NSA Whistleblower Agency’s Prime Concerns are Money & Power, US is “Totalitarian”
Binney: 'The NSA's main motives: power and money' Whistleblower William Binney recently made headlines when he told the German parliament that the NSA, his
Big Data + Big Pharma = Big Money
January 10, 2014 Need another reminder of how much drugmakers spend to discover what doctors are prescribing? Look no further than new documents from the
FRIENDLY TECHNOFASCISM WITH GREAT COMPUTING POWER COMES GREAT SURVEILLANCE
January 10, 2014 Nearly 50 years ago, Gordon Moore suggested that the number of transistors that could be placed on a silicon chip would continue to doubl
Graphs by MIT Students Show the Enormously Intrusive Nature of Metadata
You've probably heard politicians or pundits say that “metadata doesn't matter.” They argue that police and intelligence agencies shouldn't need probab
A Search Engine To Find Secrets The Government Doesn’t Want You To Know
Go ahead, use the search engine. America's public servants can't very well object to citizens spying on them if they have nothing to hide. Besides, Presi
Former CIA Boss, Task Force Member Says Even Though Metadata Collection Hasn’t Been Useful, It Should Be Expanded
December 24, 2013 We've pointed out that one of the big surprises in the White House's task force proposals on NSA reform, was that the task force was p
Perception Management Wall Street Journal Columnist Repeatedly gets Facts Wrong about NSA Surveillance
Now that illicit NSA surveillance has been exposed and universally deplored, it's time to raise our hackles over media perception management. A "conservati
“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
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
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
Verizon Executive VP is Former CIA Official who Long Argued for More Surveillance
Also see: "Verizon Spook William P. Barr has Long Been an Advocate of Spying on Civilians" (Excerpt) [ ... ] Verizon Executive Vice President and General
AI Firm Attracts Funding from CIA Offshoot to Analyze Massive Quantities of Data — Including Social Media Postings
"... Narrative Science's technology helps address the intelligence community's challenge of analyzing massive amounts of data, such as video surveillance f
Ex-Army Officer Accuses CIA of Obstructing Pre-9/11 Intelligence-Gathering
By Paul Church & Ray Nowosielski January 7, 2013 (Copyright, Truthout.org. Reprinted with permission) Offering new revelations about the CIA's role
In-Q-Tel and Emergent CIA Social Media Monitoring Technology
How the C.I.A. Perfects its Social Media Monitoring Technologies Forbes | November 24 2010 It’s not a secret to most Netizens that they’re being watche
2007 Frontline Segment on Church Committee & FISA Court (w/Domestic Spying and Data Mining Reading List)
A closer look at the famous post-Watergate investigation into domestic spying abuses and how it led to a secret court to authorize surveillance requests. B
Government Continues to Avoid Court Rulings on Domestic Surveillance
by emptywheel | FireDogLake | April 19, 2010 FISA Court Encourages Government to Stop Collecting Some Metadata National Security Agency Director Keith B.
ManTech Names H. Christopher Goodrich as Vice President for NSA Programs in its Mission, Cyber and Technology Solutions Group
March 11, 2010 Twenty-five years of experience in the Intelligence Community FAIRFAX, Va. (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ManTech International Corporation /quote
CIA’s In-Q-Tel, IBM & Non Obvious Relationship Awareness (NORA) Data Mining/DATA DIVER DISSES TERROR-MINING
Foreword - In-Q-Tel Investments are a Map of the Future of Spying: " ... A relatively unknown branch of the CIA is investing millions of taxpayer dollars i
PROPAGANDISTS FIRST, JOURNALISTS SECOND
How the New York Times Won 2004 for Bush May 20, 2008 LOS ANGELES--Should the news media be patriotic? When a journalist uncovers a government secret, whic
Data Mining by NSA Spurred Confrontation on U.S. Spying
By Scott Shane and David Johnston International Herald Tribune July 29, 2007 WASHINGTON: A 2004 dispute over the National Security Agency's secret surveil