Glenn Greenwald: Keynote at Chaos Communications (58:57) with Detailed Notes
6,000 watching in main room Notes below the line.
Marcus Aurelius: Snowden Says “Mission Accomplished”
IMHO, Snowden needs to experience being the object of an “extraordinary rendition” and then be warehoused incommunicado at either GTMO or one of the Supermax facilities. Too bad that appears tactically infeasible at the moment. Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished By Barton Gellman Washington Post, December 23, 2013 Phi Beta …
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Mini-Me: Cognitive Dissonance at NSA + NSA High Crimes RECAP + Integrity Remediation
Huh? Do You Trust the Washington Post‘s Sources on Morale at the NSA? Former officials insist that employees are upset because President Obama hasn’t visited to show his support. Conor Friedersdorf Reuters via The Atlantic, Dec 10 2013, 8:20 AM ET A strange Washington Post story gives readers the impression that morale is low at …
Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff
Atrocities in Central African Republic Crime Pays — Development Role of Gangsters Failure of NSA — Wretched, Truly Wretched IARPA — Equally Wretched Ignorance Project Artemis – OSINT activities on Deep Web Unlocking the NSA Vault with Snowden Documents US Intelligence Reform Act (Have a Puke Bag Handy)
David Swanson: A New Kind of War Is Being Legalized
A New Kind of War Is Being Legalized There’s a dark side to the flurry of reports and testimony on drones, helpful as they are in many ways. When we read that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch oppose drone strikes that violate international law, some of us may be inclined to interpret that as …
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John Steiner: From Sanity Central on NSA and the Surveillance State
“The potential of the surveillance state goes way beyond anything in George Orwell’s 1984, (said Guardian Editor) Alan Rusbridger . ‘Orwell could never have imagined this concept of scooping up everything all the time’. The NSA stories were ‘clearly’ not about totalitarianism, but an infrastructure had been created that could be dangerous if it fell …
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Marcus Aurelius: N.S.A. Gathers Data On Social Connections Of U.S. Citizens
New York Times September 29, 2013 Pg. 1 N.S.A. Gathers Data On Social Connections Of U.S. Citizens By James Risen and Laura Poitras WASHINGTON — Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations …
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