NSA quote of the day
To think we’re collecting on every U.S. person… that would be against the law … The fact is we’re a foreign intelligence agency. — NSA Director Keith Alexander, in March, 2012. From a Forbes article...
View ArticleToday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on NSA surveillance
You can watch the hearing live a replay of the hearing here on C-Span. Related articles Senate panel looking at limits on surveillance (kansascity.com) Senators strongly criticise intelligence chiefs...
View ArticleJames Clapper fired from Obama’s surveillance panel?
Not on your life. It appears that, despite the fact that Obama’s directive regarding his so-called ‘independent review’ of his surveillance policies would be headed by James Clapper, both Clapper and...
View ArticleObama’s NSA civil liberties review panel has been subsumed into the NSA
This is outrageous. James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, has apparently taken over the civil liberties panel created by Obama. According to the AP: But with just weeks remaining before its...
View ArticleBe afraid
Glenn Greenwald, writing in The Intercept, lays out the long history of political officials deploying scare tactics to cause their constituents to feel fear and fall in line. And such officials also...
View ArticleSurveillance state quote of the day
I probably shouldn’t say this, but I will. Had we been transparent about this from the outset right after 9/11—which is the genesis of the 215 program [telephone meta-data collection]—and said both to...
View ArticleClapper reveals (part of) the truth
James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, in response to a question from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore), seems to have admitted that the NSA has read the content of communications of United States...
View ArticleDNI bans all intelligence employees from communicating with press without...
This is amazing and damning. The Director of National Intelligence has forbidden most intelligence community employees from discussing “intelligence-related information” with a reporter unless they...
View ArticleSurveillance state quote of the day
It’s a wretched yet predictable ritual after each new terrorist attack: Certain politicians and government officials waste no time exploiting the tragedy for their own ends. The remarks on Monday by...
View ArticleFBI agrees with CIA that Russia aimed to help Trump
Via The Washington Post: FBI Director James B. Comey and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. are in agreement with a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election in...
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