Congressman Victimized by FBI Spying Votes for More Warrantless Spying Powers
Rep. Darin LaHood expressed outrage last year over the snooping revelations, yet voted to extend the surveillance program that spied on him without a court order.
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Anya Parampil: I am the “U.S.-based Kremlin intermediary” that tried to help Tucker Carlson book an interview with Putin
Tucker Carlson accused the NSA of spying on his personal communications when he tried to schedule an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. I can corroborate his story.
Espionage Act Reform Bill Would Protect Whistleblowers and Journalists
Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Ro Khanna introduced a bill to reform the Espionage Act, the archaic piece of legislation used to prosecute Julian Assange and other whistleblowers.
Critical Windows 10 Vulnerability Used To Rickroll The NSA And Github
Attack demoed less than 24 hours after disclosure of bug-breaking certificate validation.
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John Kiriakou: What Was This CIA Officer Thinking?
Given Langley’s intolerance for whistleblowing, the current case now in the headlines has a couple of curious features.
Edward Snowden’s Julian Assange is an Unfamiliar Julian Assange
There is an unquestionable contradiction between Snowden’s opposition to Assange’s arrest and the rhetorical games he plays with Assange’s character in his memoir, Permanent Record.
The Trump Administration Is Using the Full Power of the U.S. Surveillance State Against Whistleblowers
While we all live under extensive surveillance, for government employees and contractors — especially those with a security clearance — privacy is virtually nonexistent.
Being Julian Assange
Suzie Dawson’s epic meticulous historical analysis on the (character) assassination of Assange, originally published May 2018 at ContraSpin.
Silencing the Whistle: The Intercept Shutters Snowden Archive, Citing Cost
The closing of The Intercept’s Snowden archive will likely mean the end of any future publications, unless Glenn Greenwald’s rather absurd promise of finding “the right partner … that has the funds to robustly publish” is fulfilled.
10 Reasons the Dutch-Russia Hacking Story Is Fake News
It never ceases to amaze how intelligence agency narratives always seem to trip over their own shoelaces. This “huge story” is transparently ridiculous to anyone with the slightest technical know-how.
NSA Wipes Out Surveillance Data It Pledged to Preserve, Conveniently Destroying Criminal Evidence Against Itself
NSA conveniently wiped out ‘01-‘07 mass surveillance data from the warrantless and unconstitutional ‘Stellar Wind’ program, violating court orders to preserve the data in ongoing lawsuits filed against the NSA.
Warrantless NSA Mass Surveillance Authorization Extended By 6 More Years
On Friday afternoon, just hours before Congress failed to avert a government shutdown, the President signed into law the “FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017.” The bill passed the House and Senate earlier this week with the support of many Republicans and Democrats, offering only slight adjustments to Section 702, a law that oversees the NSA’s spying ability.
18 Democrats Just Voted With Republicans to Advance Senate Bill to Renew NSA Spying Program Without Debate
Over a third of Senate Democrats joined 41 Republicans and one Independent, Sen. Angus King (I-ME), on Tuesday, January 16, 2018, providing the critical missing votes needed to quash any further Read More…
With Bipartisan Support, House Votes to Renew NSA Spying Program, Rejecting Privacy Safeguards
With bipartisan backing, a total of 256 members of the House of Representatives voted Thursday morning to renew one of the government’s most sweeping surveillance authorities for six years with Read More…