Tragedy and Hope | January 28, 2015 A 36-year veteran of America’s Intelligence Community, William Binney resigned from his position as Director for Global Communications Intelligence (COMINT) at the National Security Agency (NSA) and blew the whistle, after discovering that his efforts to protect the privacy and security of Americans were being undermined by those […]
By Bill Blunden | CounterPunch | March 23, 2015 Over the past several years mainstream news outlets have conveyed a litany of cyber doomsday scenarios on behalf of ostensibly credible public officials. Breathless intimations of the End Times. The stuff of Hollywood screenplays. However a recent statement by the U.S. intelligence community pours a bucket […]
By Rachel Nusbaum | ACLU | March 13, 2015 They say the first step is admitting you have a problem. But sometimes that’s the easy part. When it comes to cybersecurity, it seems everyone in Washington admits we have a problem. It’s in the solutions phase where things really start to fall apart for policymakers. […]
Some rarely discussed truths shaping contemporary American democracy By John Chuckman | Aletho News | March 12, 2015 Many people still think of the CIA as an agency designed to help American presidents make informed decisions about matters outside the United States. That was the basis for President Truman’s signing the legislation which created the […]
By Rachel Nusbaum | ACLU | March 4, 2015 Do you hear that? It’s starting. The predictable drumbeat of dire warnings about what will happen if portions of the Patriot Act – the post-9/11 law being used to conduct controversial NSA dragnet surveillance – are allowed to expire on June 1 has already begun. James […]
By Vladimir Platov | New Eastern Outlook | January 3, 2015 According to various publications in the American and foreign media, the United States has created a global system of cyber espionage that allows the interception and processing of personal data around the globe in violation of fundamental human rights. Tapped phones, intercepted short messages, […]
By Larry Chin | Global Research | December 27, 2014 Almost all wars begin with false flag operations. The coming conflicts in North Korea and Russia are no exception. Mass public hysteria is being manufactured to justify aggression against Moscow and Pyongyang, in retaliation for acts attributed to the North Korean and Russian governments, but […]
By Rachel Nusbaum | ACLU | November 4, 2014 Today, in a hushed courtroom in Washington, D.C., not far from the now-empty halls of Congress, a federal appeals court heard arguments in Klayman v. Obama, a challenge to the NSA’s bulk collection of telephone metadata first revealed by Edward Snowden. If you have ever made […]
MEMO | September 18, 2014 The US routinely shares private information about its citizens of Arab and Palestinian descent with Israel, the New York Times revealed yesterday. In an Op-Ed in the newspaper, James Bamford said that the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden told him that the US “routinely passed private, unedited […]
Global Information Society Watch | September 2014 Years before Edward Snowden leaked his first document, human rights lawyers and activists have been concerned about a dramatic expansion in law enforcement and foreign intelligence agencies’ efforts to spy on the digital world. It had become evident that legal protections had not kept pace with technological – […]
