Neal Rauhauser: Transcript of Meeting Between Julian Assange and Eric Schmidt with Department of State Staff

All sort of stuff popping up today.  Worth a complete and careful reading. Transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt Friday April 19, 2013 On the 23 of June, 2011 a secret five hour meeting took place between WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who was under house arrest in rural UK …

John Perry Barlow: Spies Without Borders I — How USA is Capturing Billions of Internet Accounts Around the World

Electronic Frontier Foundation Defending your rights in the digital world June 13, 2013 | By Katitza Rodriguez Spies Without Borders I Using Domestic Networks to Spy on the World This is the first article of our Spy Without Borders series. This article has been co-authored by Tamir Israel, Staff Lawyer at CIPPIC and Katitza Rodriguez, EFF International Rights Director.  The Spy …

Berto Jongman: Beyond Prism — Even More — Lots Lots More — Data Capture

Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure By STEPHEN BRAUN, ANNE FLAHERTY, JACK GILLUM and MATT APUZZO WASHINGTON (AP) — In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information on customers. Around the world, government spies and …

Robert Steele: Saving Obama, the USG, & the Republic — Proposal for the Electoral Reform Act of 2013 – and Ron Paul to the Supreme Court!

I have watched with a mixture of awe and sadness as the Chinese have so successfully kicked our President in the balls over cyber-war, and started an astonishingly active national conversation over whether or not the active measures taken by the US Government against its own citizens are lawful, necessary, or even affordable. I have …