spying
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REVEALED: GCHQ’s BEYOND TOP SECRET Middle Eastern INTERNET SPY BASE By Duncan Campbell
Snowden leaks that UK.gov suppressed Exclusive Above-top-secret details of Britain’s covert surveillance programme – including the location of a clandestine British base tapping undersea cables in the Middle East – have so far remained secret, despite being leaked by fugitive NSA sysadmin Edward Snowden. Government pressure has meant that some media organisations, despite being in… Continue reading
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Drone Wars: Surveying the Home Front By Chris Cole
Statewatch and Drone Wars UK are co-publishing a new report into the use of unmanned drones in UK airspace. Back from the Battlefield: Domestic Drones in the UK written by Chris Jones of Statewatch examines the current use of drones in UK airspace by public and private bodies looking in particular at their use by… Continue reading
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Video: First interview while in Russia: Snowden talks to German NDR – reports
Former employee of US special services Edward Snowden, who revealed thousands of secret documents, has given his first interview since coming to Russia, the website of the German TV company NDR says. During the interview, Snowden particularly, said that the US National Security Agency also engages in industrial espionage. If there is information about, for… Continue reading
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British Spy Chiefs Secretly Begged to Play in NSA’s Data Pools
Britain’s electronic surveillance agency, Government Communications Headquarters, has long presented its collaboration with the National Security Agency’s massive electronic spying efforts as proportionate, carefully monitored, and well within the bounds of privacy laws. But according to a top-secret document in the archive of material provided to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, GCHQ secretly… Continue reading
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Social media: A Weapon of PsyWar & you’re the target By Tony Gosling
For centuries the most powerful intelligence gathering service on the planet was the Catholic rite of ‘confession’, where millions of people told vital info to the Pope on guilty acts which could then be used to blackmail them and their co-sinners. But you’d be wrong if you thought that was mostly over with Luther and… Continue reading
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Public Service Announcement: Mass Surveillance Is ALWAYS About Crushing Dissent
500 Years of History – and 40 Years of Warnings by Top U.S. Officials – Confirms that Government Spying On One’s Own People Is Always About Grabbing Power and Stifling Criticism Continue reading
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Former US intelligence contractor speaks on 1975 Australian coup By Mike Head
Christopher Boyce, who was jailed for 25 years for leaking information about US spying and political destabilisation operations against the Whitlam Labor government in Australia during 1974 and 1975, was interviewed on Australian public broadcaster SBS’s “Dateline” program last month. Continue reading
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NSA Recorded the CONTENT of ‘EVERY SINGLE’ CALL in a Foreign Country … and Also In AMERICA?
1 March 2014 — WashingtonsBlog Yes, They’re Doing It To Americans As Well… The Washington Post reports – based upon documents leaked by Edward Snowden – that the NSA is recording “every single” phone call in one foreign country (at the request of the NSA, the Post is withholding the name of the country. However, the Post notes Continue reading
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Snowden’s testimony to European Parliament: “Billions of innocents” unlawfully spied upon By Robert Stevens
On Friday, the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee published the written testimony of US whistleblower and former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden. Snowden agreed to give testimony to the EP’s ongoing inquiry into the Electronic Mass Surveillance of EU Citizens. Continue reading
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CIA Spies On Its Overseers – Subverts Democratic Oversight
The CIA Inspector General’s Office has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations of malfeasance at the spy agency in connection with a yet-to-be released Senate Intelligence Committee report into the CIA’s secret detention and interrogation program, McClatchy has learned. Continue reading
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Snowden: Over-classification leads to decline of democracy
The former NSA contractor, currently living in temporary asylum in Russia, believes the trend of making more and more information secret could lead to a decline in democracy, because “when a public is no longer aware of the actions of its officials… it can no longer hold most senior members of its society to necessary… Continue reading
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America’s Five Criminals: In the U.S. the Gestapo Has Replaced the Rule of Law By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
All five of these Gestapo wannabes are in violation of their oath of office to protect the Constitution of the United States. They have relentlessly violated the Constitution, which makes these five, who are in charge of US intelligence and black operations, traitors to the United States. Yet, they have not been arrested and put… Continue reading
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Obama Fans Aren’t Even Pretending That Was a Good Speech By David Swanson
President Barack Obama gave a eulogy for the Fourth Amendment on Friday, and not even his fans are proclaiming victory. In this moment when Obama is actually doing one thing I agree with (talking to Iran), more and more people seem to be slowly, agonizingly slowly, finally, finally, finally, recognizing what a complete huckster he… Continue reading
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As Obama Rejects NSA Changes – Need For A New Internet Arises
The still ongoing revelations about aggressive NSA spying on the world have led to hopes that some restrictions would be introduced to it. But that is not going to happen. All President Obama is going to do about it is holding a nice speech that promises to mostly kick the can over to Congress where… Continue reading
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“These Programs Were Never About Terrorism: They’re About Economic Spying, Social Control, and Diplomatic Manipulation. They’re About Power”
Edward Snowden wrote yesterday about mass surveillance by the NSA: These programs were never about terrorism: they’re about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They’re about power. Continue reading
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Police State UK: US, UK governments defend police-state spying By Patrick Martin
The US and British governments have stepped up their campaign of repression and victimization against Edward Snowden and his allies for exposing the worldwide police-state spying by the US National Security Agency and the British GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters). Continue reading
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Police State UK: New threats against the Guardian newspaper and Snowden in Westminster debate By Chris Marsden
Tthe [parliamentary] debate sponsored by three MPs underscored the degree to which all three main parties are intent on suppressing evidence of mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency and the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). The debate—called by Julian Huppert of the Liberal Democrats, Conservative Dominic Raab, and the Labour Party’s Tom Watson—renewed… Continue reading
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As Europe Erupts Over US Spying, NSA Chief Says Government Must Stop Media By Glenn Greenwald
The most under-discussed aspect of the NSA story has long been its international scope. That all changed this week as both Germany and France exploded with anger over new revelations about pervasive NSAsurveillance on their population and democratically elected leaders. Continue reading
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The Government Is Spying On Us Through Our Computers, Phones, Cars, Buses, Streetlights, At Airports And On The Street, Via Mobile Scanners And Drones, Through Our Smart Meters, And In Many Other Ways
Even now – after all of the revelations by Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers – spying apologists say that the reports are “exaggerated” or “overblown”, and that the government only spies on potential bad guys. In reality, the government is spying on everyone’s digital and old-fashioned communications. Continue reading
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Britain’s Independent newspaper defends state spying apparatus By Robert Stevens
The publication August 23 by Britain’s Independent newspaper of an article by its defence correspondent Kim Sengupta reveals the reliance of the UK government on the complicity of the media in concealing its secretive and illegal activity. Continue reading
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