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 ...
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Marc Ambinder | The Atlantic | Mar 31 2010 The National Security Agency broke the law when it wiretapped two American lawyers working for the El-Haramain Charity Foundation, an judge ruled Wednesday. The government has not ...
Mar 29, 2010 03:30 EDT Mike McConnell, the WashPost & the dangers of sleazy corporatism By Glenn Greenwald In a political culture drowning in hidden conflicts of interests, exploitation of political office for profit, and ...
By emptywheel November 19, 2009 I’m almost ready to post my next working thread on the EFF documents. But pages 121 through 125 of the OLC2 set deserves its own post. It’s basically an email ...
Edited by Alex Constantine All news outlets are describing the proposed facility as a “cyber-security” center, but “Utah news reports, based on federal budget documents, have described the center as a collection point for surveillance ...
A project to safeguard governmental computers, run by the NSA, is too big a threat to Americans’ privacy By Jesselyn Radack Los Angeles Times, July 14, 2009 Cyber security is a real issue, as evidenced by ...
Defense and intelligence contractor Raytheon is moving into the lucrative realm of cyber warfare, and wants to hire hundreds of “cyber warriors” to “play offense and defense,” according to an advertisement on the company’s web ...
Details remain classified, but are referred to in a newly released report http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31852177/ns/politics/ – “A new internal government report says President George W. Bush authorized secret intelligence activities shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks ...
By Jon Stokesarstechnica.comJuly 6, 2009 New budget docs reveal that the NSA is building a large new datacenter in Utah so that it can inhale more of your e-mail traffic. No word yet on how ...
Excerpt: NSA Whistleblower Meets Anthrax ‘Person of Interest,’ by Kevin Poulsen, Wired, June 4, 2009: … Speaking on the final panel at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference here, ex-DOJ attorney Thomas Tamm discussed the ...
By Tom Eley www.australia.to Several current and former agents within the National Security Agency (NSA), speaking on condition of anonymity, have told the New York Times that the spy agency likely monitors millions of e-mail ...
By Marc Ambinder May 18 2009 Late Friday, the federal government signaled its intention to keep fighting for its right to prevent a judge from requiring that plaintiffs attorneys in Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, Inc., et ...
Boston ExaminerMarch 13, 2009 The head of the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency resigned effective Friday, citing concerns that the National Cybersecurity Center is underfunded and effectively controlled by the Pentagon through the National ...
You remember the explanation: Bush’s NSA targetted “terrorists,” not here but overseas – far, far away – and the telecom companies had to have immunity for doing their patriotic duty, “protecting our freedoms.” After all, ...
By Brian Krebs Wash. Post/Security Fix Section November 24, 2008 Extortionists targeting clients of Express Scripts — one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefits management firms — may have inadvertently picked a fight for which ...
Edited by Alex Constantine (Revised) Spooks a-go-go; bang-bang, shoot-shoot John Brennan, chief executive officer of the Analysis Corp., is rumored to be a possible candidate for CIA director in the Obama administration, reports The Washington ...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.comOctober 21, 2008 The NSA will investigate reports that intelligence operators recorded calls from American journalists, military personnel, and humanitarian workers based in the Middle East, the agency said yesterday. The whistleblowers have said they ...
By Alex Constantine[Previously posted under the heading: “On a Bad Case of Cranial Bleeding, the Birth of CSC & the Collapse of Fannie Mae”] Last month, the corporate world was disheartened to learn of the ...
By Alex Constantine(Revised) A few weeks ago, the corporate world was disheartened to learn of the brain hemorrhage death of prominent business consultant Michael Hammer while bicycling with a friend in Boston – one of ...
Caveat: James Risen, the NYT reporter, is a CIA “Mockingbird” with little credibility, but does on occasion file a real report on the intelligence community to maintain his cover. However, he has never, in the ...
Grant Gross, IDG News ServicePC WorldSeptember 18, 2008 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), U.S. President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other government ...
By Alex Constantine This morning, the corporate world was disheartened to learn of the brain hemorrhage death of prominent business consultant Michael Hammer while riding a bicycle with a friend in Boston – one of ...
Edited by Alex Constantine Shock, Awe & Arson in Paradise Report: Arson Investigator Started SoCal FiresNov 22, 2008 LOS ANGELES and SAN BERNARDINO (CBS) ― A U.S. Forest Service arson investigator, who is currently in ...
Code-breaker knew America’s secrets July 26, 2008 PATRICIA SULLIVAN WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON–Early in the Korean War, Milton Zaslow and three other cryptologists working in China for the U.S. Armed Forces Security Agency were reading thousands ...
” … She was sentenced to 18 months in jail, but Circuit Court Judge Paul A. Hackner agreed to suspend the entire sentence and let her stay free. … It is unclear from court records ...
11 JULY 2008 WWW.DAILY.PK On July 3, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the U.S. District Court in California made a ruling particularly worthy of the nation’s attention. In Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation Inc. v. Bush, a ...
http://www.progressive.org/mag_wxld061208 By Elizabeth DiNovella, June 12, 2008 Congress may be on the verge of giving phone companies retroactive immunity from lawsuits over their role in helping Bush’s warrantless domestic wiretapping program. This gift to telecoms ...
• PART ONE: General Electric, ChoicePoint – Key Interlocking Fascist Directorates – and Kenneth Langone • PART TWO: ChoicePoint Admits Foreknowledge of 9/11 • PART THREE: ChoicePoint/CSIS/Markle Foundation Connections • PART FOUR: ANSER • PART ...
” … In 2004 Lichtblau and fellow Times reporter Jim Risen learned that the National Security Agency was spying domestically, on American citizens. The NSA … was supposed to limit its activities to foreign countries. ...
Former Qwest executive says the NSA approached his company to wiretap long before the September 11th attacks By: Captain Maverick Oct 15, 2007 Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio alleges in court documents that the US ...
By Tim Shorrock CorpWatch, March 20, 2008 The global titans may be buying a premiere supplier for the intelligence community. The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity funds, may soon acquire the $2 billion ...
Time magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush’s domestic spying abuses Salon.com March 17, 2008 No matter how corrupt and sloppy the establishment press becomes, they always find a way to go lower. ...
WEBWIRE – March 13, 2008 WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union responded today to a stunning new report that the NSA has effectively revived the Orwellian “Total Information Awareness” domestic-spying program that was banned ...
BLF says it changed the sign on behalf of AT&T and the NSA, to “promote and celebrate the innovative collaboration of these two global communications giants.” And remember kids, despite all the teasing you are ...
