Berto Jongman: NSA Has Access to SWIFT – Ergo US Government Complicit in all Financial Crimes by All Financial Actors Subject to US Law

‘Follow the Money’: NSA Monitors Financial World By Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark The NSA monitors banks and credit card transactions — sometimes in apparent violation of national laws and global regulations. The European SWIFT financial transaction network is being tapped on different levels, internal documents from the US spy agency show. EXTRACT …

Berto Jongman: NSA’s War on Encryption

The NSA’s War Against Encryption New revelations about National Security Agency abuses, which now include everything from industrial espionage to reports that the agency can access most data on our smartphones, seem to put everything we know about how business is done on the Internet in danger. Complete story below the line.

Penguin: NSA = Zionists Ubber Alles

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 …

Eagle: NRA joins spy lawsuit, says NSA creating gun registry

NRA joins spy lawsuit, says NSA creating gun registry Group joins lawsuit seeking end to spy agency’s collection of Americans’ phone records. Michael Winter USA TODAY, 4 September 2013 The National Rifle Association has joined a lawsuit against the federal government’s sweeping surveillance program, claiming the collection of phone records and other data violates First …