National Security Agency

How the Australian, British, and US Governments Shamelessly Helped Kill Countless People in Indonesia in 1965

Asia-Pacific Research – July 23, 2016 The Hague-based International People’s Tribunal has ruled that the Indonesian regime that replaced Indonesian President Sukarno committed crimes against humanity in 1965. The governments of Australia, Britain, and the United States have also been pronounced guilty as complicit partners in the massacre of 500,000 to 1000,000 people or more in […]

Homeland Security detains US journalist returning from Beirut, tries to confiscate phones

RT | July 22, 2016 A Wall Street Journal reporter returning from Beirut was taken into holding, grilled and asked to hand over her phones by the Department of Homeland Security at Los Angeles International Airport. When the journalist, Maria Abi-Habib, returned from Beirut, it was another ordinary work trip. But after touching down at […]

TO PARAPHRASE CHURCHILL, TURKEY RIGHT NOW IS A RIDDLE WRAPPED IN A MYSTERY INSIDE AN ENIGMA

By John Chuckman | Aletho News | July 21, 2016 Events in Turkey just become stranger with each passing day. We now have Middle Eastern and Persian sources, cited by Russian and German papers, that Russia’s security agencies overheard helicopter radio transmissions by the coup participants, and President Putin warned Erdogan about what was happening, […]

Why Today’s Privacy-Invading Online Ecosystem May Not Last

By Jay Stanley | ACLU | May 31, 2016 In recent years we have seen the growth of an enormous infrastructure for routine commercial surveillance on the internet. This infrastructure includes not only “free” advertising-based services like Google and Facebook, but also a largely invisible system of ad networks that track people across the different […]

German spy services granted asylum to refugees in exchange for ‘questionable’ intel – report

RT | April 1, 2016 German intelligence agencies and police have granted asylum to roughly 1,000 refugees in exchange for sensitive information, often by means of “intervention” in the decisions of the national immigration authority, the government has said. Intelligence services and the federal police have granted asylum to almost 1,000 migrants over the past […]

NSA Director Meets Secretly in Israel to Plan Stuxnet-Like Operations

© Flickr/ EFF Photos Sputnik – 29.03.2016 Last week, NSA chief, Admiral Michael Rogers met with Israeli security officials in secret to explore forging closer ties between US and Israeli cyber intelligence gathering. The NSA, America’s signals intelligence (SIGINT) agency, is responsible for electronic collection abroad in addition to protecting US government information and communication […]