Brenden gives a monologue talking about Edward Snowden, government whistleblowers, the Espionage Act of 1917, Stellar Wind, PRISM & Project Hemisphere.
Washington Post: President’s Surveillance Program Worked With Private Sector
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/presidents-surveillance-program-worked-with-private-sector-to-collect-data-after-sept-11-2001/2013/06/27/2c7a7e74-df57-11e2-b2d4-ea6d8f477a01_story.html
Edward Snowden biography
https://www.edwardsnowden.com/protection-overview/
The New York Times: Julian Assange Arrested
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/world/europe/julian-assange-wikileaks-ecuador-embassy.html
The Washington Post: US Surveillance Architecture Includes Collection of Revealing Phone Metadata
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-surveillance-architecture-includes-collection-of-revealing-internet-phone-metadata/2013/06/15/e9bf004a-d511-11e2-b05f-3ea3f0e7bb5a_story.html
The Daily Beast: AT&T Is Spying On Americans for Profit
https://www.thedailybeast.com/atandt-is-spying-on-americans-for-profit
Defensesystems.com: NSA Data Center Utah
https://defensesystems.com/Articles/2011/01/07/NSA-spy-cyber-intelligence-data-center-Utah.aspx
Forbes: Blueprint of NSA Data Center in Utah Suggests Its Storage Capacity is Less Impressive Than Thought
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/07/24/blueprints-of-nsa-data-center-in-utah-suggest-its-storage-capacity-is-less-impressive-than-thought
USA Today: Patriot Act USA Freedom Act Senate Vote
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/06/02/patriot-act-usa-freedom-act-senate-vote/28345747/