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Post by avordvet on Aug 5, 2013 13:18:00 GMT -5
Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSADocuments provided by two House members demonstrate how they are blocked from exercising any oversight over domestic surveillanceGlenn Greenwald, theguardian.com, Sunday 4 August 2013 08.26 EDT Members of Congress have been repeatedly thwarted when attempting to learn basic information about the National Security Agency (NSA) and the secret FISA court which authorizes its activities, documents provided by two House members demonstrate. From the beginning of the NSA controversy, the agency's defenders have insisted that Congress is aware of the disclosed programs and exercises robust supervision over them. "These programs are subject to congressional oversight and congressional reauthorization and congressional debate," President Obama said the day after the first story on NSA bulk collection of phone records was published in this space. "And if there are members of Congress who feel differently, then they should speak up." But members of Congress, including those in Obama's party, have flatly denied knowing about them. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/04/congress-nsa-denied-access
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Post by avordvet on Aug 7, 2013 4:36:42 GMT -5
Obama to Leno: 'We Don't Have a Domestic Spying Program'Tuesday, 06 Aug 2013 11:39 PM, By Greg Richter "We don't have a domestic spying program," Obama said. "What we do have are some mechanisms that can track a phone number or an email address that we know is connected to some sort of terrorist threat. That information is useful." Obama said the public's skepticism of the program is good, adding that he was skeptical himself when he came into office. He said he had the programs reviewed and added additional safeguards to protect Americans' privacy. www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obama-leno-no-spying/2013/08/06/id/519090 'We Don't Have a Domestic Spying Program'... Thank you, I'll be here all night.
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Post by avordvet on Aug 8, 2013 4:35:04 GMT -5
Former Obama Advisor: President's Claim of No Domestic Spying Program 'Ridiculous'Wednesday, 07 Aug 2013 06:04 PM, By Greg Richter "Everybody knows I love this president," Jones said, "but this is ridiculous. What we need to do is figure out how we're going to balance these things, not pretend there's no balancing to be done." www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obama-domestic-spying-program/2013/08/07/id/519284
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Post by Cujo on Aug 8, 2013 7:45:16 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Aug 10, 2013 3:00:13 GMT -5
Techie traitors in our midst? Apple's Tim Cook, tech executives meet with Barack Obama to talk surveillance
By TONY ROMM, 8/8/13 9:13 PM EDT
President Barack Obama hosted Apple CEO Tim Cook, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, Google computer scientist Vint Cerf and other tech executives and civil liberties leaders on Thursday for a closed-door meeting about government surveillance, sources tell POLITICO.
www.politico.com/story/2013/08/tim-cook-barack-obama-technology-95362.html?hp=l3 NSA Scandals Signal Much Wider, Underlying Problem
August 9, 2013 at Samuel Culper III
What I'm suggesting as a possibility, aside from your obvious and common regime power grabbing, is that the ramped up collection against all Americans occurring over the past ten or so years is the result of and response to penetration of foreign adversaries taking cover as US citizens; effectively using a perceived weakness of the intelligence community against it.
guerrillamerica.com/2013/08/nsa-scandals-signal-much-wider-underlying-problem/
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Post by avordvet on Aug 14, 2013 4:08:48 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Aug 16, 2013 4:12:50 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Aug 17, 2013 3:28:49 GMT -5
NSA Funds New “Top Secret” $60 Million Dollar Data LabPaul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com, August 16, 2013 The National Security Agency is funding a “top secret” $60 million dollar data analysis lab at North Carolina State University which will scrutinize information collected from private emails, phone calls and Google searches. www.infowars.com/nsa-funds-new-top-secret-60-million-dollar-data-lab/
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Post by avordvet on Aug 18, 2013 7:44:47 GMT -5
So as long as the number is close to zero its alright if constitutional protections are violated... Political doublespeak: We broke the rules without violating the rules. Former NSA Director Hayden to Newsmax: We Did Not Break RulesFriday, 16 Aug 2013 10:46 PM, By Todd Beamon Hayden acknowledged that mistakes happen. "You don't want to make any mistakes, but no one is claiming that the mistakes were intentional. Everyone understands that it's complicated." It may not be realistic to expect the system to be error-proof. "The NSA needs to work very, very hard. It needs to work to zero — but, realistically, anyone who understands this business knows they will never get to zero," Hayden said. www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Hayden-Newsmax-NSA-audit/2013/08/16/id/520888
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Post by avordvet on Aug 20, 2013 3:36:32 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Aug 21, 2013 4:37:09 GMT -5
Another Site Shuts Down in Light of NSA SpyingAug. 20, 2013 5:15pm Liz Klimas First it was Lavabit, then Silent Circle and now another award-winning website has decided to close down — at least for now — due to issues associated with government surveillance. In a blog post expressing her “incredibly sad” decision to shutter Groklaw — a website covering legal news pertaining to free and open source software — founder Pamela Jones, who started the site a decade ago, wrote “there is no way to continue.” www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/20/another-site-shuts-down-in-light-of-nsa-spying/ Report: NSA’s Broad Reach Covers 75 Percent of ALL U.S. Internet TrafficAug. 20, 2013 11:26pm Jason Howerton The broad reach of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance network has the ability to cover roughly 75 percent of all U.S. Internet traffic, the Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesday. The alarming report suggests the agency’s digital spying capabilities are even more encompassing than officials have publicly disclosed. www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/20/report-nsas-broad-reach-covers-75-percent-of-all-u-s-internet-traffic/ How The NSA Scours 75% Of The Nation's Internet Traffic - In One ChartSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 08/20/2013 22:47 -0400 The NSA - which possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens - has, according to the Wall Street Journal, built a surveillance network that covers more Americans' Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed, current and former officials say. The system has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic. www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-20/how-nsa-scours-75-nations-internet-traffic-one-chart
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Post by avordvet on Aug 21, 2013 15:59:13 GMT -5
NSA Program Secretly Ruled Unconstitutional in 2011Wednesday, 21 Aug 2013 03:36 PM, By Todd Beamon The National Security Agency illegally gathered as many as 56,000 e-mails and other electronic communications between Americans with no connection to terrorism as part of a collection program that was ruled unconstitutional by a secret spy court in 2011. www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/nsa-program-ruled-unconstitutional/2013/08/21/id/521597
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Post by avordvet on Aug 22, 2013 4:23:31 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Aug 23, 2013 14:31:38 GMT -5
NSA Admits Agents Purposefully Violated Spy RulesAug. 23, 2013 12:55pm Liz Klimas The NSA admitted in a statement to Bloomberg News that there have been “willful violations” in the past of the regulations governing its programs that spy in the communications of Americans in an effort to thwart terrorism. “Over the past decade, very rare instances of willful violations of NSA’s authorities have been found,” the NSA’s statement said. “NSA takes very seriously allegations of misconduct, and cooperates fully with any investigations — responding as appropriate. NSA has zero tolerance for willful violations of the agency’s authorities.” www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/23/nsa-admits-agents-purposefully-violated-spy-rules/
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Post by watchful on Aug 23, 2013 17:23:14 GMT -5
Is that kinda like" Yes I did, and I am proud of it, and I will do it again if I need to!
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Post by avordvet on Aug 25, 2013 5:58:27 GMT -5
NSA Spied on Wives and Spouses at TimesSaturday, 24 Aug 2013 06:49 PM, By Cathy Burke The massive resources of the National Security Agency — the nation's beleaguered spy agency — have sometimes been put to use eavesdropping on agents' love interests, The Wall Street Journal reports. The NSA even gave such intelligence collection a name — LOVEINT. One unnamed official told the Journal the practice was infrequent — averaging roughly one per year. www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/NSA-LOVEINT-Wives-Spouses/2013/08/24/id/522074
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Post by avordvet on Aug 27, 2013 16:46:36 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Aug 28, 2013 4:16:07 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Aug 29, 2013 12:56:14 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Sept 3, 2013 3:51:36 GMT -5
Drug Agents Can Access 26 Years of AT&T Phone Records, Program RevealsSep. 2, 2013 6:58pm Liz Klimas Although the National Security Agency (NSA) has been in the hot seat the last few months for the revelations about its domestic surveillance, it has been revealed that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency searches phone records in a program that the New York Times said is ”unmatched by other government programs.” www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/02/drug-agents-can-access-26-years-of-att-phone-records-program-reveals/ Report: NSA Spied on Presidents of Mexico & BrazilSep. 2, 2013 8:37am Madeleine Morgenstern The National Security Agency spied on the presidents of Mexico and Brazil, including reading the Mexican leader’s emails before he was even elected, journalist Glenn Greenwald reported Sunday. Report: NSA Spied on Mexico, Brazil Presidents Greenwald told Brazilian news program “Fantastico” that a document dated June 2012 indicated that Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s emails were being accessed, according to the Associated Press. Pena Nieto wasn’t actually elected until a month later. www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/02/report-nsa-spied-on-presidents-of-mexico-brazil/
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Post by avordvet on Sept 6, 2013 5:12:28 GMT -5
N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on WebBy NICOLE PERLROTH, JEFF LARSON and SCOTT SHANE, Published: September 5, 2013 The agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and automatically secures the e-mails, Web searches, Internet chats and phone calls of Americans and others around the world, the documents show. www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html?_r=0NSA and GCHQ unlock privacy and security on the internetJames Ball, Julian Borger and Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian, Thursday 5 September 2013 US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails, according to top-secret documents revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden. The files show that the National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have broadly compromised the guarantees that internet companies have given consumers to reassure them that their communications, online banking and medical records would be indecipherable to criminals or governments www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security
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Post by avordvet on Sept 12, 2013 11:17:00 GMT -5
Yahoo CEO fears defying NSA could mean prisonPublished September 12, 2013 SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer said she feared winding up in prison for treason if she refused to comply with U.S. spy demands for data. Her comments came after being asked what she is doing to protect Yahoo users from "tyrannical government" during an on-stage interview Wednesday afternoon at a TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco. Mayer said Yahoo scrutinizes and fights U.S. government data requests stamped with the authority of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, but when the company loses battles it must do as directed or risk being branded a traitor. www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/09/12/yahoo-ceo-fears-defying-nsa-could-mean-prison/
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Post by avordvet on Nov 19, 2013 6:18:43 GMT -5
I think a little prison time for the main players (executive, legislative and judicial) might put a stop to it... but when all the players are making a living off each others actions, that ain't gonna happen any time soon. Docs say NSA repeatedly promised to stop surveillance rules violationsPublished November 19, 2013, Associated Press WASHINGTON – The National Security Agency reported its own violations of surveillance rules to a U.S. intelligence court and promised additional safety measures to prevent similar missteps over and over again, according to more than 1,000 pages of newly declassified files about the federal government's controversial program of collecting every American's phone records during the past seven years. www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/19/docs-say-nsa-repeatedly-assured-court-it-would-stop-surveillance-rules/?intcmp=latestnews
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Post by avordvet on Sept 19, 2014 15:52:27 GMT -5
Obama Administration Renews NSA Spy ProgramMonday, 15 Sep 2014 06:47 PM, By Jason Devaney Nine months after promising to overhaul the nation's spy program, President Barack Obama's deadline to make such changes has been extended for the third time. According to National Journal, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved a request from the Justice Department to renew the NSA's Section 215 telephony metadata program, part of the Patriot Act, on Friday. The program allows the NSA to spy on American citizens by collecting phone records. The top-secret program was first made public by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, whose revelations forced him to take asylum in Russia. The program will now expire Dec. 5, unless it is re-upped again at that time. www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/spy-program-renewed/2014/09/15/id/594782/
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Post by boothdoc on Sept 19, 2014 18:54:27 GMT -5
Lol, like they will tell us Dec 5 this is done, lol.
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