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NSA Whistleblower Karen Stewart Speaks Candidly About Illegal and Criminal NSA & FBI Programs of Organized Stalking and Electronic Harassment in the USA & Abroad
NSA Whistleblower Karen Stewart Speaks Candidly About Illegal and Criminal NSA & FBI Programs of Organized Stalking and Electronic Harassment in the USA & Abroad We’ve documented US government use of harmful and deadly experiments upon the public (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here for just a few, and that the US tortures people in Orwellian violation of six binding areas of […]
A Key Similarity Between Snowden Leak and Panama Papers: Scandal Is What’s Been Legalized
A Key Similarity Between Snowden Leak and Panama Papers: Scandal Is What’s Been Legalized FROM THE START of the reporting based on Edward Snowden’s leaked document archive, government defenders insisted that no illegal behavior was revealed. That was always false: Multiple courts have now found the domestic metadata spying program in violation of the Constitution and relevant statutes and have […]
Intelligence Community Olive Branch on Data Sharing Greeted With Skepticism
Intelligence Community Olive Branch on Data Sharing Greeted With Skepticism TOP INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY lawyer Robert Litt has offfered a rare olive branch to privacy advocates on Wednesday, in the form of information. In a post on one of their favorite blogs on Wednesday, Litt, general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, outlined new intelligence data-sharing guidelines that he said […]
Chilling Effect’ of Mass Surveillance Is Silencing Dissent Online, Study Says
Chilling Effect’ of Mass Surveillance Is Silencing Dissent Online, Study Says Thanks largely to whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013, most Americans now realize that the intelligence community monitors and archives all sorts of online behaviors of both foreign nationals and US citizens. But did you know that the very fact that you know this […]
War on Terror Turns Inward – NSA Surveillance Will Be Used Against American Citizens
War on Terror Turns Inward – NSA Surveillance Will Be Used Against American Citizens In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will […]
The Human Rights Risks of Encryption ‘Back Doors’
The Human Rights Risks of Encryption ‘Back Doors’ a katz / Shutterstock One fact that has received little attention in the current encryption debate is that many categories of individuals rely on strong encryption for their own security. These include sexual and gender-based rights activists, domestic violence victims, journalists and their sources, and human rights […]
New Safe Harbor Data “Deal” May Be More Politicking Than Surveillance Reform
New Safe Harbor Data “Deal” May Be More Politicking Than Surveillance Reform Lobbyists, government officials, and technology executives celebrated newsfrom Strasbourg on Tuesday morning that the European Commission and the United States had reached an agreement to reinstate the free flow of massive amounts of data between companies in the United States and the European Union, […]
Congressional Hearings on Surveillance Programs to Kick Off — in Secret
Congressional Hearings on Surveillance Programs to Kick Off — in Secret The House Judiciary Committee will hold its first hearing next week on two of the NSA spying programs revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden that vacuum up domestic content despite being ostensibly targeted at foreigners: PRISM and Upstream. But, to the great consternation of 26 government accountability […]
Almost 12 Years After Calling a Reporter, DOJ Whistleblower Slapped With Ethics Charges
Almost 12 Years After Calling a Reporter, DOJ Whistleblower Slapped With Ethics Charges The D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel — the legal body responsible for overseeing the D.C. Bar’s professional rules — has filed ethics charges against Thomas Tamm, the former Justice Department lawyer who contacted the New York Times about President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program in 2004. The office’s charging papers, […]
NSA Spies on Congress
NSA Spies on Congress The NSA has been caught taping conversations between Capitol Hill and Israel. Glenn Greenwald reported that the “NSA under President Obama targeted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top aides for surveillance. In the process, the agency ended up eavesdropping on ‘the contents of some of their private conversations with U.S.’” He notes that those […]
National security whistleblower interview: NSA spies on absolutely everything, will never stop, and will only expand
National security whistleblower interview: NSA spies on absolutely everything, will never stop, and will only expand Statement from Mark (to me via e-mail and published with his permission): Tragically, I am a National Security whistleblower. With all due respect to crab fishermen, clearly without question, the world’s most dangerous vocation. MANY years ago (years PRE-SNOWDEN), I spoke […]
