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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/21-7

The NSA s Metastasized Intelligence-Industrial Complex Is Ripe for Abuse
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/24-1

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Leaked NSA Doc Says It Can Collect And Keep Your Encrypted Data As Long As It Takes To Crack It

If you use privacy tools, according to the apparent logic of the National Security Agency, it doesn t much matter if you are a foreigner or an American: Your communications are subject to an extra dose of surveillance.

http://is.gd/4GmaQO



How does GCHQ s internet surveillance work?

Learn more about the system for collecting content and metadata, and what GCHQ can do with it.

http://is.gd/rJVTJM



MoD serves news outlets with D notice over surveillance leaks

BBC and other media groups issued with D notice to limit publication of information that could 'jeopardise national security'. Editors were asked not to publish information that may ''jeopardise both national security and possibly UK personnel'' in the warning issued on 7 June, a day after the Guardian first revealed details of the National Security Agency s (NSA) secret Prism programme.

http://is.gd/eblZYU



Cheney: I Helped Set Up Secret NSA Spy Program

Lawmakers Favored Secrecy on Surveillance

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday U.S. congressional leaders he briefed in 2004 on a surveillance program recently disclosed by leaker Edward Snowden supported it, and both Republicans and Democrats wanted to keep it secret.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35409.htm



NSA Spying: So They Are Listening In, After All

By Tom Burghardt

Is it any wonder then, that House and Senate leaders driving the ''oversight'' clown car are the ones now braying loudest for Ed Snowden's head.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35404.htm



The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis

Video

Bill Moyers 1987 scathing critique of the criminal subterfuge carried out by the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17720.htm



The Leak Nobody s Noticed

By Digby

This McClatchy piece is as chilling to me as anything we have heard over the past few weeks about the NSA spying. In fact, it may be worse.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35398.htm



How can we invest our trust in a government that spies on us?

Op-Ed

We should not fear some Orwellian future state where we are subjected to total electronic scrutiny, it s our present reality.

http://is.gd/OOe3ls



Washington Post releases four new slides from NSA s Prism presentation

Newly published top-secret documents detail how NSA interfaces with tech giants such as Google, Apple and Microsoft.

http://is.gd/4UQdF3



Senators accuse government of using 'secret law' to collect Americans' data

Bipartisan group seeks answers from intelligence chief James Clapper over scale of and justification for NSA surveillance.

http://is.gd/pvCfbT


From Information Clearing House

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Bush s Foiled NSA Blackmail Scheme

Dennis J. Bernstein, Consortium News: More than a decade ago, President George W. Bush enlisted the National Security Agency in a blackmail scheme to dig up dirt to coerce UN Security Council members to approve his aggressive war against Iraq. But the plot was foiled by a brave British intelligence officer, Katharine Gun.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17154-bushs-foiled-nsa-blackmail-scheme

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The Other (Worse) Side of the PRISM Scandal
http://lewrockwell.com/rosenberg/rosenberg-p25.1.html

NSA Snooping: The Constitution Trashed
http://lewrockwell.com/armentano-d/armentano33.1.html

What s the Poor National Security State To Do?
http://lewrockwell.com/orig6/blum5.1.1.html

Orwell s Big Brother: Merely Fiction?
http://lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard336.html

Fixations on denouncing Edward Snowden distract from the serious transgressions of those who are far more powerful
http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/focus-on-real-villains.html



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