now has 1 million names, a U.S. official confirmed to CNN.
That's boosted from half that many in the aftermath of the botched attempt by the so-called underwear bomber to blow up a U.S.-bound jetliner on Christmas Day in 2009.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/05/politics/u-s-new-leaker/index.html
@jeremyscahill: Direct links to SECRET gov't watchlisting documents we published today: https://t.co/ipgXej4e9R/s/XfGd & https://t.co/1YxO8QmCwj/s/f0Oq
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/08/05/watch-commander/
NEWS
Barack Obama’s Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers
By Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux5 Aug 2014, 12:45 PM EDT
Nearly half of the people on the U.S. government’s widely shared database of terrorist suspects are not connected to any known terrorist group, according to classified government documents obtained by The Intercept.
Of the 680,000 people caught up in the government’s Terrorist Screening Database—a watchlist of “known or suspected terrorists” that is shared with local law enforcement agencies, private contractors, and foreign governments—more than 40 percent are described by the government as having “no recognized terrorist group affiliation.” That category—280,000 people—dwarfs the number of watchlisted people suspected of ties to al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah combined.
The documents, obtained from a source in the intelligence community, also reveal that the Obama Administration has presided over an unprecedented expansion of the terrorist screening system. Since taking office, Obama has boosted the number of people on the no fly list more than ten-fold, to an all-time high of 47,000—surpassing the number of people barred from flying under George W. Bush.
“If everything is terrorism, then nothing is terrorism,” says David Gomez, a former senior FBI special agent. The watchlisting system, he adds, is “revving out of control.”
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or Snowden are predictable and boring.
You all need to get some better talking points. 
