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NSA whistleblower reveals self, warns of 'existential threat to democracy'
http://ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11504/

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'Beyond Orwellian': Outrage Follows Revelations of Vast Domestic Spying Program
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/06

NSA Whistleblowers: ''All US Citizens'' Targeted by Surveillance Program, Not Just Verizon Customers
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/06/06-0

Revealed: NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Americans Daily
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/05-12

It s Worse Than You Thought: NSA Spying and the Patriot Act
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/06-8

Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/06

Senator Bernie Sanders Slams Secret Surveillance
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/06/06-5

ACLU Asks Spy Court to Release Secret Opinions on Patriot Act Surveillance Powers
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/06/10-1

Sen. Dianne Feinstein s New NSA Bill Will Codify and Extend Mass Surveillance of Americans
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/01-3

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NSA Collecting Your Phone Records
http://lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff408.html

Target in the American Surveillance State
http://lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead87.1.html

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Stop The Massive Government Spying Program
http://click.actions.aclu.org/?qs=df5d3c7f860ebdf408ccef60c4d14dec5f578159cdaaea565b2be8c427e44166

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FBI and NSA Spying Revealed: Uncle Sam Is Watching You, and Both Congress and the Courts Are Complicit

Shahid Buttar, People s Blog for the Constitution: While outrage is appropriately escalating at the scale of FBI and NSA abuses, three angles to this controversy have remained muted in most of today s ommentary.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16838-fbi-nsa-spying-revealed-uncle-sam-is-watching-you-and-both-congress-and-the-courts-are-complicit



NSA Whistleblowers: ''All US Citizens'' Targeted by Surveillance Program, Not Just Verizon Customers

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!: The Obama administration is conducting a massive domestic surveillance program by collecting telephone records of millions of Verizon customers. But a National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower says it is happening with other phone companies, too.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16834-nsa-whistleblowers-all-us-citizens-targeted-by-surveillance-program-not-just-verizon-customers



A Timeline of Mass Surveillance in America

Cora Currier, Theodoric Meyer and Justin Elliott, ProPublica: The National Security Agency spying isn t entirely new: Since 9/11, we have learned about large-scale tracking by the agency. Here is a history of US surveillance of its citizens.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/16844-a-timeline-of-mass-surveillance-in-america

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Top Secret Document Discloses Depth Of Survailance By US Government

NSA Taps In To User Data of Facebook, Google and Others

By Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill

Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Facebook and Apple. Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35195.htm



''A Massive Surveillance State''

Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails

Video

''They want to make sure that every single time human beings interact with one another...that they can watch it, and they can store it, and they can access it at any time.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35198.htm



Clapper Admits Secret Surveillance Program: US Spy Chief Calls NSA Surveillance Program Diclosure 'Reprehensible'

Dan Roberts and Spencer Ackerman in Washington and Tania Branigan in Beijing

The US has admitted using a secret system to mine the systems of the biggest technology companies to spy on millions of people s online activity, overshadowing attempts by Barack Obama to force China to abandon its cyber-espionage program.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35196.htm



Whistleblower Was 'Horrified' That Government Could 'Literally Watch Your Ideas Form As You Type Them'

By Brett LoGiurato

A government whistleblower provided the information to the Post because of the chilling capabilities of U.S. government surveillance.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35197.htm



''We Do Not Live in a Free Country''

Video

National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31135.htm



NSA Targets Credit Card Transactions

By DAVE CLARKE

Credit card transactions are among the activities that have been monitored by the National Security Agency as part of its effort to target possible terrorists, the Wall Street Journal reported.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35199.htm



An Open Letter to Dianne Feinstein, Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee

By Norman Solomon

Let s be candid about the most clear and present danger to our country s democratic values. The poisonous danger is spewing from arrogance of power in the highest places.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35202.htm



Anger swells after NSA phone records court order revelations

The scale of America s surveillance state was laid bare on Thursday as senior politicians revealed that the US counter-terrorism effort had swept up swaths of personal data from the phone calls of millions of citizens for years.

http://is.gd/NMrjWQ



The National Security Agency: surveillance giant with eyes on America

The NSA is the best hidden of all the US intelligence services and its secrecy has deepened as its reach has expanded

http://is.gd/Hi1OAH



Back Door Access? Tech Giants Deny Knowledge of PRISM Spy Operation

Does the government have backdoor access so secret that not even their targets are aware? Are the tech companies lying? Or are they forbidden-as Verizon allegedly is with its NSA arrangement-from acknowledging its existence to an absurd extent?

http://is.gd/QpUA0K



How Congress unknowingly legalized PRISM in 2007

On Sept. 11, 2007, the National Security Agency signed up Microsoft as its first partner for PRISM, a massive domestic surveillance program . That s barely a month after Congress passed, and President George W. Bush signed, the Protect America Act.

http://is.gd/gnBKeG



NSA tracked phone records of millions of Americans

Video

Secret court orders authorized the National Security Agency to track phone records in an effort to thwart suspected terror plots. A majority of Democrats and Republicans did not object. Major Garrett reports.

http://is.gd/6by2ch



Obama s Verizon surveillance reveals massive erosion of US civil liberties

Thanks to a secret court and compliant politicians, this administration is running an ever-expanding security state.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/06/obama-verizon-surveillance-erosion-liberties



By the numbers: The NSA s super-secret spy program, PRISM

To put that debate in perspective, here s how PRISM stacks up by the numbers based on what we have learned today.

http://is.gd/Uvpllc



How the US Congress Lost the Plot on Secrecy, Surveillance and Accountability

By Marcy Wheeler

Outraged by the government dragnet of our private data? Blame the politicians who gave the Obama administration a free pass.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35216.htm



U.S. Collects Vast Data Trove

The National Security Agency s monitoring of Americans includes customer records from the three major phone networks as well as emails and Web searches, and the agency also has cataloged credit-card transactions, said people familiar with the agency's activities.

http://is.gd/eXwLvf



The PRISM spin war has begun

Google may be engaging in a far more subtle public relations strategy than outright denial.

http://is.gd/EtZVnT



How the NSA and FBI Lie With Numbers

The court that s supposed to be protecting Americans from abusive domestic surveillance is not only failing in that duty, it s also lazy.

http://is.gd/5Z1aHP



Watch Top U.S. Intelligence Officials Repeatedly Deny NSA Spying On Americans Over The Last Year

Videos

To paraphrase Joseph Heller: Just because you are paranoid doesn t mean they aren t surveilling you.

http://is.gd/2Mr7G5



Anonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents

Anonymous has leaked a treasure trove of NSA documents, including seriously important stuff like the US Department of Defense s 'Strategic Vision' for controlling the internet.

http://is.gd/Nelanq



The Chilling Effects of License-Plate Location Tracking

This type of widespread tracking endangers our rights of protest and association and has the potential to reach deep into our lives and alter our daily decision making.

http://is.gd/h1b9E8



How Dianne Feinstein Is Betraying Civil Liberties

By Norman Solomon

She has shown a clear commitment to deep-sixing vital information about the surveillance state, in a never-ending quest for the uninformed consent of the governed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36766.htm


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