Jeremy Scahill's Intercepted: Snowden vs. Trump
Democracy is not an inheritance but our challenge.
Jeremy Scahill’s Intercepted: Snowden vs. Trump
Democracy is not an inheritance but our challenge.
▶ The Intercept: Irate NSA Staffer Doesn't Like Being Filmed in Public, for Some Reason
In two videos posted on YouTube—each shot from a slightly different perspective—you can watch Beale politely question Mr. Z. about NSA programs, and watch Mr. Z. attempt to parry those queries with blatant falsehoods like, ”NSA is not permitted to track or collect intelligence on U.S. persons.” BY JOHN COOK The Intercept firstlook.org September 17, More
▶ The Intercept: Irate NSA Staffer Doesn’t Like Being Filmed in Public, for Some Reason
In two videos posted on YouTube—each shot from a slightly different perspective—you can watch Beale politely question Mr. Z. about NSA programs, and watch Mr. Z. attempt to parry those queries with blatant falsehoods like, ”NSA is not permitted to track or collect intelligence on U.S. persons.” BY JOHN COOK The Intercept firstlook.org September 17, More
Kara Brandeisky: What the Proposed NSA Reforms Wouldn’t Do
Ten months after Edward Snowden’s first disclosures, three main legislative proposals have emerged for surveillance reform: one from President Obama, one from the House Intelligence Committee, and one proposal favored by civil libertarians. All the plans purport to end the bulk phone records collection program, but there are big differences – and a lot they don’t do. Here’s a More
▶ Juan Cole: Top 6 Pulitzer Prize ‘Traitors’ in American Journalism
The Pulitzer Prize committee’s opinion that Edward Snowden is a public servant rather than a traitor or criminal, as evidenced in its award to The Guardian and The Washington Post for their reporting from his trove of government documents, is a scandal on the American Right. But it is not a new scandal. Former Guardian More
John Cole Cartoon: The NSA Snake
The NSA Snake John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune truthdig.com
Glenn Greenwald> Extremism normalized> How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce
Extremism normalized How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce to ideas once deemed so radical as to be unthinkable BY GLENN GREENWALD JUL 31, 2012 salon.com Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, shakes hands with Vice President Dick Cheney after McCain introduced Cheney during a campaign stop, Friday, July 16, 2004, at the Lansing Center in More
Glenn Greenwald> Extremism normalized> How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce
Extremism normalized How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce to ideas once deemed so radical as to be unthinkable BY GLENN GREENWALD JUL 31, 2012 salon.com Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, shakes hands with Vice President Dick Cheney after McCain introduced Cheney during a campaign stop, Friday, July 16, 2004, at the Lansing Center in More
Glenn Greenwald> Extremism normalized> How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce
Extremism normalized How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce to ideas once deemed so radical as to be unthinkable BY GLENN GREENWALD JUL 31, 2012 salon.com Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, shakes hands with Vice President Dick Cheney after McCain introduced Cheney during a campaign stop, Friday, July 16, 2004, at the Lansing Center in More
Glenn Greenwald> Surveillance State evils
Surveillance State evils BY GLENN GREENWALD April 21, 2012 Salon.com Frank Church (Credit: Wikipedia) “Th[e National Security Agency’s] capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. More