“The Obama administration heralds this local approach as a much-needed evolution in the way the country confronts terrorism.” – CBS News WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US government is building a vast domestic spying network to ...
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 ...
Computer security researchers at Symantec say they have discovered a sophisticated piece of malware circulating the world that appears to be used for spying at Internet service and telecommunications companies, and was likely created by ...
By Julian Hattem A Washington-based privacy organization is suing the CIA to obtain details about how it spied on Senate staffers. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to obtain the agency ...
By Xeni Jardin BoingBoing, May 13, 2014 “United States of Secrets,” a new PBS Frontline, explores ‘the dramatic inside story of the U.S. government’s massive and controversial secret surveillance program—and the lengths they went to trying ...
Also see: “Canadian Intelligence Working in the Interests of the U.S.” VANCOUVER – Anyone who has used a cellphone, smartphone, laptop or tablet in Canada over the past 13 years deserves payment or other remedies ...
By Mike Masnick Techdirt, March 5, 2014 While at times, it’s appeared that the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Dianne Feinstein, serves more to prop up the intelligence community than to handle oversight, it has actually ...
‘Secret battle for America’ fought far from the front lines during World War II — Lost documents find British agents took on Nazi sympathisers in the US — Crew headed by Donald MacLaren destroyed Hitler’s plan for ...
Scary stuff, but don’t reach for the Xanax — the media are already claiming that the deceased were “paranoid.” Soon, chronic faults in their character will be unearthed, quite possibly insanity, drug use or Snowdenian ...
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 ...
“ … ‘If the government shows up in your neighborhood, essentially every phone is going to check in with the government,’ said the ACLU’s Soghoian. … “ Blocked by a Supreme Court decision from using ...
Hacktivist group says 14GB of data includes evidence that Bank of America engaged in an effort to “spy and collect information on private citizens.” February 28, 2013 In its latest salvo against the financial industry, ...
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…?’ dept TechDirt We’ve written several times before about domestic spying being performed by the government agencies, most ...
WMCTV | December 19, 2010 MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – The Memphis Police Department appears to be in violation of a long-standing court order barring the agency from conducting political intelligence activities, a Tennessee newspaper reported. ...
President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office has been accused of using counterintelligence services to stop leaks about an investigation into the finances of France’s richest woman. Henry Samuel in Paris Telegraph | 13 Sep 2010 Liliane Bettencourt, ...
By Daniel Tencer Raw Story | June 19th, 2010 The Pentagon’s spy unit has quietly begun to rebuild a database for tracking potential terrorist threats that was shut down after it emerged that it had ...
ACLU FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 29, 2010 CONTACT: ACLU Mandy Simon, (202) 675-2312; Review Finds Incidents In At Least 33 States WASHINGTON – June 29 – Political surveillance and harassment by U.S. law enforcement agencies ...
By David Kravets December 30, 2009 A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the government’s refusal to admit or deny it has documents related to warrantless eavesdropping on Guantanamo Bay detainees and their lawyers. In ...
By Ryan Singel WiredNovember 20, 2008 If you are New York’s police commissioner, what does it take to figure out when your city’s anti-terrorism squad has gone rogue? Well, if building files on political protesters ...
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 ...
Every UK call, internet search and email will go into big data vatThe government is looking to invest in spying database By Marc Chacksfieldwww.techradar.com/news It’s what science fiction movies are made of, but the government ...
“… The directive uses 9/11 as an all encompassing justification to wage a witch hunt against dissenting citizens … Under the new regulatory regime proposed by Mukasey, state and local police would be given free ...
The Associated Press08/21/2008 SAN FRANCISCO—A federal appeals court has declined to decide whether telecommunications companies can be sued for helping government terrorism investigators eavesdrop on their customers without a warrant. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court ...
Information sought on whether state police used federal funds By Laura Smitherman and Matthew Hay Brown Baltimore Sun, July 24, 2008 Washington – Federal lawmakers are scrutinizing the Homeland Security Department’s role in efforts by Maryland ...
” … 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, and federal and local law enforcement. Previous ...
NIS News Bulletin, Netherlands – Jun 12, 2008 THE HAGUE, 13/06/08 – The head of the American CIA secret service in the Netherlands had to leave his job in 2005 in a dispute between The ...
” … We believe that individuals who feel the paranoid ‘War on Terror’ has become a self-perpetuating, overzealous, violent enterprise would strongly disagree with your conclusions. … Perhaps the Citizen should focus its scrutiny on ...
Barr’s bio (Source: Verizon web site): William P. Barr Executive Vice President and General Counsel Verizon Communications William P. Barr is executive vice president and general counsel of Verizon, a position he has held since ...
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 family accountant, and a director of the ...
May 6, 2008 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A federal judge presiding over a corporate spying suit against News Corp said the company could lose the case worth hundreds of millions of dollars if Chairman and ...
“… New allegations that Siemens worked for Germany’s top spy agency for over a decade …” thelocal.de 13 Apr 08 New allegations that Siemens worked for Germany’s top spy agency for over a decade and ...
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 ...
Like FBI, CIA Has Used Secret ‘Letters’ WP/January 25, 2008 For three years, the Bush administration has drawn fire from civil liberties groups over its use of national security letters, a kind of administrative subpoena ...
