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NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans’ data with Israel
The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals. Details of
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Satire ? G20 ENDS ABRUPTLY AS OBAMA CALLS PUTIN A JACKASS
ST. PETERSBURG (The Borowitz Report)—Hopes for a positive G20 summit crumbled today as President Obama blurted to Russia’s Vladimir Putin at a joint press appearance, “Everyone here thinks you’re a jackass.”
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G20 Summit: Obama Faces Heavy Criticism From World Leaders
Just hours prior to President Obama’s arrival at the G20 Summit, Russian President Putin criticized US officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry in particular. After tuning in to the Congressional debates, Putin heard Kerry
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Labor Day: 90 Million Americans Without Jobs; 36% Of the Population
This weekend President Obama delivered his weekly radio address commemorating the Labor Day weekend: Over the past four and a half years, we’ve fought our way back from the worst recession
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LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA
According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but sales-challenged Microsoft operating system
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NSA paid millions to Internet companies to cover surveillance program costs
Top-secret national security documents leaked to the Guardian newspaper reveal that the United States government compensated the tech companies that signed on to participate in the controversial NSA spy program known as Prism. The Guardian
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How to Keep the NSA Out of Your Computer
JOSEPH BONICIOLI mostly uses the same internet you and I do. He pays a service provider a monthly fee to get him online. But to talk to his friends and neighbors in Athens, Greece,
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DEA’s “Cover Up Program” Revealed: More Troubling Than Pervasive NSA Surveillance?
Undated documents discovered by Reuters show that federal agents are trained to "recreate" the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant's Constitutional
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Journalist Fired For Printing “Take Your Jobs Plan & Shove It, Mr. President” Headline
Newspaper editor Drew Johnson was fired by the Times Free Press of Chattanooga, Tennessee for posting a headline that told President Obama to take his jobs plan and “shove it.”
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FBI employs hackers, has software that can remotely activate cell phone, laptop microphones and more
A new report reveals that the FBI directly employs multiple hackers who create custom surveillance software for the bureau, some of which is capable of remotely activating the microphones on cell phones and laptops,
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Exclusive: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ
The US government has paid at least £100m to the UK spy agency GCHQ over the last three years to secure access to and influence over Britain's intelligence gathering programmes. The top secret payments are
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Anti-war website sues FBI for spying on them
Between the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program and the Associated Press scandal, the Obama administration has been under intense scrutiny for spying on journalists across the country. But one website, Anti-war.com, is fighting
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XKeyscore: NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’
A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided
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Greenwald: NSA hearing canceled
This week's informal congressional hearing on the National Security Agency's surveillance program has been canceled, according to The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, who was expected to testify via satellite
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Activists storm office of Congressman who voted for NSA spying
Six activists from the anti-surveillance group Restore the Fourth paid an unexpected visit to the office of a New York Congressman in protest of the vote which allowed the National Security Agency to continue
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Who Are We at War With? That’s Classified
In a major national security speech this spring, President Obama said again and again that the U.S. is at war with “Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their associated forces.” So who exactly are those associated
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Glenn Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have ‘Powerful and Invasive’ Search Tool
“It’s an incredibly powerful and invasive tool, exactly of the type that Mr. Snowden described,” Greenwald said. NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander and House Intelligence leaders have previously downplayed Snowden’s access to NSA data. Greenwald
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The NSA’s New Spy Facilities are 7 Times Bigger Than the Pentagon
He works at one of the three-letter intelligence agencies and oversees construction of a $1.2 billion surveillance data center in Utah that is 15 times the size of MetLife Stadium, home to the New
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The 217 Congressional Traitors Who Voted Against Restraining the NSA
It should be no surprise, since the Congress betrays the voters again and again, but yesterday the Amash Amendment was narrowly voted down in the House of Representatives
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NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails
The NSA is a "supercomputing powerhouse" with machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second. The agency turns its giant machine brains to the task of sifting
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