Draconian NDAA 2014 approved by Obama
NDAA 2014 underwrote $662 billion for continued US aggression in our many foreign wars while, on the domestic front, it violates the Bill of Rights. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, it authorizes presidents “to order the military to pick up and imprison people, including U.S. citizens, without charging them or putting them on trial” (as it did in the 2011-13 versions). The ACLU charges the ...
Intelligence Director James Clapper, who lied to Congress about NSA Spying on Americans, Appointed to Lead Independent Investigation of NSA Surveillance
Obama assigned National Intelligence Director James Clapper, who had falsely testified to Congress that the NSA was not collecting information on U.S. citizens, to establish an “independent” investigation of NSA surveillance. This is the same James Clapper who gave false information to Congress when asked whether the NSA was collecting data on Americans. He later apologized. Perhaps most interesting in Clapper's statement on Monday is the absence of ...
U.S. Gov’t Quietly Pressured Telecom Providers to Install Spy Technology Deep Inside Companies’ Internal Networks to Facilitate Surveillance Efforts
FBI officials sparred with carriers, a process that has on occasion included threats of contempt of court, in a bid to deploy government-provided software capable of intercepting and analyzing entire communications streams. The FBI's legal position during the discussions was that the software's real-time interception of metadata is authorized under the Patriot Act. Attempts by the FBI to install what it internally refers to as "port reader" ...
Investigative Journalist Michael Hastings Murdered
Original article on JUNE 20, 2015 | JILL VAGLICA of Who.What.Why On June 9, 2013, the young and ambitious investigative journalist Michael Hastings died in a mysterious, fiery car crash. Investigators and journalists have uncovered some startling revelations regarding the accident in the past two years, though the full truth of what really happened to Hastings could have been buried with him. Hastings was known for challenging conventional wisdom ...
Top Secret Document reveals NSA Allowed Full Access to Google, Facebook, Apple, etc. without Court Order
NSA Whistleblower, Edward Snowden, revealed that most large online data services providers participate in an NSA program to sweep up all user data into NSA computers for "Big Data" analysis and data mining. The companies revealed are Microsoft (9/11/07), Yahoo (3/12/08), Google (1/14/09), Facebook (6/3/09), Paltalk (12/7/09), YouTube (9/24/10), Skype (2/6/11), AOL (3/31/11), Apple (added Oct, 2012—one year after Steve Jobs died, replaced by former IBMer ...
Former CIA Agent Edward Snowden Begins Leaking Docs on NSA Spying of Every American
Edward Snowden is an American computer professional from N.C., a former Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) employee, and former contractor for the United States government who copied and leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 without prior authorization. His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments. (1) ...
NSA Director James Clapper Lies to Congress about NSA Spying on Americans
On Mar. 12, 2013, NSA Director James R. Clapper lied to Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore) and Congress: Sen. Wyden: "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions, of Americans?" Gen. Clapper replied untruthfully: "No, sir," rubbing his head. Sen. Wyden asked, "It does not?" Still rubbing his head, Clapper hedged, knowing the NSA was engaged in high crimes ...
Security Week computer security analyst Jesus Oquendo published an article titled “Microsoft, the CIA and NSA Collude to Take Over the Internet”
Clever security researchers have uncovered the biggest security Coup d'état on the planet. Microsoft, the NSA, the CIA have all been colluding to create the most bloated covert piece of malware known to exist for 5 years [1] undetected. Microsoft decided somewhere along 2006 and 2007, that it was willing to throw away half of their market share (128 billion) in allowing this to occur [2] ...
Panel of Whistleblowers Discuss National Security Secrecy & Surveillance
A panel discussion on National Security, Secrecy and Surveillance in New York City was sponsored by the Open Society Foundations and the Government Accountability Project, and moderated by Steven Aftergood, the renowned editor of Secrecy News for the Federation of American Scientists. The speakers were Thomas Drake, the courageous former intelligence officer who blew the whistle on National Security Agency/contractor corruption during the Bush administration and was wrongly prosecuted by the Obama administration as a result; his ...
U.S. Government Retaliation Charges of Espianage Act Violations Against NSA Whisleblower Thomas Drake Dropped
In April 2010, the government alleged that Thomas Drake - a former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), a decorated U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy veteran, and a whistleblower - mishandled documents, one of the several Espionage Act cases in U.S. history, as retaliation and persecution for challenging the unconstitutional domestic spying Trailblazer Project. He is the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling and co-recipient of the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award. On ...
