Binney explained: “At least 80 percent of fiber-optic cables globally go via the U.S. This is no accident and allows the U.S. to view all communication coming in. At least 80 percent of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the U.S. The NSA lies about what it stores.” by Norman Solomon Common More
Link to video: Edward Snowden: 'If I end up in chains in Guantánamo I can live with that' Edward Snowden urges professionals to encrypt client communications Exclusive: Whistleblower says NSA revelations mean those with duty to protect confidentiality must urgently upgrade security • Watch Snowden's interview with the Guardian in Moscow • Read a summary More
Link to video: Edward Snowden: 'If I end up in chains in Guantánamo I can live with that' Edward Snowden urges professionals to encrypt client communications Exclusive: Whistleblower says NSA revelations mean those with duty to protect confidentiality must urgently upgrade security • Watch Snowden's interview with the Guardian in Moscow • Read a summary More
Indeed, the government’s ability to monitor such high-profile Muslim-Americans—with or without warrants—suggests that the most alarming and invasive aspects of the NSA’s surveillance occur not because the agency breaks the law, but because it is able to exploit the law’s permissive contours. NEWS By Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain The Intercept 9 Jul 2014 12:01 AM The National More
Top-secret documents reveal how the NSA has established secret partnerships to spy on huge flows of private data. By Ryan Gallagher The Intercept 18 Jun 2014 Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. Find us on TWITTER More
Pair from Electronic Frontier Foundation and Greenpeace drift massive dirigible over NSA data center in Bluffdale, Utah Spencer Ackerman in New York theguardian.com 27 June 2014 It was the airship's maiden voyage. Photograph: Greenpeace Protests against mass surveillance have now taken to the skies above a major National Security Agency installation. At about 6am local time on More
Pair from Electronic Frontier Foundation and Greenpeace drift massive dirigible over NSA data center in Bluffdale, Utah Spencer Ackerman in New York theguardian.com 27 June 2014 It was the airship's maiden voyage. Photograph: Greenpeace Protests against mass surveillance have now taken to the skies above a major National Security Agency installation. At about 6am local time on More
In his new book, No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald traces the discovery and extent of the massive surveillance apparatus constructed by the National Security Agency. [youtube=http://youtu.be/ApY7MVeoldo] Published on May 15, 2014 Audio-only version: http://www.cato.org/multimedia/daily-... Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from this More
Michael Ratner: The empire has been hurt by the Snowden, Manning, Assange revelations - June 6, 14 [youtube=http://youtu.be/JmTZlkkuvn0] Michael Ratner is President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York and Chair of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin. He is currently a legal adviser to Wikileaks and Julian More
A White House lawyer seems determined to demolish our civil liberties. . . . in order to carry out violence and subversion abroad, or repression and violation of fundamental rights at home, state power has regularly sought to create the misimpression that it is terrorists that we are fighting, though there are other options: drug More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/HTBoCKjfjLk] Published on May 13, 2014 What were once thought of as conspiracy theories about government spying are now backed up by facts, according to Coleen Rowley. The FBI whistleblower and 2002 Time Person of the Year believes the National Security Agency spying scandal has provided crucial insights to the public on how not only More
A web of deception has finally been untangled: the Justice Department got the US supreme court to dismiss a case that could have curtailed the NSA's dragnet. Why? It turns out neither of two statements that held up in the nation's highest court were true – but it took Snowden's historic whistleblowing to prove it. More
