What kind of future shall we leave our children and grandchildren?
Shall we leave them one in which Spy Agencies assure us 'Trust Us!' ?
William Boardman | If It's All Kosher, NSA, Why Lie?
William Boardman, Reader Supported NewsBoardman writes: "In March 12, 2013, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) apparently committed perjury in his sworn testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence."
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Ralph Nader | Corporatizing National SecurityRalph Nader, Common Dreams
Nader writes: "The information about dragnet data-collecting of telephone and internet records leaked by Edward Snowden has opened the door to another pressing conversation - one about privatization, or corporatization of this governmental function."
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Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Slams NSA Spy ProgramKevin McLaughlin, Business Insider
McLaughlin reports: "Asked to comment on the NSA spying case, Wozniak didn't hold back."
NSA surveillance is an attack on American citizens, says Noam Chomsky
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy – their own population, says critic
Fiona Harvey in Bonn
Noam Chomsky has praised the Guardian’s revelations about the activities of the National Security Agency. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian
The actions of the US government in spying on its and other countries' citizens have been sharply criticised by Noam Chomsky, the prominent political thinker, as attacks on democracy and the people.
"Governments should not have this capacity. But governments will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy – which is their own population," he told the Guardian.
In his first public comment on the scandal that has enveloped the US, UK and other governments, as well as internet companies such as Google and Microsoft, Chomsky said he was not overly surprised technology and corporations were being used in this way.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/19/nsa-surveillance-attack-american-citizens-noam-chomsky
"Governments should not have this capacity. But governments will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy – which is their own population," he told the Guardian.
In his first public comment on the scandal that has enveloped the US, UK and other governments, as well as internet companies such as Google and Microsoft, Chomsky said he was not overly surprised technology and corporations were being used in this way.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/19/nsa-surveillance-attack-american-citizens-noam-chomsky
Slideshow: Six Whistleblowers Charged Under the Espionage Act
April 26, 2013
The Obama administration has been carrying out an unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers, particularly on those who have divulged information that relates to national security. The Espionage Act, enacted during the first World War to punish Americans who aided the enemy, had only been used three times in its history to try government officials accused of leaking classified information — until the Obama administration. Since 2009, the administration has used the act to prosecute six government officials. Meet the whistleblowers.
WHAT'S NEW ON CORPWATCH: Holding Corporations Accountable
http://www.corpwatch.org
Edward Snowden and the National Security Industrial Complex
Pratap Chatterjee
June 17th, 2013
Military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton is in the news over two of its former employees: Edward Snowden, the whistleblower, and James Clapper, U.S. intelligence czar. A review of Booz Allen's own high level conflicts of interest and shoddy work suggests that Congress should target the company, not the messenger.
See http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15846
NSA Monitoring US Communications Without A Warrant, Documents Show
By Thomas Gaist
http://www.countercurrents.org/gaist210613.htm
Classified top secret documents submitted to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court by US Attorney General Eric Holder, published by The Guardian on Thursday, show that US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) judges have approved sweeping general orders authorizing the National Security Agency (NSA) to monitor US communications data without individual warrants
Edward Snowden's Wake Up Call: Cyber Security, Surveillance And Democracy
By S.G.Vombatkere
http://www.countercurrents.org/vombatkere210613.htm
Edward Snowden, in his courageous, principled expose, has brought out how USA's National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on most nations in the world. This spying is clearly to establish or strengthen USA's political, economic and military global clout. India is the fifth-most spied-upon nation, even more than China and Russia. Considering that India is USA's strategic partner, spying on India is breach of faith
The Central Intelligence Bureau or Immunized Bureau
By R.B Sreekumar
http://www.countercurrents.org/sreekumar210613.htm
Strangely the blatantly illegal act of Union Home Secretary convening a meeting of Director Central Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Director CBI reportedly for influencing CBI from doing anything affecting “image and morale” of IB personal in the investigation of fake encounter cases in Gujarat, did not evoke adequate discussion in the media
The Top Secret Rules That Allow NSA to Use US Data Without a Warrant
Glenn Greenwald and James Ball, Guardian UKGreenwald and Ball report: "The documents show that even under authorities governing the collection of foreign intelligence from foreign targets, US communications can still be collected, retained and used."
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From DemocracyNow!
Leaked Docs Detail Broad Guidelines forNSA Retention of Private Info
New documents reveal the FBI has cleared its agents in every single shooting incident dating back two decades. According to The New York Times, from 1993 until today, FBI shootings were ... Read More →
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The FBI confirmed this week that drones are carrying out surveillance within the United States. FBI Director Robert Mueller called the drone use "very seldom," while acknowledging ... Read More →
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Revealed: The Top Secret Rules That Allow NSA To Use US Data Without A Warrant
By Glenn Greenwald and James Ball
The NSA is empowered to compel telephone and internet companies to turn over to it the communications of any individual identified by the NSA.
NSA Whistleblower Alleges NSA Wiretapped Barack Obama as Senate Candidate
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Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst, claimed Wednesday that the NSA had ordered wiretaps on phones connected to then-Senate candidate Barack Obama in 2004.
Control and Dominance
Understanding the Latest Leaks Is Understanding the Rise of a New Fascism
By John Pilger
Having nurtured old-fashioned fascists around the world - from Latin America to Africa and Indonesia - the genie has risen at home.
Propaganda
By Edward Bernays
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.
The Failure of the Rule of Law
The Strange Case of Barrett Brown
By Peter Ludlow
Amid the outrage over the NSA's spying program, the jailing of journalist Barrett Brown points to a deeper and very troubling problem.
You, Terrorist
By William Rivers Pitt
Need a reason to worry about the NSA spying scandal? Try this: you legally protest an oil company in your town, are arrested, and wind up in court facing federal terrorism charges and a personal eternity behind bars.
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As Edward Snowden is believed to remain in Hong Kong while facing an ongoing U.S. investigation, hundreds of protesters there braved heavy rain Saturday in a show of support. We're ... Read More →
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Journalist Laura Poitras is being described as the connection between the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the reporters for The Guardian and The Washington Post who ... Read More →
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FOCUS | NSA Admits to Listening to US Phone Calls Without Warrants
Declan McCullagh, CNETMcCullagh reports: "The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls."
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Glenn Greenwald | Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Glenn Greenwald, Guardian UKGreenwald writes: "What we have reported thus far is merely 'the tip of the iceberg' of what the NSA is doing in spying on Americans and the world."
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