“Patriot Act Author ‘There has been a Failure of Oversight.’” (WaPo)
Photo: Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner is the author of the Patriot Act — and an opponent of how it has been used to justify broad domestic spying powers. (Jim Wa
Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the ‘Pathetic’ American Media
Photo: Seymour Hersh exposed the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Photograph: Wally McNamee/Corbis Pulitzer Pri
EFF The NSA is Making Us All Less Safe
"Computers are everywhere. They are now something we put our whole bodies into—airplanes, cars—and something we put into our bodies—pacemakers, cochl
The CIA-Funded, Far-Right, Gay, ACORN-Busting, White Supremacist Hoover Institute Director Behind TED CRUZ
“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” -- Peter Thiel, April 13 2009 The Gay Billionaire Pothead Behind the Senate's New Righ
Does NSA Hold Info on Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjold? Commission Asks UN to Reopen Probe
Lending some credence to conspiracy theories that have swirled for years concerning the 1961 death of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in
Caught, White House Reiterates Flat Out Lies About NSA Surveillance
Also see: "No terror connection? No problem, says NSA," MSNBC "NSA Misled Surveillance Court Multiple Times, Secret Opinions Show," ACLU August 20 2013 F
The Evolution of the NSA’s XKeyscore
How the NSA went from off-the-shelf to a homegrown "Google for packets." The National Security Agency's (NSA) apparatus for spying on what passes over the
Feds Tell Web Firms to Turn Over User Account Passwords
Also see: "Are small-fry encrypted email ISPs using feds as excuse for closure?" Secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal g
Internet Fascism and the Surveillance State
" ... The NSA presents its surveillance operations as being directed toward security issues. ... However, secret NSA documents reveal that their surveillan
Bow Ties, Spies and Money A Look Inside Hawaii’s Intel Community
Mere hours before the world was introduced to Edward Snowden, more than 400 people, many of them from Hawaii’s intelligence community, gathered for a gal
How Booz Allen Made the Revolving Door Redundant
WASHINGTON, Jun 17 2013 (IPS) - Edward Snowden, a low-level employee of Booz Allen Hamilton who blew the whistle on the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)
Snowden NSA in Spying Partnerships with Other Western Govts
Also see: Constantine Report Surveillance Archive BERLIN: Fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden said the US National Security Agency operates broad s
San Jose Nancy Pelosi Defends NSA Spying & is Booed by Online Activists
June 22, 2013 SAN JOSE -- An otherwise adoring crowd of liberal activists booed and interrupted House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Saturday as she defe
CISPA Permits Police to do Warrantless Database Searches
Amendment was shot down that would have required warrants before police could peruse shared information for any evidence of hundreds of different crimes. P
Government Seeks to Shut Down NSA/ATT Warrantless Wiretapping Lawsuit
Suit over domestic surveillance will reveal state secrets, say DOJ lawyers By Joe Mullin arstechnica, Dec 14 2012 SAN FRANCISCO, California—Warrantless
Does Combatting Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?
By Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan ProPublica Gen. Keith Alexander is the director of the National Security Agency and oversees U.S. Cyber Command, whi
Spy Software Up for Grabs?
By Ryan Nelson, Opinion Columnist The Daily O'Collegian, January 8, 2012 Imagine living in a world where corporations and intelligence firms created
Dallas Mystery “Secret CIA Facility just Down the Road on I-35?”
" ... The CIA ... starts to cover-up what they did to the extent of following the family, threatening the family. ...They are then evacuated back to DC wh
$1B NSA Spy Center Underway in Utah
Essential Reading: "NSA to Build Secretive Data Center in Utah (Shhh – it’s Actually for Surveillance, not 'Cybersecurity' as Widely Reported)" Cyber
Prosecutorial Setback in Case Against Accused NSA Leaker
By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post | November 29, 2010 Prosecutors failed Monday to persuade a federal judge in Baltimore to order the disclosure of the na