http://front.kinja.com/nsa-surveillance-scandal-feds-shut-down-snowdens-secu-511588927
By Ken Lane
A legal website used by attorneys to privately discuss case law is shutting down after 10 years because the owner no longer feels the site’s users are protected from government spying. After federal threats led to the closure of several secure email providers, the publisher of Groklaw closed her own operation last night, saying she could no longer promise security to the lawyers who had used the forum to openly discuss legal situations with other users. It’s the latest repercussion from former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations about the massive illegal spying operations American intelligence and law enforcement agencies have engaged in since the 9/11 terror attacks.
The fallout from Snowden’s secrets is now affecting the reporter who first brought this summer’s NSA spying scandal to the world, Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald—his partner was detained by British intelligence agents for nine hours at London’s Heathrow Airport, not because of any suspicion of wrongdoing but simply because he lives with Greenwald.