It seems wise to have look at this idea and see what the evidence is for this proposition. Have we lost, or are slowly losing our freedoms in the name of "National Security?"
Let's start today and have a look at this idea and see if it has any merit.
First, a most recent Supreme Court decision reported on June 3, 2013 where the court gave police the right to take DNA tests on anyone they arrest on :probable cause."
First the dessenting opinion:
"Justice Antonin Scalia summarized his dissent from the bench, a rare move signaling deep disagreement.
“Make no mistake about it: because of today’s decision, your D.N.A. can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason,” he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/us/supreme-court-says-police-can-take-dna-samples.html?_r=0
We have in this country in the last few years:
1. Required, without warrant, or the review of a judge, phone companies, Google and Face Book to hand over all of our emails, phone calls, searches, and inquires to the Federal Government without notice to the individual.
2. Built a national survielllence system where increasingly American citizens are being photographed almost everywhere in public and in some place private like the workplace, restrooms, ball parks, concerts and the like.
3. The Federal Govenment has allowed the local police to use drones to survey our activities anywhere anytime. Is this an exaggeration? Let's have a look.
4. We have seen the Federal agencies being given the right to use dumb-dumb bullets against American citizens.
The Patriot Act can be used to put you in jail for merely making phone calls nationally or internationally and, if the authorities supect the other person on the line may have knowledge, give aid or support to some other party linked to "terriorism" you can be charged with aiding a terrorist organization and can go to jail.
5. We are now using "domestic terrorism" which can be interpreted to mean that American citizens can be declared to to be an "enemy combatants."
6. We have created a private prison system with more inmates than any country in the world, incarcerating almost 20 percent of the young men of color between 15 and 30 years of age, meaning they don't vote, won't get jobs, and will not be able to support themselves, if and when they ever get out of prison. This is all done for profit and essentially is a "kids for cash" program, and consitutes a new 'Jim Crow" system.
See:
http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2012/05/cut-black-men-some-slack-jack-michelle-alexanders-new-jim-crow-may-give-new-hope/comment-page-1/
The list is a long one and I will go through it in the coming days, going to detail, trying to see if the Republic is in danger, or if it is a lot of hype. Then we want to see what can be done about this trend-if we find it exists.
6/4/13
Now a pause here to look at the positive side of the issues. The developments above have a positive side. Let's look at those.
1. DNA testing would help exonerate those innocent people accused of crimes and might help capture the guilty.
2. Drones, plus increased vigilance, might protect us from terrorists
3. Protection by the government from those who would wield arms seeking their freedom and poltilcal aims helps protect us from those who are violent or are prone to be so without these deterents.
4. The governments job is the protect the population. Let them do their job.
Let's have look at the pro's and con's tomorrow.
6/6/13
Looks like the US government has tapped all of the phone records of every single American citizen?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/06/us-usa-wiretaps-verizon-idUSBRE95502920130606
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/6/nsa_whistleblowers_all_us_citizens_targeted
Is Terroism not Terroism when white guys from the south do it? See:
http://www.alternet.org/ricin-terror-case?akid=10529.260128.StRfkO&rd=1&src=newsletter851091&t=9
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/us/nsa-verizon-calls.html?from=homepage
http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/nsa-tapped-internet-servers/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/obama-administration-nsa-verizon-records
http://www.dw.de/us-internet-giants-scramble-to-reassure-users-amid-snooping-report/a-16865359
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2021135709_nsawhatxml.html
6/7/13
New disclosures in National Security Scandal: Facebook and Youtube
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/new-leak-feds-can-access-anything-in-your-google-facebook-and-more/
"When the Patriot Act passed in 2001, it did not lead to the immediate formation of a police state. What it did do was create a framework in which virtually any intrusion into civil liberties could be justified in the name of stopping terrorism. In the intervening 12 years, the courts have steadily widened the rights and powers of various investigatory agencies."
http://hothardware.com/News/NSA-Confirms-Its-Spying-Using-Secret-Courts--But-Its-All-For-Your-Own-Good/
6/8/13 Are the stories on Surveillance over-hyped. Here is one pundit that thinks so.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57588337-38/no-evidence-of-nsas-direct-access-to-tech-companies/
THe Head of the CIA speaks out.
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/INTELLIGENCE-CHIEF-Here-s-What-PRISM-Is-4589068.php
The PBS take on the issues:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs/jan-june13/surveillance2_06-07.html
Surveillance: Gone on for years-or denied for years?
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/06/07/u-s-officials-long-denied-massive-data-trawling/
Denial in not a river in Egypt
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-company-officials-internet-surveillance-does-not-indiscriminately-mine-data/2013/06/08/5b3bb234-d07d-11e2-9f1a-1a7cdee20287_story.html
6/10/13
Who are the people and companies doing the spying for NSA?
http://www.salon.com/2013/06/10/digital_blackwater_meet_the_contractors_who_analyze_your_personal_data/
6/11/13
27 quotes from Edward Snowden, the NSA whistle-blower
"The following are 27 quotes from Edward Snowden about U.S. government spying that should send a chill up your spine...
#1 "The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret to extend their powers beyond what is necessary and appropriate."
#2 "...I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents."
#3 "The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to."
#4 "...I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building."
#5 "The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything."
#6 "With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your e-mails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your e-mails, passwords, phone records, credit cards."
#7 "Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere... I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President..."
#8 "To do that, the NSA specifically targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyzes them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest, most efficient and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government, or someone that they suspect of terrorism, they are collecting YOUR communications to do so."
#9 "I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not have the tools to provide an answer. We do have the tools and I have maps showing where people have been scrutinized most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians."
#10 "...they are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them."
#11 "Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you're being watched and recorded. ...it's getting to the point where you don't have to have done anything wrong, you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call, and then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with, and attack you on that basis, to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life."
#12 "Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest."
#13 "Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state."
#14 "I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."
#15 "I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity."
#16 "I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong."
#17 "I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act."
#18 "There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich."
#19 "The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things... And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it's only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that... because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny."
#20 "I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant."
#21 "You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk."
#22 "I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me."
#23 "We have got a CIA station just up the road – the consulate here in Hong Kong – and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be."
#24 "I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end."
#25 "There’s no saving me."
#26 "The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night."
#27 "I do not expect to see home again."
From:
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/27-edward-snowden-quotes-about-u-s-government-spying-that-should-send-a-chill-up-your-spine
6/11/13
ACLU files suit against the administration over NSA surveillance:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-aclu-sues-over-nsa-surveillance-20130611,0,4567996.story
NY Times article on the same subject
"Congress never openly voted to authorize the N.S.A. to collect logs of hundreds of millions of domestic phone calls, but the administration notes that some lawmakers were briefed on the program. Some members of Congress have backed it as a useful counterterrorism tool, while others have denounced it.
“The administration claims authority to sift through details of our private lives because the Patriot Act says that it can,” Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, Republican of Wisconsin, wrote in a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Sunday. “I disagree. I authored the Patriot Act, and this is an abuse of that law.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/us/aclu-files-suit-over-phone-surveillance-program.html?_r=0
Anonomyous leaks new NSA document
http://thedocs.hostzi.com/DoD_NetOps_Strategic_Vision.pdf
Google and the other tech companies looking to save their reputations:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/10/apple-google-giants-nsa-revelations
What is there left to reveal in the NSA scandal?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/snowden-powerpoint/
6/12/13
Europe and World outraged about US spying and tracking the entire world.
"Gus Hunt, the CIA's chief technology officer, made a forthright admission in March: "We fundamentally try to collect everything and hang onto it forever." What he meant by "everything," Hunt also made clear: "It is really very nearly within our grasp to be able to compute on all human-generated information," he said.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/prism-leak-inside-the-controversial-us-data-surveillance-program-a-904761-2.html
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/305105-nsa-leaker-us-hacking-computers-in-china-hong-kong
Some do not seem to appreciate what this means. Here are a few points to consider.
1. Tracking megadata is better than listening in because more can be known about an individual from his movements, and who he/she talks to, when and how long is far more useful information than merely listening in or reading emails--which true terrorists put in code anyway.
Only Innocent people are caught up in this dragnet.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/interactive/2013/jun/12/what-is-metadata-nsa-surveillance#meta=0000000
"Officials in European capitals demanded immediate answers from their US counterparts and denounced the practice of secretly gathering digital information on Europeans as unacceptable, illegal and a serious violation of basic rights."
If I know this information about you and have saved it forever I can track you back years easily blackmail you, intimdate you into spying on others, or embarass you solely from insunuations which I can make about you leaked to third parties.. Publicity alone and leaks, false in nature can be made to seem plausible.
Our congress men and women are included in this where private corporatons have information which can be used to blackmail them for votes and for money in terms of contracts and grants to these very same private contractors and corporations.
Allies around the world can similarly be blackmailed and or intimidated. US citizens, even if innocent, can be intimidated without charge because of racy pictures or getting drunk in college? Yep.
A false case can be made against virtually everyone with this kind of dragnet. To boot this not legal and even if it is, it is immoral, dangerous and anti-democractic. The fact that congress voted for it and knew about it proves the point that NSA has so much power it can intimidate congresss because God knows those folks have a lot to hide.
Besides those very same congress people go to these very same corporations and NSA contractors for campaign contributions for the next election and jobs after leavng office.
Doesn't take much to see this is a giant criminal enterprise, corrupt by its very nature.
No one should support this kind of thing and claim to be for a vibrant democracy.
And finally did I mention these tactics also work on reporters and newspapers. Yes they do-which might explain why it took a foreign newspaper to break this story. (The Guardian of London)
J. Edgar Hoover did this as head of the FBI for many years and controlled congress people and even presidents. It is not new but this is far more massive than anything he did.
All this is not very pretty, and needs cleaning up. I not afraid of Edward Snowden or Al-qeda. I am much more afraid of my own government at this point.
Anger grows in US congress
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/12/anger-mounts-congress-telephone-surveillance-programmes
This leads us onto the issue of how commerical internet companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the like collect the exact same information and more) as NSA. What do we make of that?
http://www.decodedscience.com/nsa-data-requests-how-much-of-your-information-do-websites-store/31123
Next time
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/11/europe-us-privacy
http://rt.com/usa/bill-binney-nsa-leaks-546/
http://rt.com/usa/nsa-terror-attack-prevented-597/
http://rt.com/usa/nsa-spying-program-continue-540/
Cspan video of NSA chief Keith Alexander testifying today on Capital Hill on Cspan. Riveting. NSA chief testimony begins at 13:30 in the tape.
Who is Keith Alexander?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/general-keith-alexander-cyberwar/
http://www.c-span.org/
http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/nsa-chief-lied-to-congress-on-domestic-surveillance/
more opinion
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/13/edward-snowden-and-the-real-issues/
6/14/13
How the leak was done. Who contacted who?
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/edward-snowden-how-intelligence-story-age-leaked-out?akid=10570.260128.5AzwzM&rd=1&src=newsletter854933&t=15
How to stop NSA from stealing your data:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829215.400-how-to-stop-the-nsa-spying-on-your-data.html
Putting Cameras in your X-Box and DVR? Maybe:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Your-Xbox-360-is-Watching-You-121920
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/305625-house-members-introduce-bill-to-stop-tv-devices-from-spying-on-consumers
The snooping never stops?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16943-outsourced-intelligence-how-the-fbi-and-cia-use-private-contractors-to-monitor-social-media
How internet perfected data mining and shows NSA how to do it.
http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-online-ad-industry-complicit-in-nsa-prism-datamining-7000016836/
NSA officials claim spy stories are inaccurate.
Offers figures and numbers for the first time.
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Officials-NSA-programs-broke-plots-in-20-nations-4602987.php
Interveiw with Lawrence Lessig- with Bill Moyers--the Video
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/14/harvard-professor-tells-moyers-snowdens-fear-nothing-will-change-is-the-most-likely-outcome/
6/16/13
Thousands of companites give data to NSA
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/17/business/u-s-intelligence-in-bed-with-business/#.Ub3jSmK3Mb0
New poll on what Americans think about all of this
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/government-nsa-data-politics/2013/06/14/id/509982
Surveillence=Good by Freedom?
http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/15/hello-total-information-awareness-goodbye-freedom/
http://www.rightsidenews.com/2013061632713/editorial/us-opinion-and-editorial/thousands-of-companies-have-been-handing-over-your-personal-data-to-the-nsa.html
Spying on both friends and enemies and everyone else in between.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2342930/Revealed-US-Britain-Spied-On-Russian-President-And-Other-Dignitaries-At-London-G20-Summit.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/16/laws-intelligence-agencies-spy-foreign
NSA actually can listen to any phone call content?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589495-38/nsa-spying-flap-extends-to-contents-of-u.s-phone-calls/
6/17/13
NSA leaker Edward Snowden speaks up in an interview
http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower
http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-us-fair-trial
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/things-we-learned-from-a-qa-with-edward-snowden
6/17/13
Obama job approval ratings drop 17 points among key group
http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2013/0617/Obama-job-approval-drops-17-points-among-young-Americans
6/17/13
http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2430583
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/edward-snowden-google-facebook-92937.html?hp=r6
Did NSA stop dozens of plots against the US?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/17/opinion/bergen-nsa-spying/index.html
6/18/13
NSA Chief testifies in House open hearing on surveillance-Video and free popcorn
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/AgencyOp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/18/nsa-surveillance-limited-focused-hearing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/18/nsa-chief-house-hearing-surveillance-live
NSA claims many plots twarted. Others say that is not the case.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/49449/prism-probably-never-stopped-and-never-will-stop-a-terrorist-attack
6/19/13
Judge's decision may force NSA to release individual phone records in criminal cases. This would be precedent setting.
http://rt.com/usa/nsa-surveillance-judge-records-900/
FBI chief admits the use of domestic drones
http://rt.com/usa/fbi-director-mueller-drones-947/
6/21/13
What are Snowden options?
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/20/world/asia/snowden-scenarios-hong-kong/?hpt=ias_t2
Formal Charges by the US against NSA leaker Edward Snowden
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-charges-snowden-with-espionage/2013/06/21/507497d8-dab1-11e2-a016-92547bf094cc_story.html
http://truth-out.org/news/item/17070-indefinite-surveillance-say-hello-to-the-national-defense-authorization-act-of-2014
http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/CaucusonP
6/22/13
Latest development in the NSA story.
NSA spying on Iceland and Wikileaks
http://rt.com/usa/wikileaks-google-emails-seized-068/
Associated Press Chief speaks out on ramifications of NSA spy case
"AP president and CEO Gary Pruitt on Wednesday condemned the DOJ for acting as a “judge, jury and executioner” by seizing AP phone records and refusing to give the news agency notice of the subpoena.
The government’s actions have caused anonymous sources to retreat in silence, afraid that they could become a target of a government leak investigation."
http://rt.com/usa/ap-pruitt-sources-doj-022/
How much protection is there to prevent NSA from spying on us?
"The rules the government has imposed on itself are little more than a formality: the government will access our information regardless of any bureaucratic hurdles it has to jump, whether citizens are suspected terrorists or not."
http://www.nationofchange.org/nsa-surveillance-occupy-movement-and-defending-our-constitutional-rights-1371908239
Leave Facebook and work for NSA?
http://rt.com/usa/nsa-us-security-snowden-facebook-103/
6/22/13
British Surveilance State?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/britains-surveillance-state-the-secret-ops-of-the-government-communications-headquarters-gchq/5340053
http://www.globalresearch.ca/communications-of-millions-subject-to-us-uk-spying/5340025
6/22/13
NSA's own documents leave plenty of room for warrantless spying
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/306995-new-documents-suggest-nsa-has-power-to-spy-without-warrant
Ron Paul thinks US might asssinate Edward Snowden
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/304879-ron-paul-warns-us-government-may-assassinate-snowden
Extradition Process apt to be lenghy
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/22/snowden-extradition/2449147/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-publicly-increases-pressure-on-hong-kong-to-arrest-snowden/2013/06/22/2254bbde-db66-11e2-9df4-895344c13c30_story.html
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE95K18220130622?irpc=932
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/22/edward-snowden-extradition-take-years
A Pardon Petition for Snowden?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/22/as-nsa-leaker-snowden-is-charged-as-a-spy-petition-to-pardon-him-hits-critical-mass/
Hacking China and the NSA Edward Snowden Case
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/22/edward-snowden-us-china
6/23/13
Consternation as Snowden Leaves Hong Kong for Ecuador?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2013/jun/23/edward-snowden-leaves-hong-kong-moscow-live
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23021237
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/legal-political-maneuvering-let-snowden-flee/2013/06/23/5643e0b6-dc36-11e2-bd83-e99e43c336ed_story.html
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/23/politics/nsa-leaks-us-reaction/index.html
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE95M02H20130624?irpc=932
Pelosi booed in California over her comments on NSA leaker
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/23/19102617-pelosis-defense-of-nsa-surveillance-draws-boos
6/24/13
Washington Post is saying NSA leaker is still in Moscow
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russia-says-it-has-no-authority-to-expel-snowden/2013/06/24/325281f2-dcaf-11e2-bd83-e99e43c336ed_story.html
Oh, boy. My best guess is that the Russians are trying to get as much information as they can from him to blackmail the United States with as the price for letting him leave.
He is fast becoming a pawn.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/307273-white-house-disappointed-in-hong-kong-asks-russia-to-detain-snowden
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/assange-snowden-seeking-asylum-ecuador-and-elsewhere-whereabouts-unreleased
Where is Snowden?
Everyone has a guess
http://gawker.com/snowden-snow-job-leaker-fools-reporters-on-to-cuba-fli-555021969?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
Inside in the hours before his escape from Hong Kong
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/world/asia/snowden-departure-from-hong-kong.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/25/us-usa-security-flight-idUSBRE95M02H20130625
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/23/nsa-intelligence-industrial-complex-abuse
Who is America snooping on in China?
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE95N0M220130624?irpc=932
6/24/13
What is the average salary of an NSA employee?
http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/NSA-Salaries-E41534.htm
What does Ecaudor have to say?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/ecuador-foreign-minister-says-nsa-leaker-snowden-seeking-asylum-there/2013/06/24/3e307ec8-dc84-11e2-a484-7b7f79cd66a1_story.html
6/24/13
New US legislation would curb NSA powers?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/nsa-spy-legislation/
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/06/24/usa-security-legislation-surveilance-idINDEE95N0JP20130624
6/25/13
Snowden still in Moscow
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/25/us-usa-security-flight-idUSBRE95M02H20130625
This is both good news and bad news depending up your point of view on all of this.
Still there, as I surmised yesterday, might mean the Russians are trying to download all of Snowden's four lap tops on condition of helping with his departure from Russia. That is valuable information would give them influence with many other nations wanting to know exactly where their systems have been hacked. That is valuable.
It can be used as well to blackmail the US and other countries as well as the Russians and others could learn how to immulate what the Americans have done to be become super snoopers as well.
This is an ugly business with Snowden increasingly the pawn. Where ever he goes that country will want all of the information he has.
He is less likely to gain asylum but rather become somebody's hostage with the rationale being that he must be protected from US possible attempts to assassinate him.
Bad situation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23045790
Three hilarious skits on the Snowden situation by the Daily Show
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/06/25/where-in-the-world-is-edward-snowden-the-daily-show-has-ideas/
Federal employees now required to snitch on other federal employess. The internal spy network?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/25/obamas-informants/
Is Snowden in Belarus or in Putin's hands?
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-76442187/
http://rt.com/usa/fact-nsa-section-wyden-224/
http://world.time.com/2013/06/25/snowden-and-putin-u-s-whistleblowers-fate-is-in-russian-presidents-hands/
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE95O1DG20130625?irpc=932
6/26/13
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23068252
Snowden copies
http://rt.com/usa/snowden-greenwald-encrypted-copies-227/
Snowden asylum application to Ecuador may take months
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2348789/Snowden-remain-Russia-permanently-Washington-bullying-means-arrested-tries-to-country-claim-WikiLeaks.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Check list on the National Security State we have built
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/5-ways-us-government-has-built-architecture-oppression?akid=10626.260128.g5NSxR&rd=1&src=newsletter860444&t=6&paging=off
6/27/13
Former Deputy Chief of Staff to be indicted as leaker. My.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-dept-targets-general-in-leak-probe/2013/06/27/9ad8bc4e-df7c-11e2-b2d4-ea6d8f477a01_story.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-is-increasing-pressure-on-suspects-in-stuxnet-inquiry/2013/01/26/f475095e-6733-11e2-93e1-475791032daf_story.html
6/28/13
Pentagon Blocks Guardian newspaper web site.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/28/army-blocks-the-guardian_n_3515374.html
Guardian publishs copy of a top secret document.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/27/nsa-inspector-general-report-document-data-collection
6/30/13
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-prosecutors-to-review-nsa-spying-allegations-a-908636.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/jakob-augstein-data-spying-programs-threaten-german-security-a-907577.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/eu-officials-furious-at-nsa-spying-in-brussels-and-germany-a-908614.html
http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2013/jun/30/nsa-spying-europe-claims-us-eu-trade
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23120955
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57591678/european-officials-lash-out-at-new-nsa-spying-report/
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57591513/report-firm-that-checked-snowden-may-have-repeatedly-lied-to-govt/
6/30/13
http://www.journalnow.com/business/business_news/national_international/article_f9cc9c1e-e118-11e2-8d2f-001a4bcf6878.html
Ohio cops use fake drug check points to stop drivers?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ohio-police-department-using-fake-drug-checkpoints-to-identify-suspicious-drivers-search-cars/2013/06/30/fe3497fe-e19d-11e2-8657-fdff0c195a79_story.html?tid=pm_national_pop
7/1/13
"If he wants to stay here, there is one condition: He must stop his work aimed at harming our American partners, as strange as that sounds coming from my lips," Putin told reporters at a gas exporters' conference in Moscow, according to Reuters. "If he wants to go away somewhere and someone will accept him there, by all means," Putin said.
2. Snowden is in effect a hostage of the Russians until some other country can or will take him.
3. Asylum is temporary and God knows what is next, but be clear Snowden is a pawn now.
7/1/13
21 things to know about NSA snooping.
http://www.infowars.com/21-facts-about-nsa-snooping-that-every-american-should-know/
5 newly revealed facts about NSA snooping
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/5-new-revelations-nsa-spying-snowden?google_editors_picks=true
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/01/germany-eu-nsa-snowden/2478625/
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57591885/snowden-obama-using-citizenship-as-a-weapon/
Bet this or something like it is being used at the Moscow airport:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130628092149.htm
7/2/13
http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2013/jul/02/edward-snowden-asylum-rejections
http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2013/jul/02/ecuador-rafael-correa-snowden-mistake
http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2481831
The saga of Edward Snowden goes beyond surveillance. Actually it highlights the nature of the nation-state as it has evolved in the last 100 years.
1. Citizens right to travel can be revoked for any reason at any time, making him or her stateless or a hostage in other states, unable to stay in that nation or move on to other nations.
In the sixties refugees were shuttled back and forth from Kenya to the UK over 20 times because each nation refused to accept them.
While we think of this as normal, it is in fact remarkable that while corporations are international, individuals are not and such strict segreation of citizens in one country from citizens of another country has become more and more possible because of technology.
2. Snowden is now a pawn illustrating how clearly the US dominates many, if not most, of the world's countries with miliary and financial threat. Country after country has buckled in this case to US pressure. They are all in this together no matter how much each might decry snooping. They all have an interest in controlling citizens by:
a. Controling or revolking the right to travel. This starts to look like each country is a giant concentration camp?
b. In reading the press of other countries we see our press is actually a controlled press, where the US and other governments carefully control what they allow citizens to see and hear: where reports and others like reporters and whistleblowers daring to report on all this are deemed criminals and/or traitors. Really?
We are fed nightly pablum of murder, blood, reality shows, girlie shows, R movies, quiz shows, and irrelevant "news" which is designed to propagandize or confuse (every view point has equal validity-no point of view is true , facts don't matter, television.)
Media has made citizen populations sensation addicts, quick cut and no-memory populations being dragged from new this to new that each day such that there is no continuious collective memory of events-schizophrenia.
c. The nation-state has become that institution:
1. Which has a monopoly on the means of violence. Those tanks, bombs, chemical weapons, guns and ammo are not just for terrorists, they can also be used against you and I if we dare protest.
2. Where the nation state has a monopoly over information, news, internet, print and media where now it is a crime not to snoop and report other citizens. (See the US example above)
3. Where citizens have no rights the state is bound to respect.
4. Where the State has become a monoply enterprise, stripping the citizens of their lives, their treasure, their homes, their livelihoods with no real meaningful redress irrespective of what the consitutions says. Today you cannot even sue the United States government in many cases wiithout first getting its permission to do so. Where outrageous laws are used to subdue citizens.
5 The state utilizes, in all this, means to divide and conquer, propagandizing and promoting divisive issues: blacks vs. whites, liberal vs. conservatives, men vs. women, young against the old; all tactics which preclude and weaken any potential unified force against its excesses.
6. The state has become that institution which unites other powerful groups against populations and each of these powerful groups enrichs itself in what amounts to a coup by powerful institutions, ie, wall street, government and corporations.
All have united in a mutual effort to control, surveille, jail, and intimidate the citizens while enriching themselves at the expense of the citizens, who are the only ones who actually produce wealth in societies.
This is pitiful and was not the case 30 years ago; not like this. It, seems to me we are slipping into darkness.
7/2/13
While 53 percent of American disapprove of Snowden' actions
60 percent of 18-29 year olds show strong support for Snowden and ee him as hero.
"But digging into the numbers, it’s interesting to note that tea party loyalists, liberals, and young people suggest the National Security Administration leak outlining extensive phone and e-mail monitoring programs is in the public interest."
http://news.yahoo.com/edward-snowden-hero-many-young-americans-poll-suggests-173023845.html
7/3/13
more polls
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE95B1AF20130612?irpc=932
7/4/13
Latin American leaders upset with Obama.
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?id=59082&authorid=121255
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/world/snowden.html?ref=europe
7/5/13
http://rt.com/usa/kiriakou-snowden-letter-leak-618/
7/6/13
Looks like the US also tracks and collects our credit card and financial transactions as well?
"Judicial Watch was able to obtain some absolutely shocking documents thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request that it filed in April. The following is a summary of some of the things those documents show...
- Overlapping contracts with multiple credit reporting agencies and accounting firms to gather, store, and share credit card data as shown in the task list of a contract with Argus Information & Advisory Services LLC worth $2.9 million
- A provision stipulating that “The contractor recognizes that, in performing this requirement, the Contractor may obtain access to non-public, confidential information, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), or proprietary information.”
- A stipulation that “The Contractor may be required to share credit card data collected from the Banks with additional government entities as directed by the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR).”
From:
http://www.judicialwatch.org./press-room/press-releases/jw-obtains-records-detailing-obama-administrations-warrantless-collection-of-citizens-personal-financial-data/
7/6/13
Looks like the US postal services spies on our letters and packages.
http://www.trunews.com/report-postal-service-uses-spying-programs-similar-to-nsa/
Will this never end?
7/5/13 Snowden offered asylum in Nicaragua and Venezeuela
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57592504/nicaragua-venezuela-willing-to-offer-asylum-to-snowden/
7/6/13
At&t and all of the wireless companies set to sell your daily browsing and location history to highest bidders. How to opt out.
"Bad news, everyone!
AT&T is considering selling your usage data (location, web browsing history, etc.) to advertisers, having seemingly decided that it’s been too long since everyone was mad at them.
They noted the plan in a preview of an upcoming change to their privacy policy published earlier this week.
AT&T is quick to point out that other companies, like Verizon, have been doing this for a while. (Oh, okay — as long as everyone else’s data is getting thrown about, too, I guess it’s okay. Cough.)"
http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/05/att-considers-selling-your-browsing-history-location-and-more-to-advertisers-heres-how-to-opt-out/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
The terrible irony in all of this is that if we reverse the proposition and ask these companies if we can track their executives, their locations, and their browsing histories the uproar would be tremendous, and the claim would be that this is industrial spying.
So individual spying is ok and of no use to our enemies but company spying is against the law and does aid our enemies? Hog swill.
This country is making less and less sense every day.
7/6/13
The US constitution makes no exception for National Security
http://rt.com/op-edge/us-constitution-nsa-monitoring-396/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/01/edward-snowden-aviation-club-nsa-whistleblower`
7/7/13
Black-out in US press on new Snowden statement.
New Snowden interview, ignored in US press, states that all of the Western countries, despite their postuering, cooperate in gathering data on their citizens.
"The Tempora program of Britain’s GCHQ eavesdropping agency is known in the intelligence world as a “full take.”
“It sucks up all information, no matter where it comes from and which laws are broken,” Snowden said. “If you send a data packet and goes through Britain, we’ll get it. If you download anything, and the server is in Britain, we’ll get it.”
If the NSA is ordered to target an individual, it virtually take over that person’s data “so the target’s computer no longer belongs to him, it more or less belongs to the U.S. government.”
From:
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/nsa-in-bed-with-germany-and-others-snowden-tells-magazine/article13053330/?service=mobile
Are countries becoming open air prisons.?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=arCZLJKPyWM
7/7/13
The Secret NSA FISA court 11 judges: A second secret supreme court?
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/us/in-secret-court-vastly-broadens-powers-of-nsa.html
History of the Court and Surveillance
"Unlike the Supreme Court, the FISA court hears from only one side in the case — the government — and its findings are almost never made public. A Court of Review is empaneled to hear appeals, but that is known to have happened only a handful of times in the court’s history, and no case has ever been taken to the Supreme Court. In fact, it is not clear in all circumstances whether Internet and phone companies that are turning over the reams of data even have the right to appear before the FISA court.
Created by Congress in 1978 as a check against wiretapping abuses by the government, the court meets in a secure, nondescript room in the federal courthouse in Washington. All of the current 11 judges, who serve seven-year terms, were appointed to the special court by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., and 10 of them were nominated to the bench by Republican presidents."
From:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/washington/18spycnd.html?_r=0
See also article on how the NY Times held back spying information for a year.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/05/the-new-york-times-and-the-nsas-illegal-spying/
7/8/10
Meta Data: An MIT professor does his own meta data and gives us a bubble chart on how easy it is to read.
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2013/07/03/me-and-my-metadata-thoughts-on-online-surveillance/
English spy agencies to be challenged in court?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/08/nsa-gchq-spy-programmes-legal-challenge
7/8/13
What is the larger import of the Snowden story?
The implications of this story are stunning. It means:
1. Newspapers despite their current protestations are part of the cover up a story that is actually years old. According to the article above the NY Times was no exception. A story they already had in their possessionfor a year had to be broken by the foreign press. They suppressed the story.
Thus, many of our most prominent reporters and newspapers are and have been part of this coverup, deciding own their own, for their own interests, what the public needs to know. Golly.
2. That the European countries and the South American countries despite their disengenous current protests have been a part of the American spy machine all along.
By that I mean it is not only likely that all of them knew all along about the spying but passively and/or actively participated in its growth and expansion for their own reasons.
After all, how could Brazil, for example, not know that 500 million phone calls of its citizens were being monitored daily, something which obviously had been going on for years?
If, I am correct, then why would American-hating countries (in posturing at least) tolerate this and keep it a secret?
The answer is the same for all of them; money, information and arms from the United States, the fact that they too, wanted to and do and did benefit from the spying.
They too want to keep tabs on their citizens and the US is providing a way to get that done. Denying it to given leader could spell trouble for that leader in terms of he/she not knowing what is going on in their own country and the US through spying, does. Easier to go along and get the information the US was collecting.
I feel sure that NSA shared this information with them because they too wanted to keep tabs, as well, on their political enemies, their friends and just about everybody to keep themselves in power, whether they are military coup people or democratically elected leaders--they all had to be in on it- and are now still in on it.
What all this means is that spying plus arms makes for a global elite who all share the ethos of staying in power at all costs and now possess the technology, thanks to NSA, to preempt challeges to that power.
I hope it isn't true , but the evidence, to me is overwhelming. The only recourse I am guessing is that people will gradually realize this and go to the streets. However, hope it can be settled politically because going to the streets, violently, will only give these regimes an excuse for more repression and justifications for spying. So what to do?
My idea is massive non-violent demonstrations, assuming any such movement can keep the spies and provocateurs out of the crowd and from joining the organizations. That is why Occupy didn't want leaders and paid with the fact that without leadership there is no directed, concerted action. Difficult dilemmas here.
But there are things to do which would be effective.
That on the morrow.
7/8/13
Exclusive video interviews with Edward Snowden
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-interview-video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jul/08/edward-snowden-video-interview
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/20/fisa-court-nsa-without-warrant
7/9/13
The thought occurs that an investigative reporter would want to know how many reporters in the countries around the world knew about NSA snooping. Let's look into this.
7/9/13
7/9/13
They are all in it together? Snowden when asked:
"Interviewer: Are German authorities or German politicians involved in the NSA surveillance system?"
"Snowden: Yes, of course. We're in bed together with the Germans the same as with most other Western countries. For example, we tip them off when someone we want is flying through their airports (that we for example, have learned from the cell phone of a suspected hacker's girlfriend in a totally unrelated third country -- and they hand them over to us. They don't ask to justify how we know something, and vice versa, to insulate their political leaders from the backlash of knowing how grievously they're violating global privacy."
They are all in it together despite phony protests.
7/9/13
The Attorney for a State Department Whistle-Blower has his office burgled and only computer info taken. Shades of Water-Gate?
http://rt.com/usa/state-department-whistleblower-burglary-798/
http://rt.com/usa/state-department-coverup-498/
7/8/13
Venezuela accepts Snowden's request for asylym
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/edward-snowden-venezuela-asylum_n_3566793.html
Story retracted?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/09/venezuela-confirms-snowden-asylum-request/2501259/
Do countries cooperate with NSA?
They are all in it together? Snowden when asked:
"Interviewer: Are German authorities or German politicians involved in the NSA surveillance system?"
"Snowden: Yes, of course. We're in bed together with the Germans the same as with most other Western countries. For example, we tip them off when someone we want is flying through their airports (that we for example, have learned from the cell phone of a suspected hacker's girlfriend in a totally unrelated third country -- and they hand them over to us. They don't ask to justify how we know something, and vice versa, to insulate their political leaders from the backlash of knowing how grievously they're violating global privacy."
From:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/130709/snowden-dished-nsa-interview-leak-spiegel
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/18-7
My emphasis
They are all in it together despite phony protests.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/10/brazil-us-spying/2506541/
See 7/8/13 entry above for my view on this "all in it together" theme.
7/9/13
Does the FBI snoop and blackmail Congress- Democrats and Republicans-the Mililtary, Everyone. Apparently
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc3esnkqM7E&feature=player_embe dded
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2013/06/sibel-edmonds-fbi-nsa-cia-routinely-surveil-and-then-blackmail-congress/
http://www.minds.com/blog/view/136145/sibel-edmonds-fbi-nsa-cia-routinely-surveil-and-then-blackmail-congress-%E2%80%94-congressional-oversight-committees-refuse-to-hear-whistle-blowers
7/10/13
New polls say most Americans see Snowden as legitimate whistle blower.
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-10/snowden-seen-as-whistlebloweer-by-majority-in-new-poll.html
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=1919
http://www.businessinsider.com/edward-snowden-poll-nsa-surveillance-asylum-venezuela-2013-7
7/10/13
Some of the actual NSA slides Snowden took from the agency
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-data-mining-slides
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa
7/10/13
How the NY Times was a leader and participated in the effort to demonize him.
"The extraordinary claim that China had drained the contents of Snowden's laptops first appeared in the New York Times in a June 24 article. The paper published the claim with no evidence and without any attribution to any identified sources."
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/10/snowden-denies-information-russia-china
History of Plutocracy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YdYqDV6_BP8
7/10/13
We are paying for the government to snoop on us. How much?
http://rearnakedsmoke.info/2013/07/10/average-cost-per-official-wiretap-in-the-united-states-50452-sovereignman-7813/
7/11/13
They are all in to together with NSA-latest Microsoft and Skype
"The files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of co-operation between Silicon Valley and the intelligence agencies over the last three years. They also shed new light on the workings of the top-secret Prism program, which was disclosed by the Guardian and the Washington Post last month.
The documents show that:
• Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal;
• The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail;"
"In June, the Guardian revealed that the claimed to have "direct access" through the program to the systems of many major internet companies, including Microsoft, Skype, Apple, Google, Facebook and Yahoo."
From:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
7/11/13
Sick of being tracked on the internet? Try this browser, no-track, no cookies.
https://duckduckgo.com/
7/11/13
Obama adminstration may forcing federal employees to spy on one another?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17500-obamas-plan-to-crackdown-on-whistleblowers-leaked
http://rt.com/usa/obama-insider-threat-leaks-905/
7/12/13
Snowden to seek temporary asylum in Russia?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/12/edward-snowden-moscow-airport/2511207/
7/12/13
Obama to personally lobby Putin on Snowden? Who is going to bug the call?
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/310705-white-house-upset-with-how-russia-is-treating-snowden-?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
7/13/13
Greenwald says he will continue to publish even if Snowden doesn't
http://rt.com/news/asylum-nsa-leaks-greenwald-037/
Snowden says he'll seek asylum in Russia, audio and video of that meeting in the airport.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jul/13/snowden-seek-asylum-russia-audio
But Russians say they have not received any request from him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/world/europe/edward-snowden-asylum.html?_r=0
7/14/13
How Microsoft handed over access to NSA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
7/16/13
Snowden formally applies for asylum in Russia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23328074
7/17/13
Libertarian polls shows most consider Snowden a hero. Swedish professor nominates him for Nobel Prize.
http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/snowden-should-be-rewarded-as-a-hero-say-lp-poll-respondents
New Putin video on Snowden
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45755883/ns/msnbc-the_last_word/vp/52495072#52495072
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-10/latest-snowden-poll-results-55-say-whistleblower-34-say-traitor
7/17/13
Increasingly now local police know where you were last Tuesday not just NSA
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/07/16/202801282/police-may-know-exactly-where-you-were-last-tuesday
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/aclu-digital-dragnet-ensnares-millions-innocent-drivers-6C10654018
http://www.ozarksfirst.com/story/spd-defends-license-plate-readers-in-wake-of-aclu-privacy-concerns/d/story/SM_3FygGIEONfZ0F5XjA9Q
http://m.startribune.com/?id=215826221
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/17/us/aclu-license-plates-readers/index.html
http://www.startribune.com/nation/215826221.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2013/07/17/license-plate-scanners-aclu-privacy/2524939/
7/18/13
The Obama administration drowning in lawsuits over NSA snooping
http://rt.com/usa/snowden-leaks-surveillance-suits-174/
7/18/13
Members of both parties express doubts about NSA in hearings
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-committee-holds-hearing-on-nsa-surveillance-programs/2013/07/17/ffc3056c-eee3-11e2-9008-61e94a7ea20d_story.html
Video of hearings
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ISAO
7/19/13
Obama administration vows to make travel difficult for Snowden
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/309727-obama-administration-set-to-make-snowdens-trip-tough-
Staying in Touch
All the tweets of lonnie hicks in one spot. Updated Daily
http://www.allmytweets.net/index.php
7/20/13
Administration gives renewed powers to NSA
http://rt.com/usa/fisa-court-renew-authority-340/
7/20/13
German Government Cooperated with NSA? Merkel government in trouble?
http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/20/4541738/surveillance-documents-reveal-tight-partnership-between-nsa-and
7/22/13
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE96L0LF20130722?irpc=932
7/23/13
More Snowden Polls
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/07/23/4361381/edward-wasserman-snowden-affair.html
Most cells phones can be hacked and controlled remotely by hackers?
http://www.ibtimes.com/750-million-cell-phones-risk-remote-hacking-due-sim-card-security-flaw-1355097
Snowden plans to live in Russia?
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/315257.html
Congress to vote on limiting NSA powers?
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/130723/us-congress-vote-limiting-nsa-surveillance-power
7/24/13 Public opinion shifts from postive to negative on Snowden
http://www.disabilitylawblog.com/articles/disability-insurance-cases-nat/cigna-1/
7/24/13
Ways to avoid NSA and Google tracking you
http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?&pageType=moneywatch&catid=57594781&feed_id=76&videofeed=43&nb_splitPage=0
House votes to support NSA
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/operations/313331-house-rejects-effort-to-curb-nsa-surveillance-powers
"The Obama administration has won the latest battle in their fight to indefinitely detain US citizens and foreigners suspected of being affiliated with terrorists under the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012.
Congress granted the president the authority to arrest and hold individuals accused of terrorism without due process under the NDAA, but Mr. Obama said in an accompanying signing statement that he will not abuse these privileges to keep American citizens imprisoned indefinitely. These assurances, however, were not enough to keep a group of journalists and human rights activists from filing a federal lawsuit last year, which contested the constitutionality of Section 1021, the particular provision that provides for such broad power."
More:
https://www.youtube.com/user/WakeUpCallPage?feature=watch
7/26/13
US and Russia in talks over what to do with Snowden
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23468459
Snowden's father speaks out
http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Snowden-s-father-Son-better-off-now-in-Russia-4688774.php
Holder offers assurances around Snowden
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/eric-holder-us-will-not-seek-death-penalty-for-nsa-leaker-edward-snowden/2013/07/26/8ffb2a90-f611-11e2-9434-60440856fadf_story.html
Dissecting the Holder Promise to Russia
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-k-black/eric-holder-letter-to-russia_b_3661348.html
7/26/13
Making your call not traceable
http://www.ehow.com/how_5815077_use-_57-trace-phone-call.html?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=test62&utm_campaign=electronics
7/27/13
FBI admits to flying drones over the US in operations against American citizens?
http://rt.com/usa/fbi-drones-over-usa-653/
7/29/13
Russian Official says Snowden might be in danger
http://m.voanews.com/a/1712091.html
SEC seeking access to emails without a warrant?
http://rt.com/usa/sec-warrantless-email-surveillance-658/
7/31/13
NSA new revelations: NSA has access to virtually all of the internet. The Xkeyscore program
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-administration-10-steps-behind-guardian-addressing-leaks-134630610.html
Actual slides on the Keyscore program
http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jul/31/nsa-xkeyscore-program-full-presentation
7/31/13
Judge rules in landmark case espionage no harm needs to be proven to convict whistle blowers. This is a huge decision
http://rt.com/usa/court-ruling-whistleblowers-prosecution-768/
7/31/13
The CSPAN video on NSA. Riveting
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/FISAS
7/31/13
60 billion spent and hearings reveal only one terrorist plot foiled. That is expensive.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/governments-secret-order-to-verizon-to-be-unveiled-at-senate-hearing/2013/07/31/233fdd3a-f9cf-11e2-a369-d1954abcb7e3_story.html
8/1/13
Snowden granted one year asylum in Russia
http://rt.com/news/snowden-entry-papers-russia-902/
http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2607737
8/1/13
Watch a video history of NSA officials denying surveillance.
2008-2012
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/06/watch-top-u-s-intelligence-officials-repeatedly-deny-nsa-spying-on-americans-over-the-last-year-videos/
Momentum builiding against NSA
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/us/politics/momentum-builds-against-nsa-surveillance.html?=&
New hearings new week, Wednesday, to air more NSA critics
http://rt.com/usa/nsa-hearing-grayson-surveillance-646/
8/2/13
Time line on the Snowden events
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/23/edward-snowden-nsa-files-timeline
Putin, Russian politics and the Snowden affair
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-01/putin-shows-global-mojo-to-russians-as-u-s-fumes-over-snowden.html
Job for Snowden in Russia?
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-02/could-vkontakte-be-edward-snowdens-next-employer
8/3/13
FBI seeking to install directly its own surveillance software on computers.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57596791-38/fbi-pressures-internet-providers-to-install-surveillance-software/
8/5/13
DEA snoops on American's NSA style? They all share data on US citizens?
http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/05/dea-follows-nsa-to-the-dark-side-with-covert-spying-on-americans-report/
http://theweek.com/article/index/247855/the-dea-is-secretly-spying-on-you-too
Embassy closings,say critics, linked to attempt to counter criticism of NSA?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/05/us-embassy-closure-nsa-surveillance
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/05/embassy-closures-travel-warnings-government-manipulation
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/5/greenwald_is_us_exaggerating_threat_to
8/7/13
Obama cancels meeting with Putin. What does it mean?
http://rt.com/news/obama-putin-snowden-meeting-176/
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/315903-obama-cancels-meeting-with-putin-over-snowden
8/8/13
Snowden email vendor shuts down. Why?
http://www.zdnet.com/snowdens-privacy-oriented-email-provider-shuts-down-under-u-s-government-pressure-7000019185/
Greewald says he has 15 thousand to 20 thousand more Snowden documents.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jy37ghVUzKO-nTnwW9bQXh0MoQwQ?docId=CNG.47d976a66a930960ef1395ae6277e952.671&hl=en
NSA to cut access to secret files by 90%
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/09/us-usa-security-nsa-leaks-idUSBRE97801020130809
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/what-it-means-be-target-or-why-we-once-again-stopped-believing-government-and-once
