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2013/06/212013/06/21

Berto Jongman: US Security Clearance System — Wildly Dysfunctional

Here’s How Edward Snowden Got ‘Top Secret’ Clearance By DAVID FRANCIS, The Fiscal Times June 21, 2013 A Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee met Thursday afternoon to examine the government’s process for granting security clearance. The purpose of the meeting was to figure out how someone like Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, could get access to …

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2013/06/21

Berto Jongman: GCHQ & NSA – A Love Story

GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal Read full article.

2013/06/212013/06/22

Berto Jongman: Mike Haydon on TV “Security and Transparency a Zero-Sum Game” — Robert Steele Comments

Former CIA Head Warns David Gregory: We’ll Have To Be ‘Less Effective To Be A Little More Transparent’ Former CIA Director Michael Hayden told Meet the Press’ David Gregory on Sunday morning that security and transparency were a zero-sum game. “For part of my life, when I was running the NSA program, I thought lawful, …

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2013/06/162014/04/08

Michael Scherer: The Geeks Who Leak — Robert Steele Comments

The Geeks Who Leak The President calls them a threat to national security. the Internet calls them heroes. A new wave of hacktivists is changing the way we handle secrets. By Michael Scherer Time, June 24, 2013, Pg. 22 The 21st century mole demands no payments for his secrets. He sees himself instead as an …

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2013/06/162013/06/16

Marcus Aurelius: Reuel Marc-Gerecht on NSA High Cost – Low Return — Robert Steele Comments

The Costs And Benefits Of The NSA The data-collection debate we need to have is not about civil liberties. By Reuel Marc Gerecht Weekly Standard, June 24, 2013 Should Americans fear the possible abuse of the intercept power of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland? Absolutely. In the midst of the unfolding scandal …

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2013/06/16

John Robb: The Implosion of the US National Security State

DATA Dystopia. The NSA Scandal and Beyond. In the last couple of weeks, we’ve gotten confirmation that what we’ve been assuming is true: The government is snooping on us. They aren’t lightly snooping. : They are gathering data on EVERYONE (inside and outside the US) simultaneously. Storing it in databases that will last forever, and …

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2013/06/15

Berto Jongman: NSA Puts Full Force of the Government Against A Poem Containing the Word Terror — We Do Not Make This Stuff Up!

Cryptogams & the NSA John Sifton is an attorney at Human Rights Watch. He worked in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2001 to 2004 and was senior researcher on terrorism and counterterrorism from 2005 to 2007. He is currently the Asia Advocacy Director. The first thing I did after I heard about the highly classified NSA …

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