Friday, February 14, 2014
denies red censorship
But its explanation is greeted with skepticism
From the Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/12/microsoft-bing-censor-chinese-search-results-system-error?CMP=ema_827
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
in Holder aide's NSA testimony
Two Republicans and a liberal Democrat have upbraided a deputy attorney general, charging his congressional testimony regarding NSA surveillance of federal lawmakers was flawed.
From the Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/12/nsa-james-cole-congress-testimony-surveillance-phone-records
Meanwhile, Sen. Rand Paul, a libertarian-leaning Republican, filed a class action lawsuit against the Executive Branch over the NSA's dragnetting of telephone metadata, and pledged to fight all the way to the Supreme Court.
communist censorship in America
From the Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/11/bing-censors-chinese-language-search-results?CMP=ema_565
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
that Bin Laden had been killed
Admiral ordered death pix destroyed despite preservation rule
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/email-shows-effort-to-shield-bin-laden-photos/2014/02/10/92f9a6fc-92b2-11e3-b3f7-f5107432ca45_story.html
First, a corpse said to be that of Osama bin Laden was ordered ditched into the sea. No body, no autopsy.
Then Obama denied media requests to view photos of the body.
Not long after, a U.S. admiral ordered the destruction of all military photos of the body of the person said to be Bin Laden. Any other such photos were to be kept under lock and key by the CIA. So, no visual evidence. No possibility of a member of the public running a facial recognition program to determine whether the commandos had killed the right person.
Those identified as Bin Laden's wives and children were held in Pakistan for a while, then sent overseas -- but nowhere near a Congressional committee or members of the U.S. press.
Conclusion: The commandos killed somebody that night. But Obama and his underlings were very anxious that no one be able to see tangible evidence that it was actually Bin Laden who died.
Drone warriors are often guessing -- insider
Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill reporting...
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/the-nsas-secret-role/
Monday, January 27, 2014
on NSA's siphoning of map data
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/world/spy-agencies-scour-phone-apps-for-personal-data.html?hp&_r=0
Control f:
Google d
to reach relevant note in Times story.
Sunday, January 19, 2014
word for word on press,
justices and lawmakers
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/54101930#54101930
Sunday, January 5, 2014
tracking of lawmakers
The National Security Agency was unwilling to give a straight answer to a senator's question as to whether the agency engages in covert collection of the personal data of members of Congress as the agency fights to hold onto the vast surveillance powers it secretly grasped, but that were eventually exposed by Edward Snowden.
The agency, in response to press queries concerning a question posed in a letter by Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, issued this statement:
“NSA’s authorities to collect signals intelligence data include procedures that protect the privacy of U.S. persons. Such protections are built into and cut across the entire process. Members of Congress have the same privacy protections as all U.S. persons. NSA is fully committed to transparency with Congress. Our interaction with Congress has been extensive both before and since the media disclosures began last June.
“We are reviewing Senator Sanders’s letter now, and we will continue to work to ensure that all members of Congress, including Senator Sanders, have information about NSA’s mission, authorities, and programs to fully inform the discharge of their duties.”
Sanders on Friday asked NSA Director Keith Alexander whether the agency has monitored the phone calls, emails and Internet traffic of members of Congress and other elected officials. “Has the NSA spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials?” Sanders asked in a letter. The term "spying" includes, he said, the gathering of metadata on calls made from official or personal phones, content from websites visited or emails sent, or the collection of any other data from a third party not made available to the general public in the regular course of business?
Sanders said he was “deeply concerned” by disclosures that federal intelligence agencies harvested the records of phone calls, emails and web activity of millions of "innocent Americans" without any reason to even suspect involvement in illegal activities. He also cited reports that the United States eavesdropped on the leaders of Germany, Mexico, Brazil and other allies.
Sanders said that while America “must be vigilant and aggressive in protecting the American people from the very real danger of terrorist attacks,” the nation must beware data dragnet activities described by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon as "almost Orwellian."
Sanders has introduced legislation to put strict limits on the sweeping powers used by the NSA and the FBI to secretly track the telephone calls of millions of Americans who are not suspected of any wrongdoing.
The measure would put limits on records that may be searched. Authorities would be required to establish a reasonable suspicion, based on specific information, in order to secure court approval to monitor business records related to a specific terrorism suspect. Sanders’ bill also would put an end to open-ended court orders that have resulted in wholesale data mining by the NSA and the FBI. Instead, the government would be required to provide reasonable suspicion to justify searches for each record or document that it wants to examine.
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