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Wednesday, July 31, 2013XKeyscore: 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 by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet.
Monday, July 29, 2013Major opinion shifts, in the US and Congress, on NSA surveillance and privacy The only ones defending the NSA at this point are the party loyalists and institutional authoritarians in both parties. That's enough for the moment to control Washington outcomes -- as epitomized by the unholy trinity that saved the NSA in the House last week: Pelosi, John Bohener and the Obama White House -- but it is clearly not enough to stem the rapidly changing tide of public opinion.
Thursday, July 25, 2013Democratic Establishment Unmasked: Prime Defenders Of NSA Bulk Spying The history of Democratic leaders such as Nancy Pelosi isn't one of opposition to mass NSA spying when Bush was in office, only to change positions now that Obama is. The history is of pretend opposition -- of deceiving their supporters by feigning opposition -- while actually supporting it.
Sunday, July 21, 2013This week in press freedoms and privacy rights In the utter travesty known as "the Bradley Manning court-martial proceeding," the military judge presiding over the proceeding yet again showed her virtually unbreakable loyalty to the US government's case by refusing to dismiss the most serious charge against the 25-year-old Army Private, one that carries a term of life in prison: "aiding and abetting the enemy."
Tuesday, July 16, 2013Email Exchange Between Edward Snowden And Former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey Snowden: "My intention, which I outlined when this began, is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them. I remain committed to that. Though reporters and officials may never believe it, I have not provided any information that would harm our people -- agent or not -- and I have no intention to do so."
Monday, July 15, 2013The Crux Of The NSA Story In One Phrase: "Collect It All" The NSA is constantly seeking to expand its capabilities without limits. They're currently storing so much, and preparing to store so much more, that they have to build a massive, sprawling new facility in Utah just to hold all the communications from inside the US and around the world that they are collecting -- communications they then have the physical ability to invade any time they want.
Sunday, July 14, 2013Inside look at the internal strife over Al Jazeera America There is a gaping need for strong, fearless, adversarial journalism in the American TV landscape. There is a huge audience hungry for that type of TV journalism. A well-funded TV network with a new, aggressive, fearless investigative approach and a well-recognized global brand name could certainly succeed. Whether AJAM will seek to fill that need, or will run away from it, remains to be seen.
Saturday, July 13, 2013About the Reuters article The oft-repeated claim that Snowden's intent is to harm the US is completely negated by the reality that he has all sorts of documents that could quickly and seriously harm the US if disclosed, yet he has published none of those. e could have sold all the documents he had for a great deal of money, or indiscriminately published them, or passed them to a foreign adversary. He did none of that.
Thursday, July 11, 2013Revealed: How Microsoft Handed The NSA Access To Encrypted Messages Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013Snowden: I never gave any information to Chinese or Russian governments NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, in an interview on Saturday and then again Tuesday afternoon, vehemently denied media claims that he gave classified information to the governments of China or Russia. He also denied assertions that one or both governments had succeeded in "draining the contents of his laptops." "I never gave any information to either government, and they never took anything from my laptops," he said.
Monday, July 8, 2013Edward Snowden: US Surveillance "Not Something I'm Willing To Live Under" Snowden had not fallen out of love with America, only its government. "America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics."
Sunday, July 7, 2013The NSA's Mass And Indiscriminate Spying On Brazilians NSA has, for years, systematically tapped into the Brazilian telecommunication network and indiscriminately intercepted, collected and stored the email and telephone records of millions of Brazilians. The claim that any other nation is engaging in anything remotely approaching indiscriminate worldwide surveillance of this sort is baseless.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013James Clapper, EU Play-Acting, And Political Priorities If you're spending your time calling for Ed Snowden's head but not James Clapper's, or if you're obsessed with Snowden's fabricated personality attributes (narcissist!) but apathetic about rampant, out-of-control NSA surveillance, it's probably worth spending a few moments thinking about what this priority scheme reveals.
Thursday, June 27, 2013NSA Collected US Email Records In Bulk For More Than Two Years Under Obama One function of the internet record collection is what is commonly referred to as "data mining," and which the NSA calls "contact chaining." The agency "analyzed networks with two degrees of separation (two hops) from the target," the report says. In other words, the NSA studied the online records of people who communicated with people who communicated with targeted individuals.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013The personal side of taking on the NSA: emerging smears Glenn Greenwald: Distractions about my past and personal life have emerged -- an inevitable side effect for those who challenge the US government. The recent journalist-led "debate" about whether I should be prosecuted for my reporting on these stories was precisely the sort of thing I knew was coming.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013Liberal Icon Frank Church On The NSA Virtually nothing was known at the time about the National Security Agency. The Beltway joke was that "NSA" stood for "no such agency." The conditional part of Church's warning -- "that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people" -- is precisely what is happening, one might even say: is what has already happened. That seems well worth considering.
Saturday, June 22, 2013On The Espionage Act Charges Against Edward Snowden The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously. They do it to glorify the President, or manipulate public opinion, or even to help produce a pre-election propaganda film about the Osama bin Laden raid. The Obama administration does not hate unauthorized leaks of classified information. What they hate are leaks that embarrass them or expose their wrongdoing.
Thursday, June 20, 2013Revealed: The Top Secret Rules That Allow NSA To Use US Data Without A Warrant The Fisa court plays no role in the selection of individuals, nor does it monitor who is selected by the NSA. The NSA's ability to collect and retain the communications of people in the US, even without a warrant, has fueled congressional demands for an estimate of how many Americans have been caught up in surveillance.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013Fisa Court Oversight: A Look Inside A Secret And Empty Process Once the NSA has this court approval, it can then target anyone chosen by their analysts, and can even order telecoms and internet companies to turn over to them the emails, chats and calls of those they target. The Fisa court plays no role whatsoever in reviewing whether the procedures it approved are actually complied with when the NSA starts eavesdropping on calls and reading people's emails.
Saturday, June 15, 2013Edward Snowden's Worst Fear Has Not Been Realized -- Thankfully The stories thus far published by the Guardian are already leading to concrete improvements in accountability and transparency. The ACLU quickly filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the legality, including the constitutionality, of the NSA's collection of the phone records of all Americans.
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