” … The legislation would make clear in no uncertain terms that communication records like phone, email, and internet data can be collected without even an ounce of suspicion. … No matter how you cut ...
Electronic Frontier Foundation: “NSA’s Vast Surveillance Powers Extend Far Beyond Counterterrorism, Despite Misleading Government Claims“: “Time and again we’ve seen the National Security Agency (NSA) defend its vast surveillance apparatus by invoking the spectre of ...
November 8, 2013 This article originally appeared in the Daily Kos. Since June, the mainstream media has been reporting National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations exposing NSA’s vast, ineffective, and unconstitutional spying. In the words ...
The director of the U.S. National Security Agency and his deputy are expected to depart in the coming months, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, in a development that could give President Barack Obama a chance ...
Almost no one noticed when the book was quietly released this summer. It has perhaps the most benumbing title in publishing history. Yet inside this volume of previously confidential legal opinions is the story of how the ...
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 Watson/AFP/Getty Images) “… One of the former ...
Photo: Seymour Hersh exposed the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Photograph: Wally McNamee/Corbis Pulitzer Prize winner explains how to fix journalism, saying press should ‘fire 90% ...
“Computers are everywhere. They are now something we put our whole bodies into—airplanes, cars—and something we put into our bodies—pacemakers, cochlear implants. They HAVE to be trustworthy.” – EFF Fellow Cory Doctorow Cory’s right, of ...
“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” — Peter Thiel, April 13 2009 The Gay Billionaire Pothead Behind the Senate’s New Right-Wing Star Gawker, September 30, 2013 Where does a man like ...
Lending some credence to conspiracy theories that have swirled for years concerning the 1961 death of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in a Zambia plane crash, a commission of international jurists recommended on Monday ...
Also see: “No terror connection? No problem, says NSA,” MSNBC “NSA Misled Surveillance Court Multiple Times, Secret Opinions Show,” ACLU August 20 2013 Fresh off of a brand new series of document releases, including several ...
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 Internet, phone lines, and airways has long been the stuff ...
Also see: “Are small-fry encrypted email ISPs using feds as excuse for closure?” Secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user passwords, which are typically stored in ...
” … The NSA presents its surveillance operations as being directed toward security issues. … However, secret NSA documents reveal that their surveillance is used to gather intelligence to achieve political goals for the US ...
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 gala inside the hangar of the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor ...
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), unexpectedly exposed a powerful and seamless segment of the ...
Also see: Constantine Report Surveillance Archive BERLIN: Fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden said the US National Security Agency operates broad secret spying partnerships with other western governments now complaining about its programmes, in an interview ...
June 22, 2013 SAN JOSE — An otherwise adoring crowd of liberal activists booed and interrupted House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Saturday as she defended the Obama administration’s electronic surveillance practices at a political ...
Amendment was shot down that would have required warrants before police could peruse shared information for any evidence of hundreds of different crimes. Photo: Rep. Alan Grayson unsuccessfully tried to require police to obtain a ...
Suit over domestic surveillance will reveal state secrets, say DOJ lawyers By Joe Mullin arstechnica, Dec 14 2012 SAN FRANCISCO, California—Warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency began as a Bush-era program in October 2001; ...
By Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan ProPublica Gen. Keith Alexander is the director of the National Security Agency and oversees U.S. Cyber Command, which means he leads the government’s effort to protect America from cyberattacks. ...
Everybody’s A Target In The American Surveillance State NJ TODAY, March 28, 2012 –“Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”—A senior intelligence official previously involved with the Utah Data Center In the small town ...
By Ryan Nelson, Opinion Columnist The Daily O’Collegian, January 8, 2012 Imagine living in a world where corporations and intelligence firms created software that can intercept communications of entire populations and demographics. Imagine a world ...
” … 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 where vehicles tried to run them off ...
Essential Reading: “NSA to Build Secretive Data Center in Utah (Shhh – it’s Actually for Surveillance, not ‘Cybersecurity’ as Widely Reported)” Cyber intelligence data center to support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative By Henry Kenyon ...
Bay City News | December 21, 2010 A federal judge in San Francisco today awarded more than $2.5 million in damages and legal fees to compensate two lawyers for an Islamic charity for illegal wiretapping ...
By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post | November 29, 2010 Prosecutors failed Monday to persuade a federal judge in Baltimore to order the disclosure of the names of two expert witnesses who might be called in ...
“ … ‘Today the Supreme Court let them get away with it.’ … ” NEW YORK – October 4 – Today, the Supreme Court said it would not take up a warrantless surveillance case, Wilner ...
“… ‘There’s smart secrecy and stupid secrecy, and this whole episode sounds like stupid secrecy,’ said Gabriel Schoenfeld of the Hudson Institute, a conservative scholar whose book Necessary Secrets defends protecting classified information. …” SCOTT ...
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. By Katelyn Epsley-Jones and Christina Frenzel Frontline | May 15, 2007 ...
“A major federal investigation has found that dozens of military officials and defense contractors, including some with top-level security clearances, allegedly bought and downloaded child pornography on private or government computers. The Pentagon on Friday ...
” … It is one thing to protect information that might put Americans in danger or undermine national security; it is another to bring cases against whistle-blowers and others who divulge information to spur debate ...
Dozens implicated, some with ties to the National Security Agency with top-level security clearance By ANNE FLAHERTY Associated Press Click to download 96 Page IG Report The Defense Department says an investigation has identified dozens ...
Re “the indictment of Thomas A. Drake, a former NSA official accused of leaking classified information to a newspaper reporter. Drake was arraigned on Friday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore and pleaded not guilty. ...
FISA Court Encourages Government to Stop Collecting Some Metadata April 19, 2010 National Security Agency Director Keith B. Alexander is “working as quickly as he can” to resolve the issue, one key member of Congress ...
