The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
New York Times September 29, 2013 Pg. SR11 Creeping Cloud By Maureen Dowd BLUFFDALE, Utah — AT the Husband and Wife lingerie store here in Mormon country — where babies are welcome amid the sex toys and the motto is “Classy, tasteful and comfortable” — no one had heard of it. At the Allami smoke …
POLICY RESPONSE TO INTELLIGENCE REVELATIONS LAGS The end of the government’s fiscal year 2013 is just weeks away, but an intelligence authorization bill for fiscal year 2014 is nowhere in sight. In past years, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees typically reported intelligence bills in late spring or early summer for House-Senate conference and floor …
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NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans’ data with Israel • Secret deal places no legal limits on use of data by Israelis • Only official US government communications protected • Agency insists it complies with rules governing privacy • Read the NSA and Israel’s ‘memorandum of understanding’ Complete story (Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian) below the …
When will Obama get serious about NSA reform? Kenneth Roth Politico, September 4, 2013 Last week, President Obama met with the five-member review board that he recently appointed to review the National Security Agency’s (NSA) controversial electronic surveillance program. The review board is part of the president’s effort to build confidence in the surveillance program and …
The NSA Documents, An Introduction Benjamin Wittes Brookings, 22 August 2013 Rather than starting with what I—or anyone else—think and believe about the remarkable cache of documents the intelligence community declassified yesterday, I thought we should begin with a detailed account of what these documents actually are and the story they tell, individually and collectively. The …
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Three Illusory “Investigations” of the NSA Spying Are Unable to Succeed By Mark M. Jaycox Since the revelations of confirmed National Security Agency spying in June, three different “investigations” have been announced. One by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), another by the Director of National Intelligence, Gen. James Clapper, and the third …
13 things the government is trying to hide from you Our government is intentionally keeping massive amounts of information secret from voters By Bill Quigley This article originally appeared on Alternet. “We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted…the Patriot Act. As we see …
