Spymaster Clapper to Lead Investigation into Spying When Obama announced last Friday that he’d reform NSA spying, we documented that it wasn’t wise to trust him. Friday, Obama promised an independent group or experts would investigate…
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At Friday’s press conference, President Barack Obama resorted to outright lies in his defense of the massive and illegal surveillance programs exposed by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden. Obama made it clear…
Founder of service reportedly used by Edward Snowden said he would not be complicit in ‘crimes against the American people’ ‘The first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in…
How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages • Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism • Outlook.com encryption unlocked even before official launch • Skype worked to enable Prism collection of…
Microsoft, who has denied being involved with Prism since the program was first divulged, released a statement this week saying it did not provide the NSA with a backdoor to access personal Outlook.com e-mails and…
Venezuelan Minister of Internal Affairs Miguel Rodriguez Torres spoke on national television on a conspiracy of the ultra-right in Miami (U.S.A.), Panama and Colombia whose goal is the physical liquidation of President Nicolas Maduro. The…
“Collecting The Haystack” And Almightiness The NSA will now push new internal rules to protect data it illegally collects from being accessed by its own staff. Those rules will include an additional layer of encryption,…
The threats and ultimatums with which the Obama administration is bombarding potential harborers of Edward Snowden should not surprise anyone. No other reaction from the U.S. authorities is possible. The likelihood that Snowden will be able to find safe haven in one of the countries of South America is fairly high. Whatever limitations his status as a «political refugee» might place on him, he will find a way to continue his fight and to demonstrate the inner workings of the «Exemplary Democracy» and its real attitude toward human rights to the international community.
Abby Martin talks to Russell Tice, former intelligence analyst and original NSA whistleblower, about how the recent NSA scandal is only scratches the surface of a massive surveillance apparatus, citing specific targets the he saw…
As it does in many non-adversarial countries, the surveillance agency is bulk collecting the communications of millions of citizens of Brazil I’ve written an article on NSA surveillance for the front page of the Sunday edition…