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Archives: Government surveillance
Leaking in the Age of Trump: Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers (VICE Video)
VICE News | (Video News Report) | - - "VICE News examines the Trump administration's war on leakers, with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. "We're really seeing leaks that are dangerous to…
Did UAE plant Fake News about Qatar to Fool Trump?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The intrepid Karen DeYoung and Ellen Nakashima report at WaPo that anonymous US intelligence officials have decided to go public with what they…
If Trump can Hunt the Undocumented by Cell Phone, what can he do to You?
By Adam Schwartz | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | - - In the latest sign of mission creep in domestic deployment of battlefield-strength surveillance technology, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier this…
Wikileaks’ Assange claims Victory after Sweden drops Charges, Vows to Publish More
TeleSur | - - Swedish prosecutors dropped the rape investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday, saying the investigation had not been able to proceed because of legal obstacles. "Today is…
Clapper Lied & Spied, now charges Trump w/ assault on Gov’t Institutions
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - During the past week we've been subjected to hours of testimony by or interviews with James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence. On…
Why are Authorities treating DAPL enviro Protesters like Terrorists?
TeleSur | - - The legal activist group ACLU announced it has filed a motion to quash the warrant, which it argues violates free speech laws. A local police department in the…
WikiLeaks Vault 7 reveals staggering breadth of ‘CIA hacking’
David Glance | (The Conversation) | - - WikiLeaks today released what it claims is the largest leak of intelligence documents in history. It contains 8,761 documents from the CIA detailing some…
Trump covers Rockwell: Sometimes it Feels like, Obama’s Watching You
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump is angry at his predecessor, former president Barack Obama, this weekend. He says he discovered (from the digital toilet paper 'Breitbart,'…
Those Times the NSA Hacked America’s Allies
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The hysteria about Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee servers and the phishing scam run on Hillary…
Bruited Trump pick for Nat’l Intel shreds 4th Amendment, wants Total Surveillance
TeleSur | - - On Thursday multiple mainstream media outlets reported that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has picked former Republican Senator Dan Coats, an outspoken advocate of illegal domestic surveillance programs, to…
Circus of Liars: How Trump & GOP are Twisted into Pretzels over Putin Hack
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald J. Trump has picked another fight with the elders of his own Republican Party, over whether Russia engaged in hacking aimed at…
Russia Vows Response to ‘Aggressive’ Obama Sanctions
TeleSur | - - The Russian diplomats will have 72 hours to leave the United States. The United States' new sanctions against Russia prove the foreign policy of the Obama administration is…
NSA again hacked by own Contractor, but wants us to trust them with our Data
TeleSur | - - “I thought the Third World War had started,” the man’s neighbor described the raid and arrest in August. A National Security Agency (NSA) contractor has been arrested and…
Yahoo helped in unconstitutional US Gov. mass Surveillance of Americans’ Email
By Andrew Crocker and Mark Rumold | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | - - In a bombshell published today, Reuters is reporting that, in 2015, Yahoo complied with an order it received from…
Feds: We can read all your email, and you’ll never know
By Clark D. Cunningham | (The Conversation) | - - Fear of hackers reading private emails in cloud-based systems like Microsoft Outlook, Gmail or Yahoo has recently sent regular people and public…
Making Case for Pardon, Snowden Says Leaks Were ‘Necessary, Vital Things’
by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - 'I think when people look at the calculations of benefit, it is clear that in the wake of 2013 the laws of…
15 Years after 9/11, can we Recover our Republic?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Founding Fathers thought keeping a standing army was a danger to democracy. The great wars of the twentieth century appear to have…
H. Clinton and Ed Snowden: Some Animals are more Equal than others
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Hillary Clinton has repeatedly attacked Ed Snowden for being careless with government information. So it is ironic that she has been found guilty…