Tag: FISA

NSA reading content of Americans’ international communications By Thomas Gaist

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9 August 2013 — WSWS

Thursday saw yet another revelation in the ongoing exposure of a cluster of unconstitutional surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency (NSA) and other agencies of the US government. In a front page article, the New York Times revealed that vast quantities of emails sent and received by Americans communicating with people abroad are swept up, “cloned,” and combed through by NSA analysts, on the basis that the messages contain certain words or phrases deemed suspicious by the government.

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They Know Much More Than You Think By James Bamford

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27 July 2013 — New York Review of Books

In mid-May, Edward Snowden, an American in his late twenties, walked through the onyx entrance of the Mira Hotel on Nathan Road in Hong Kong and checked in. He was pulling a small black travel bag and had a number of laptop cases draped over his shoulders. Inside those cases were four computers packed with some of his country’s most closely held secrets.

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Audio: The NSA Comes Recruiting

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2 July 2013 — Mob and Multitude

Some students and I had an exchange with NSA recruiters today. The audio and a rough transcript below.

The NSA came to recruit at a language program at the University of Wisconsin where I am spending my summer learning a language. Two recruiters, a redhead who looked more like a middle-aged mother (listed as “NSA_F” below) and a portly, balding man (“NSA_M”), began to go through slides explaining the NSA and its work.

2013 NSA flyer copy

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Spinning Surveillance via Discredited NSA Talking Points By Steve Rendall

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18 June 2013 — FAIR Blog

Appearing on the Charlie Rose show last night (6/17/13), Barack Obama said the NSA’s secret domestic surveillance program is “transparent” because all requests are reviewed by a secret court:  “It is transparent. That’s why we set up the FISA court,” Obama told Rose. 

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

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18 June 2013 — WSWS

“Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped”

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 murdering me. Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped.”

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Cloud surfing: US surveilance act ‘grave threat’ to EU sovereignty

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9 January, 2013 — RT

[Yet another reason to keep your information close to you. WB]

An intelligence bill has put the frighteners on EU citizens as it allows the US access to their personal data stored in internet clouds like those used on Facebook and Google. The law is a ‘grave risk’ to the rights of EU citizens, says an EU report.

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