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UK Police Confirm Ongoing Criminal Probe of Snowden Leak Journalists
UK Police Confirm Ongoing Criminal Probe of Snowden Leak Journalists A secretive British police investigation focusing on journalists working with Edward Snowden’s leaked documents remains ongoing two years after it was quietly launched, The Intercept can reveal. London’s Metropolitan Police Service has admitted it is still carrying out the probe, which is being led by its counterterrorism department, […]
Hacking Team and Boeing Subsidiuary Envisioned Drones Deploying Spyware
Hacking Team and Boeing Subsidiuary Envisioned Drones Deploying Spyware There are lots of ways that government spies can attack your computer, but a U.S. drone company is scheming to offer them one more. Boeing subsidiary Insitu would like to be able to deliver spyware via drone. The plan is described in internal emails from the Italian company Hacking Team, which makes off-the-shelf […]
Retired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Helped Create ISIS
Retired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Helped Create ISIS Retired Army Gen. Mike Flynn, a top intelligence official in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, says in a forthcoming interview on Al Jazeera English that the drone war is creating more terrorists than it is killing. He also asserts that the U.S. […]
Obama Administration Finds New Way to Let Criminal Banks Avoid Consequences
Obama Administration Finds New Way to Let Criminal Banks Avoid Consequences Three top Democrats are accusing the Department of Housing and Urban Development of quietly removing a key clause in its requirements for taxpayer-guaranteed mortgage insurance in order to spare two banks recently convicted of federal crimes from being frozen out of the lucrative market. […]
Leaked Documents Show FBI, DEA and U.S. Army Buying Italian Spyware
Leaked Documents Show FBI, DEA and U.S. Army Buying Italian Spyware The FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Army have all bought controversial software that allows users to take remote control of suspects’ computers, recording their calls, emails, keystrokes and even activating their cameras, according to internal documents hacked from the software’s Italian manufacturer. The […]
Bulk Phone Surveillance Lives Again, To Die in a More Orderly Fashion in Five Months
Bulk Phone Surveillance Lives Again, To Die in a More Orderly Fashion in Five Months A federal judge with the top-secret surveillance court on Monday breezily reinstated the NSA bulk domestic surveillance program that was temporarily halted a month ago, allowing the agency to go back to hoovering up telephone metadata for five months while it unwinds […]
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em: France Up in Arms Over NSA Spying, Passes New Surveillance Law
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em: France Up in Arms Over NSA Spying, Passes New Surveillance Law On Wednesday, France woke up to find that the National Security Agency had been snooping on the phones of its last three presidents. Top secret documents provided by Wikileaks to two media outlets, Mediapart and Libération, showed that the NSA had […]
Council of Europe Calls on U.S. to Let Snowden Have a Fair Trial
Council of Europe Calls on U.S. to Let Snowden Have a Fair Trial The Council of Europe, the self-proclaimed “democratic conscience of Greater Europe,” urged the United States on Tuesday to allow NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to return home and make the case that his actions had positive effects. The call for Snowden to be […]
Revealed: How DOJ Gagged Google Over Surveillance of Wikileaks Volunteer
Revealed: How DOJ Gagged Google Over Surveillance of Wikileaks Volunteer The Obama administration fought a legal battle against Google to secretly obtain the email records of a security researcher and journalist associated with WikiLeaks. Newly unsealed court documents obtained by The Intercept reveal the Justice Department won an order forcing Google to turn over more than one year’s […]
Hayden Mocks Extent of Post-Snowden Reform: “And this is it after two years? Cool!”
Hayden Mocks Extent of Post-Snowden Reform: “And this is it after two years? Cool!” Former National Security Agency director Michael Hayden on Monday marveled at the puny nature of the surveillance reforms put in place two years after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed a vast expansion of intrusive U.S. government surveillance at home and abroad. […]
