Berto Jongman: Catalog of Snowden Revelations About NSA (Brookings)

Corruption, Government, Military
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Catalog of the Snowden Revelations About NSA

This page catalogs various revelations by Edward Snowden, regarding the United States’ surveillance activities.

Each disclosure is assigned to one of the following categories: tools and methods, overseas USG locations from which operations are undertaken, foreign officials and systems that NSA has targeted, encryption that NSA has broken, ISPs or platforms that NSA has penetrated or attempted to penetrate, and identities of cooperating companies and governments.

The page will be updated from time to time and is intended as a resource regarding Snowden and the debate over U.S. surveillance.  Comments and suggestions thus are welcomed, and should be sent to staff.lawfare@gmail.com.

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See Also:

1990-2014 Steele on Specific Intelligence Reforms (Including Alarm on NSA from 1994 Onwards)

Berto Jongman: German TV Interview of Edward Snowden in Russia – 30-Minute Blockbuster BLACKED OUT by US Media

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Berto Jongman: Feinstein Uses Bogus Terrorism Numbers to Exaggerate Threat

09 Terrorism, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

How Dianne Feinstein Exaggerates Global Terrorism

A lesson in how to hype an unquantifiable threat with bogus numbers

Condor Friedersdorf

The Atlantic Monthly, 30 January 2013

EXTRACT:

To make the claim that “terrorism is at an all-time high worldwide,” Feinstein counts attacks against the U.S. military by the Taliban. Put another way, her definition of terrorism stretches to include attacks that are not committed against civilians; attacks that are, in fact, aimed at uniformed soldiers in a declared, ongoing war.

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Berto Jongman: End of Net Neutrality? 1.3

Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

INTERNET: animation about the end of net neutrality

INTERNET: apocalypse?

INTERNET: Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications on net neutrality

INTERNET: goodbye net neutrality

INTERNET: net neutrality endangered

INTERNET: net neturality is not totally lost

INTERNET: possible implications of ending net neutrality (Sorcha Faal)

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Jon Rappoport: Obama Delivers State of the Onion — the Unpublished Truthful Version Leaks

Ethics, Government, Offbeat Fun, Officers Call
Jon Rappoport
Jon Rappoport

Obama and the State of the Onion Address

Apparently, the President had ingested some kind of weird drug, because when he stepped to the podium he didn’t look at the teleprompter. He just started talking.

“…like every other recent President, when I take to this platform I’m expected to tell a certain number of lies dressed up as the truth. And believe me, folks, I had a few whoppers ready to go.

“But now I feel like doing something else. I’m not going to delve into the many scandals of my administration, because examining them and taking them apart and exposing the lies would keep us here all night and into tomorrow.

“Instead, I just want to explain my overarching agenda. It’s the same agenda every modern President has fronted for. I’m not really doing anything new. That’s a myth.

“You see, in order to become President in the first place, I had to sign on to the scheme to debase, throttle, and weaken this country. I have my methods. Every President has his own.

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Gregory Kulacki: DSB Off Point on Open Source Intelligence Reform + Strong Comment

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Military
Gregory Kulacki
Gregory Kulacki

Defense Science Board Off Point on Open Source Intelligence Reform

Gregory Kulacki

Union of Concerned Scientists, 28 January 2013

About the author: Gregory has lived and worked in China for the better part of the last twenty-five years facilitating exchanges between academic, governmental, and professional organizations in both countries. Since joining the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2002, he has focused on promoting and conducting dialog between Chinese and American experts on nuclear arms control and space security. His areas of expertise are Chinese foreign and security policy, Chinese space program, international arms control, cross-cultural communication. He received his Ph.D. in Political Theory from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1994.

Last week the Defense Science Board (DSB) released a report calling for reforms in the way the U.S. government monitors the development and proliferation of nuclear weapons programs around the world. The Board found there are “gaps” in the U.S. intelligence community’s “global nuclear monitoring” capabilities.  It argued that closing these gaps “should be a national priority.” The report recommended adopting “new tools for monitoring,”  including looking at “open and commercial sources” with “big data analysis.”

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Berto Jongman: DNI Pays $12M to Improve Human Reasoning

Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Feeling foggy? Intelligence chief James Clapper is brewing a $12 million elixir for you!

Al Kamen

Washington Post, 28 January 2013

No more “high energy” drinks. No more jitters. Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) James Clapper’s office “has embarked on a multi-year research effort to develop and test methods to improve reasoning and problem-solving in healthy, high-performing adults.”

The Monday announcement says that, “If successful, proven methods developed under the Strengthening Human Adaptive Reasoning and Problem-solving (SHARP) program may enhance analysts’ capacity to reason through complex, ambiguous and often novel problems common to the Intelligence Community.”

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