DARPA’s 1.8 Gigapixel Drone Camera is a High-Res Fourth Amendment Lawsuit Waiting to Happen
By Joshua Kopstein The Verge, February 1, 2013 As unmanned aerial vehicles continue to populate the skies above battlefields and college campuse fast
Meet Verint, the American Company Helping Governments Spy on “Billions” of Communications
"... Verint sells what it calls 'monitoring centers' that 'enable the interception, monitoring, and analysis of target and mass communications over virtual
Spies and the Media
"... There is a similar operation in the U.S. I think it was called Operation Mockingbird. But in the U.K. particularly, within MI6, which is the external
Money, Women & Nazi Secrets How a Shifty Engineer became Britain’s First WW II Double Agent
Volatile: Arthur Owens, aka Double Agent Snow The Mirror, December 12, 2012 Lust and treachery of unlikely little spy Arthur Graham Owens nearly cost All
“Operation Tripwire” — the FBI, the Private Sector, and the Monitoring of Occupy Wall Street
By Beau Hodai PRWatch, December 31, 2012 Records obtained from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by DBA Press and the Center for Media and Dem
How the FBI Coordinated the Crackdown on Occupy
AC note: I have to ask Naomi Wolf if she still believes that the U.S. is "going fascist" -- a claim that had some validity 50 years ago when John Kennedy w
EPIC Sues CIA for Release of Documents Concerning NYPD Collusion in Domestic Spying
EPIC Sues CIA For Release Of Documents Concerning Domestic Spying It Swears It's Not Doing from the whatever-happened-to-'if-you-have-nothing-to-hide...?'
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
Berkeley Considers Banning Surveillance Drones
By Doug Oakley Inside Bay Area, December 16, 2012 BERKELEY — City leaders on Tuesday will consider a proposal to declare the air here a “No Drone Zone
Pentagon Plans Spy Service to Rival CIA’s
" ... The expansion of the agency’s clandestine role is likely to heighten concerns that it will be accompanied by an escalation in lethal strikes and ot
CIA, Pentagon Missions Increasingly Blurred (WBUR Boston Public Rado)
The Central Intelligence Agency is supposed to do the nation’s spying but the line between the CIA and the Pentagon is increasingly blurry. The Pentagon
Drone Makers Push Congress to Open Skies to Surveillance
By Gary Martin Houston Chronicle, November 24, 2012 WASHINGTON - Are unmanned aircraft, known to have difficulty avoiding collisions, safe to use in Ameri
Microsoft Provides Fusion Center Technology & Funding for Surveillance
Did you know Microsoft helps fund the National Fusion Center Association which, in turn, helps police departments buy surveillance tech? In fact, it provid
PDF Transcript of Opening Arguments in Supreme Court Case Concerning Federal Surveillance of American Citizens
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES JAMES R. CLAPPER, JR., DIRECTOR : OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, ET AL. : v. : AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA, ET http
Dr. George Rupp, Former President of Columbia University — Nazi Spies, Money Laundering, the International Rescue Committee & the CIA
From: George Rupp | President & CEO, International Rescue Committee ... "George Rupp has been president of the International Rescue Committee since J
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
$300 Million Bethesda Intelligence Campus Plan Advances
By Daniel J. Sernovitz Washington Business Journal, October 8, 2012 The National Capital Planning Commission has approved final details of the first pha
Late Sen. Byrd’s FBI Files Reveal CIA Leak Uproar
Byrd created a stir in the mid-1960s within the nation's intelligence community when he obtained secret FBI reports leaked by the CIA By LAWRENCE MESSINA A
Online Propaganda and the National Defense Authorization Act
The National Defense Authorization Act has proposed amendments that would let the government wage a propaganda war online ... in the history of bad politic
DHS Now Spies on Journalists, Keeps Records of Online Activity
" ... The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s Media Monitoring Initiative (MMI) has been expanded to collect and track information from online forum