NSA

August 8, 2013

Obama Tantrum and US Global Terror Alert Belie Washington’s Inner Panic over Russia and Snowden By Finian Cunningham

After weeks of threatening to cancel the G20 one-to-one meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, the White House has finally gone into full temper tantrum mode. The day after US President Barack Obama appeared on a TV chat show earlier this week complaining about Putin “slipping into Cold War mentality”, the White House announced that… Continue reading

USA

Finian Cunningham, G20, Moscow, NSA, Obama, Russia, snowden, spying, Strategic Culture, TV
August 8, 2013

Connections Between Michael Hastings, Edward Snowden And Barrett Brown—The War With The Security State By Christian Stork

At the time of his death in a mysterious one-car crash and explosion, journalist Michael Hastings was researching a story that threatened to expose powerful entities and government-connected figures. That story intersected with the work of two controversial government critics—the hacker Barrett Brown and the on-the-run surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden. Continue reading

USA

Barrett Brown, FBI, intelligence, Internet, NSA, snowden, surveillance
August 8, 2013

NSA Defenders Take to the Airwaves By Peter Hart

The vague-yet-apparently-very-serious intelligence about a possible Al-Qaeda attack became a big issue on the Sunday chat shows–and a chance for supporters of National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs to claim that the agency’s controversial tactics are working. Continue reading

Media, USA

CIA, Daily Beast, FAIR, Google, intelligence, Internet, NBC, NSA, snowden, spying, surveillance
August 7, 2013

Black Agenda Report for 7 August 2013: Stand Yr Ground & Beyond, Detroit: Tar Sands Hell, NSA-DEA Info Pipeline

7 August 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Stand Your Ground and Beyond: The Whole Criminal Justice System is Arrayed Against Blacks by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The battle against Stand Your Ground laws must be “one front in the war against the legitimacy of a criminal justice system Continue reading

Black Agenda Report

BA, Brazil, DEA, Ford, Kagame, NSA, Tar Sands
August 7, 2013

Snowden’s Asylum: ‘It’s the law, stupid’ By Richard Falk

Russia’s grant of temporary refugee status to Snowden for one year was in full accord with the normal level of protection to be given to anyone accused of nonviolent political crimes in a foreign country, writes Richard Falk Continue reading

Russia, USA

Al Jazeera, Asylum, NSA, Palestinian, political asylum, privacy, Richard Falk, rights, snowden, United Nations, United States
August 7, 2013

US officials cite deadly drone strike in Yemen to defend NSA spying operations By Thomas Gaist

US drones launched missiles at vehicles carrying four men, alleged to be members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, in Yemen’s Marib province early Tuesday. The attack was the latest development in the global terror alert announced by the Obama administration last Friday. On Monday, the administration indicated that the alleged terror plot was… Continue reading

USA

Al Qaeda, al qu’eda, drone, NSA, spying, strikes, surveillance, WSWS, Yemen
August 7, 2013

ICH 6 August 2013: Engineering Consent For Preemptive Attacks

6 August 2013 — Information Clearing House A Statement of Peace, or an Epitaph By Robert Scheer August 6 marks 68 years since the United States committed what is arguably the single gravest act of terrorism that the world has ever known. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35770.htm Continue reading

Information Clearing House

DEA, ICH, Iraq, NSA, Syria, Video, Yemen
August 6, 2013

ICH 5 August 2013: The US Terror Scare: Manipulating Public Perceptions

5 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Israel-Palestinian Talks Washington Acts Like Matchmaker… Between Rapist and Victim By Finian Cunningham The art of US diplomacy in the Middle East is evidently to give Israel a carte blanche to do whatever it likes with regard to trampling on Palestinian rights and lives. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35759.htm Continue reading

Information Clearing House

Afghanistan, ICH, Iraq, Israel, NSA, Paul, Video
August 5, 2013

Video: Greenwald: Is U.S. Exaggerating Threat to Embassies to Silence Critics of NSA Domestic Surveillance?

The Obama administration has announced it will keep 19 diplomatic posts in North Africa and the Middle East closed for up to a week, due to fears of a possible militant threat. On Sunday, Senator Saxby Chambliss, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the decision to close the embassies was based on… Continue reading

USA, Videos

Daily Mail, Democracy Now, Foreign Policy, GOODMAN, greenwald, New York, NSA, prism, snowden, surveillance, United States, Video
August 5, 2013

Screenshot of Google rerouting CLG Newsletter to spam bin, overriding user’s wishes

03 Aug 2013 CLG reader Mark Graffis has a screen-shot of NSAssociate Google relegating the CLG Newsletter to the spam bin. Note that Mark has clg_news @ legitgov.org classified as a ‘Friend,’ but Google *overrides* that designation and marks the CLG Newsletter as spam. Mark passed this image along, as he has told me that… Continue reading

USA

Google, Government, NSA, surveillance
August 5, 2013

Al-Qaeda to the rescue By Pepe Escobar

Imagine a rushed crisis meeting at the highest levels of the Orwellian/Panopticon complex: “Gentlemen, we have a golden opportunity here. We are under siege by defector spy Edward Snowden – liberated by the Soviets – and that terrorist hack Greenwald. Snowden may be winning: even among US public opinion, there’s a growing perception we may… Continue reading

National Security State

al qu’eda, Asia, Baghdad, Libya, NSA, Obama, osama, Pakistan, Pepe Escobar, Syria, terrorist
August 4, 2013

ICH 4 August 2013: What Google Knows About You

4 August 2013 — Information Clearing House In Rare Interview Egypt’s Commanding General Sharply Criticized U.S. By Lally Weymouth “You left the Egyptians. You turned your back on the Egyptians, and they won’t forget that,” said an indignant Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sissi. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35749.htm Continue reading

Information Clearing House

Afghanistan, Egypt, Google, ICH, Iran, Iraq, NSA
August 4, 2013

War on Terror: Crying Wolf, Wolf, Wolf

After weeks under heavy pressure for limitless spying on people everywhere the U.S. intelligence services conveniently detect a “threat” of some undefined future attacks. The “detection”, we are of course told, was only possible because of limitless spying on people everywhere Continue reading

USA

Al Qaeda, al qu’eda, intelligence, Middle East, NSA, snowden, spying, surveillance, terrorist, United States
August 4, 2013

One Day After Russian Asylum for Snowden: Obama Administration Launches Terror Scare By Thomas Gaist

Amid escalating denunciations and threats against both Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency (NSA) contractor-turned whistle-blower, and Russia, which granted Snowden temporary asylum on Thursday, the Obama administration on Friday issued a “global travel alert,” closing US embassies in Tripoli, Cairo, Tel Aviv, Baghdad, Riyadh and Doha based on supposed threats of Al Qaeda attacks. Continue reading

Russia, USA

Asylum, Congress, NSA, Obama, snowden, spying, surveillance, war on terror, whistle blower, WSWS
August 3, 2013

ICH 2 August 2013: Why Have So Many Liberals Been Silent about NSA Spying?

2 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Empire Project in Syria Reaches New Low By Michael Collins How did SSG get a special fundraising license for Syrian rebels from the U.S. Department of the Treasury? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35730.htm Continue reading

Information Clearing House

Afghanistan, Egypt, ICH, Iraq, NSA, Video
August 3, 2013

Video: Has the Gov’t Lied on Snooping? Let’s Go to the Videotape

Since Edward Snowden leaked documents detailing the NSA’s sweeping surveillance programs, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was forced to admit that part of his congressional testimony was “erroneous.” Here are six claims about NSA surveillance that have been undermined by recent disclosures. Continue reading

USA, Videos

James Clapper, NSA, prism, snowden, surveillance, Video
August 3, 2013

The Bradley Manning Verdict: Criminalizing the Exposure of Crimes By Joseph Kishore

manning On Wednesday, the day after the conviction of Bradley Manning was handed down by a military judge, the Washington Post published an article under the headline, “Manning’s Conviction Seen as Making Prosecution of WikiLeaks’ Assange Likely.” The Post noted that the prosecutors—that is, the Obama administration—specifically tailored their case against Manning to implicate the… Continue reading

Liberties, USA

assange, class, Iraq, MANNING, New York, NSA, Obama, snowden, United States, Washington Post, WikiLeaks, WSWS
August 2, 2013

NSA Whistleblowers: NSA Collects ‘Word for Word’ Every Domestic Communication

Binney and Tice confirmed that the NSA is recording every word of every phone call made within the United States Continue reading

USA

binney, counterterrorism, FBI, intelligence, interview, metadata, NSA, PBS, United States, Whistleblowers
August 2, 2013

Snowden Leaks: Telecoms Giants give GCHQ unlimited access, develop own spyware

Major telecom companies have been assisting the UK intelligence agency GCHQ by granting access to all the traffic passing through their fiber-optic cables – and by developing Trojan software, leaked papers obtained by German media reveal. Continue reading

UK

GCHQ, intelligence, market, NSA, RT, snowden, spying, spyware, surveillance
August 2, 2013

Edward Snowden: Our man in Moscow By Pepe Escobar

So what is the “extremely disappointed” Obama administration, the Orwellian/Panopticon complex and the discredited US Congress to do? Send a Navy Seal Team 6 to snatch him or to target assassinate him – turning Moscow into Abbottabad 2.0? Drone him? Poison his borscht? Shower his new house with depleted uranium? Install a no-fly zone over… Continue reading

Spies-R-Us, USA

Asia, Congress, Moscow, NSA, Obama, Pepe Escobar, prism, security, snowden

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