by John W. Whitehead. 'Just salute and follow orders.' Question: How can you tell when a politician is lying? Answer: When he’s moving his lips. If that didn’t generate a chuckle, how about: Q: Why is honesty in politics like oxygen? A: The higher you go, the scarcer it gets. Then there’s President Obama’s gaffe on the Tonight Show: “We ... MORE
Showing posts with label secrecy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label secrecy. Show all posts
When Secrecy And Surveillance Trump Rule Of Law
by John W. Whitehead. 'Just salute and follow orders.' Question: How can you tell when a politician is lying? Answer: When he’s moving his lips. If that didn’t generate a chuckle, how about: Q: Why is honesty in politics like oxygen? A: The higher you go, the scarcer it gets. Then there’s President Obama’s gaffe on the Tonight Show: “We ... MOREWhat If Secrecy Trumps The Constitution?
by Andrew Napolitano. What if the National Security Agency (NSA) knows it is violating the Constitution by spying on all Americans without showing a judge probable cause of wrongdoing or identifying the persons it wishes to spy upon, as the Constitution requires? What if this massive spying has come about because the NSA found it too difficult ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Sunlight Slays Secret Snooping
What changed Obama's mind about NSA dragnet? Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee last July, Deputy Attorney General James Cole explained why the National Security Agency (NSA) needed to collect everyone's telephone records. "If you're looking for the needle in the haystack," he said, "you have to have the entire haystack to ... MORE Andrew Napolitano: A Rivalry Of Government Hackers
More evidence the government is not us. The government is caught up in another scandal in which federal agents have been accused of hacking into one another's computers. When the CIA was established in 1947, Congress and President Truman were concerned that it might not confine itself to spying. Its sole statutory purpose was to ... MOREHow The NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' Of Computers
by Ryan Gallagher and Glenn Greenwald. Government malware to aid in warrantless searches. Top-secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency is dramatically expanding its ability to covertly hack into computers on a mass scale by using automated systems that reduce the level of human oversight in the process. The ... MOREAndrew Napolitano - New Assaults On American Law
Political termites furthering Constitutional erosion. In the months since Edward Snowden revealed the nature and extent of the spying that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been perpetrating upon Americans and foreigners, some of the NSA's most troublesome behavior has not been a part of the public debate. This ... MOREFeds Want To Track Your DNA Like A License Plate
by Steve Peacock. More evidence the government is not us. The federal government doesn’t just want the ability to track down your car; it wants to be able to track down your body as well. Just as details are emerging about a controversial, nationwide vehicle-surveillance database, WND has learned the federal government is planning an even ... MOREFighting Back Against Government's Big Secret
by Rep. Ted Poe. It’s Tuesday morning. A citizen wakes up, writes emails and makes a phone call. The person has a meeting soon, so he pulls up Google Maps to figure out a route. He then hops into a cab, checks Facebook on his phone, texts his friend and plays ‘Candy Crush’ on his iPhone. After the meeting he heads to the office, logs on to ... MOREThe Gang Of Twelve And Our Secret Government
by Andrew Napolitano. A new assault on freedom of the press. Last week, a little noticed clash took place on Capitol Hill involving the fundamental values underlying the First Amendment. The issue was the lawfulness of publishing the secrets that were given to reporters by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward ... MOREAngry Birds Transformed Into 'Spying Birds' By Hackers
by Lucian Constantin. The official Angry Birds website was defaced by hackers following reports that U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies have been collecting user information from the game and other popular mobile apps. Some users trying to access the angrybirds.com website late Tuesday were greeted by an image depicting the Angry Birds ... MOREMatthew Feeney: U.S. Intelligence Workers Want Ed Dead
Can't blame spies for wanting ignorant prey. BuzzFeed’s Benny Johnson has written
an article outlining the degree of violent hatred some people
working in the U.S. intelligence community have for NSA
whistle-blower Edward Snowden. Some highlights: “In a world where I would not be restricted from killing an
American, I personally ... MORESecret Court Approves More NSA Phone Snooping
Stephen Dinan on gov't giving gov't more power. The secret court that oversees the nation’s intelligence activities renewed its approval of the National Security Agency’s
telephone-records program on Friday, granting the government a new
three-month window to collect data on all Americans’ phone calls. Director of National ... MORE
Wendy McElroy: Is The NSA Changing Bank Accounts?
The capability is clearly there. The question would seem absurd if it were not for a 308-page report on the NSA that
was released on December 12 by an Official White House Panel.
Recommendation 31, “Institutional Measures for Cyberspace,” on page 37
and repeated on page 221 reads: (1) Governments should not use surveillance to steal ... MORE
WSJ Opinion: Juking The ObamaCare Stats
Obama administration hides inconvenient truth. Most of Washington seems to have bought the White House claim that the 36 federal exchanges are finally working, and glory, glory, hallelujah. But if that's really true, then what explains the ongoing secrecy and evasion? On Wednesday the Health and Human Services Department ... MOREGuardian Has Only Published 1 Percent Of Snowden Leaks
More transparency ahead for Obama regime? The editor of the Guardian said Tuesday his newspaper has published just 1 percent of the material it received from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, and denied the paper had placed lives or national security at risk. The Guardian helped spark a global debate on ... MOREFreedom Of Speech Vs Embarrassing The Government
by Michael J. Hurd. A federal employee decides to write a book on his knowledge of a known government scandal. After signing a book contract with a major publisher, the book deal is subsequently forbidden—by the government. Does this sound like a George Orwell novel? Or an Ayn Rand work of fiction? No. It’s really happening. Not in a ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Is The FISA Court Constitutional?
A court where only one party can make an argument. After President Richard Nixon left office in 1974, a bipartisan congressional investigation discovered many of his constitutional excesses. Foremost among them was the use of FBI and CIA agents to spy on Americans in violation of federal law and the Fourth Amendment to the ... MORERobert Zubrin: Give Snowden Immunity
The truth will set us free. The United States should give former NSA contractor Edward Snowden immunity from prosecution in exchange for congressional testimony. The suggestion may strike many of my fellow national-security conservatives as outrageous. Snowden certainly violated the law and may have committed treason. But the ... MORE
Mark Nestmann: When You Need To Disappear
Leave no footprints. Whistleblower Edward Snowden needs to disappear if he is to avoid kidnapping, assassination, extradition, or deportation to the United States. If you’re ever faced by a situation in which you need to disappear, right away, what would you do? Perhaps someone is bent on revenge and has threatened to kill you. ... MORE
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