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A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

September 11, 2015

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing This is a piece I wrote last year for Ron Paul’s Voices of Liberty.  Now although mainstream media has all but put a gag order on 9/11 memorial coverage, I believe this article’s message has never been more relevant and so I’m posting again at what is obviously poignant time.  […]

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Spying On the Internet is Orders of Magnitude More Invasive Than Phone Metadata

July 10, 2015

Spying On the Internet is Orders of Magnitude More Invasive Than Phone Metadata When you pick up the phone, who you’re calling is none of the government’s business. The NSA’s domestic surveillance of phone metadata was the first program to be disclosed based on documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden, and Americans have been furious about it ever […]

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Lies the Government Is Telling You—The Freedom Of Information Act Is A Fraud

June 11, 2015

Lies the Government Is Telling You—The Freedom Of Information Act Is A Fraud Last week, Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined President Barack Obama in congratulating themselves for taming the National Security Agency’s voracious appetite for spying. By permitting one section of the Patriot Act to expire and by replacing it with the USA Freedom […]

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It’s official: the USA FREEDOM Act is just a destructive as the USA PATRIOT Act

June 3, 2015

It’s official: the USA FREEDOM Act is just a destructive as the USA PATRIOT Act My general rule of thumb when it comes to legislation is that the more high-sounding the name, the more insidious the law. Exhibit A: the just-passed USA FREEDOM Act. “Freedom”. It sounds great. So great, in fact, that they stuck […]

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One Small Step For NSA Reform, One Giant Leap for Congress

June 3, 2015

One Small Step For NSA Reform, One Giant Leap for Congress Exactly two years after journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras traveled to Hong Kong to meet an NSA whistleblower named Edward Snowden, Congress has finally brought itself to reform one surveillance program out of the multitude he revealed — a program so blatantly out of line […]

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Ron Paul Fears The CIA Is The Biggest Threat To Americans’ Liberty

June 3, 2015

Ron Paul Fears The CIA Is The Biggest Threat To Americans’ Liberty As the Senate scrambled to pass the USA Freedom Act this evening, reinstating the agency’s ability to spy on Americans, Ron Paul points out that US intelligence organizations have always – and will continue – to operate outside the law; with Daniel McAdams noting […]

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On Patriot Act Renewal and USA Freedom Act: Glenn Greenwald Talks With ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer

May 28, 2015

On Patriot Act Renewal and USA Freedom Act: Glenn Greenwald Talks With ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer Even in the security-über alles climate that followed 9/11, the Patriot Act was recognized as an extreme and radical expansion of government surveillance powers. That’s why “sunset provisions” were attached to several of its key provisions: meaning they would expire automatically unless […]

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Researchers Predicted In 1971 that Debit Cards Would Become the Ultimate Spy Tool

May 24, 2015

Researchers Predicted In 1971 that Debit Cards Would Become the Ultimate Spy Tool We noted in 2013: The Wall Street Journal reported that the NSA spies on Americans’ credit card transactions. Senators Wyden and Udall – both on the Senate Intelligence Committee, with access to all of the top-secret information about the government’s spying programs – write: Section 215 […]

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FBI Confirms No Major Terrorism Cases Cracked via Unconstitutional Patriot Act Phone Spying

May 23, 2015

FBI Confirms No Major Terrorism Cases Cracked via Unconstitutional Patriot Act Phone Spying   FBI agents can’t point to any major terrorism cases they’ve cracked thanks to the key snooping powers in the Patriot Act, the Justice Department’s inspector general said in a report Thursday that could complicate efforts to keep key parts of the law […]

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Many of the NSA’s Loudest Defenders Have Financial Ties to NSA Contractors

May 13, 2015

Many of the NSA’s Loudest Defenders Have Financial Ties to NSA Contractors The debate over the NSA’s bulk collection of phone records has reached a critical point after a federal appeals court last week ruled the practice illegal, dramatically raising the stakes for pending Congressional legislation that would fully or partially reinstate the program. An army of pundits […]

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NSA Spying Ruled Illegal, But Will Congress Save the Program Anyway?

May 12, 2015

NSA Spying Ruled Illegal, But Will Congress Save the Program Anyway? This week the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the NSA’s metadata collection program was not authorized in US law. The PATRIOT Act, under which the program began, was too vague, the court found. But the truth is the Act was intended to […]

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