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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 […] April 2nd, 2014 | Tags: domestic surveillance, Edward Snowden, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), James R. Clapper, National Security Agency, PRISM, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Sen. Mark Udall, Sen. Ron Wyden, warrantless surveillance | Category: Barack Obama, Department of Justice, National Intelligence, Right to Privacy, Social networking websites | Comments are closed
Ed Morrissey Hot Air 1/15/2014 The bombshell here isn’t the blame — it’s that the blame is bipartisan. Normally in these circumstances, a Congressional committee looking into the activities of a current administration will split into partisan conclusions, especially if it’s critical at all. Not this time: A long-delayed Senate intelligence committee report released on […] January 15th, 2014 | Tags: "Innocence of Muslims", 9/11, Accountability Review Board (ARB), Admiral Mike Mullen, al Qaeda, Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Benghazi, Charlene Lamb, Cheryl Mills, Col. George Bristol, David H. Petraeus, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Gen. Carter Ham, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Glen A. Doherty, Greg Hicks, James R. Clapper, James Rosen, Jay Carney, Judge Jeanine Pirro, Libya, lies, Moammar Gadhafi, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, November 2012, Patrick Kennedy, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Rep. Elijah Cummings, Sean Smith, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, security, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Sen. Marco Rubio, Senate Intelligence Committee, Thomas Pickering, Tyrone S. Woods, UN Ambassador Susan Rice, Victoria Nuland | Category: Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Congress, Department of Defense, Elections, FBI, Islam, State Department, terrorism, Video | Comments are closed
Alex Lazar ABC News 12/16/2013 Seeking to unify anti-tea party forces, Rep. Peter King today will form a new political action committee, “American Leadership PAC,” to promote an alternative to staunch conservative Republicans such as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Rand Paul, R-K.Y., he told ABC News in an interview. “I want to create […] December 18th, 2013 | Tags: "Person of the Year", American Leadership PAC, James R. Clapper, November 2016, Rasmussen Reports, Rep. Peter King, Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Ted Cruz | Category: Congress, Elections, Politicians, Progressives, Tea Parties | Comments are closed
McCain: Rejection of Syria war resolution would be ‘catastrophic’ David R. Sands The Washington Times 9/2/2013 Emerging from a private briefing with President Obama at the White House on Monday, Sen. John McCain warned it would be “catastrophic” if Congress rejected a resolution authorizing Mr. Obama to take military action against Syria over its suspected […] September 3rd, 2013 | Tags: al Qaeda, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Bashar Assad, Benghazi, James R. Clapper, Saddam Hussein, sarin, Secretary of State John Kerry, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Syria, war, WikiLeaks, WMDs | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Islam, Middle East, Military, Politicians, Progressives, TAKE ACTION! | Comments are closed
Leaked documents lay bare TPM 2.0 worries John E. Dunn Techworld 22 August 2013 The German Government is now deeply suspicious that the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) technology built into a growing number of Windows 8 PCs and tablets is creating a gigantic back door for NSA surveillance, leaked documents have suggested. Documents from the […] August 25th, 2013 | Tags: Edward Snowden, James R. Clapper, Lenovo, Microsoft, National Security Agency, surveillance, transparency, Trusted Computing Group (TCG), Trusted Platform Module (TPM), Windows 8 | Category: Computers, Germany, Internet, National Intelligence, technology, United Nations | Comments are closed
Brian Freedom’s Lighthouse 8/18/2013 – –
Related: Rand: Dir. of Nat’l Intelligence ‘Greatly Damaged’ Credibility of Intel Community …Clapper had told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the NSA did not collect data on Americans, and after Edward Snowden leaked information about the NSA programs, he told NBC News that he gave the “least untruthful […] August 18th, 2013 | Tags: Boston Marathon, Edward Snowden, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), Franklin D. Roosevelt, James R. Clapper, National Security Agency, scandal, Second Bill of Rights, Sen. Rand Paul, Separation of Powers, TamerlanTsarnaev | Category: 4th Amendment, Barack Obama, Congress, Health Care, History, law enforcement, National Intelligence, National Security, SCOTUS, US Constitution, Video | Comments are closed
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