Tom Engelhardt: Failure is Success – How American Intelligence Works in the Twenty-First Century PLUS Robert Steele on Steps President Obama Could Take…

Failure Is Success: How American Intelligence Works in the Twenty-First Century “While taxpayer dollars flowed into your coffers, no one considered it a problem that the country lacked 17 overlapping outfits bent on preventing approximately 400,000 deaths by firearms in the same years; nor 17 interlocked agencies dedicated to safety on our roads, where more …

Review (Guest): The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man

Luke Harding Ed Snowden and the American tribal fear meme, February 19, 2014 By  Herbert L Calhoun “paulocal”   This is a story about what one American saw atop the tip of an iceberg called the “American national security state.” In the end, Ed Snowden, a 29-year old, $200,00/year High School dropout turned Computer Systems …

Berto Jongman: NSA Whistleblower William Binney – Full Transcript (19 Screens) Covering Corruption within NSA at All Levels

NSA 30 Year Veteran, Whistleblower William Binney on Corrupt NSA– the Inside Story– Transcript By Rob Kall OpEdNews.com, 1 February 2014 A transcript of my interview with William Binney. Listen here: Podcast/NSA-Whistlebower-American-by-Rob-Kall-America-Freedom-To-Fascism_FISA_IMPEACHMENT-OFF-THE-TABLE-PELOSI_ R.K.:  And welcome to the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show WNJC 1360 AM out of Washington Township reaching Metro Philadelphia and South New …

Chris Hodges: What Obama Really Meant — a Literal Interpretation of His NSA Speech

Published on Monday, January 20, 2014 by TruthDig.com What Obama Really Meant Was … by Chris Hedges Remarks by the President on Review of Signals Intelligence(if he had told the truth)Department of Injustice Washington, D.C. 11:15 a.m. EST THE PRESIDENT: A small, secret surveillance committee of goons and thugs hiding behind the mask of patriotism …

Jon Rappoport: Obama: one if by land, two if by sea, three if by metadata

Obama: one if by land, two if by sea, three if by metadata In his Friday speech, Obama ignored the essence of the FISA Court, the secret body that’s rubber-stamped warrants to do surveillance for the past 35 years. Most of these requests for warrants come from NSA and the FBI, and only government attorneys …

Steven Levy: 2 Hours with NSA Chiefs — They Are a) Suffering Cognitive Dissonance and b) Seriously Pissed-Off

I Spent Two Hours Talking With the NSA’s Bigwigs. Here’s What Has Them Mad By Steven Levy WIRED, 01.13.14 EXTRACT: I talk about that session in my story, but let me note a few general takeaways: The dual mission of the NSA generates cognitive dissonance. Right on its home page, the NSA says its core …