Espionage News

In an interview with Fox News' Bill Hemmer, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) proposed a resolution to help keep the NSA in check and demanded an answer from President Obama on the secretive agency's actions.

John Kerry, United States secretary of state, said last night some of America's spying activities have "reached too far." Speaking by videolink yesterday to a conference with the Open Government Partnership, Mr Kerry confirmed trust needs to be restored.

Istanbul - A bird suspected of spying for Israel was captured by Turkish authorities and has finally been released. The Turkish authorities believed that the bird was carrying surveillance equipment but didn't find any on the bird after a careful inspection.

Moscow - Edward Snowden controls damaging information, which if released could be US government’s “worst nightmare”, said Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald Saturday, who first broke the PRISM espionage story.

Moscow - Anti-secrecy group, WikiLeaks, said on its Twitter feed Tuesday that the former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has not yet formally accepted asylum in Venezuela.

Moscow - Edward Snowden, wanted by the United States for espionage, currently stuck in diplomatic no-man’s land at Moscow Airport transit zone, may return to the US of his own volition, provided certain conditions are met, says his father Lonnie Snowden.

London - Julian Assange will be giving a public address to supporters at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Sunday afternoon. Ecuador held a meeting of ALBA on Saturday.

The video highlights RT's interactions with Julian Assange since April 2010. Initially he is seen as a hero for exposing the awful truth, eventually he is hated by banks, journalists, world leaders and others.

Quito - Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa will make an "informed decision" on Assange's asylum request, after a meeting on Wednesday with Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino and diplomats in London.

London - Swedish authorities declined Ecuador's invitation to question Julian Assange in their London Embassy. An anti-war activist and journalist gives his opinion on why Assange is right to fear Swedish extradition.