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By Glenn Greenwald

President Obama s most stalwart, enthusiastic defenders are often found among the most radical precincts of the Republican Party.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35655.htm



How Nancy Pelosi Saved the NSA Surveillance Program

Hill sources say most of the credit for the amendment s defeat goes to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. It s an odd turn, considering that Pelosi has been, on many occasions, a vocal surveillance critic.

http://is.gd/2wBdm6



They Know Much More Than You Think

By James Bamford

The US intelligence agencies seem to have adopted Orwell s idea of doublethink ''to be conscious of complete truthfulness,'' he wrote, ''while telling carefully constructed lies.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35670.htm



NSA surveillance critics to testify before Congress

Democratic congressman Alan Grayson says hearing will help stop 'constant misleading information' from intelligence chiefs.

http://is.gd/ACb5Gx



Glenn Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have 'Powerful and Invasive' Search Tool

''The NSA has trillions of telephone calls and emails in their databases that they have collected over the last several years,'' Greenwald told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos.

http://is.gd/SmLZEo



NSA Pays £100m in Secret Funding for GCHQ

By Nick Hopkins and Julian Borger

The US government has paid at least £100m to the UK spy agency GCHQ over the last three years to secure access to and influence over Britain s intelligence gathering programmes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35715.htm



How to Decode the True Meaning of What NSA Officials Say

By Jameel Jaffer and Brett Max Kaufman

A lexicon for understanding the words U.S. intelligence officials use to mislead the public.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35717.htm



Representative Alan Grayson on NSA Data Collection Programs

Video

Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, talked about National Security Agency (NSA) data collection program sand NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35734.htm



UK: BT and Vodafone among telecoms companies passing details to GCHQ

Fears of customer backlash over breach of privacy as firms give GCHQ unlimited access to their undersea cables.

http://is.gd/Qx0uVV



GCHQ: inside the top secret world of Britain s biggest spy agency

Files leaked by Edward Snowden reveal how the NSA pays for and influences some of the UK s intelligence gathering programmes. The documents also give unique insights into the challenges faced by the agency and the concerns it has about how to tackle them.

http://is.gd/PRfHBG



GCHQ reported to have access to almost all European internet traffic

The reports published by the German public broadcaster NDR and the Süddeutsche newspaper said documents made available to them by Edward Snowden indicate that Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is capable of gathering and analyzing data from almost all of the traffic that passes through Europe s internet network.

http://is.gd/AOKbeu


From Information Clearing House

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Why the Surveillance State Is Doomed
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/07/gary-north/the-surveillance-state-is-doomed/

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Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/money-nsa-vote/


Informant: Mark G.

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NSA Paying UK Spy Agency to Surveil Americans
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/01-10



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