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 –
January 29, 2014
Matt Damon weighs in on Snowden and the NSA
Damon nailed the current state of surveillance we are all enduring in Good Will Hunting, which is the first part of this video, but then he offers his take on Snowden and the NSA revelations he’s revealed –
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…]
October 30, 2013
Datagate, Panorama: "Intercepted conversations even the Pope"
TRANSLATED from Panorama –Datagate, Panorama: «Intercettate anche le conversazioni del Papa»
October 30, 2013
Spiato Papa Bergoglio
The National Security Agency has cut even the Pope was revealed by the issue of Panorama on newsstands . In the 46 million calls tracked by the U.S. in Italy , between 10 December 2012 and 8 January , 2013, there would be those to and from the Vatican. [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
September 24, 2013
Watch Brazil's Pres. Dilma Rousseff Speech at UN w/Transcript
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff –
As many other Latin Americans, I fought against authoritarianism and censorship, and I cannot but defend, in an uncompromising fashion, the right to privacy of individuals and the sovereignty of my country. In the absence of the right to privacy, there can be no true freedom of expression and opinion, and therefore no effective democracy. In the absence of the respect for sovereignty, there is no basis for the relationship among Nations. [Read more…]
August 24, 2013
Terms and Conditions May Apply (trailer)
August 21, 2013
The NSA: ‘The Abyss from Which There Is No Return’
Sen. Frank Church also said in 1975 – “The 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. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.” [Read more…]
August 20, 2013
Guardian's Editor ‘Alan Rusbridger on Why They Opted to Destroy Computers’
Below the fold is today’s World at One audio interview with the Guardian’s editor Alan Rushbridger.
Here’s a snippet –
Kearny: “You also describe how this all ended up with officials coming into the Guardian offices to destroy computers there?” [Read more…]
August 14, 2013
Did Republican Leadership Betray Its 2011 Freshmen Class?
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive.” Sir Walter Scott
by Helen Tansey
The T-Room
Did Mike Rogers, Republican Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), act alone when deciding to withhold critical information about NSA’s bulk collection of American’s phone records from the 2011 incoming class of members of congress prior to their vote to reauthorize the Patriot Act? Was the entirety of the Republican House leadership in on the decision? It sure looks that way. [Read more…]
August 13, 2013
UPDATE x1: There he goes again, he says one thing and then does the complete opposite…
Americans, and I certainly hope by now the majority of Democrats, for once simply want O’Bush to actually do what he says. Just once. [Read more…]
August 8, 2013
Meta My Data
August 5, 2013
Greenwald: Is U.S. Exaggerating Threat to Embassies to Silence Critics of NSA Domestic Surveillance?
During today’s interview with Glenn Greenwald, Amy Goodman asks him to respond to a comment Sen. Chambliss made over the weekend on Meet the Press. Greenwald’s response shouldn’t come as a surprise to T-Room readers – [Read more…]