Senate approves telecom immunity for NSA wiretap cooperation
July 09, 2008 Mike Rosen-Molina [JURIST] The US Senate Wednesday voted 69-28 [roll call] to approve a bill amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Baltimore Police Spying Alleged
" ... Officials from the NSA said they were unable to comment. Thursday's suit is the latest in a series of battles among local peace activists, the NSA, a
No Amnesty for Lawbreaking Telecoms
http://www.progressive.org/mag_wxld061208 By Elizabeth DiNovella, June 12, 2008 Congress may be on the verge of giving phone companies retroactive immunit
NSA Wiretapping Before 9/11?
Former Qwest executive says the NSA approached his company to wiretap long before the September 11th attacksBy: Captain MaverickOct 15, 2007, 12:37 AM EDTF
Roots of Surveillance Standoff Go Back Decades
By Shane HarrisNational JournalApril 29, 2008In the old days, everyone was linked to a lug nut, and Jim Kallstrom liked it that way.It was 1985, a simpler
Verizon Spook William P. Barr & the Surveillance State
See: http://constantineinstitute.blogspot.com/2008/05/annals-of-surveillance-state-verizon.html
Verizon Spook William P. Barr has Long Been an Advocate of Spying on Civilians
Barr's bio (Source: Verizon web site):William P. BarrExecutive Vice President and General CounselVerizon Communications William P. Barr is executive vice p
FBI Withdraws Probe Of Wayback Machine Users
www.informationweek.comThe settlement stems from a lawsuit claiming the FBI's request for information about the Internet Archive's Web library violated the
Burger King Gets Into the Spying Biz
A note on ownership of Burger King: The hamburger chain is owned by the Texas Pacific Group (TPG). The founder of TPG is David Bonderman, formerly a Bass f
Media Mafia Corruption in the Cable Industry (Case File #12)
" ... The case involves a colorful cast of characters that includes former intelligence agents, Canadian TV pirates, Bulgarian and German hackers, stolen e
Bribery and Spying Claims Dog Siemens
" ... New allegations that Siemens worked for Germany’s top spy agency for over a decade ... "thelocal.de13 Apr 08New allegations that Siemens worked for
FBI Tried to Cover Patriot Act Abuses With Flawed, Retroactive Subpoenas, Audit Finds
From the annals of the criminalized FBI ... WiredMarch 13, 2008 FBI headquarters officials sought to cover their informal and possibly illegal acquisition
The Facebook Scourge
With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson ... Facebook is a well-funded project and the people behind the funding, a group of Silicon Valley venture capi
RNC Nazis Attack Clinton, Obama Over Electronic Surveillance Bill
CQ PoliticsFeb. 7, 2008Politics officially entered the Senate debate over a rewrite of electronic surveillance rules Thursday when the Republican National
Britain ‘is Turning into a Spy State’
Metro.co.ukWednesday, February 6, 2008Gordon Brown is turning Britain into a surveillance state', Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg claimed.The Prime Minister sh
Bush Orders NSA to Snoop on US Agencies
Also see:"THE CIA EYES THE INTERNET"Cyber attack fear used to expand spy gridBy Ashlee Vance in Mountain View27th January 2008Not content with spying on ot
Warrantless Domestic Spying by the CIA Exposed
Like FBI, CIA Has Used Secret 'Letters'WP/January 25, 2008For three years, the Bush administration has drawn fire from civil liberties groups over its use
The CIA Eyes the Internet
By Alex ConstantineUpdatedChooms: This is a TRUE story, not an execrable satire, capricious exercise in political fulmination or similar waste of petroleum
Domestic Spying, Inc.
Spying Incorporated by Tim Shorrock 1 January 2008Domestic Spying, Inc.by Tim ShorrockA new intelligence institution to be inaugurated soon by the Bu
Poem Revelations of Secret Surveillance, by Judy Malloy
[Performed at the University of California at Santa Cruz; (Hypertext 2004) included in the Net Art Open; (Dublin, Ireland) the 2005 Web Biennial at the Ist