US Court of Appeals had refused to overturn a district court ruling against secure mail service provider Lavabit as it had deemed that the new arguments presented by Ladar Levison's company were not raised in the original case, ZDNet said.
The Guardian and The Washington Post are contenders for a Pulitzer Prize, journalism's highest honor, which will be awarded on Monday for their revelations of the massive surveillance program conducted by the US government thanks to former government contractor Edward Snowden's leak, the Salt Lake Tribune said.
In an interview with Vanity Fair. former government contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden insisted that he did file formal complaints with his ex-employer about the agency's surveillance programs, directly contradicting an earlier statement by NSA deputy director Rick Ledgett.
The latest leaks of government whistleblower Edward Snowden published on the Washington Post detailed National Security Agency programs MYSTIC and RETRO were used to monitor an entire telephone network-worth of phone calls over a 30-day period of at least five countries.
