National Security State

July 3, 2013

‘Infiltrated from all sides’: Bug found in London’s Ecuadorian embassy

A hidden microphone has been discovered in the Ecuadorian ambassador’s office in London, said Ecuador’s Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patino. He denounced the find as yet more evidence of the loss of ethics at an international level in government relations. Continue reading

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July 2, 2013

Venezuela ready to help Snowden, but final decision with people – Maduro to RT

Caracas is ready to help NSA leaker Edward Snowden, but will “leave the decision to the people” when considering his request for asylum, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has told RT in an exclusive interview. Continue reading

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July 2, 2013

Schieffer Hopes the Government Will Explain Its Secret Spying Program to Him By Peter Hart

This weekend CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer (6/30/13) did a segment on the latest revelations about NSA surveillance. And who better to interview than… well, the former head of the NSA and CIA, Michael Hayden. Continue reading

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July 2, 2013

Video: Is Whistle-blowing a Form of Free Speech?

Michael Ratner: Recognized by countries all over the world, whistle-blowing is a form of political opinion that is protected by the Refugee Convention Continue reading

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July 2, 2013

Snowden’s Cry for Help Is a Cry for America By Pam Martens

In July 2002, less than a year after Congress passed the USA Patriot Act, Nancy Chang, then Senior Litigation Attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, published a prophetic and comprehensive book about the legislation titled: Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-terrorism Measures Threaten our Civil Liberties. Continue reading

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July 2, 2013

US-EU fallout: Eavesdropping on the free trade

“Snowden did ask to stay in Russia. However, when he found out Russia’s position on the matter and the associated conditions he decided not to stay in Russia,” said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. Snowden is still held up in a Moscow airport and has issued asylum bids to 15 countries, the spokesman added. Continue reading

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July 2, 2013

Ecuador ‘helped Snowden by mistake,’ asylum in doubt

Correa told The Guardian that Quito will not be involved in financing or organizing Snowden’s travel from Moscow, specifying that the fugitive leaker would have to reach Ecuadorian soil before the government considers protecting him from American law enforcement. Continue reading

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July 2, 2013

Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow

On Thursday, President Obama declared before the world that he would not permit any diplomatic “wheeling and dealing” over my case. Yet now it is being reported that after promising not to do so, the President ordered his Vice President to pressure the leaders of nations from which I have requested protection to deny my… Continue reading

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July 1, 2013

Source: NSA Spied on Chávez in Rome

The DataGate? It began in Rome when the National Security Agency (NSA) spied on the visit of Hugo Chávez. In May 2006, U.S. secret services organized a massive espionage operation against the Venezuelan president. The Italian capital was intercepted for a week. Continue reading

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July 1, 2013

New Documents Shed Light on NSA’s Dragnet Surveillance

An unnamed “senior administration official” confirmed the existence of a Bush-era surveillance program which gobbled-up “vast amounts of records detailing the email and internet usage of Americans,” but claimed, without evidence, that “it ended in 2001,” according to The Guardian. Continue reading

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July 1, 2013

‘British police secretly operated outside democratic control for years’

Peter Francis revealed that 20 years ago he had worked as an undercover cop in the Metropolitan Police Force’s secret Special Demonstrations Squad (SDS). Francis said he was tasked to dig up dirt which the Met could use to discredit the family of murdered black teenager, Stephen Lawrence, and thereby derail their campaign for a… Continue reading

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July 1, 2013

Video: Ecuador Defies US Threats To Deny NSA Whistleblower Refuge

Michael Ratner: As Ecuador stands up to US pressure over Snowden, leaked documents continue to shed light into US surveillance state (inc. transcript) Continue reading

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July 1, 2013

New Snowden leak: US bugged dozens of foreign embassies

The US has been spying on dozens of foreign embassies and missions belonging to its rivals and allies in America to keep tabs on disagreements between them, new documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed. Continue reading

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June 30, 2013

Behind the Curtain of America’s Security State By William Boardman

On March 12, 2013, the Director of National Intelligence apparently committed perjury in his sworn testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. There is little likelihood of his being criminally charged, but we’ll get back to that. Continue reading

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June 30, 2013

Revealed: secret European deals to hand over private data to America

At least six European Union countries in addition to Britain have been colluding with the US over the mass harvesting of personal communications data, according to a former contractor to America’s National Security Agency, who said the public should not be “kept in the dark”. Continue reading

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June 30, 2013

US taps half-billion German phone and internet activities a month – report

NSA snooped through 20-60 million German phone connections and 10 million internet data sets a day, Der Spiegel claims. Continue reading

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June 30, 2013

Ecuador’s Correa: Solution for Edward Snowden’s destination ‘in hands of Russia’

“At this moment, the solution of Snowden’s destination is in the hands of Russian authorities,” Correa said in an interview with the private Oromar channel, according to AFP. Continue reading

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June 30, 2013

Greenwald on ‘coming’ leak: NSA can obtain one billion cell phone calls a day, store them and listen

The NSA has a “brand new” technology that enables one billion cell phone calls a day to be redirected into its data hoards and stored, according to the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald, who said that a new leak of Snowden’s documents was ‘coming soon.’ Continue reading

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June 30, 2013

The All-Seeing Eye of Big Brother By Nikolai MALISHEVSKI

Europe and the US are being rocked by scandals related to the creation of a system of total surveillance and control over the population of the planet. In the middle of June, human rights defenders from the American Civil Liberties Union sued the US government and US intelligence agencies for wiretapping. At the same time,… Continue reading

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June 30, 2013

New details of US spying programme: over 100,000 internet users under PRISM surveillance

The American National Security Agency (NSA) carries out “electronic surveillance” not only over European citizens, but also over employees of diplomatic missions of the EU in Washington and New York. Continue reading

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