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Even FISA Court Judge Says It’s a Kangaroo Court
We’ve noted that there is no real oversight by the courts or Congress on the NSA’s spying programs. Continue reading
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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
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Video: ‘United Stasi of America’: Kim Dotcom ‘defaces’ US embassy in Berlin
A light project by German artist Oliver Bienkowski and online activist Kim Dotcom beamed onto the building of the US mission in Germany from Sunday night into Monday. Using a powerful projector, the words lit up the embassy’s walls, making the comparison visible to all in the vicinity. Continue reading
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NSA leaker accepts political asylum in Venezuela: Russian official
“As was expected, Snowden agreed to (Venezuelan President Nicolas) Maduro’s offer of political asylum,” Alexei Pushkov, the head of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said on his Twitter account Tuesday. Continue reading
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Documents: Sweden Wiretapping Russia’s International Traffic For The NSA
Earlier documents put in context with recent revelations show that Sweden has been systematically wiretapping Russia on behalf of the United States. This is clear after putting a number of previous questionable agreements and developments in context today. The question that remains is what Sweden gets in return. Continue reading
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Snowden: NSA is ‘in bed with the Germans’
US fugitive Edward Snowden has accused Germany and the US of partnering in spy intelligence operations, revealing that cooperation between the countries is closer than German indignation would indicate, Der Spiegel magazine reported. Continue reading
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Trade Secrets – Draft EU documents reveal trade agenda with U.S. By Karen Hansen-Kuhn
Transparency and trade negotiations don’t seem to go together these days. Recent revelations in Spiegel disclosed that the U.S. government had been spying on its EU “partners” connected to negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP, probably better stated as the Trans Atlantic Free Trade agreement, or TAFTA, which very much rhymes with… Continue reading
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‘Free from imperial persecution’: Venezuela offers Snowden asylum
On Friday Nicaragua also said that it would “gladly receive” Snowden, who is still holed up in a transit section of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport since fleeing Hong Kong twelve days ago, and give him asylum, “if circumstances permit.” Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 5 July 2013
5 July 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: Snowden makes expanded asylum requests Greenwich Time In this picture, taken Saturday June 29, 2013, a demonstrator protests with a poster against NSA in Hanover, Germany. Germany’s top justice official says reports that U.S. intelligence bugged European Union offices remind her of “the methods used by … http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/politics/article/Obama-suggests-spying-on-nations-allies-is-common-4639865.php Continue reading
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Snowden asylum case: ‘European leaders are slavishly obedient to American policy’
In the debate between security and privacy the US government went way too far in the direction of security, but the European leaders are obedient to American policy, Gerolf Annemans, member of the Belgian Vlaams Belang party, told RT. Continue reading
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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
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UK parliament’s intelligence and security committee cancels questioning of UK spy agencies By Robert Stevens
The ISC, established by the Intelligence Services Act 1994, is tasked with overseeing the work of the intelligence services. It is composed of former ministers, appointed by the prime minister, in consultations with the Leader of the Opposition–the Labour Party. Its workings are kept secret and the prime minister filters its reports to Parliament. Continue reading
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Source: NSA Spied on Chávez in Rome
The DataGate? It began in Rome when the National Security Agency (NSA) spied on the visit of Hugo Chávez. In May 2006, U.S. secret services organized a massive espionage operation against the Venezuelan president. The Italian capital was intercepted for a week. Continue reading
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New Documents Shed Light on NSA’s Dragnet Surveillance
An unnamed “senior administration official” confirmed the existence of a Bush-era surveillance program which gobbled-up “vast amounts of records detailing the email and internet usage of Americans,” but claimed, without evidence, that “it ended in 2001,” according to The Guardian. Continue reading
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Video: Ecuador Defies US Threats To Deny NSA Whistleblower Refuge
Michael Ratner: As Ecuador stands up to US pressure over Snowden, leaked documents continue to shed light into US surveillance state (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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New Snowden leak: US bugged dozens of foreign embassies
The US has been spying on dozens of foreign embassies and missions belonging to its rivals and allies in America to keep tabs on disagreements between them, new documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed. Continue reading
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Behind the Curtain of America’s Security State By William Boardman
On March 12, 2013, the Director of National Intelligence apparently committed perjury in his sworn testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. There is little likelihood of his being criminally charged, but we’ll get back to that. Continue reading
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US taps half-billion German phone and internet activities a month – report
NSA snooped through 20-60 million German phone connections and 10 million internet data sets a day, Der Spiegel claims. Continue reading
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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
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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
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