Showing posts with label NSA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NSA. Show all posts

H A Goodman: Jon Stewart and Jimmy Fallon Have A Point: Why Not Ask the NSA To Produce Hillary Clinton's Emails?

Big Brother has every one of them. Political attacks against Hillary Clinton often times make for good comedy, which is why during this Daily Show segment, Jon Stewart asks the following questions: "Don't we have a facility in Utah that collects all of our emails, anyway, solving the whole archive problem?" he asked. "Can't you just ask them, or they   ... MORE

Nick Gass: Edward Snowden Is Ready To Return To U.S.

But can he get a fair trial?   Edward Snowden is ready to go home to the United States. “Snowden is ready to return to the States, but on the condition that he is given a guarantee of a legal and impartial trial,” his Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said at a news conference Tuesday, as quoted by Russian state media outlet TASS. The former National  ... MORE

VIDEO: Why I'm Not Ready To Give Up On America

Laura Myers: Big Brother Looms Large At FreedomFest

More skepticism of government needed. Big Brother is watching Americans’ every move and violating their civil rights at every turn as the country becomes a militarized police state, participants at a libertarian-minded gathering in Las Vegas said Thursday. Panelists at FreedomFest offered plenty of real-world examples to illustrate their      ... MORE

Fed Court Rubber Stamps Continued NSA Spying For Now

by Dustin Volz.    A federal court has again renewed an order allowing the National Security Agency to continue its bulk collection of Americans' phone records, a decision that comes more than a year after President Obama pledged to end the controversial program. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved this week a government request to  ... MORE

Edward Snowden's Libertarian Moment: We "Will Remove From Governments The Ability To Interfere With Rights"

by Nick Gillespie.  Via Mark Sletten comes this thread from yesterday's Ask Me Anything session at Reddit that featured Edward Snowden, Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras, and journalist Glenn Greenwald. The question posed to Snowden: What's the best way to make NSA spying an issue in the 2016 Presidential Election? It seems like while it was  ... MORE

Program That Enables America To Spy On EVERY Home Computer In The world Is Uncovered By Outraged Russia

by Reuters reporter and Chris Spargo.   America caught violating everyone's privacy. The National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives, allowing them to monitor and eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers - even when they are not connected to the internet. The Moscow-based security  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Glib, 'Happy Talk'

Presidential ignorance is not bliss.    When Alfred E. Neuman said "What me worry?" on the cover of Mad magazine, it was funny. But this message was not nearly as funny coming from President Barack Obama and his National Security Advisor, Susan Rice. In a musical comedy, it would be hilarious to have the president send out his "happy talk" message  ... MORE

John W. Whitehead: Creepy, Calculating and Controlling

All of the ways Big Brother is watching you.    None of us are perfect. All of us bend the rules occasionally. Even before the age of overcriminalization, when the most upstanding citizen could be counted on to break at least three laws a day without knowing it, most of us have knowingly flouted the law from time to time. Today, however,    ... MORE

Paul Craig Roberts: The Police State Is Upon Us

You are in grave danger, and so are your children.      Anyone paying attention knows that 9/11 has been used to create a police/warfare state.  Years ago, NSA official William Binney warned Americans about the universal spying by the National Security Agency, to little effect. Recently, Edward Snowden proved the all-inclusive NSA spying by      ... MORE

VIDEO: DEA Data Mining

Todd Krainin: Glenn Greenwald - The Outsider

Exposing a government with no constraints.   Glenn Greenwald is a lawyer who has lost all interest in making legal arguments. The reason for his indifference should terrify anyone who believes that the law, and not arbitrary decision-making by government officials, should govern a nation. Asked whether NSA mass surveillance is legal under    ... MORE

Dustin Volz: Government Privacy Board Tells Obama Administration To Shut Down NSA Mass Spying Now

White House quiet since USA Freedom Act crumbled.    An executive-branch privacy watchdog is renewing its call for President Obama to unilaterally end the National Security Agency's domestic phone records dragnet amid growing uncertainty over Congress's willingness to reform government surveillance. The bipartisan Privacy and Civil  ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: Who Will Keep Our Freedoms Safe?

It won't be the government. While the Western world was watching and grieving over the slaughter in Paris last week, and my colleagues in the media were fomenting a meaningless debate about whether President Obama should have gone to Paris to participate in a televised parade, the feds took advantage of that diversion to reveal even more    ... MORE

John W. Whitehead: Welcome To The Matrix

Enslaved by technology and the Internet of things.     If ever Americans sell their birthright, it will be for the promise of expediency and comfort delivered by way of blazingly fast Internet, cell phone signals that never drop a call, thermostats that keep us at the perfect temperature without our having to raise a finger, and           ... MORE

Don't Blame Me - The Year's Highlights In Buck Passing

by Jacob Sullum.  For years New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has insisted that people who pay for sex and the intermediaries who facilitate that exchange are responsible for violence against women. Hence his February 26 column celebrating the arrests of men who were guilty of nothing but negotiating terms with cops posing as   ... MORE

Documents Reveal Encryption That NSA Can't Crack

by Dhananjay Harkare.   National Security Agency also known as NSA, the US intelligence agency has been a hot topic of discussion after former member Edward Snowden revealed its dark side. An archive of Snowden’s documents suggests the encryption schemes that NSA can break easily along with those it can’t crack. The reports suggest that by      ... MORE