National Security State

June 19, 2013

Video: Edward Snowden: War on Whistleblowers “Only Builds Better Whistleblowers”

18 June 2013 — The Real News Network Larry Wilkerson: Snowden’s expertise allowed him to understand the threat of the NSA’s surveillance programs on civil liberties – government power exercised in secret will be abused (inc. transcript) Continue reading

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June 18, 2013

NSA whistleblower Snowden issues defiant response to government threats and media lies By Eric London

Whistleblower Edward Snowden spoke publicly yesterday for the first time in a week and issued a defiant response to denunciations of his actions by both corporate-controlled parties in the US. He declared, “All I can say right now is the US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or… Continue reading

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June 17, 2013

Are the Boston Marathon Bombings Tied to a New American Campaign into the Caucasus? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

Many questions remain unanswered about the Boston Marathon Bombings that took place on April 15, 2013. Three people were killed and two hundred and sixty-four others were injured during the tragedy. Continue reading

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June 17, 2013

Video: Long Before Helping Expose NSA Spying, Journalist Laura Poitras Faced Harassment from U.S. Agents

Journalist Laura Poitras is being described as the connection between the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the reporters for The Guardian and The Washington Post who published his leaked documents about government surveillance. Poitras shared a byline on two of the key articles about the ongoing NSA revelations, and filmed the Guardian interview in Hong… Continue reading

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June 17, 2013

New reports detail vast scale of NSA “mega data collection” By Thomas Gaist

New reports indicate that the NSA engages in warrantless wiretapping of the audio content of telephone communications of Americans, and records and archives virtually all internet usage, everywhere. Continue reading

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June 17, 2013

NSA Whistleblower Claims Validated … and Then Some

The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls…Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed this week that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call could be accessed… Continue reading

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June 16, 2013

What the NSA Revelations Tell Us about America’s Police State

Ongoing revelations by The Guardian and The Washington Post of massive, illegal secret state surveillance of the American people along with advanced plans for waging offensive cyberwarfare on a global scale, including inside the US, underscores what Antifascist Calling has reported throughout the five years of our existence: that democracy and democratic institutions in the… Continue reading

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June 15, 2013

The Deeper Meaning of Mass Spying in America By Prof. James Petras

In the United States, despite widespread mass media coverage and the opposition of civil liberties organizations, there has not been any mass protest. Congressional leaders from both the Republican and Democratic Parties, as well as top judges, approved of the unprecedented domestic spy program. Continue reading

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June 14, 2013

Video: James Bamford on NSA Secrets, Keith Alexander’s Influence & Massive Growth of Surveillance, Cyberwar

Says Bamford of Alexander: “Never before has anyone in America’s intelligence sphere come close to his degree of power, the number of people under his command, the expanse of his rule, the length of his reign or the depth of his secrecy.” Continue reading

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June 14, 2013

The National Security Agency: A Global Superpower By Wayne Madsen

Recent revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency is conducting massive meta-data vacuuming of the phone calls and Internet transactions of tens of millions of Americans and, perhaps, billions of people around the world, with little or no effective oversight by President Obama, the U.S. Congress, or the federal court system means that the intelligence… Continue reading

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June 14, 2013

Permanent Washington’s Backlash to Edward Snowden BY DAVID SIROTA

Though [opponents] failed to show that Snowden’s disclosures endanger national security, these attacks do tell an important story—not about the whistleblower, but about America. Continue reading

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June 14, 2013

Permanent Washington’s Backlash to Edward Snowden BY DAVID SIROTA

Though [opponents] failed to show that Snowden’s disclosures endanger national security, these attacks do tell an important story—not about the whistleblower, but about America. Continue reading

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crime, liberties, New York, NSA, security, terrorist
June 13, 2013

Metadata” Can Tell the Government More About You Than the Content of Your Phonecalls

The government has sought to “reassure” us that it is only tracking “metadata” such as the time and place of the calls, and not the actual content of the calls. But technology experts say that “metadata” can be more revealing than the content of your actual phone calls. Continue reading

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June 13, 2013

NSA memos expose Obama administration's lies about wiretapping By Eric London

Plans to carry out the abrogation of basic democratic rights were well underway at least ten months before the “global war on terror” was launched in the aftermath of the still unexplained events of September 11th, 2001. Continue reading

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June 13, 2013

Edward Snowden and the State-Identified Journalist By Jim Naureckas

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo (6/11/13) wrote about Edward Snowden yesterday in a way that helped make it clear why so many in the press seem upset that the former NSA consultant revealed the extent of U.S. spying programs aimed at the American public. Continue reading

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June 13, 2013

Top National Security Experts: Spying Program Doesn’t Make Us Safer, and Spying Leaks Don’t Harm America

America’s top national security experts say that the NSA’s mass surveillance program doesn’t make us safer … and that whistleblowers revealing the nature and extent of the program don’t harm America. Continue reading

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June 13, 2013

Freedom Rider: The Snowden Litmus Test By Margaret Kimberley

Don’t look to Democrat Dianne Feinstein for help when it comes to the real issues. This plutocrat typifies the shameless treachery of Obama’s party. Who needs enemies with “friends” like these? Continue reading

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June 13, 2013

See you on the dark side By Pepe Escobar

Let’s talk about PRISM. And let’s see some implications of the Edward Snowden-leaked National Security Agency (NSA) Power Point presentation for Total Cyber-Domination. Continue reading

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June 12, 2013

The Origins of Prism?

Got this from Crypthome, the US Navy sponsored encryption system. Dated 2004, it purports to be the description of PRISM, its structure and its functions. Continue reading

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June 12, 2013

President Obama’s Insecure National Security State By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III

President Obama’s defense of the very surveillance policies he campaigned against in 2008 “fails the laugh test on a number of levels” – including the legal presumption of innocence. “Where is the basis of ‘probable cause’ to proactively search the records of millions of Americans who have never engaged in any illegal activity let alone… Continue reading

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