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Files provided by Snowden show extent to which ordinary Web users are caught in the net
Barton Gellman, Julie Tate and Ashkan Soltani The Washington Post 7/5/2014 Ordinary Internet users, American and non-American alike, far outnumber legally targeted foreigners in the communications intercepted by the National Security Agency from U.S. digital networks, […] July 7th, 2014 | Tags: Abbottabad of Muhammad Tahir Shahzad, domestic surveillance, Edward Snowden, emails, FISA Amendments Act, Gen. Keith Alexander, James R. Clapper, National Security Agency, PRISM, Reason.com, Umar Patek, Upstream, voyeurism | Category: Barack Obama, Internet, National Intelligence, National Security, Right to Privacy, terrorism | Comments are closed
Burgess Everett Politico 6/7/2013 Concern in Congress is mounting over broad surveillance by the Obama administration as new revelations surfaced that the National Security Administration is monitoring Internet usage. Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee is shopping bills that would address some portions of the government monitoring, an aide said, particularly the NSA collection of Verizon […] June 7th, 2013 | Tags: Aaron Walker, CREDO Mobile, Democracy Alliance, domestic surveillance, FISA Amendments Act, Laura Ingraham, Michael Kieschnick, National Security Agency, Patriot Act, Sen. Jeff Merkley, Sen. Mark Udall, Sen. Mike Lee, Sen. Ron Wyden | Category: 4th Amendment, Barack Obama, civil liberties, Congress, Internet, legislation, National Intelligence, National Security, Politicians, Right to Privacy | Comments are closed
Megyn Kelly got some revealing insights today from two NSA whistleblowers. From America Live with Megyn Kelly Fox News Insider 6/7/2013 NSA whistleblowers J. Kirk Wiebe and Bill Binney have been sounding the alarm about government intrusion into Americans’ privacy for years. They joined Megyn Kelly today to give us some revealing insights into how […] June 7th, 2013 | Tags: "metadata", domestic surveillance, FISA Amendments Act, Gen. Keith Alexander, Glenn Greenwald, intimidation, J. Kirk Wiebe, James R. Clapper, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Mark Levin, Megyn Kelly, National Security Agency, Patriot Act, PRISM, Prof. Jonathan Turley, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Sen. Jeff Merkley, Sen. Mark Udall, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, telephony metadata, Verizon, whistleblowers, William Binney | Category: 4th Amendment, Barack Obama, civil liberties, Congress, corruption, FBI, Internet, journalism, National Intelligence, National Security, Right to Privacy, technology, terrorism | Comments are closed
Patterico Patterico’s Pontifications 3/11/2013 …First, there is the point made in the headline of this post. Remember how Lindsey Graham chided his Republican colleagues for supporting Rand Paul? To my Republican colleagues: I don’t remember any of you comin’ down here suggesting that President Bush was going to kill anybody with a drone. I don’t […] March 11th, 2013 | Tags: Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, Anwar al-Awlaki, drones, executive power, FISA Amendments Act, Marty Lederman, President George W. Bush, Samir Khan, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Rand Paul | Category: Barack Obama, MSM (Mainstream Media), terrorism, U.S. Civil War, US Constitution | Comments are closed
30 December 2012
“America, the greatest losses to our freedom have not come from someone attacking us, but from the government ignoring the Constitution and the majority letting them get away with it.” ~Judge Andrew Napolitano H/T Turning Point USA
“Freedom is not something that […] December 30th, 2012 | Tags: "overcriminalization", FISA Amendments Act, freedom, James Baldwin, James R. Clapper, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Sen. Rand Paul | Category: Barack Obama, Government, Quotations, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Scott Shackford Reason Magazine 12/27/2012 …The FISA Act allows the government to get secret permission to spy on communications to and from Americans without having to prove probable cause in defiance of the Fourth Amendment. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been on top of the political machinations behind the renewal of the bill, such […] December 27th, 2012 | Tags: domestic surveillance, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), FISA Amendments Act, Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Ron Wyden | Category: 4th Amendment, civil liberties, Congress, Internet, National Security, technology, terrorism, Video | Comments are closed
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