CIA whistleblower to Snowden: ‘Do not cooperate with the FBI’
In a letter dated June 13 and published Tuesday by Firedoglake, the imprisoned CIA vet salutes Snowden for his recent disclosures of classified documents detailing some of the vast surveillance...
View ArticleMillions in US tax dollars go to Big Data for wiretap capabilities
AT&T charges the government a $325 “activation fee” for each individual wiretap and a daily fee of $10 to maintain it. Verizon, on the other hand, charges government eavesdroppers $775 for the...
View ArticleFormer NSA Exec: Government Spying Violates Constitution
Pt. 2 Thomas Drake: Surrendering Civil Liberties Does Not Make America Safe … Read More
View ArticleWashington DC considers decriminalization of marijuana
Councilman Tommy Wellson Wednesday unveiled legislation that would eliminate criminal penalties for anyone caught possessing less than an ounce of marijuana. If the bill is passed, those in possession...
View ArticlePolicies on License Plate Readers Vary Widely, Says A.C.L.U.
Police agencies abide by a variety of policies on how long to retain license plate reader data and with whom to share it, posing privacy dangers, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. … Read...
View ArticleGoogle experimenting with anti-NSA encryption – report
The privacy protection initiative remains in the experimental phase, but could comfort customers shaken by the revelation that the National Security Agency has a policy of indiscriminately pulling...
View Article‘Snowden won’t disclose more docs, I have thousands’ – Greenwald
“I think there’s a real misconception over whether he’ll continue to leak,” Greenwald, who helped publish the leaks made by Snowden, told NBC News. “He turned over to us many thousands of documents...
View ArticleMentally ill inmates ‘warehoused’ in Colorado solitary confinement
On any day, chosen at random in 2012, the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) housed between 537 and 686 mentally ill inmates in solitary confinement - with an average stay of 16 months,...
View Article9 Ways the Federal Government has Hijacked your Rights & Taken over the Country
To be honest, we probably could have listed hundreds of different examples of government abuse. But we wanted to specifically focus on topics that we’ve covered over the last couple of years in...
View ArticleAmericans more concerned about privacy than terrorism – Pew study
US citizens have traditionally responded to similar polls by saying the government has not yet gone far enough to protect the country from threats. But new results from Pew Research Center reveal that...
View ArticleUS system of information control is beginning to crack because of the Manning...
The US government has fish to fry bigger than Manning, the one they want to catch is Julian Assange, Mason added. RT: What's your reaction to the ruling? Mark Mason: This is a landmark court decision....
View ArticleHackers from around the world gather in Las Vegas to kick off DefCon
The twenty-first annual DefCon gets underway Thursday at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Vegas, just one day after the head of the National Security Agency gave the keynote address up the road at Black...
View Article‘1984 Day’: Restore the Fourth movement kickstarts nationwide...
The protests “1984 Day,” named for George Orwell’s classic novel about an ultramodern surveillance state, have taken place across the nations, most notably in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and...
View ArticleKilled Chechen’s father arrives in US to sue the FBI
Abdulbaki Todashev is the father of 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev, a mixed martial arts fighter who was fatally shot seven times by the FBI during an extensive interview about his connection to alleged...
View ArticleTSA expands role beyond airports amid growing cases of misconduct
The report, which was released last week by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), found 9,622 cases of misconduct among TSA workers from 2010 through the 2012 fiscal year. It concluded that...
View ArticleNSA head: Replace would-be Snowdens with computers to stop future leaks
The National Security Agency plans to drastically cut back on the number of people employed as systems administrators, Gen. Keith Alexander said during a cyber security conference in New York City on...
View ArticleObama had secret meeting with tech executives to discuss govt surveillance
"This is one of a number of discussions the administration is having with experts and stakeholders in response to the president's directive to have a national dialogue about how to best protect...
View ArticleSnowden letter decries media for ‘false claims’ about his ‘situation’
Snowden is known to have been in contact with his father, Lon Snowden, whose own legal team consists of attorney Bruce Fein and Fein’s wife and spokeswoman, Mattie Fein. The public’s thirst for the...
View ArticleBloomberg, NYPD commissioner using ‘complicated’ evidence to justify...
Judge Schira Scheindlin ruled on August 12 that the “stop, question and frisk” program instituted in 2002 by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) is unconstitutional, agreeing with the American...
View ArticleObama’s NSA review board, proving the cynics right
Case in point, the White House’s recent problems with the NSA. At a press conference earlier this month, President Obama promised to form “a high-level group of outside experts to review our entire...
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