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…]
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…]
The father of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden on Friday blasted U.S. lawmakers for not reining in the U.S. electronic spy program made public by his son, accusing them of being “complicit or negligent.” [Read more…]
Here’s what is going on.
Following the filing of the Amash-Conyers Amendment, an amendment designed to defund the NSA’s Section 215 “dragnet collection,” NSA’s Clapper and Alexander headed to the Hill to hold yet again, another round of “Top Secret” briefings with members of congress. Their goal – to kill the amendment per their bosses order. [Read more…]
Edward Snowden along with Sarah Harrison of WikiLeaks (left) at a meeting with human rights campaigners in Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow today. Photograph: Tanya Lokshina/Human Rights Watch
by Helen Tansey
July 12, 2013
The T-Room
Snowden held a rather public meeting today with international human interest groups including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to ask for their organizations protection. [Read more…]
Daniel Ellsberg is the author of “Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.” He was charged in 1971 under the Espionage Act as well as for theft and conspiracy for copying the Pentagon Papers. The trial was dismissed in 1973 after evidence of government misconduct, including illegal wiretapping, was introduced in court. [Read more…]
by Paul Craig Roberts
paulcraigroberts dot com
No one likes a bully, and Washington’s NATO puppets have been bullied for six decades. British prime ministers, German chancellors and French presidents have to salute and say, “Yes, Sir.”
They all hate it, but [Read more…]
“Establishment journalists love leaks that serve the interests of political officials, but [b]hate leaks that disclose what those officials want to keep suppressed[/b]” says Glenn Greenwald in his latest update on the NSA Illegal Spying [Read more…]
by Wayne Madsen
Wayne Madsen Report
June 12, 2013
The media is quoting a number of intelligence “insiders” who are questioning NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s involvement in National Security Agency (NSA) signals intelligence and meta-data mining programs like PRISM and CIA human intelligence (HUMINT) operations. [Read more…]
Greenwald has done a series of interviews this week after reporting on the NSA’s collecting every phone and cell call made by every American and millions abroad all in the name of Washington’s self-created War on Terror. [Read more…]
Many in the alternative media are questioning whether Snowden is the real deal simply b/c he either “speaks too well” for a high school dropout or he couldn’t possibly be hired by the CIA b/c of his lack of a degree and so on. One idiotic writer actually suggested Snowden broke both of his legs so he could get out of his Special Ops training! Can you imagine? [Read more…]
Join me in prayer – Please, dear God, keep this man, Edward, and all of those helping him to shed sunlight on the evil betrayal made of every human being on this planet by those who dared to ask us to trust them, safe from any harm. [Read more…]
Katie Glueck
Politico
June 7, 2013
The journalist who broke the news that the government is monitoring vast quantities of American phone records made the rounds is claiming the U.S. is building a “massive” snooping apparatus committed to destroying privacy worldwide. [Read more…]
Read the full transcript – http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/6/nsa_whistleblowers_all_us_citizens_targeted
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January 18-19, 2011 — Stuxnet: a violation of US computer security law, by Wayne Madsen
If a January 15 report in The New York Times, which has a dubious past in reporting on computer security and hacking issues, is true — that the United States Department of Homeland Security, Department of Energy — via the Idaho National Laboratory — Siemens (which has a long-standing intelligence relationship with the National Security Agency), the CIA, Britain’s intelligence services, Germany, and Israel’s Mossad cooperated to develop the Stuxnet computer worm to disable Iranian nuclear program centrifuges, the U.S. government violated a number of federal computer security laws that prohibit the development of malicious computer programs that damage ″federal interest″ computers. The Stuxnet worm, which, according to the Times, was tested at Israel’s Dimona nuclear weapons development facility in the Negev, not only infected Iranian nuclear program computers but spread to computers in other countries, including the United States. Stuxnet code was discovered through computer forensics to contain key words from the Jewish Old Testament Book of Esther, further establishing Israeli fingerprints on the malicious code. The malicious code’s file name, Myrtus, is the Hebrew word for Esther. According to myth, Esther saved the Jews from a Persian plot to exterminate them.
The New York Times article by William Broad, John Markoff, and David Sanger, three reporters who have their own questionable ties to Israeli interests, states that when Stuxnet first appeared around the world in June last year, it did little harm and did not slow computer networks. However, this is merely an attempt to let the U.S. and Israeli governments off the hook by falsely claiming that the only damage done by Stuxnet was to the centrifuge systems used by Iran to enrich uranium. Although Stuxnet likely did disable Iran’s centrifuges, causing a set-back to its nuclear program, the Stuxnet worm, contrary to The New York Times report, resulted in computer down time and disruption far beyond Iran. The disruption by a digital version of a U.S. and Israeli military first strike makes the United States government and Israel civilly liable for the damage and disruption caused by Stuxnet. [Read more…]
Dear Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Constitutionalists and Greenies:
This is an open letter especially written to you.
On 9/11 I was readying to go to work when I saw the first plane slam into the WTC on the morning news. I was breathless, stunned, angry and sad all at the same time. I watched in horror when the second plane attacked and a rush of anxiety and fear shimmered through my entire body. The horror of watching it all changed my life and your’s forever. [Read more…]