A Cult of Rules The Origins of Legalism in the Surveillance State
"... Political theorist Judith Shklar defined legalism as 'the ethical attitude that holds moral conduct to be a matter of rule following' — nearly regar
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
US House Committee Votes to End NSA’s Bulk Metadata Collection Program
Summary: The US House Judiciary Committee said the move "takes us one step closer to ending bulk collection once and for all and safeguards Americans' ci
FALLOUT The Geopolitics of the Snowden Files
Also see: http://drones.procon.org/ http://chrgj.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Living-Under-Drones.pdf http://ammo.com/articles/armed-drones-obamas-weap
Snowden Documents The NSA Spied on WikiLeaks Website Visitors
"... The documents call into question the Obama administration’s repeated insistence that U.S. citizens are not being caught up in the sweeping surveilla
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
Dianne Feinstein’s Fake Surveillance Reform Bill
" ... The legislation would make clear in no uncertain terms that communication records like phone, email, and internet data can be collected without even
“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
Miami Heald The Dirty Secrets of the CIA’s War on Terror
" ... Biden even compared the redemptive value of facing the truth on torture to the effect of the war-crimes tribunals on Germany. Obama probably didn’
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
Chechen Terrorists and the Neocons
April 20, 2013 I almost choked on my coffee listening to neoconservative Rudy Giuliani pompously claim on national TV that he was surprised about any Chec
Post-Watergate Intelligence Investigations
The Watergate scandal, the 1974 resignation of President Richard Nixon, and the election that fall of a "reform Congress" set the stage for Congressional i
Judge from Hell Named to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
" ... Judge Collyer was appointed to the bench by President George W. Bush. In September 2011, she authored an opinion accepting the CIA’s view that for
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
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
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
Patterns of Misconduct FBI Intelligence Violations, 2001-2008 (EFF Report)
Electronic Frontier Foundation Table Of Contents Executive Summary Introduction The Intelligence Oversight Board FBI Intelligence Violations
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.