The latest news and comment on the US National Security Agency
February 2026
NSA detected foreign intelligence phone call about a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
October 2025
A remote spy base and a ‘criminal’ blockade raise questions about Australia’s complicity in Gaza war
A protest over Pine Gap’s claimed role in genocide has refocused attention on the secretive US satellite base near Alice Springs
May 2025
Denmark to summon US envoy over report of Greenland spying directive
Trump administration to cut thousands of jobs from CIA and other spy agencies – report
April 2025
US politics live
Trump tariffs live: Vietnam, India and Israel reportedly in talks over new trade deals – as it happened
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February 2025
The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US?
George Monbiot
So much of our intelligence and military systems are shared or reliant on the US – if it becomes the enemy, it is already inside the gates, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
April 2024
What is Fisa, and what does it mean for no-warrant spying?
After a week of debate, Congress on Friday reauthorized section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
October 2023
Man jailed for life for attempted murder of US woman stationed at GCHQ
Joshua Bowles, 29, carried out reconnaissance before stabbing victim in Cheltenham in March
Ex-NSA employee pleads guilty to trying to sell classified information to Russia
Prosecutors say Jareh Dalke, facing up to 22 years in prison, gave security files to FBI agent that he thought was Russian operative
Scandinavian spy drama: the intelligence chief who came under state surveillance
How Lars Findsen and Claus Hjort Frederiksen came to be facing trial for allegedly disclosing ‘state secrets’ that had been in public domain for years
June 2023
‘No regrets,’ says Edward Snowden, after 10 years in exile
But whistleblower says 2013 surveillance ‘child’s play’ compared to technology today
Snowden, MI5 and me: how the leak of the century came to be published
Ten years on, Nick Hopkins recalls how the Guardian defied the intelligence agencies to publish revelations of mass state surveillance
What’s really changed 10 years after the Snowden revelations?
The whistleblower forced US intelligence agencies to admit extensive spying on their own citizens. Some reforms were enacted but Snowden still faces potentially 30 years in prison
May 2023
The Last Honest Man: Frank Church and the fight to restrain US power
Pulitzer-winner James Risen calls the late Democratic senator an ‘American Cicero’ – and makes a strong case
September 2022
Putin grants Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden
Former NSA intelligence contractor was given asylum in Russia after leaking secret files in 2013
US courts must stop shielding government surveillance programs from accountability
Patrick Toomey and Alex Abdo
The NSA’s surveillance of Americans’ internet use raises serious constitutional concerns, but the government claims a lawsuit against the program would compromise ‘state secrets’
NSA analyst jailed for life for selling US secrets to Soviets dies aged 80
Ronald Pelton, convicted of espionage in 1986, said he accepted money from America’s cold war enemy because he was desperate
August 2022
US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian publishing Snowden revelations
Head of GCHQ rebuffed late-night request from National Security Agency amid strained relations in Five Eyes intelligence coalition
July 2022
Reality Winner says she leaked file on Russia election hacking because ‘public was being lied to’
Former NSA contractor says in interview ‘I knew it was secret … but I also knew that I had pledged service to the American people’
October 2021
RAF intelligence base linked to US drone strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani
Research concludes it ‘was probable’ that Menwith Hill was used to assist in the controversial assassination
