National Security Agency

September 18, 2021

Likely Assassination of UN Chief by US, British and South African Intelligence Happened 60 Years Ago Today

Former President Harry Truman told reporters two days after Dag Hammarskjöld’s death on Sept. 18, 1961 that the U.N. secretary-general “was on the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said ‘when they killed him.’” Continue reading

South Africa, UK, United Nations, USA

Ban Ki-Moon, Charles Southall, Congo, Dag Hammarskjöld, Joe Lauria, Katanga, Moise Tshombe, National Security Agency, NSA, Richard Goldstone, Susan Williams, The Wall Street Journal
December 19, 2013

An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: “A Genius Among Geniuses”

The black sweatshirt sold by the civil libertarian Electronic Frontier Foundation featured a parody of the National Security Agency’s logo, with the traditional key in an eagle’s claws replaced by a collection of AT&T cables, and eavesdropping headphones covering the menacing bird’s ears. Snowden wore it regularly to stay warm in the air-conditioned underground NSA… Continue reading

Spies-R-Us

edward snowden, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, National Security Agency, NSA, privacy, Whistleblowers
October 16, 2013

NSA harvesting hundreds of millions of personal email contact lists – report

The National Security Agency is logging hundreds of millions of email and instant messaging contacts belonging to Americans and others around the world, according to a report based on documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Continue reading

USA

data mining, database state, intelligence, Microsoft, National Security Agency, NSA, privacy, RT, snowden, surveillance, Yahoo
August 16, 2013

What Do You Call Edward Snowden? By Peter Hart

On CBS Evening News (8/13/13), anchor Scott Pelley gave viewers a brief–and very misleading–update on Edward Snowden Continue reading

Media

Evening News, FAIR, Huffington Post, National Security Agency, NBC, New York, Nightly News, NSA, NYT, Reuters, snowden, Washington Post
July 9, 2013

US NSA Spied on Venezuela When President Chavez Died, Documents Reveal By TAMARA PEARSON

Brazilian daily O Globo, reporting jointly with Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald informed today that according to the leaked National Security Agency (NSA) documents, the United States has also been spying on Venezuela’s petroleum industry. The information comes as governments confirm that whistleblower Edward Snowden has accepted asylum in Venezuela. Continue reading

National Security State, Venezuela

chavez, Glenn Greenwald, National Security Agency, NSA, President Chavez, snowden, spying, surveillance, travel, United States, Venezuela
July 4, 2013

Edward Snowden: Planet without a visa By Bill Van Auken

Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor who courageously exposed secret and unconstitutional US spying programs targeting millions of people in the US and around the world, is now unable to find a single government prepared to grant him the democratic right of asylum. Continue reading

Europe, National Security State, USA

dictatorship, Maduro, Moscow, National Security Agency, NSA, Obama, police, snowden, spying, WSWS
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

Media, National Security State, USA

cbs, CIA, FAIR, Government, interview, journalists, Media Advisory, National Security Agency, NSA, surveillance
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

National Security State

Booz Allen, Climate, data mining, database state, Glenn Greenwald, James Bamford, James Clapper, journalists, Narus, National Security Agency, NSA, prism, privacy, RT, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint, WikiLeaks
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

Europe, National Security State, USA

Booz Allen, data mining, database state, Der Spiegel, National Security Agency, New York, NSA, prism, privacy, snowden, spying, Strategic Culture, surveillance, Washington Post, WikiLeaks
June 27, 2013

Inventor of World Wide Web accuses West of hypocrisy

The British computer scientist, who invented the Web in 1989, accused the West of “insidious” online spying after whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked details of the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) dragnet telephone and internet surveillance programs, implicating US and UK in a wave of international criticism. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

Booz Allen, data mining, database state, James Bamford, James Clapper, Middle East, Narus, National Security Agency, NSA, prism, privacy, RT, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint, WikiLeaks, World Wide Web
June 10, 2013

Video: "On a Slippery Slope to a Totalitarian State": NSA Whistleblower Rejects Gov’t Defense of Spying

“The government is not trying to protect [secrets about NSA surveillance] from the terrorists,” Binney says. “It’s trying to protect knowledge of that program from the citizens of the United States.” Continue reading

National Security State, Videos

data mining, database state, Democracy Now, intelligence, James Clapper, National Security Agency, NSA, prism, spying, surveillance, United States, Video, Whistleblower
June 10, 2013

Top Spying Experts Explain Why You Should Oppose Spying … Even Though You’ve Done Nothing Wrong

Surveillance Can be Used to Frame You If Someone In Government Happens to Take a Dislike to You … Last Chance to Stop “Turnkey Tyranny” Continue reading

Liberties, National Security State

CIA, database state, Government, Internet, National Security Agency, NSA, Petraeus, spying, surveillance, William Binney
June 9, 2013

So Just Exactly What Is NSA’s Prism, More Than Reprehensibly Evil? By Rick Falkvinge

Adding it all together, it would appear that the social tech companies did not, repeat not, supply bulk data about their users at the US Government’s will – but that the situation for you as an end user remains just as if they had. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

data mining, database state, Google, Government, Internet, National Security Agency, NSA, prism, spying, surveillance, United States, Washington Post
December 6, 2012

Americans Are The Most Spied On People In World History By Washington's Blog

The American government has more information on the average American than Stalin had on Russians, Hitler had on German citizens, or any other government has ever had on its people. The American government is collecting and storing virtually every phone call, purchases, email, text message, internet searches, social media communications, health information, employment history, travel… Continue reading

National Security State, Spies-R-Us, USA

history, National Security Agency, NSA, radio, social media, Street Journal, surveillance, travel, Wall Street, Washington Blog
November 28, 2012

Video: The Program – William Binney Interview

The filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans’ personal data. Continue reading

National Security State, Spies-R-Us, Videos

National Security Agency, NYT, Video, William Binney
October 10, 2009

Big Brother FBI: Data-Mining Programs Resurrect “Total Information Awareness” By Tom Burghardt

Like a vampire rising from it’s grave each night to feed on the privacy rights of Americans, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is moving forward with programs that drain the life blood from our constitutional liberties. From the wholesale use of informants and provocateurs to stifle political dissent, to Wi-Fi hacking and viral computer spyware… Continue reading

Liberties

counterterrorism, DARPA, data mining, FBI, Investigative Data Warehouse, Lockheed Martin, National Security Agency, Patriot Act, Pinwale, QinetiQ, SAIC, Tom Burghardt
May 23, 2009

Internet Threatened By Censorship, Secret Surveillance, And Cybersecurity Laws By Stephen Lendman

Net Neutrality must be defended at all costs. Preserving a viable, independent, free and open Internet (and the media overall) is essential to a functioning democracy, but the forces aligned against it are formidable, daunting, relentless, and reprehensible. Some past challenges suggest future ones ahead. Continue reading

Media, Palestine

censorship, data mining, Google, Internet, National Security Agency, net neutrality, surveillance, terrorism
April 28, 2009

The Pentagon’s Cyber Command: Formidable Infrastructure arrayed against the American People By Tom Burghardt

From its inception, Cyber Command has been theorized as a nodal point for launching crippling attacks against the civilian and military infrastructure of imperialism’s enemies. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

Cyber Command, National Security Agency, U.S. Strategic Command
April 13, 2009

Obama Administration Endorses Continued Spying on Americans By Tom Burghardt

The lawsuit, Jewel v. NSA, is aimed at ending the NSA’s dragnet surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans and holding accountable the government officials who illegally authorized it. Continue reading

Liberties

AT&T, Barack Obama, Israel, Narus, National Security Agency, NSA, surveillance
April 10, 2009

Inside the AT&T – NSA ‘Secret’ Relationship

Here’s an AT&T engineer explaining just what NSA wants to keep from American citizens: that the NSA is engaged in the warrantless surveillance of all communications (whether telephone conversations, emails, IMs or in other forms) involving AT&T customers. Continue reading

National Security State, Spies-R-Us, USA

AT&T, National Security Agency, Video

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