NSA hacking Snowden’s biographer’s computer?

Democracy Now! in the USA says about this video:

“The Paragraph Began to Self-Delete”: Did NSA Hack Computer of Snowden Biographer & Edit Book Draft?

Monday, February 24, 2014

Is the National Security Agency breaking into computers and tampering with unpublished manuscripts? Award-winning Guardian journalist Luke Harding says paragraphs of his writing mysteriously disappeared when he was working on his latest book, “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man.” “I wrote that Snowden’s revelations had damaged U.S. tech companies and their bottom line. Something odd happened,” wrote Harding in The Guardian. “The paragraph I had just written began to self-delete. The cursor moved rapidly from the left, gobbling text. I watched my words vanish.” Harding joins us to talk about the computer monitoring and other times he believes he was being tracked.

Transcript

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.

Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents revealing the agency’s surveillance operations, said he raised his concerns to more than 10 officials, “none of whom took any action to address them,” before he decided to give the documents to journalists: here.

Related articles

• Snowden Biographer Claims His Text Would ‘Self-Delete’ When He Wrote About NSA
• ‘The Paragraph Began to Self-Delete’: Did NSA Hack Snowden Biographer’s Computer?
• Writing The Snowden Files: ‘The paragraph began to self-delete’
• ‘The Snowden Files’ Author: ‘The Paragraph I Had Just Written Began to Self-Delete.’
• Author Of Snowden Book: ‘Secret Reader’ Deleted Paragraphs
• Snowden reflects on the impact of his NSA leaks: ‘I already won’