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The New Thought Police
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:
Read More »Domestic spying quietly goes on
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
Read More »NY judge: NSA can refuse to discuss wiretapping
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
Read More »The NSA, personal data and you
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
Read More »NSA releases new version of Linux software
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
Read More »Exposing NSA Warrantless Wiretapping
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
Read More »NSA Had Access Built into Microsoft Windows
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
Read More »An overview of the NSA’s domestic spying program
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
Read More »NSA’s Domestic Spying Grows
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
Read More »Bush orders NSA to snoop on US agencies
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
Read More »NSA Controls SSL Email Hosting Services
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:
Read More »Expanding NSA Power Bad, Fourth Amendment Good
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
Read More »NSA To Recruit Children
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
Read More »Get your FBI file — and your NSA and CIA files too, while you’re at it
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?
Read More »NSA to spy on 38% of world telecom traffic
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
Read More »Top Ten Myths About the Illegal NSA Spying on Americans
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
Read More »Court Ruling that NSA Wiretapping is Illegal Drives Emergency Push for New Spy Powers, Newsweek Reports
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
Read More »Report: White House says spying broader than previously admitted
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
Read More »Committee demanding details of NSA data-mining
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.
Read More »Bush calls for retroactive legalization of illegal wiretapping
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
Read More »Mining of Data Prompted Fight Over U.S. Spying
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
Read More »Bipartisan group blasts NSA wiretaps
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
Read More »Wiretapping Subpoenas Lead to Constitutional Shutdown
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
Read More »NSA Snooped on Lawyers Knowing Spying Was Illegal, Suit Charges
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
Read More »Another NSA Whistleblower Speaks Out
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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