Tag Archives: National Security Agency
Bamford> Connecting the Dots on PRISM, Phone Surveillance, and the NSA’s Massive Spy Center
An aerial view of the NSA’s Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah. The government is secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of Verizon customers and gathering data from tech companies including Apple, Microsoft and Google. The Obama Administration defends the National Security Agency’s need to collect such records, but critics call it a huge […]
Fmr. FBI Special Agent Coleen Rowley was a whistleblower after 9/11 attacks. She talks about recent NSA leak.
Click here for Coleen Rowley video on Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Coleen Rowley: Surveillance programs create huge profit for private contractors Rowley: More importantly, stopping terrorists through mass data collection doesn’t work She says just look at how the Bush administration failed on 9/11 despite early warnings Rowley: Secretive spying programs harm national security […]
ACLU Asks Spy Court to Release Secret Opinions on Patriot Act Surveillance Powers
Motion Filed Cites Public’s First Amendment Right to Know the Law, Need for Public Debate June 10, 2013 ACLU.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: 212-549-2666, media@aclu.org WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of the Nation’s Capital, and Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Clinic filed a motion today with the secret court that […]
‘Beyond Orwellian’: Outrage Follows Revelations of Vast Domestic Spying Program & Petition
FISA court order ‘broadest surveillance order ever issued’ against private citizens – Jon Queally, staff writer Published on Thursday, June 6, 2013 by Common Dreams Update: (3:59 PM) As government officials and Verizon itself responded to the Guardian’s NSA domestic spying story throughout the day, concern over the program’s scope and implications only deepened among its army of critics. Responding to the […]
Video> Manning exposed myriad of criminal activity by US government: Scott Rickard
Press TV has conducted an interview with Interview with Scott Rickard, former American intelligence linguist, Florida, about the upcoming trial of US army whistleblower Private Bradley Manning and the thousands of protesters who see Manning as a hero that exposed hidden US war crimes. The following is an approximate transcript of the interview. Press TV: First […]
Glenn Greenwald> Domestic drones and their unique dangers
Glenn Greenwald: Challenging the US Surveillance State Domestic drones and their unique dangers Dismissive claims that drones do nothing more than helicopters and satellites already do are wildly misinformed Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk, Friday 29 March 2013 10.48 EDT The use of drones by domestic US law enforcement agencies is growing rapidly, both in terms of numbers and types of […]
Fazaga v. FBI: Eroding democracy, in two dimensions at once
Fazaga v. FBI: Eroding democracy, in two dimensions at once “Over the past decade, federal judges have turned a blind eye to corporate complicity in human rights abuses, the National Security Agency’s dragnet warrantless wiretapping scheme that captures and records essentially all email exchanges and phone calls even absent any individual suspicion, and now the FBI’s resurrection of COINTELPRO tactics […]
Alexander Reed Kelly> Privacy by Design
Privacy by Design By Alexander Reed Kelly July 24, 2012 truthdig.com Furryscaly (CC BY-SA 2.0) NEW YORK—Nicholas Merrill wants to change the world. So he tells me over rice and beans at Lupe’s East LA Kitchen in Soho, roughly a dozen blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood. He is perfectly serious. At 39 […]
Morris Berman> Slouching Towards Nuremberg
Slouching Towards Nuremberg by Morris Berman May 9, 2012 Dark Ages America Strange things are happening in the United States these days, and every day seems to bring additional scary news. The similarity to the erosion of civil liberties in Germany during the 1930s is a bit too close for comfort. Many will regard […]
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