The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Editorial Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower New York Times, 1 January 2013 Seven months ago, the world began to learn the vast scope of the National Security Agency’s reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the globe, as it collects information about their phone calls, their email messages, …
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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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A spy world reshaped by Edward Snowden Leaks from the former NSA contractor have been so illuminating that experts say they mark a turning point in U.S. intelligence operations. By Ken Dilanian Los Angeles Times, December 22, 2013 WASHINGTON — After news reports that the National Security Agency had secretly monitored German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s …
Edward Snowden: public indifference is the real enemy in the NSA affair Most people don’t seem to worry that government agencies are collecting their personal data. Is it ignorance or apathy? John Naughton The Observer, Sunday 20 October 2013 Edward Snowden’s revelations exposed a terrifying level of ‘passive acceptance’ of surveillance. Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP One …
How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key. For almost two years, Poitras had been working on a documentary about surveillance, and she occasionally received queries from strangers. She replied to this one and sent her public …
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Jennifer Hoelzer’s Insider’s View Of The Administration’s Response To NSA Surveillance Leaks from the and-also-the-favorites-of-the-week dept In a bit of fortuitous timing, this week we had asked former deputy chief of staff for Ron Wyden, Jennifer Hoelzer, to do our weekly “Techdirt Favorites of the Week” post, in which we have someone from the wider …
Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans By John Shiffman and Kristina Cooke Reuters, 5 August 2013 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them …
