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NSA locates cell phones even when switched off – report
Never mind the non-stop collection of metadata and other sneaky surveillance tools being implemented by the US: a new report has revealed the National Security Agency’s spy powers allow the government to grab location
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Does the NSA Tap That? What We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Internet Surveillance
Among the snooping revelations of recent weeks, there have been tantalizing bits of evidence that the NSA is tapping fiber-optic cables that carry nearly all international phone and Internet data. The idea that the NSA
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FISA court renews NSA surveillance program
The Obama administration has renewed the authority for the National Security Agency to regularly collect the phone records of millions of Americas as allowed under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
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Bush-Cheney began illegal NSA spying before 9/11, says telcom CEO
Contradicting a statement by ex-vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday that warrantless domestic surveillance might have prevented 9/11, 2007 court records indicate that the Bush-Cheney administration began such surveillance at least 7 months prior
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Congress Finally Decides NSA Surveillance Violates the Law
Congress has finally decided that massive, unprecedented and unwarranted surveillance of the American people conducted by the National Security Agency is against the law. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has broad jurisdiction over
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Senator to Snowden: ‘You have done the right thing’
While some current members of Congress continue to rally for the prosecution of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, a long-serving United States senator has sent a letter of support to the NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower
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The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People’s Data Than Previously Revealed
As an aside during testimony on Capitol Hill today, a National Security Agency representative rather casually indicated that the government looks at data from a universe of far, far more people than previously indicated
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Crash Prank Reveals How Corporate Media Reads Mindlessly from Teleprompter Scripts
It’s another example of how mindless and untrustworthy the corporate media is. Yesterday, a news anchor at a San Francisco Bay Fox affiliate, KTVU, read the supposed names of the flight crew of Asiana
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Obama executive order requires federal government employees to learn to spy on co-workers, to prevent more WikiLeaks-type disclosures
The familiar command 'If you see something, say something' has been moved into the federal government's workplaces, according to a new report. The government's Insider Threat Program, a comprehensive initiative that stretches across 5 million
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NSA spying never catches Israelis – Why not?
Intelligence analysis ALWAYS follows a dual track of analyzing what you can see...and what you can't. The massive coverage on the recent Snowden revelations has basically all been theater as most had already been
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PRISM & ‘purity’: NSA follows Nazi tradition
The NSA in America is following in the Nazi tradition in its attempt to discriminate based on data collection, modeled around their belief system - which justifies trashing the Constitution in pursuit of ‘pure’
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New Snowden leak: Australia’s place in US spying web
Ex-NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden has disclosed his first set of documents outlining Australia’s role in NSA surveillance programs, picking out four facilities in the country that contribute heavily to US spying
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Venezuelan Asylum Achieved, Snowden reveals UFO Documents
Edward Snowden, the leaker of NSA surveillance documents, was granted asylum in Venezuela on Friday. With safe harbors in sight, Snowden was willing to share shocking and world-shattering exclusive secret government documents with The
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Lawlessness Is The New Normal
In various articles and in my latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism And Economic Dissolution Of The West, I have pointed out that the European sovereign debt crisis is being used to
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In depth: Julian Assange and Edward Snowden – enemies of the state take flight
By seeking refuge in limbo while fleeing the most powerful nation on Earth, they exemplify the romance of the contemporary fugitive
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NSA recruitment drive goes horribly wrong
On Tuesday, the National Security Agency called at the University of Wisconsin on a recruitment drive. Attending the session was Madiha R Tahir, a journalist studying a language course at the university. She asked the
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CIA whistleblower to Snowden: ‘Do not cooperate with the FBI’
NSA leaker Edward Snowden is the subject of an open letter of support just published from behind bars by John Kiriakou, a former CIA agent currently serving time for sharing state secrets. In a letter
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Students DESTROY NSA Recruiters Over Illegal Spying and Lies (Listen)
When NSA recruiters went to the University of Wisconsin earlier this week to pitch language students on working for the agency, they got more than they bargained for. The informed students turned the question-and-answer session
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Venezuela ready to help Snowden, but final decision with people – Maduro to RT
Caracas is ready to help NSA leaker Edward Snowden, but will “leave the decision to the people” when considering his request for asylum, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has told RT Spanish in an exclusive
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‘The World Will Be Shocked’: Greenwald on Upcoming NSA Exposé
Obama administration's objective with Snowden is "to intimidate future whistleblowers from coming forward" "The world will be shocked" by the next story on the National Security Agency's vast spying operations, said Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian
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