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How The Pentagon Punished NSA Whistleblowers

May 23, 2016 Mark Hertsgaard, www.theguardian.com Educate! NSA, Pentagon, Whistleblowers

By Mark Hertsgaard for The Guardian - By now, almost everyone knows what Edward Snowden did. He leaked top-secret documents revealing that the National Security Agency was spying on hundreds of millions of people across the world, collecting the phone calls and emails of virtually everyone on Earth who used a mobile phone or the internet. When this newspaper began publishing the NSA documents in June 2013, it ignited a fierce political debate that continues to this day – about government surveillance, but also about the morality, legality and civic value of whistleblowing.

NSA Pushed Latin America Toward ‘US Objectives’

May 22, 2016 Telesur, www.telesurtv.net Educate! Latin America, NSA, Regime Change, US Foreign Policy

By Telesur. National Security Agency documents revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden on Monday show that the NSA offered tailored training to staff on national security issues in Latin America in an effort to steer the region toward U.S. interests. A June 2003 edition of the SIDtoday newsletter, an internal publication run by the Signals Intelligence Directorate, the electronic eavesdropping division that The Intercept describes as “arguably the NSA’s most important,” announced a training opportunity for NSA staffers on Latin American strategic intelligence issues. The course, titled “Latin American Futures Project” and offered through the Strategic Intelligence National Intelligence Officer Council and National Cryptologic School, promised to “analyze potential developments in the Andean region and Brazil over the next five years along with their implications for U.S. interests in the region.”

Intercept Releasing Major Batch Of Snowden Documents

May 17, 2016 Glenn Greenwald, www.theintercept.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

By Glenn Greenwald for The Intercept - FROM THE TIME we began reporting on the archive provided to us in Hong Kong by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we sought to fulfill his two principal requests for how the materials should be handled: that they be released in conjunction with careful reporting that puts the documents in context and makes them digestible to the public, and that the welfare and reputations of innocent people be safeguarded. As time has gone on, The Intercept has sought out new ways to get documents from the archive into the hands of the public, consistent with the public interest as originally conceived.

NSA And CIA Double Warrantless Searches On Americans In Two Years

May 6, 2016 Jenna McLaughlin, www.theintercept.com Educate! CIA, Mass Surveillance, NSA

By Jenna McLaughlin for The Intercept - FROM 2013 TO 2015, the NSA and CIA doubled the number of warrantless searches they conducted for Americans’ data in a massive NSA database ostensibly collected for foreign intelligence purposes, according to a new intelligence community transparency report. The estimated number of search terms “concerning a known U.S. person” to get contents of communications within what is known as the 702 database was 4,672 — more than double the 2013 figure.

Overseas Surveillance In An Interconnected World

March 21, 2016 Amos Toh, Faiza Patel, Elizabeth (Liza) Goitein, www.brennancenter.org Educate! NSA, Surveillance

By Amos Toh, Faiza Patel, Elizabeth (Liza) Goitein for Brennan Center for Justice - Recent debates about privacy and technology have focused on the actions of government agencies inside the U.S. — for example, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's efforts to break encryption on iPhones or the National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' phone records. But in a new report, we found that the NSA's overseas surveillance activities through Executive Order 12333, most of which remain shrouded in secrecy, may have a far great impact on Americans' privacy.

The Very Existence Of The NSA Is Illegal

March 17, 2016 John Kiriakou, www.readersupportednews.org Educate! NSA, Surveillance

By John Kiriakou for Reader Supported News - The Washington Post reported last week that the National Security Agency soon would begin providing local law enforcement with data on American citizens intercepted without probable cause and without a warrant. This data has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism. It apparently will be used mostly in drug cases, although it could conceivably be used against any American for any reason. Most Americans shrugged their shoulders when the news became public.

Ford White House Altered Rockefeller Commission Report

March 6, 2016 John Prados and Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi, www.nsarchive.gwu.edu Educate! CIA, Government, NSA, Transparency

By John Prados and Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi for National Security Archive. Washington, DC, February 29, 2016 – The Gerald Ford White House significantly altered the final report of the supposedly independent 1975 Rockefeller Commission investigating CIA domestic activities, over the objections of senior Commission staff, according to internal White House and Commission documents posted today by the National Security Archive at The George Washington University (www.nsarchive.org). The changes included removal of an entire 86-page section on CIA assassination plots and numerous edits to the report by then-deputy White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney. Today’s posting includes the entire suppressed section on assassination attempts, Cheney’s handwritten marginal notes, staff memos warning of the fallout of deleting the controversial section, and White House strategies for presenting the edited report to the public.

Inaccurate Metadata Analysis Used To Kill Thousands In US Drone Strikes

February 26, 2016 David Brown, www.wsws Educate! Airstrikes, Drones, NSA

By David Brown for World Socialist Web Site - According to leaked documents, the Obama administration's use of metadata to identify and target terrorists in Pakistan would misidentify over 99,000 innocent people. The SKYNET program, named after the antagonist in the Terminator movie series, is used to examine the cellular network metadata of over 55 million people in Pakistan and flag suspicious patterns to target for “counter-terrorism” operations like kidnapping, interrogation or drone assassination.

NSA Targets World Leaders For US Geopolitical Interests

February 24, 2016 Staff, www.wikileaks.org Resist! Geopolitics, NSA, Wikileaks

By Staff of Wikileaks - Today, 23 February 2016 at 00:00 GMT [updated 12:20 GMT], WikiLeaks publishes highly classified documents showing that the US National Security Agency bugged a private climate change strategy meeting; between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin; singled out the Chief of Staff of UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for long term interception targetting his Swiss phone; singled out the Director of the Rules Division of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)...

White House Executive Order On Privacy Falls Short

February 21, 2016 Shahid Buttar, www.eff.org Organize! Accountability, Mass Surveillance, NSA, Privacy

By Shahid Buttar for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. February 9, 2016 - This morning, the White House announced an Executive Order establishing a federal interagency privacy council composed of senior privacy officials from two dozen federal agencies. While seeming to offer some promise, however, the council has a limited mandate, and ultimately represents an overdue nod to privacy principles the administration has repeatedly abused in practice. If the Obama administration wants to support privacy, it can start by finally offering straight answers to Congress on surveillance and intelligence practices that offend privacy. Instead, Congress has legislated surveillance policy in the dark while enduring a long series of executive misrepresentations.

Newsletter: End The Security State

February 20, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Black Panthers, Capitalism, Inequality, Infilitration, NSA, Occupy, Plutocracy, Privacy, spying

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. The conflict between democracy and state repression, often claimed as necessary to protect our safety and security, has moved the United States consistently toward a greater national security state that has become inconsistent with people’s privacy and freedom; as well as their ability to exercise First Amendment protected political activities. The depth of surveillance – including infiltration of political movements, cameras to enforce traffic laws and monitor activities almost everywhere in populated areas, aerial surveillance of neighborhoods and protests by helicopters, drones and airplanes and digital spying, have created a pervasive surveillance apparatus that undermines privacy, political activity and communication. We cannot have a real democracy with this level of surveillance.

NSA Targeted ‘The Two Leading’ Encryption Chips

January 9, 2016 Glenn Greenwald, www.theintercept.com Resist! Encryption, Glenn Greenwald, Internet, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance

By Glenn Greenwald for The Intercept - On September 5, 2013, The Guardian, the New York Times and ProPublica jointly reported — based on documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden — that the National Security Agency had compromised some of the encryption that is most commonly used to secure internet transactions. The NYT explained that NSA “has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and automatically secures the emails, web searches, internet chats and phone calls of Americans and others around the world.”

New Docs Reveal NSA Never Ended Bulk Email Collection

November 21, 2015 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Educate! NSA

By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams - The National Security Agency (NSA) secretly replaced its program monitoring Americans' emails and moved it overseas before the operation was exposed by Edward Snowden in 2013, according to new reporting. NSA officials responded to Snowden's leaks by stating that the email records program had shut down in 2011—and in a way, it had. But newly released documents show the agency had simply created a "functional equivalent" that analyzed Americans' emails without collecting bulk data from U.S. telecommunications companies, the New York Times reported on Friday.

Leak: Obama Ordered NSA, CIA Spying On Venezuela’s Oil Company

November 20, 2015 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Educate! CIA, NSA, Oil, Venezuela

By Staff of Tele Sur TV - The U.S. National Security Agency accessed the internal communications of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela and acquired sensitive data it planned to exploit in order to spy on the company’s top officials, according to a highly classified NSA document that reveals the operation was carried out in concert with the U.S. embassy in Caracas. The March 2011 document, labeled, “top secret,” and provided by former NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden, is being reported on in an exclusive partnership between teleSUR and The Intercept.

NSA Ordered To Stop Collecting, Querying Plaintiffs’ Phone Records

November 10, 2015 David Greene, www.eff.org Resist! NSA, Surveillance

By David Greene for EFF - Affirming his previous ruling that the NSA’s telephone records collection program is unconstitutional, a federal judge ordered the NSA to cease collecting the telephone records of an individual and his business. The judge further ordered the NSA to segregate any records that have already been collected so that they are not reviewed when the NSA’s telephone records database is queried. The order comes 20 days before the NSA program is set to expire pursuant to the USA FREEDOM Act. United States District Judge Richard Leon issued the order in Klayman v. Obama, a case in which EFF appeared as amicus curiae.

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