“I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American,” Snowden told the South China Post, an English-language newspaper in Hong Kong, in an interview published on Wednesday. [Reuters] CHARACTERIZATIONS of Edward Snowden are running wild across the media, which exploded when Rep. Peter King called him a traitor, then doubled his idiocy by saying Glenn Greenwald [...]
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ACLU Sues Over Secret Surveillance Dragnet
The American Civil Liberties Union [A.C.L.U.] on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over its “dragnet” collection of logs of domestic phone calls, contending that the once-secret program — whose existence was exposed by a former National Security Agency contractor last week — is illegal and asking a judge to both stop it [...]
Senators Move to Declassify Secret FISA Rulings
In 1973, CIA Director James Schlesinger told Senate Armed Services Chairman John Stennis that he wished to brief him on a major upcoming operation. “No, no my boy,” responded Senator Stennis. “Don’t tell me. Just go ahead and do it, but I don’t want to know.” [Church Committee Created] LONG OVERDUE and today both Republican [...]
IT Security Analyst Edward Snowden is NSA Whistblower
“I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions,” but “I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.” – Edward Snowden WHEN Glenn Greenwald said there would be more reporting coming [...]
Allying with Sen. Rand Paul to Take on Obama’s Snooping [Video]
“I’m going to challenge this at the Supreme Court.” – Senator Rand Paul NOTHING inspires libertarians to act out more than a federal government overstepping its authority, with Sen. Rand Paul making quite a statement on Fox News Sunday. I wrote the other day that President Obama’s invasive, extra-constitutional, anti civil liberties snooping was igniting [...]
Guardian: Wide NSA Sweep of Americans Revealed
The court order appears to explain the numerous cryptic public warnings by two US senators, Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, about the scope of the Obama administration’s surveillance activities. – Glenn Greenwald [Guardian] BIG BROTHER is listening, digging around, snooping and watching, with the NSA under President Obama being given authority that is nothing less [...]
News Desk: Obama Campaign Hands Off Supporter Database to Loybbying Group
“It’s extremely worrisome,” said Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, noting that Obama campaign supporters likely have no idea that personal data they voluntarily shared with the campaign has now been transferred and is being used for purposes beyond the election. – Obama campaign gives database of millions of supporters to [...]
Will Petraeus-gate Wake Up America on Homeland Insecurity Privacy Invasion?
THE QUESTION in all this is whether having an elite establishment player sucked into the turbine of America’s massive anti privacy establishment will result in any light dawning on how our country has changed and just how depleted our civil liberties are today. As far as I can tell it will not. Tom Ricks offered [...]
News Desk: House Intelligence Committee Urges Ban of Huawei, Citing Espionage, Privacy, Intellectual Property Rights [Video]
THE REPORT last night on “60 Minutes” was foreshadowing for the House report dropping today. The House report is now online. House intelligence committee chairman Mike Rogers and ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Dutch Ruppersberger, delivered the report. The U.S. once dominated the tech field, but we don’t anymore. This report on Huawei, [...]
9/11 Legacy: No More Privacy
“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.” – Benjamin Franklin EISENHOWER WARNED us and now as a reaction and an excuse born out of the attacks on September 11, both Democratic and Republican parties have vanquished individual freedom on the altar of protection. From Salon.com, an article that first appeared on [...]
News Desk: Mitt Romney Says ‘I Never Paid Less Than 13 Percent’
FROM THE press pool, Mitt Romney finally finds an offensive message on taxes. “I just have to say, given the challenges that America faces – 23 million people out of work, Iran about to become nuclear, one out of six Americans in poverty – the fascination with taxes I’ve paid I find to be very [...]
Ann Romney: ‘The More We Release the More We’re Attacked’
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy ALL DAY today I’ve been listening to talking heads on cable regurgitate the insider media talking point that “faux outrage has turned to real outrage,” especially where Mitt Romney is concerned. For the first time we get an example of what the media [...]
Google’s New ‘Privacy’ Policy
Don’t. Track. US. It’s in response to Google’s new (ahem) privacy policy, which lands March 1, 2012. Meanwhile, after Twitter announced it would agree to censoring tweets in some countries, a boycott call broke out. This post has been updated.
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