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Drone Surveillance Comes to the US-Mexico Border
After posting 1,200 National Guard troops at the US-Mexico border to stop crossings of undocumented immigrants, the Department of Homeland Security will draw down those forces by 75% and shift the...
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Scary Iran Spies on US Aircraft Carrier With Surveillance Plane, in Totally...
In a move sure to generate condemnation all over Washington, it turns out that Iran used a surveillance plane to take photos and video of a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf! I mean, how could...
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Pervasive Cell Phone Tracking Performed Even By Local Law Enforcement
Eric Lichtblau, one of the reporting team who exposed President Bush’s warrantless surveillance program, takes a look at its aftermath; with telecoms receiving immunity, police departments feel no...
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Cybersecurity Bill on Track for Senate Floor, After Privacy Protections Added
The Senate will vote on a cybersecurity bill that’s taken years to get to the floor. The House has already passed a bill known as CISPA, which raised the ire of privacy and technology activists. Even...
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Send in the Drones to Tampa for the RNC
The Republican National Convention in Tampa will be the first national political convention to be surveilled by unmanned drones, from the air and on the ground. This will mark the first time unmanned...
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FISA Amendments to Be Renewed By House Today
Today, the House will vote on the extension of the FISA Amendments Act, a bill that was well-known to most Americans, especially on the left, in 2008, but which has gotten little if any notice these...
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Senate Report Details Web of Problems with Anti-Terrorism “Fusion Centers”
A disturbing new Senate report highlights anti-terrorism “fusion centers,” which were designed to allow state, local and federal investigators to share information about terrorism. Instead, says the...
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Supreme Court Tosses Last Chance for Telecom Accountability for Warrantless...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court shut the door on a legal odyssey that lasted over six years, when they refused to reopen a case attempting to hold private telecommunications companies accountable for...
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Petraeus Affair Shows Dominant Power of Government Surveillance State
This David Petraeus sex scandal has, as is usually the case, launched thousands of columns claiming to understand intimate details about the mental states of everyone involved, striking moral tones...
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Leahy Reverses Email Privacy Bill To Give Federal Agencies More Warrantless...
The sorry affair of David Petraeus and a cast of thousands of emails, Tampa-area socialites, and jokes about the book title “All In” really showed the power of the FBI as part of the architecture of...
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FBI Director Says Drones Have Been Used in America
Remember it’s not a police state because Washington elite hacks say it isn’t. We now have learned that not only is the government spying on American citizens’ phone calls, emails, and social media...
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NSA Scrambles To Stop Congress From Limiting Spying Powers Under Patriot Act
All hell broke lose in Washington when, to the surprise of many, a bill to limit the NSA’s power to spy on Americans made it out of a House committee. The bill, known as the Amash Amendment for its...
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Countries Turn To United Nations To Restrain NSA
After news broke that the US government was monitoring the calls of at least 35 world leaders, many of whom were allies, the question of restraining US spying power became a pressing international...
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NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit ‘Radicalizers’
Now we get to the second phase of understanding the Surveillance State – once you have vacuumed up all this private information from everyone, what do you do with it? Answer: blackmail, extort, and...
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Local Law Enforcement Using NSA Methods To Spy On Cellphones
You are on the front lines of the War on Terror – you are the target. Local and state police are now using NSA type methods to suck up the public’s cell phone data according to USA Today. With new...
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Edward Snowden Says His ‘Mission Is Accomplished’
Edward Snowden In an interview with Barton Gellman of the Washington Post, Edward Snowden says he believes he has accomplished his mission of facilitating a debate in America and the world on the...
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NSA Software Program Bugs iPhone
Spy different. During the 30th Chaos Communication Congress Jacob Applebaum revealed the existence of an NSA software program known as DROPOUTJEEP which turns a user’s iPhone into a surveillance...
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Senator Sanders Wants To Know If NSA Spies On Congress
Senator Bernie Sanders is starting to ask questions many in the media and public have wanted to know for some time – is the NSA spying on other government officials? And if so, is the agency using...
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Google Takes A Step Closer To Owning All Your Information With Acquisition Of...
Walking anti-trust case Google Inc. has taken a step closer to owning all your information with the acquisition of Nest. Google already has a monopoly on search and has also made major inroads into...
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NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Database To See If It Spied On Congress
There has been a lot of unintentionally hilarious things said during the NSA spying scandal unleashed by leaks from Edward Snowden, but the latest statement from the NSA surely is the most hilarious....
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