Clapper Signs Media Directive Gagging Intelligence Workers

Matthew Feeney Reason.com 4/22/2014

Last month Director of National Intelligence James Clapper signed a directive banning the employees of some government agencies from discussing intelligence-related work with the media…

…In the directive “media” is defined as “any person, organization, or entity” that is “primarily engaged in the collection, production, or dissemination to the public of […]

Clapper: NSA performed warrantless searches on Americans' calls and emails

NSA used ‘back door’ to search Americans’ communications Director of national intelligence confirms use of new legal rule Data collected under ‘Prism’ and ‘Upstream’ programs

 

Spencer Ackerman The Guardian [UK] 1 April 2014

US intelligence chiefs have confirmed that the National Security Agency has used a “back door” in surveillance law to perform […]

‘Your right to privacy is under assault’

 

Rand Paul gets standing ovation at Berkeley

Alex Pappas The Daily Caller 3/19/2014

Delivering a rare speech for a Republican at this bastion of liberalism, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday was given multiple standing ovations by the left-wing audience after railing against government surveillance and warning the students: “Your right to privacy […]

Defend the Fourth: Sen. Paul (R-KY) Slaps Team Obama With Lawsuit Over NSA Program

Daniel Doherty Townhall 2/12/2014

Does the Fourth Amendment mean anything anymore? That is essentially the question Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) posed in a promotional video on Tuesday — the day before he formally filed, along with the organizationFreedomWorks, a class action lawsuit against President Obama and top officials at the National Security Agency (NSA). He […]

The first congressman to battle the NSA is dead. No-one noticed, no-one cares.

Mark Ames PandoDigest 2/4/2014

 

 

 

 

“Pike will pay for this, you wait and see—we’ll destroy him for this.” —Mitchell Rogovin, CIA special counsel, 1976

Last month, former Congressman Otis Pike died, and no one seemed to notice or care. That’s scary, because Pike led the House’s most intensive and […]

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