New revelations bring the same old questions with the Snowden files.
Even though the NSA tapping has gone on long before President Obama ever took the oath of office, or even ran for President, it's time for some transparency and answers on the questions floating out there.
Reuters is out with a huge new article about spying, but this time the agency is the Drug Enforcement Agency: A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans. […]
The Washington Post is out with a new article today on the NSA internet snooping: A classified NSA slide obtained by The Washington Post and published here for the first time lists “Two Types of Collection.” One is PRISM, the NSA program that collects information from technology companies, which was first revealed in reports by […]
Glenn Greenwald is out with another piece about the NSA: The Obama administration for more than two years permitted the National Security Agency to continue collecting vast amounts of records detailing the email and internet usage of Americans, according to secret documents obtained by the Guardian. The documents indicate that under the program, launched in […]
Today’s “explosive” news is that the NSA has been collecting the phone records of millions of Americans. Glenn Greenwald, writing at The Guardian, reports: The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in […]
The NSA wouldn’t spy on phone calls unless they were a threat to national security – right? Guess again: Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military […]
I love them showing back bone. The White House doesn’t know how to take it. It also looks like they aren’t going to blink on telecom immunity: In continued defiance of the White House, House Democratic leaders are readying a proposal that would reject giving legal protection to the phone companies that helped in the […]
The WSJ has an interesting article explaining how the NSA has been increasing their spying power. One thing I found really interesting was at the start of the article: Five years ago, Congress killed an experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic data about people in the U.S. to search for suspicious patterns. […]
This is a serious question that must be investigated: Executives at the two biggest phone companies contributed more than $42,000 in political donations to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV this year while seeking his support for legal immunity for businesses participating in National Security Agency eavesdropping. The surge in contributions came from a Who’s Who […]