SURVEILLANCE
United Stasi of America through the Echelon Prism
BATR.com Signals collection has a long secretive and enigmatic history. The very definition of espionage implies spying, most closely associated with foreign sources. Since the Echelon network, the unified function of data retrieval became a given during the cold war. With the revelation of Prism, advances in sophisticated electronic devices and software algorithms provide... »
Why The NSA And President Bush Got The FISA Court To Reinterpret The Law In Order To Collect Tons Of Data
by Mike Masnick TechDirt.com Mon, Jun 17th 2013 Over the weekend, the Washington Post published yet another revelation about the NSA’s surveillance capabilities, including some details of various “code named” data collection projects like MAINWAY, MARINA and NUCLEON. NUCLEON is the program for intercepting telephone calls (the actual content), though that’s apparently limited. MAINWAY... »
The Next NSA Spying Shoe to Drop: “Pre-Crime” Artificial Intelligence
WashingtonsBlog.com June 16, 2013 NSA Building Big Brother “Pre-Crime” Artificial Intelligence Program NSA spying whistleblower Edward Snowden’s statements have been verified. Reporter Glenn Greenwald has promised numerous additional disclosures from Snowden. What other revelations are coming? We reported in 2008: A new article by investigative reporter Christopher Ketcham reveals, a governmental unit operating in... »
NSA, UK Spied On Politicians, Intercepted Emails, Eavesdropped On Russian President’s Phone Calls
by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 06/16/2013 The espionage scandal that keeps on giving has released its latest installment, once more courtesy of the Guardian, which on the eve of tomorrow’s starting G-8 meeting reveals that foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G-20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored,... »
Full NSA access built into every Windows OS since 1997
by Jim Stone TheRebel.com 17 June 2013 Last summer I got contacted by a Microsoft programmer, who blew the whistle on Microsoft intentionally sabotaging the operating system, and then running closed code to conceal to the majority just how penetrable the operating system is for a chosen few. This programmer went on to say... »
Skynet to Launch October, 2013
Jack Mullen Activist Post.com Sunday, June 16, 2013 Business Insider published an article about the NSA data center being constructed in Bluffdale, Utah. The facility, being roughly 1 million square feet, will house a computing and data harvesting and long term data storage facility to be operational by October 2013. (Source) The stated purpose... »
The Government’s Spying Is Not As Bad As The Whistleblower Said … It’s WORSE
by WashingtonsBlog June 16, 2013 Whistleblower Claims Validated … and Then Some The government is attacking whistleblower Edward Snowden by claiming that he was lying about the scope of the NSA’s spying on Americans. However, CNET reports today: The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need... »
NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants
National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too. by Declan McCullagh CNet.com June 15, 2013 The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court... »
NSA Copies All Internet Data, Creates Dossiers on Every User
J.P. Hicks Activist Post.com Sunday, June 16, 2013 The Associated Press dropped a bombshell report yesterday that claims the NSA’s secret Internet spy program, Prism, is just a small part of a much more “expansive and intrusive” digital spying effort. According to the AP, the NSA copies ALL INTERNET traffic in and out of... »
Democrats who attacked Bush for spying on citizens now justify Obama doing far worse
by: J. D. Heyes NaturalNews.com Saturday, June 15, 2013 I’ve never been much of a fan of the USA Patriot Act. I thought it was passed too hastily in the wake of the 9/11 attacks without much real debate or consideration among Congress and their voting constituents. I thought it created a bureaucracy (The... »