NSA
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NSA: Guatemalan Genocide on Trial
Guatemala achieved a breakthrough for justice today with the opening of the landmark criminal trial of Efrain Rios Montt, former military dictator, for genocide and crimes against humanity. Continue reading
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NSA: Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Was Not a Grand Design But a Grand Entanglement Resulting from Faulty Intelligence, Excessive Secrecy…
On December 12, 1979, the Soviet Politburo gathered to formally approve the decision made several days earlier to send a “limited contingent” of Soviet forces into Afghanistan. Continue reading
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Video: ‘Everyone in US under virtual surveillance’ – NSA whistleblower
The FBI records the emails of nearly all US citizens, including members of congress, according to NSA whistleblower William Binney. In an interview with RT, he warned that the government can use this information against anyone. (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: 'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' – NSA whistleblower
The FBI records the emails of nearly all US citizens, including members of congress, according to NSA whistleblower William Binney. In an interview with RT, he warned that the government can use this information against anyone. (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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NSA: The Jonathan Pollard Spy Case: The CIA’s 1987 Damage Assessment Declassified
When Naval Investigative Service analyst Jonathan Pollard spied for Israel in 1984 and 1985, his Israeli handlers asked primarily for nuclear, military and technical information on the Arab states, Pakistan, and the Soviet Union — not on the United States — according to the newly-declassified CIA 1987 damage assessment of the Pollard case, published today… Continue reading
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Leveson’s Punch and Judy show on the press masks ‘hacking’ on a scale you can barely imagine By John Pilger
In Britain, this world of subjugated news and information is concealed behind a similar façade of a “free” media, which promotes the extremisms of state corruption and war, consumerism and an impoverishment known as “austerity”. Leveson devoted his “inquiry” to the preservation of this system. Continue reading
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CIA-Sponsored Trolls Monitor Internet & Interact With Users to Discredit Factual Information by Susanne Posel
In July of this year it became apparent through a flood of mainstream media reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) was “desperate to hire new hacking talent to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure” yet the NSA is notorious for its surveillance programs on American digital activity. Continue reading
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Video: NSA Whistleblower: Everyone in US Under Virtual Surveillance, All Info Stored
RT talks to William Binney, whistleblower and former NSA crypto-mathematician who served in the agency for decades. Virtual privacy in US, Petraeus affair and whistleblowers’ odds in fight against the authorities are among key topics of this exclusive interview. Continue reading
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NSA 12 October 2012: New Book – U.S.-Iran: Lessons from an Earlier War
12 October 2012 — National Security Archive New Book–Becoming Enemies–Explores Roots of the Current Crisis with IranEx-Officials’ Candid Accounts & Declassified Documents Provide Fresh Details, Illuminate Ongoing HostilityEdited by Malcolm Byrne Continue reading
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NSA: Lifting the Veil on NRO Satellite Systems and Ground Stations
Today, the National Security Archive posts the fourth in a series of electronic briefing books concerning secrecy and satellite reconnaissance – one of the most sensitive areas of U.S. intelligence-gathering. Specific satellite programs whose declassification is covered in this briefing book include some of the earliest and, at the time, most secretive programs of their… Continue reading
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NSA: The Armageddon Letters – Telling the Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis From the Perspective of Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro
The Armageddon Letters – a transmedia project (multiplatform storytelling) launched on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis – takes visitors behind the scenes during the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the most dangerous crisis in recorded history. Continue reading
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NSA: Jimmy Carter’s Controversial Nuclear Targeting Directive PD-59 Declassified
The National Security Archive is today posting – for the first time in its essentially complete form – one of the most controversial nuclear policy directives of the Cold War. Presidential Directive 59 (PD-59), “Nuclear Weapons Employment Policy,” signed by President Jimmy Carter on 25 July 1980, aimed at giving U.S. Presidents more flexibility in… Continue reading
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NSA: The Haqqani History: Bin Ladin’s Advocate Inside the Taliban
In the wake of the State Department’s recent designation of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Haqqani Network as a terrorist organization, declassified documents posted today — on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks — by the National Security Archive offer new insight into the Haqqani family’s long history with militancy. The records on Network founder Jalaluddin Haqqani detail… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 26 July 2012: Does the NSA Have a File On You? Probably
26 July 2012 — Information Clearing House Engineering Consent For An Attack On Syria Western Troops ‘Increasingly Likely’ to Intervene By Nick Hopkins “It is highly likely that some western special forces and intelligence resources have been in Syria for a considerable time,” says Colonel Richard Kemp. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31990.htm Continue reading
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NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake Prevails Against Charges in Unprecedented Obama Admin Crackdown
We speak with Thomas Drake, who was targeted after challenging waste, mismanagement and possible constitutional violations at the National Security Agency, but the case against him later collapsed. Drake was one of several sources for a Baltimore Sun article about a $1.2 billion NSA experimental program called “Trailblazer” to sift through electronic communications for national… Continue reading
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Darpa director leaving the Pentagon for Google
Regina Dugan oversaw the development of some of the US military’s most marvelous high tech accomplishments as director of Darpa, but the head of the DoD’s research lab is parting ways with the Pentagon to take on a role with Google. Continue reading
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NSA refuses to disclose its links with Google
The Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, is suing the United States National Security Agency to find out the truth behind any partnership between the NSA and Google, the Silicon Valley giants behind the Web’s most popular search engine and a laundry list of other online applications and services. EPIC has been asking for information… Continue reading
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NSA: IRAN CONTRA AT 25: REAGAN AND BUSH ‘CRIMINAL LIABILITY’ EVALUATIONS
President Ronald Reagan was briefed in advance about every weapons shipment in the Iran arms-for-hostages deals in 1985-86, and Vice President George H. W. Bush chaired a committee that recommended the mining of the harbors of Nicaragua in 1983, according to previously secret Independent Counsel assessments of “criminal liability” on the part of the two… Continue reading
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The Media is the Message By William Bowles
It’s more than possible that the entire cables release was engineered in order to justify even more repressive laws under the guise of protecting the agents of the Empire or fighting the ‘war on terror’. Whatever the truth, it’s no longer is it about the cables, it’s all about Julian Assange. Mission accomplished. Continue reading