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And not only on April Fools’ Day… Ed Krayewski Reason Magazine 4/1/2014 Today is April Fools’ Day, the one day of the year set aside for trying to prank friends or strangers without appearing juvenile. Newspapers, magazines, and even television programs have used the day to fool people… …instead of risking looking like a jackass […] April 1st, 2014 | Tags: April Fools' Day, Edward Snowden, Rep. Mike Rogers, Sen. Harry Reid, Sen. John McCain, Speaker John Boehner, State Sen. Leland Yee, Vice President Joe Biden | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, corruption, Politicians, Progressives | Comments are closed
Scott Shackford Reason Magazine 3/11/2014 Sen. Dianne Feinstein – generally a lover and defender of our growing surveillance state – took to the Senate floor this morning to confirm and clarify a story that came out last week: The CIA snooped on a computer network Congress was using to investigate CIA abuses. At the heart […] March 11th, 2014 | Tags: Edward Snowden, John Brennan, Leon Panetta, National Security Agency, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Separation of Powers, torture | Category: 4th Amendment, Central Intelligence Agency, Computers, Congress, Department of Justice, technology, terrorism | Comments are closed
Scott Shackford Reason Magazine 2/27/2014 If you’ve used webcam chats via Yahoo, there’s a chance that Great Britain’s surveillance agency, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), has collected still images of you in bulk, including images of your junk you might have flashed at some lucky person on the other end. The latest documents leaked by Edward […] February 27th, 2014 | Tags: Edward Snowden, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), National Security Agency, Optic Nerve, sex, webcam, XKeyscore, Yahoo! | Category: Great Britain, Internet | Comments are closed
Darren Samuelsohn Politico 2/25/2014 The National Security Agency’s top watchdog slammed Edward Snowden on Tuesday for failing to follow official protocol in relaying his concerns about wayward intelligence gathering and also faulted Congress for not vetting the details of post-9/11 surveillance programs. “Snowden could have come to me,” George Ellard, the NSA’s inspector general, said […] February 26th, 2014 | Tags: "metadata", ACLU, Cass Sunstein, domestic surveillance, Edward Snowden, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), George Ellard, Glenn Greenwald, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), infiltration, National Security Agency, Sen. Ron Wyden | Category: Congress, Department of Justice, Glenn Beck, Great Britain, Internet, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Tyler Durden ZeroHedge 2/16/2014 …As you might expect, the economic decline of a nation into rule by a handful of corrupt oligarchs will have many other negative repercussions. One of these is a loss of civil rights and freedoms that many of us have taken for granted. Reporters Without Borders puts out their Press Freedom […] February 17th, 2014 | Tags: Associated Press, Edward Snowden, freedom, Freedom Index, Pfc. Bradley Manning, Reporters Without Borders, rule of law, whistleblowers | Category: 1st Amendment, Barack Obama, journalism, Media, MSM (Mainstream Media) | Comments are closed
Highlights from an eventful year. Ed Krayewski, Jesse Walker, Jim Epstein, J.D. Tuccille, Scott Shackford & Matthew Feeney Reason Magazine 12/31/2013 Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch’s The Declaration of Independents, published in 2011, provides a hopeful outlook for the future of freedom, a vision of how libertarian politics can fix America’s problems. How did 2013 […] December 31st, 2013 | Tags: "sharing economy", 3D printing, domestic surveillance, Edward Snowden, gay marriage, gun control, libertarians, marijuana, National Security Agency, Syria, zero-tolerance | Category: 2nd Amendment, Education, Foreign Policy, Politicians, technology | Comments are closed
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