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The New Thought Police

Mick Meaney February 5, 2009 3

The NSA Wants to Know How You Think - Maybe Even What You Think By James Bamford  The National Security Agency (NSA) is developing a tool that George Orwell’s Thought Police might have found useful:

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Domestic spying quietly goes on

Mick Meaney July 7, 2008 0

By Bradley Olson | With Congress on the verge of outlining new parameters for National Security Agency eavesdropping between suspicious foreigners and Americans, lawmakers are leaving largely untouched a host of government programs that

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NY judge: NSA can refuse to discuss wiretapping

Mick Meaney June 27, 2008 0

WASHINGTON (AP) | The National Security Agency does not need to tell lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees whether their phones were tapped as part of the Bush administration’s domestic surveillance program, a federal judge in

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The NSA, personal data and you

Mick Meaney April 28, 2008 0

By Mitch Ratcliffe | Here’s a simple rule for preventing totalitarian rule in any nation: Don’t build the systems for monitoring people’s daily lives closely in the first place, and you will not be

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NSA releases new version of Linux software

Mick Meaney April 9, 2008 0

WASHINGTON, March 24 (UPI) — The U.S. National Security Agency has released its own version of the open-source computer operating system Linux, which offers enhanced security for users. The new software was rolled out

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Exposing NSA Warrantless Wiretapping

Mick Meaney April 1, 2008 0

Bush’s Law: Eric Lichtblau on Exposing the NSA’s Warrantless Wiretapping Program and How the White House Pressured the New York Times to Kill the Story. Democracy Now!  In a national broadcast exclusive, we speak

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NSA Had Access Built into Microsoft Windows

Mick Meaney March 28, 2008 1

Heiss – A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into

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An overview of the NSA’s domestic spying program

Mick Meaney March 17, 2008 0

In Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal, Siobhan Gorman pulled together the disparate threads of reporting on what’s known of the NSA’s secret domestic spy program, and combined them with some of her own reporting to

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NSA’s Domestic Spying Grows

Mick Meaney March 12, 2008 0

Five years ago, Congress killed an experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic data about people in the U.S. to search for suspicious patterns. Opponents called it too broad an intrusion on

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Bush orders NSA to snoop on US agencies

Mick Meaney January 29, 2008 1

Cyber attack fear used to expand spy grid By Ashlee Vance in Mountain View Not content with spying on other countries, the NSA (National Security Agency) will now turn on the US’s own government

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NSA Controls SSL Email Hosting Services

Mick Meaney December 19, 2007 0

Just learned following within the past few days: Certain privacy/full session SSL email hosting services have been purchased/changed operational control by NSA and affiliates within the past few months, through private intermediary entities. Hushmail:

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Expanding NSA Power Bad, Fourth Amendment Good

Mick Meaney November 23, 2007 0

By Ralph Lopez  Missing from the debate over expanding NSA authority in the War on Terror is the simple question, beyond our reflexive desire for privacy: why is expanding this authority such a bad

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NSA To Recruit Children

Mick Meaney October 25, 2007 0

Wonkette Hey, kids! Have you ever wanted to listen in on the conversations of other people without them knowing it? Create codes that allow spies in the field to get information about enhanced interrogation

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Get your FBI file — and your NSA and CIA files too, while you’re at it

Mick Meaney October 16, 2007 1

Do you have an FBI file? You might! Many people do. So let’s talk about your past. Did you … … ever participate in a civil rights march? How about a Vietnam war protest?

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NSA to spy on 38% of world telecom traffic

Mick Meaney August 9, 2007 0

The US National Security Agency now has the legal right to monitor some 38% of the world’s telephone, data and internet traffic without requiring a judicial warrant.By Ian Grant George W Bush signed the

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Top Ten Myths About the Illegal NSA Spying on Americans

Mick Meaney August 7, 2007 0

MYTH: This is merely a “terrorist surveillance program.” REALITY: When there is evidence a person may be a terrorist, both the criminal code and intelligence laws already authorize eavesdropping. This illegal program, however, allows

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Court Ruling that NSA Wiretapping is Illegal Drives Emergency Push for New Spy Powers, Newsweek Reports

Mick Meaney August 3, 2007 0

By Ryan Singel The Bush Administration’s hard press for emergency wiretapping powers from Congress before the August break now has an explanation: a secret court decided several months ago that at least one portion

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Report: White House says spying broader than previously admitted

CW August 1, 2007 0

Reuters The Bush administration’s top intelligence official has acknowledged that a controversial domestic surveillance program was only one part of a much broader spying effort, The Washington Post reported in its Wednesday edition. Director

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Committee demanding details of NSA data-mining

CW July 31, 2007 1

A House committee is requesting Justice Department documents on a data-mining project that identified the senders and recipients of calls and e-mails intercepted via the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping program. In a Monday letter, Rep.

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Bush calls for retroactive legalization of illegal wiretapping

CW July 30, 2007 0

by Adam Thomas US President George W. Bush today asked for more powers to wiretap without warrants, in effect retroactively legalizing the unlawful National Security Agency wiretapping, which the President ordered in 2002. The

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Mining of Data Prompted Fight Over U.S. Spying

CW July 30, 2007 2

By SCOTT SHANE and DAVID JOHNSTON A 2004 dispute over the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance program that led top Justice Department officials to threaten resignation involved computer searches through massive electronic databases, according

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Bipartisan group blasts NSA wiretaps

CW July 25, 2007 0

UPI A U.S. bipartisan group Wednesday said the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program is illegal. The Liberty and Security Committee of the Constitution Project said in a statement that the U.S. Congress should

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Wiretapping Subpoenas Lead to Constitutional Shutdown

CW July 13, 2007 1

By Ryan Singel Dems want to know more about the NSA’s secret warrantless eavesdropping on Americans. They drop a subpoena on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and President Bush. Both claim the documents are protected

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NSA Snooped on Lawyers Knowing Spying Was Illegal, Suit Charges

CW July 11, 2007 0

By Ryan Singel The government’s surveillance of two attorneys challenging the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping of Americans took place partly during a period in which the top secret program operated without the approval of the

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Another NSA Whistleblower Speaks Out

CW July 1, 2007 1

By David Swanson RINF Alternative News A former member of U.S. military intelligence has decided to reveal what she knows about warrantless spying on Americans and about the fixing of intelligence in the leadup

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