PRIVACYSOS | May 22, 2015 Attorney General Loretta Lynch says that USA Patriot Act dragnet spy powers must be extended or else the terrorists will get us. Lynch said Friday the country would be “less safe” if Congress fails to renew surveillance programs included in the Patriot Act. Lynch joined other top Obama administration officials, […]
By Mark Jaycox | EFF | May 19, 2015 Three provisions of the Patriot Act expire on June 1 and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is trying to delay taking action on the issue by calling for a two month or 5-year reauthorization of Section 215—the provision of the Patriot Act the NSA relies on […]
By Ron Paul | May 10, 2015 This week the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the NSA’s metadata collection program was not authorized in US law. The PATRIOT Act, under which the program began, was too vague, the court found. But the truth is the Act was intended to be vague so that […]
Sputnik – 05.05.2015 The intelligence sharing relationship between German and American spy agencies is one of dominance and blackmail rather than cooperation, with Germany’s BND acting as a “colony” used to help gather information for US authorities, German activist and publicist Christoph Horstel said. There has been much speculation regarding the seemingly close relationship between […]
Sputnik – 05.05.2015 Austria filed a formal complaint over suspicions that German and American intelligence agencies have spied on its authorities and firms, the Austrian interior minister said on Tuesday. “Austria demands clarification,” Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner told Reuters, following German media reports about such activities. She added that Austria’s security authorities were in contact with their German counterparts. […]
By Ron Paul | May 3, 2015 Apologists for the National Security Agency (NSA) point to the arrest of David Coleman Headley as an example of how warrantless mass surveillance is necessary to catch terrorists. Headley played a major role in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack that killed 166 people. While few would argue that […]
RT | May 1, 2015 European aviation consortium Airbus said it would file criminal charges over industrial espionage, following reports that US and German foreign intelligence spied on the industry giant. “We are aware that as a large company in the sector, we are a target and subject of espionage,” the company said in a […]
Sputnik | 26.04.2015 Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service has been spying for US intelligence agencies for years. Merkel’s Office should have been informed in 2008 about this practice, but the federal government has not undertaken any corresponding measures, a German magazine wrote. It became known on Thursday the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) overheard communications of […]
RT | April 23, 2015 Germany’s BND intelligence agency spied on European politicians and companies for the NSA for over a decade, Spiegel Online revealed. But an internal probe showed that at least 40,000 of those spying requests were against German and EU interests. Over the course of 10 years, the NSA sent the BND […]
By Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov | April 4, 2015 The National Security Agency (NSA) has refused to release four seconds of a recording made in the Richard Nixon White House more than 40 years ago, claiming the disclosure would expose a reference to Vietnam War peace talks and American government spying capabilities of the time. […]
