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July 10, 2014

BUSTED: Germany's Chairman of NSA Inquiry Phone Tapped by NSA

TRANSLATED: http://www.swr.de/landesschau-aktuell/bw/ulm/kiesewetter-offenbar-abgehoert/-/id=1612/did=13735756/nid=1612/1hqz7ou/index.html

Chairman of the NSA Committee of Inquiry Kiesewetter apparently bugged

The Aalen Member of Parliament Roderich Kiesewetter (CDU) has apparently been spied by intelligence services. Brisant: He is also Coordinator of the NSA investigation committee. In SWR he has now demanded by the Bundestag better protection for MPs.

Roderich Kiesewetter (CDU), Unions Coordinator on the NSA committee of inquiry is on 08.05.2014 before the meeting of the NSA investigation committee of the Bundestag in Berlin a statement from.

Roderich Kiesewetter (CDU) has been apparently bugged

Russian and U.S. intelligence agencies would certain MPs who have “interesting work” a watch, Roderich Kiesewetter said SWR. Technicians of the Bundestag have found that third parties have access to his mobile phone. However, it was not clear what exactly foreign services skim.

Kiesewetter since April chairman of the Union Group in the NSA investigation committee. The committee will examine the eavesdropping activities of the United States and Britain as well as the role of the federal government there.
Kiesewetter for better protection of MPs

The Bundestag must finally make better arrangements for MPs. Kiesewetter was particularly critical that the U.S. company Verizon was commissioned as provider by the Bundestag – although it is known that Verizon was working closely with the NSA.
Spying may all Stewards

He therefore called for, that the Bundestag touting the new telecommunications services. Not only the cheapest supplier might come into play, and data security must be ensured. Kiesewetter said he had evidence that the chairmen of all four parties had been intercepted on the NSA investigation committee.

The Bundestag has set up a Committee of NSA affair on March 20, 2014. The Committee, chaired by Mr Prof. Dr. Patrick Sensburg (CDU / CSU) to clarify the extent and background of the Ausspähungen by foreign secret services in Germany. The Committee has eight members of the Bundestag: Four of the CDU / CSU, the SPD and two each from the left and from the Greens.

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Bundestag, GCHQ, Germany, NSA, NSA surveillance inquiry, Poderich Kiesewetter

May 29, 2014

Reaction, Insight, Opinion and Clips from Snowden's Interview You Didn't See #Patriot #Traitor

NBC News is steering those who missed last night’s interview with Snowden over to their site. They’ve taken down YT vids that cut out all of the ads leaving only the interview. If you missed the interview and want to watch or re watch it click here.

One more item worth noting following the Snowden interview. NBC asked folks on Twitter to weigh in on whether they believe Snowden to be a “#Patriot” or “#Traitor.” Well, the vote tally is in with 59% #Patriot v 41% #Traitor.

Here are some additional articles you may want to read. They take on various pieces of the interview with the first link leading you to portions of the interview that didn’t make the final cut.

The Edward Snowden clips NBC didn’t broadcast on TV

NBC Censors Snowden’s Critical 9/11 Comments from Prime Time Audience

Not Snowden but *Keith Alexander*: Hero or Traitor (the debate we should be having)

Kerry To Snowden: “Man Up and Come Back to the United States.”

And the NSA just released this slightly redacted email from Snowden making an inquiry to NSA General Counsel on the hierarchy laid out in a training he attended –

Edward J. Snowden email inquiry to the NSA Office of General Counsel<br />
May 29, 2014<br />
NSA has now explained that they have found one email inquiry by Edward Snowden to the Office of General Counsel asking for an explanation of some material that was in a training course he had just completed. The e-mail did not raise allegations or concerns about wrongdoing or abuse, but posed a legal question that the Office of General Counsel addressed.<br />
There was not additional follow-up noted. The e-mail will be released later today. There are numerous avenues that Mr. Snowden could have used to raise other concerns or whistleblower allegations. We have searched for additional indications of outreach from him in those areas and to date have not discovered any engagements related to his claims.

Edward J. Snowden email inquiry to the NSA Office of General Counsel<br />
May 29, 2014<br />
NSA has now explained that they have found one email inquiry by Edward Snowden to the Office of General Counsel asking for an explanation of some material that was in a training course he had just completed. The e-mail did not raise allegations or concerns about wrongdoing or abuse, but posed a legal question that the Office of General Counsel addressed.<br />
There was not additional follow-up noted. The e-mail will be released later today. There are numerous avenues that Mr. Snowden could have used to raise other concerns or whistleblower allegations. We have searched for additional indications of outreach from him in those areas and to date have not discovered any engagements related to his claims.

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Edward Snowden, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Mass Surveillance, NBC Brian Williams and Edward Snowden interview, NBC interview of Snowden, NSA, Snowden email to NSA General Counsel, US Constitution

April 29, 2014

HBO's John Oliver Asks Gen. Alexander About the Dangers of Hoarding

If this is the kind of interview John Oliver of HBO’s ‘Last Week Tonight’ show then I just might sign up for HBO –

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: General Keith Alexander, HBO's John Oliver, hoarding, John Oliver, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, NSA

April 3, 2014

What if secrecy, NSA trump the Constitution?

Spying on Americans Elicits many questions but few answers

by Andrew P. Napolitano

What if the National Security Agency (NSA) knows it is violating the Constitution by spying on all Americans without showing a judge probable cause of wrongdoing or identifying the persons it wishes to spy upon, as the Constitution requires? What if this massive spying has come about because the NSA found it too difficult to follow the Constitution?

What if the Constitution was written to keep the government off the people’s backs, but the NSA, the president and some members of Congress have put the NSA not only on our backs, but in our bedrooms, kitchens, telephones and computers? What if when you look at your computer screen, the NSA is looking right back at you?

What if the NSA really thought it could keep the fact that it is spying on all Americans and many others throughout the world secret from American voters? What if Congress enacted laws that actually delegate some congressional powers to elite congressional committees — one in the Senate and one in the House? What if this delegation of power is unconstitutional because the Constitution gives all legislative powers to Congress as a whole, and Congress itself is powerless to give some of its power away to two of its secret committees? What if the members of these elite committees who hear and see secrets from the NSA, the CIA and other federal intelligence agencies are themselves sworn to secrecy?

What if the secrets they hear are so terrifying that some of these members of Congress don’t know what to do about it? What if the secrecy prohibits these congressional committee members from telling anyone what they know and seeking advice about these awful truths? What if they can’t tell a spouse at home, a lawyer in her office, a priest in confessional, a judge when under oath in a courtroom, other members of Congress or the voters who sent them to Congress?

What if this system of secrets, with its promises not to reveal them, has led to a government whose spies have intimidated and terrified some members of Congress? What if one member of Congress — Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia Democrat — wrote to then-Vice President Dick Cheney and voiced fears that totalitarianism is creeping into our democracy? What if he wrote that letter in his own hand because he feared he might be prosecuted if he dictated it to a secretary or gave it to his secretary for typing? What if he was terrified to learn what the spies told him because he knew he could not share it with anyone or do anything about it?

What if the NSA’s chief apologist in Congress — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat — took to the only safe place in the world where she could reveal what she learned from the spies and not be prosecuted for violating her oath of secrecy and there revealed a secret? What if that place is the Senate floor, and what if, while there, she revealed that she approved of the NSA spying on all Americans but disapproved of the CIA spying on her staff? What if it is unlawful and unconstitutional for the CIA to spy on anyone in the United States — whether private citizen, illegal alien or member of a Senate staff?

What if the equality of the branches of government is destroyed when one of them spies on the other? What kind of a president spies on Congress? What kind of members of Congress sit back and let themselves become victims of spying? What if Congress could stop all spying on all Americans by a simple vote? What if Congress could stop the president from spying on its own members with a simple vote? What if Congress is afraid to take these votes?

What if secret government is unaccountable precisely because it is secret? What if the people’s representatives in government have a moral obligation to reveal to their constituents that the president’s spies are spying on all of us, and they — members of Congress — have not lifted a finger to stop it? Would we all vote differently if we knew the secrets the government has shared with a select few but kept from the rest of us? What if your own representatives in the House and the Senate are lying to you because of fear of the consequences of revealing secrets?

What if the NSA chief claimed to a congressional committee — one of those with which he secretly shares secrets — — that all this spying has stopped 57 terrorist plots? What if the next day he changed that number to three plots? What if he has declined to say what those three plots were? What if a federal judge found that all this spying has not prevented any identifiable plots?

What if all this spying doesn’t work? What if the NSA has too much data about all of us? What if the president knowingly declined to uphold the Constitution and instructed his spies to do the same? What if the NSA is so accustomed to spying on all of us all the time that it lacks the ability to obtain probable cause and to identify the persons upon whom it needs to spy? What if the government’s culture of secrecy and spying has taken on a life of its own? What if even those who started it are afraid to stop it?

What if the NSA missed the shoe bomber, the underwear bomber, the Fort Hood massacre, the Times Square bomber, the Boston Marathon bombers, the coup in Kiev and the Russian invasion of Ukraine? What if the NSA wasted its time spying on Aunt Tillie in Des Moines, Iowa, and the pope in Rome and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, instead of Vladimir Putin in Moscow?

What if secrecy has replaced the rule of law? What if that replacement has left us in the dark about what the government knows and what it is doing? What if few in government believe in transparency? What if few in government believe in the Constitution?

What do we do about it?

Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is an analyst for the Fox News Channel. He has written seven books on the U.S. Constitution.

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Andrew P. Napolitano, Fourth Amendment, NSA, secrecy, US Constitution

March 10, 2014

Edward Snowden Goes Public at SXSW

Snowden addressed a standing room only tech conference known as SXSW today. He had plenty to say including recommendations for moving the NSA total communications dragnet debate forward and steps we can take to protect our personal data –

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Edward Snowden, Edward Snowden address at SXSW, James Clapper, Keith Alexander, NSA, NSA surveillance, SXSW, Willam Hayden

January 30, 2014

A Sorry State of the Union

January 30, 2014

by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

What if the state of the union is a mess? What if the government spies on all of us all of the time and recognizes no limits to its spying? What if its appetite for acquiring personal knowledge about all Americans is insatiable? What if the government uses the microchips in our cellphones to follow us and listen to us as we move about?

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Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Benghazi, Federal Reserve, Judge Andrew P Napolitano, Judge Napolitano, NSA, Obama, Sorry State of the Union, What if?

January 3, 2014

This was fun to watch…

Yesterday, both the NYT and the Guardian published editorials advocating for Snowden’s safe return to the US. Others are weighing in on whether Obama should give him clemency or some reduced punishment to get him to return, while other dimwits suggest he should be hung from the nearest tree. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Fairy Godmother, Glenn Greenwald, Greenwald takes on Marcus, Jake Tapper, NSA, NYTs clemency, NYTs Snowden a whistleblower, Obama and NSA, Ruth Marcus, Snowden clemency, Whistleblower

December 24, 2013

A Christmas Message from Ed Snowden

Edward Snowden was invited by Britain’s Channel 4 to provide a Christmas message to the good people of Britain during the same time slot the Queen was imparting hers. When Channel 4 was challenged by their decision to air Snowden’s message Jon Snow of Channel 4 responded on Twitter stating –

@leshinton @Channel4 If the UK Government had any balls we’d grant Snowden asylum for Christmas, he’s done the world a service

— Jon Snow (@jonsnowC4) December 24, 2013

Bravo! Jon Snow! Indeed he has done the “world a service” and as regular readers of The T-Room are most aware, Britain lacks “the balls” and would rather put their precious resources into kidnapping him to a) shut him up and b) to shut him up. Well, today, he has a short Christmas message for you and we sincerely hope you’ll click on full story to hear it –  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: 4th Amendment, A christmas message from Ed Snowden, Britain's Channel 4, Ed Snowden, GCHQ, Jon Snow of Britain's Channel 4, Multiple Plots by US, New World Order, NSA, privacy, UK to Kidnap Edward Snowden, US Constitution, wayne madsen, Zionism

December 18, 2013

"They even keep track of who is having an affair or looking at pornography, in case they need to damage their target's reputation" Edward Snowden

December 17, 2013

by Edward Snowden

Six months ago, I stepped out from the shadows of the United States Government’s National Security Agency to stand in front of a journalist’s camera. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Bill Binney, Brazil, Edward Snowden, NSA, Snowden seeking asylum, Snowden's letter to Brazil, totalitarian state, US a Police State, Whistleblower

December 12, 2013

Multiple Plots by US, UK to Kidnap Edward Snowden

(Correction: Edits have been made to this article. The relationship between Madsen and one of his sources, a former linguist who once worked for the NSA, was stated incorrectly. Neither Madsen nor the source knew of one another while employed by the NSA respectively. We sincerely apologize for this mischaracterization of said relationship.)

December 12, 2013

by Helen Tansey
The T-Room dot us

Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen is reporting on two different ‘kidnapping’ operations targeting Edward Snowden. The first operation is being led by Britain’s MI-6 out of there embassy in Moscow and the second by the US in partnership with Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Britain MI-6 Operation Snowden, CIA, Edward Snowden, Germany's plot to kidnap Snowden, Hunting Edward Snowden, multiple plots to kidnap Edward Snowden, NSA, Ray McGovern, Russia's FSB, Snowden kidnap, Snowden's rendition, T-Room, the t room, US plots to kidnap Snowden, wayne madsen, Wayne Madsen Report

December 10, 2013

That Thing They Said They're Not Doing? They're Totally Doing

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Edward Snowden, Jon Stewart 'that thing they said they're not doing? They're totally doing, Nazi propaganda, NSA, NSA logo, Octopus holding the world, propaganda, Snowden, surveillance satelite, T-Room, the t room

December 7, 2013

What was the NSA thinking?

The logo to the left is the new US spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office. Compare it to the anti-communist propaganda from back in the day –

 

 

Now checkout the queer similarity to the Nazi anti-semitic propaganda logo – [Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: @tinyrevolution, Adam West's Batman poster, National Reconnaissance Office, Nazi propaganda, NSA, Octopus over the world NSA logo, T-Room, the t room, US spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office logo

November 27, 2013

"Thank You Ed Snowden"

While hundreds of thousands of American’s nationwide are supporting NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden as Time Magazines ‘Person of the Year,’  the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has just launched their ad campaign ‘Courage is Contagious’ with banners on DC buses saying ‘Thank You Ed Snowden.’

And the Partnership’s campaign is growing  –

Because of the crowd-funding support this project is receiving, it is starting to take off! We are happy to announce it is now being expanded. We have taken out ads on five additional buses, which will hit the streets of D.C. soon. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Courage is contagious campaign, Edward Snowden, Keith Alexander, NSA, Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, T-Room, Thank you Ed Snowden bus banners, the t room, Whistleblower, whistleblowers

November 21, 2013

The Donkey has its eyes and ears covered…

“Democrats, protective of the Obama administration, are less critical of the NSA; 37 percent say it “goes too far,” for example vs. 47 percent of Republicans and 51 percent of independents.”

Checkout this latest poll conducted by Langer Research Associates for ABC News/Washington Post (see below).

First, what in the world has happened to Democratic voters? Why would they ever agree to the government’s dragnet of the entirety of their private dealings such as phone calls, emails, text messaging, IM chat logs, Skype calls, LinkedIn associations, web browsing, FB tracking and so much more? Have they always been this ignorant?

Second, thank goodness younger Americans get it. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: ABC/Washington Post Poll on NSA and Snowden, Democrat voters, Langer Research Associates, NSA, NSA and Snowden November 2013 poll, Snowden, T-Room, Tea Party supports privacy, the t room, young voters

November 1, 2013

In his own words NOT the APs ~ Edward Snowden's Letter to German Officials

When someone writes a letter that someone else chooses to report on the least the journalist can do is link the reader to the original letter. I don’t think this is asking too much. Then again, I am talking about the [Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Angela Merkel, AP, Associated Press, Edward Joseph Snowden, Edward Snowden, Edward Snowden's letter to German officials, Espionage charges against snowden, exile, German, Germany, In his own words NOT the APs, NSA, NSA surveillance, testifying in German courts

October 23, 2013

Stop Watching Us…

From Electronic Frontier Foundation’s press release –

US Rep. John Conyers Jr., “Pentagon Papers” whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and actor Maggie Gyllenhaal join a chorus of prominent voices calling for an end to mass suspicionless surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA) in a new short video released by the StopWatching.us coalition. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Actor Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daniel Ellsberg, EFF Rally, EFF Rally October 24 and 25, John Cusack, NSA, NSA snooping, NSA spying, NSA surveillance, Oliver Stone, Rep. John Conyers, Stop watching us, Thomas Drake, Tom Drake

October 17, 2013

Five Years a Zionist Lackey, Fifteen Minutes an American President by James Petras

Obama’s rhetorical exercise in ‘peace talk’ at the United Nations General Assembly impressed few delegations and even fewer Americans: Far more eloquent are his five years of wars, military interventions, cyber-spying, drone murders, [Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Assad interview, Drone strikes, Fifteen Minutes an American President, Five Years a Zionist Lackey, Iran, Israel, James Petras, kill list, NSA, NSA targeted killing program, Obama, Obama's foreign policy, PNAC, Syria, the t room, US foreign policy, Voltaire, Zionism

October 14, 2013

The Banality of Evil by Peter Ludlow

In recent months there has been a visible struggle in the media to come to grips with the leaking, whistle-blowing and hacktivism that has vexed the United States military and the private and government intelligence communities. This response has run the gamut. It has involved attempts to condemn, support, demonize, psychoanalyze and in some cases [Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Aaron Swartz, Bradley Manning, Chelsea Manning, Corporatism, Edward Snowden, Jeremy Hammond, Moral Mazes, Moral Mazes by Robert Jackall, national security, NSA, Peter Ludlow, PFC Bradley Manning, The banality of evil, whistleblowers, Whistleblowing

October 10, 2013

Edward Snowden Receives the Sam Adam's Award ~ "Corner-Brightener Candlestick"

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 09: Edward Snowden (3rd R) receives the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence Award (SAAII) alongside UK WikiLeaks journalist Sarah Harrison (2nd R) who took Snowden from Hong Kong to Moscow and obtained his asylum and the United States government whistleblowers who presented the award (L-R) Coleen Rowley (FBI), Thomas Drake (NSA), Jesselyn Raddack (DoJ) and Ray McGovern (CIA) on October 9, 2013 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Sunshinepress/Getty Images)

MOSCOW, RUSSIA – OCTOBER 09: Edward Snowden (3rd R) receives the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence Award (SAAII) alongside UK WikiLeaks journalist Sarah Harrison (2nd R) who took Snowden from Hong Kong to Moscow and obtained his asylum and the United States government whistleblowers who presented the award (L-R) Coleen Rowley (FBI), Thomas Drake (NSA), Jesselyn Raddack (DoJ) and Ray McGovern (CIA) on October 9, 2013 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Sunshinepress/Getty Images)

 

Russia’s RIA Novosti news service reported – [Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Coleen Rowley, Ed Snowden, Jesselyn Raddack, NSA, NSA snooping on Americans, Ray McGovern, Russia, SAAII, Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence Award, Snowden receives American visitors, surveillance, Thomas Drake, wikileaks

October 2, 2013

Special Report: Naval War College's involvement in personal cyber-attacks no mere aberration

October 1, 2013

by Wayne Madsen
Wayne Madsen Report dot com

The latest release of National Security Agency slides from whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals that the NSA is heavily involved in monitoring social media and the social networking activities of Americans. The NSA will claim that this is part of their obligation to protect national security [Read more…]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Cass Sunstein, Cognitive Infiltration, Edward Snowden, Facebook, Glenn Greenwald, instagram, John Schindler, My Space, Naval War College, Naval War College Cyber Trolls, NSA, NSA montioring social networking, NSA surveillance, PRISM, SIGINT, Snowden, State Department, Twitter, US propaganda, wayne madsen, Wayne Madsen Report

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