Greenwald: New US spying disclosure ‘imminent’

 
American journalist Glenn Greenwald says he will soon disclose new documents revealing which kinds of citizens are targeted by Washington’s spying activities.

Greenwald, whose reporting of documents leaked by Edward Snowden helped expose the scope and scale of US spying activities, said Monday in an interview with MSNBC's Ronan Farrow that the document he intends to release is a "very imminent" report "on the question of what kinds of citizens are being targeted by the NSA."
He said he considered the report "the most important in the archive" of documents given to him by Snowden.
In his previous interviews, Greenwald had said that Snowden's documents include a list of the people, including dissidents and critics, the US government has been targeting.
"One of the big questions when it comes to domestic spying is, ‘Who have been the NSA’s specific targets?’ Are they political critics and dissidents and activists? Are they genuinely people we’d regard as terrorists? What are the metrics and calculations that go into choosing those targets and what is done with the surveillance that is conducted? Those are the kinds of questions that I want to still answer,” Greenwald told British newspaper The Sunday Times earlier this year.
Documents leaked by Snowden have shown, among other things, how the NSA collects phone records of all American citizens and tracks the use of US-based web servers by all people around the world.
In January, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper urged Snowden to return the NSA document that had not yet been exposed and called the journalists who helped him expose Washington’s mass spying programs his “accomplices.”
In response, Greenwald said it is “stunning and extremist” if the Obama administration now views journalists as “accomplices” in what it regards “as Snowden’s crimes.”

Orange High School Student Accused Of Hacking Into Computer System, Changing Grades

A 16-year-old high school sophomore from Orange, New Jersey has been charged with hacking into a school computer system to change grades and attendance records.
The teenager, whose name was not released because of his age, was charged with multiple counts of second-degree computer theft for the purpose of unlawfully accessing and altering data, and one count of hindering apprehension, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s office.
School officials notified police that someone had hacked into the computer system, prompting Orange police to notify the Essex County Prosecutor’s office Cyber Crimes Unit.
Prosecutors believe the student changed grades and attendance records of multiple students by hacking into the system with a staff member’s password, prosecutors said.
The student has been released on a recognizance bond, and the case was expected to be handled in Family Court, prosecutors said.
More than 30 students were also suspended form Orange High School in connection with the incident, CBS 2 reported last week. But most of the suspended students said they were innocent and that whoever hacked the system changed a lot of grades so it would not be tracked back to him.
At least 100 students were questioned about the incident.
The students were facing 10-day suspensions along with being banned from participating in extracurricular activities next school year, one student said.