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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/11-8

'Digital Blackwater': NSA Leak Highlights Key Role of Private Contractors
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/11-1

The Unique Danger of Government Surveillance
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/06/11

Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Outsourced Intelligence
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/06/11-0

An Administration Ruled by Fear
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/11-7

Roll Back the Surveillance State
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/11-2

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Big Money and the NSA Scandal: How Dangerous is the ''Security/Digital Complex''?

Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future: Last year Booz Allen Hamilton announced two new contracts with Homeland Security worth a total of $11 billion.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16909-big-money-and-the-nsa-scandal-how-dangerous-is-the-security-digital-complex

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What Is the Government s Agenda?
http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts398.html

If Edward Snowden Is a Criminal, Why Aren t the Rest of Us Criminals As Well?
http://lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead89.1.html

The US Spy Leviathan
http://lewrockwell.com/yk/us-spy-leviathan.html

Datagate and the Death of American Liberalism
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo206.html

Trashing the Bill of Rights: Where America Stands Now
http://lewrockwell.com/rosenberg/rosenberg-p23.1.html

On PRISM, Partisanship, and Propaganda
http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/prism-partnership-propaganda.html

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How Edward Snowden Exposed a ''Massive Surveillance Apparatus''

Video

''There is this massive surveillance apparatus being gradually constructed in the United States that already has extremely invasive capabilities to monitor and store the communications and other forms of behavior not just of tens of millions of Americans, but of hundreds of millions, probably billions of people, around the globe,'' Greenwald says.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35242.htm



One American Who Isn t For Sale

By Robert Scheer

So it s true, as filmmaker Michael Moore once warned us, the Carlyle Group is Big Brother.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35240.htm



Historic Challenge to Support the Moral Actions of Edward Snowden

By Norman Solomon

Edward Snowden has given aid and comfort to grassroots efforts for democracy. What we do with his brave gift will be our choice.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35235.htm



'It Can t Happen Here' Just Did

By Gene Healy

''Metadata'': Allows the government secretly to track who a target communicates with and where he s physically located. That knowledge can be used to unearth who s leaking to reporters, when and where political opponents are meeting, even who s sleeping with whom.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35247.htm



'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition

By Deborah Zabarenko

A petition to pardon Edward Snowden, who has acknowledged leaking secret documents from the U.S. National Security Agency, attracted more than 22,000 electronic signatures by Monday afternoon, one day after it was posted on the White House website.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35243.htm



Meet the Contractors Analyzing your Private Data

By Tim Shorrock

Private companies are getting rich probing your personal information for the government. Call it Digital Blackwater.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35241.htm



US Lawmakers Call for Review of Patriot Act After NSA Surveillance Revelations

By Dan Roberts and Spencer Ackerman in Washington

The legislation, which was introduced after the 9/11 attacks, has been cited as the legal basis for the National Security Agency scouring billions of ordinary US telephone records in an effort to combat terrorism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35239.htm



This is how the government lies

The recent whistleblower revelations have caught Obama administration s Director of National Intelligence in a flat-out lie. But watch how James Clapper tries to weasel out of it. What we would call a lie he calls it 'the least untruthful' answer.

http://is.gd/xaaXvu



NSA Whistleblower: The Ultimate Insider Attack

Snowden said that ''I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President [of the United States] if I had a personal email.''

http://is.gd/lp7ou4



Ron Paul: 'Thankful' for Edward Snowden

Former Rep. Ron Paul of Texas praised NSA leaker Edward Snowden for his part in exposing how much information the government has been collecting from private citizens.

http://is.gd/QFeLr2



Why Is Everyone Totally Okay With The Government Spying On 'Foreigners?'

Americans seem to be fine about any kind of U.S. government spying as long as it s focused on ''foreigners.'' They just go crazy when the same tactics are used on Americans.

http://is.gd/oXu28T



IRS buys spy equipment amid spending scandal

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), already embroiled in a high-profile scandal over its operations, is looking to acquire surveillance equipment that includes cameras concealed in plants, coffee trays and clock radios.

http://is.gd/GL2gtD



US Hacking The World

Edward Snowden: US Government Has Been Hacking Hong Kong and China for Years

By Lana Lam

Snowden said he was releasing the information to demonstrate ''the hypocrisy of the US government when it claims that it does not target civilian infrastructure, unlike its adversaries''.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35251.htm



Whistle-blower Edward Snowden: 'Let Hong Kong People Decide My Fate'

By Lana Lam

''I am not here to hide from justice; I am here to reveal criminality,'' Snowden said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35250.htm



Ron Paul Warns US Government May Assassinate NSA Leaker Snowden

By Jonathan Easley

''I am worried about somebody in our government might kill him with a cruise missile or a drone missile,'' Paul said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35255.htm



Why You Should Worry About The NSA

By Richard A. Clarke

The just-revealed surveillance stretches the law to its breaking point and opens the door to future potential abuses.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35254.htm



27 Edward Snowden Quotes About U.S. Government Spying That Should Send A Chill Up Your Spine

''I can t in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they are secretly building."

http://is.gd/Ilwqr0



Thank NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden

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Sign a thank-you note that will be delivered to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

http://is.gd/ssJA7h



NSA surveillance played little role in foiling terror plots, experts say

Obama administration says NSA data helped make arrests in two important cases, but critics say that simply isn t true.

http://is.gd/Qh6MgO



Thomas Drake: Snowden saw what I saw: surveillance criminally subverting the constitution

Op-Ed

So we refused to be part of the NSA s dark blanket. That is why whistleblowers pay the price for being the backstop of democracy.

http://is.gd/lJ5dhr



India says U.S. spying on internet data of its citizens unacceptable

India is the fifth most tracked country by American intelligence agencies which used a secret data-mining program to keep a tab on the worldwide internet data, according to media reports.

http://is.gd/wzF2vm



FBI sharply increases use of Patriot Act provision to collect US citizens' records

The FBI has dramatically increased its use of a controversial provision of the Patriot Act to secretly obtain a vast store of business records of U.S. citizens under President Barack Obama, according to recent Justice Department reports to Congress.

http://is.gd/ty9e5f



Ex-NSA Leaker: This Kind Of Surveillance Has No Place In A Democracy

Video

''The Stasi in East Germany would have drooled over this capability''. Thomas Drake, Former NSA Senior Executive.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35271.htm



James Clapper Is A Liar

By Thomas L. McDonald

I know Orwell is getting a heavy workout these days, but one of his lasting contributions to semantics was offering the most potent example of how totalitarian states manipulate language as a tool of control and deception.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35262.htm



Germans accuse U.S. of Stasi tactics before Obama visit

German outrage over a U.S. Internet spying program has broken out ahead of a visit by Barack Obama, with ministers demanding the president provide a full explanation when he lands in Berlin next week and one official likening the tactics to those of the East German Stasi.

http://is.gd/yyHzAL



Europeans 'shocked and angry' by 'unaccountable' American surveillance

The recent NSA leaks have awakened many Europeans to the ''disturbing'' privacy violations regularly committed by the US that their own governments facilitated and may have benefited from, Jim Killock, the executive director of Open Rights Group.

http://is.gd/1E9DX8



Repeal the Patriot Act

By Jim Hightower

Secretly seizing everyone s phone records is, as the ACLU put it, ''beyond Orwellian.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35348.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Internet fascism and the surveillance state

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Ben O'Neill

07/15/13

What is the purpose of telecommunication and internet surveillance? The NSA presents its surveillance operations as being directed toward security issues, claiming that the programs are needed to counter terrorist attacks. Bald assertions of plots foiled are intended to bolster this claim. However, secret NSA documents reveal that their surveillance is used to gather intelligence to achieve political goals for the US government...

http://tinyurl.com/oqmebrk


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By David Sirota

Is there a way to remain exceptional in ways that benefit us while also being a bit less exceptional in the ways that harm us and others?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35225.htm



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Video

George Orwell s dystopian novel continues to come true in too many ways.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35223.htm



George Orwell s ''1984'': The Movie

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Probably the definitive novel of the 20th century, a story that remains eternally fresh and contemporary, and whose terms such as ''Big Brother'', ''doublethink'' and ''newspeak'' have become part of everyday currency.

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Nach Informationen der Washington Post und der britischen Zeitung The Guardian zapfen der US-Geheimdienst NSA und die Bundespolizei FBI direkt die zentralen Rechner und damit die Kundendaten von fünf Internet-Firmen an. Der NSA-Whistleblower, Edward Snowden hat die Datensammlung des NSA enthüllt. Der 29-Jährige ist nach Hongkong geflohen und bittet um die Aufnahme ''in jedem Land, das an Redefreiheit glaubt und dagegen eintritt, die weltweite Privatsphäre zu opfern'', zitiert ihn die Washington Post. Dies könnte auf dieser Erdkugel eng werden... Siehe Informationen und Hintergründe in diesem Dossier. Unser erstes Unzitat dazu: ''Der Chef der Deutschen Polizeigewerkschaft wünscht sich Überwachungs-Methoden wie in den USA auch für Deutschland.''... http://www.labournet.de/interventionen/grundrechte/kommunikationsfreiheit/datenschutz/prism-us-uberwachungsaffare-und-der-nsa-whistleblower/


Aus: LabourNet, 10. Juni 2013

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''Wir hacken jeden überall''

Der NSA-Whistleblower hat sich zu erkennen gegeben, er wolle nicht, dass die USA mit einer riesigen Überwachungsmaschine die Privatsphäre und die Internetfreiheit zerstören.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/39/39289/1.html



Snowden: NSA hackt seit 2009 Internet-Backbones in China und Hongkong

Der NSA-Whistleblower ist in Hongkong untergetaucht und macht den USA weiter das Leben schwer.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/39/39320/1.html



NSA und GCHQ haben Politiker vor und während G20-Treffen belauscht

Passend zum G8-Treffen in Nordirland veröffentlicht der Guardian NSA-Dokumente des Whistleblowers Snowden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/39/39342/1.html

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Snowden über die Macht der NSA: ''Sie werden niemals sicher sein, egal welche Sicherheitsmaßnahmen sie ergreifen.''

''Nach all den Erkenntnissen über die massenhafte Überwachung der amerikanischen NSA stellt sich immer wieder die Frage: wie schützt man sich? Die einfache, wenn auch wenig befriedigende Antwort: gar nicht. Wenn das eigene Bedrohungsszenario den mächtigsten Geheimdienst der Welt beinhaltet, hat man keine Chance?'' Artikel von Andre Meister vom 11.06.2013 bei Netzpolitik http://netzpolitik.org/2013/snowden-uber-die-macht-der-nsa-sie-werden-niemals-sicher-sein-egal-welche-sicherheitsmasnahmen-sie-ergreifen/

Prism-Informant Snowden auf der Flucht Obamas Jagd auf die Wachhunde

''Einst nannte Barack Obama Whistleblower ''Wachhunde gegen Rechtsverletzungen'', als US-Präsident geht er unerbittlich gegen Geheimnisverräter jeglicher Art vor. Auch den Prism-Informanten Edward Snowden dürfte der Zorn der Regierung treffen. Trotzdem hat er Hoffnung?'' Artikel von Johannes Kuhn in Süddeutsche online vom 10. Juni 2013 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/prism-informant-snowden-auf-der-flucht-obamas-jagd-auf-die-wachhunde-1.1692810

video: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things'. Video bei The Gardian im Rahmen des Interviews mit ihm: 'If they want to get you, in time they will' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-why und in deutscher Übersetzung aus dem Reuters-Videokanal bei der Süddeutschen online: ''Ich will nicht in einer Gesellschaft leben, die so etwas macht'': Der 29-jährige Techniker Edward Snowden erklärt sich zum Urheber der jüngsten Enthüllungen über die Datensammlung der US-Geheimdienste - und ist sich der Konsequenzen bewusst. http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/geheimdienst-techniker-bekennt-sich-zu-prism-enthuellungen-1.1692749


Aus: LabourNet, 11. Juni 2013

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EU-Parlamentarier fordern Aufklärung der US-Internetüberwachung

''Vertreter fast aller Fraktionen im Europaparlament haben sich alarmiert über die Enthüllungen zur Überwachung des Internet-Datenverkehrs von EU-Bürgern durch US-Geheimdienste gezeigt. Vertreter von Konservativen, Sozialisten, Liberalen und Grünen forderten die Europäische Kommission auf, die USA auf dem Gipfeltreffen Ende der Woche zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen. Auch müsse die geplante EU-Datenschutzverordnung rasch vorangetrieben werden. Durch sie werde klargestellt, dass EU-Standards für US-Firmen, die Daten von EU-Bürgern verarbeiten, bindend seien?'' Artikel von Monika Ermert vom 11.06.2013 bei heise online http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/EU-Parlamentarier-fordern-Aufklaerung-der-US-Internetueberwachung-1886399.html


Aus: LabourNet, 13. Juni 2013

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Seite an Seite mit Edward Snowden
https://secure.avaaz.org/de/stop_prism_global_do/

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YES WE SCAN: Impressionen von der Kundgebung

''Um Barack Obama bei seiner Ankunft in Berlin auch gebührend zu empfangen, gab es heute von 13 bis 14 Uhr eine Kundgebung am Checkpoint Charlie. Diese sollte auch als kleine Erinnerung an Frau Merkel dienen, dass doch bitte nicht vergessen werden soll, den Herrn Präsidenten Obama auf die Spionagetätigkeiten seines Geheimdienstes NSA anzusprechen. Für alle die nicht an der Kundgebung teilgenommen haben, gibt es hier ein paar Impressionen?'' Bericht von Nicolas Fennen vom 18.06.2013 bei Netzpolitik https://netzpolitik.org/2013/yes-we-scan-impressionen-von-der-kundgebung/

Siehe dazu:

Überwachungsskandal PRISM: Digitale Gesellschaft e. V. erstattet Anzeige

''Wegen des Verdachts auf Geheimdienstliche Agententätigkeit und Landesverräterische Agententätigkeit (§§ 98, 99 StGB) hat der Digitale Gesellschaft e. V. gestern Anzeige bei der Polizei erstattet. ''Wir gehen davon aus, dass es sich bei PRISM um staatliche Spionage handelt, bei der sowohl private als auch staatliche Geheimnisse ausgeforscht wurden'', so Markus Beckedahl, Vorstand des Digitale Gesellschaft e. V. ''Es liegt nahe, dass es für die entsprechenden Spionageprogramme Unterstützer im In- und Ausland gegeben hat. Beides ist nach dem Strafgesetzbuch kein Kavaliersdelikt, sondern eine Straftat. Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft müssen nun ermitteln, ob es auch Täter in Deutschland gab.''?" Pressemitteilung vom 18. Juni 2013 https://digitalegesellschaft.de/2013/06/prism-digitale-gesellschaft-e-v-erstattet-anzeige/


Bilder & Berichte von ''Yes, we scan!''-Aktion bei Digitale Gesellschaft https://digitalegesellschaft.de/2013/06/bilder-berichte-von-yes-we-scan-aktion-gegen-prism-nsa/


Das Ziel lautet Totalüberwachung

''Bereits vor knapp zwei Wochen habe ich darauf hingewiesen, dass Prism kein originär amerikanisches Phänomen ist und wir uns auch mit dem beschäftigen sollten, was die deutschen Geheimdienste so treiben. Und kurze Zeit später konnte man auch schon lesen, dass der BND die Internetüberwachung massiv ausbauen will. Das wird flankiert von Aussagen des Bundesinnenministers Hans-Peter Friedrich, der sich bei den USA für Prism bedankte und betonte, man müsse Kontrollverluste über die Kommunikation von Kriminellen durch neue rechtliche und technologische Mittel ausgleichen. Damit wird hinreichend deutlich, dass der BND und die deutsche Innenpolitik das Internet und die Telekommunikation gerne in denselbem Umfang überwachen würden wie die USA und, dass dies derzeit nur an den begrenzten technologischen und personellen Mitteln des BND scheitert?'' Artikel von und bei Thomas Stadler vom 18.6.13 http://www.internet-law.de/2013/06/das-ziel-lautet-totaluberwachung.html


Aus: LabourNet, 19. Juni 2013

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Informant Snowden bekräftigt Vorwürfe zu US-Überwachung

''Edward Snowden, der den aktuellen Skandal um US-Spionage im Internet ins Rollen brachte, hat seine Vorwürfe ausdrücklich bekräftigt. US-amerikanische Geheimdienst-Analysten könnten Zugang zu Informationen bekommen, egal wonach sie suchen, erklärte Snowden am Montag in einem Chat. ''Telefonnummer, E-Mail, Benutzername, Handy-Identifikationsnummer ? es ergibt keinen Unterschied.'' Die Einschränkungen seien nicht technischer, sondern politischer Natur. Kontrollen seien sehr lückenhaft. Snowden versprach weitere konkrete Details dazu?'' Meldung bei heise-news vom 18.06.2013 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Informant-Snowden-bekraeftigt-Vorwuerfe-zu-US-Ueberwachung-1891353.html


NSA-Spionage: Bürger unter Generalverdacht

''Dass US-Dienste auch deutsche Bürger ausspionieren, ist der eine Skandal. Der andere liegt in der Rundum-Überwachung durch unsere eigenen Behörden?'' Artikel von Arno Widmann in der FR online vom 17. Juni 2013 http://www.fr-online.de/meinung/leitartikel-nsa-spionage-buerger-unter-generalverdacht,1472602,23396266.html


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Juni 2013



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http://lewrockwell.com/spl5/nsa-whistleblower-is-libertarian.html

Government Spying: Should We Be Shocked?
http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul863.html

NSA and the Secret AT&T Spy Room
http://lewrockwell.com/rappoport/rappoport32.1.html

Edward Snowden and the Disruption of Government
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/steimle2.1.1.html

America s New Normal: Mass Surveillance, Secret Courts and Death to Whistleblowers
http://lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead88.1.html

If You See Something, Say Something
http://lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer272.html

How Snowden Did an End Run Around the NSA and the Obama Administration
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1287.html

Edward Snowden Is a True Hero
http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano105.html

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Edward Snowden, American hero

by Justin Raimondo

06/10/13

Here is someone who gave up a comfortable life in Hawaii as a highly-paid government contractor and now risks jail, 'I do not expect to see home again', and eternal exile. Why did he do it? To give the American people the information they need to decide whether they want to live in a society where government spying on citizens is ubiquitous. His greatest fear? It s not imprisonment, but the fear that his act will change nothing. It?s up to us to make sure his heroic act is not in vain...

http://tinyurl.com/kzzru69



What the state fears most: revelations of the truth about the state

Independent Institute
by Robert Higgs

06/10/13

Why does the U.S. government go to such extraordinary lengths to discredit, punish, and ruin persons such as Daniel Ellsberg, Julian Assange, and, next in line, no doubt, Edward Snowden? The government alleges that these persons give aid and comfort to the nation s enemies and endanger national security. In reality, however, these persons? only 'crime' is to tell the truth to the public about what the U.S. government is doing. By telling the truth about especially important matters, they endanger only the state, by exposing its lies and its hidden crimes for the world to see...

http://tinyurl.com/nwzjhxj



Edward Snowden: Profile in courage

CounterPunch
by Christopher Pyle

06/10/13

Edward Snowden may go down inhistory as one of this nation s most important whistleblowers. He is certainly one of the bravest. The 29-year-old former technical assistant to the CIA and employee of a defense intelligence contractor has admitted to disclosing top secret documents about the National Security Agency s massive violation of the privacy of law-abiding citizens...

http://tinyurl.com/l79kwcr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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'I Don't Want to Live in a Society That Does These Sort of Things': NSA Whistleblower Revealed
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/10

How NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Helped Expose a ''Massive Surveillance Apparatus''
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/06/10-0

Hundreds Rally to Declare ''I Stand with Snowden''
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/10-2

Historic Challenge to Support the Moral Actions of Edward Snowden
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/10-1

Edward Snowden: Saving Us from the United Stasi of America
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/10-0

Edward Snowden: Profile in Courage
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/10-6

Over 30,000 Sign Thank-You Note to Edward Snowden
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/06/11-9

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NSA Whistleblower Exposes US Government s ''Architecture of Oppression''

By Thomas Gaist

''The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America...We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35233.htm



Another Truth-Teller Steps Forward

By Ray McGovern

Why would someone like Snowden, a 29-year-old employee of national-security contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, jeopardize what he calls ''a very comfortable life'' in order to blow the whistle on the U.S. government s abuse of power?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35232.htm



Was Obama Lying Then or Is He Lying Now?

Video

2007: Obama s Speech on Warrantless Wiretapping.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35224.htm



Alleged US security officials said NSA leaker, journalist should be 'disappeared'

A US editor has alleged he overheard security officials saying that the NSA leaker and the Guardian columnist who broke his story should be ''disappeared.''

http://is.gd/72KpQy



US surveillance has 'expanded' under Obama, says Bush s NSA director

The former director of the US National Security Agency has indicated that surveillance programs have ''expanded'' under Barack Obama s time in office and said the spy agency has more powers now than when he was in command.

http://is.gd/kBlRYL



How NSA collects, analyzes phone records

Keeping top-secret tabs on your phone calls: The U.S. government is secretly collecting and analyzing the phone records of millions of Americans.

http://is.gd/GBbdgP



Boundless Informant: the NSA s secret tool to track global surveillance data

The National Security Agency has developed a powerful tool for recording and analysing where its intelligence comes from, raising questions about its repeated assurances to Congress that it cannot keep track of all the surveillance it performs on American communications.

http://is.gd/c44kwf



Eric Holder Refuses To Answer When Asked If Obama Admin Is Spying On Congress

Video
http://is.gd/PrSgyl



10 Things Americans Underestimate About Our Massive Surveillance State: The latest revelations are just the tip of the iceberg.

http://is.gd/xXDga0



Judge Napolitano On NSA Spying

Video

Most Extraordinarily Broad Search Warrant Ever Issued In US History
http://is.gd/DLO6PX



Rand Paul Tells Fox Viewers To Join Lawsuit Against NSA

'I am Going To Challenge This At The Supreme Court': "If we get ten million Americans saying we don t want our phone records looked at, then maybe someone will wake up and something will change in Washington.''

http://is.gd/kmawlp



Police State USA: NSA Building $860 Million Data Center in Maryland

The NSA is already building a massive data center in Utah, investing up to $1.5 billion in a project that will feature up to 1 million square feet of facilities.

http://is.gd/EfwUNs


From Information Clearing House

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Former CIA Employee, Snowden, Blows Whistle on NSA s Dragnet Surveillance

Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: ''Just as Bradley Manning s court-martial was getting underway, another brave whistleblower dropped a bombshell into the media: The Obama administration is collecting data on every telephone call we make.''

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16866-former-cia-employee-blows-whistle-on-dragnet-surveillance-of-americans



Sensible Security or American Dystopia: Is It Too Late to Choose?

The Thom Hartmann Program, The Daily Take: The recent revelations out of the NSA have made it clear that, we, the American people, have a choice to make, assuming we haven t already passed the point of no return.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16885-sensible-security-or-american-dystopia-is-it-too-late-to-choose



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NSA-Dokumente enthüllen die weltweite Lauschaktivität der NSA, Deutschland ist in Europa das Land, aus dem am meisten Daten abgesaugt werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/39/39287/1.html



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A review of classified US intelligence records has revealed that the CIA could not confirm the identity of about a quarter of the people killed by drone strikes in Pakistan during a period spanning from 2010 to 2011.

http://is.gd/eXGdhJ



What A Drone Can See From 17,500 feet

Video

A camera system so detailed it can discern an object just 6 inches long.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35274.htm



Kids used as lab rats

For nearly a century, doctors in America tested drugs, radiation and psychological techniques on unwitting children.

http://is.gd/8dzyuc


From Information Clearing House

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UN: Drones Have Caused ''Permanent Fear'' and Affected Wellbeing of Children
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/06/13-1



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/06-3

Protesters in Chicago Take on ALECs 'Forty Years of Corporate Greed'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/08-6

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The Business of Mass Incarceration

By Chris Hedges

It happens to families every day in our gulag state. Bourne is one human being among hundreds of thousands routinely sacrificed for corporate greed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35688.htm



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Vier der neun Richter sehen in der ohne richterliche Anordnung durchgeführten Maßnahme einen Verfassungsverstoß, fünf nicht.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/154395



Der Datenkrake NSA Tür und Tor öffnen

Ein Geheimgerichtsurteil schreibt Verizon vor, dem amerikanischen Geheimdienst täglich Telefondaten in riesiger Zahl zu übermitteln. Möglicherweise ist dies nicht der einzige US-Telefonbetreiber, welcher der Überwachung zuarbeiten muss.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/154396

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US-Spionageskandal: Auch Kreditkarten im Visier der NSA?

ORF.at

Die US-Regierung lässt ihre Bürger via Mobilfunk und die Bürger anderer Länder via Mobilfunk und Internet ausspionieren. Der Skandal, der am Mittwoch durch einen Bericht des ''Guardian'' ins Rollen gekommen war, weitet sich immer weiter aus. Neben...

http://orf.at/stories/2186266/



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http://ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11498/

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


From Information Clearing House



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