NSA Shields Government Networks With More AT&T Secret Rooms
Kim Zetter | Wired.com Just a week after the Defense Department announced plans to put the National Security Agency in charge of military cyber defense and attack, the agency’s reach has already expanded to include monitoring of government civilian networks. The Obama administration has decided to proceed with a classified Bush administration plan to let [...]
Obama administration defends telecom immunity
Rachel Oswald | RawStory.com The Obama Justice Department continues to stand behind a Bush era law meant to prevent lawsuits against telecommunications companies accused of illegally sharing private customer information with intelligence agencies. In a brief filed late Wednesday obtained by Raw Story, the Department of Justice provided its views to Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn [...]
Illegal wire-tapping suit now in Obama’s court
Bob Egelko | SFgate.com President-elect Barack Obama dismayed civil liberties groups last summer when he voted to authorize President Bush’s clandestine wiretapping program after publicly denouncing it. Now, thanks to a ruling by a San Francisco federal judge, Obama must take a stand on whether the Bush administration violated Americans’ rights when it intercepted their phone [...]
Report: Gonzo Told Investigators That Bush Directed Him To Ashcroft’s Hospital Bed
By Zachary Roth – September 26, 2008, 2:00PM Murray Waas reports on the website of the Atlantic that Alberto Gonzales is now telling investigators that he was being personally directed by President Bush when, as White House counsel, Gonzales made a much-discussed late-night visit in 2004 to the hospital room of then Attorney General [...]
Cindy Sheehan Catches Phone Bugger in the Act at DNC
Infowars August 25, 2008 The following is an excerpt from a report posted by Cindy Sheehan at the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center: The most troubling thing happened, though, when I arrived back to my hotel. We got back early because the altitude and sleeplessness were starting to take a toll on us. [...]
Senate Approves Telecom Amnesty, Expands Domestic Spying Powers
Obama – Aye McCain – No Vote Cantwell – Nay Murray – Nay The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to grant retroactive amnesty to the telecoms that aided the President Bush’s five-year secret, warrantless wiretapping of Americans, and to expand the government’s authority to sift through U.S. communications, handing a key victory to the Bush [...]
Analysis: NSA Spying Judge Defends Rule of Law, Congress Set to Strip His Power
Ryan Singel | Wired.com Just days before the Senate will convene to give a final blessing to President Bush’s secret, warrantless wiretapping program, a federal court judge ruled that his legal justification for the surveillance has no legal merit. He’s the same judge Congress is trying to save the nation’s telecoms, such as AT&T, Verizon and [...]
AT&T Whistleblower: Spy Bill Creates ‘Infrastructure for a Police State
Ryan Singel | Wired.com Mark Klein, the retired AT&T engineer who stepped forward with the technical documents at the heart of the anti-wiretapping case against AT&T, is furious at the Senate’s vote on Wednesday night to hold a vote on a bill intended to put an end to that lawsuit and more than 30 others. [...]
Utility Workers Hired As Stasi Informants In Colorado, California, Arizona
Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com Hundreds of police, firefighters, paramedics and utility workers have been trained and recently dispatched as “Terrorism Liaison Officers” in Colorado, Arizona and California to watch for “suspicious activity” which is later fed into a secret government database. According to a Denver Post report, “It’s a tactic intended to feed better [...]
Dems Agree to Expand Domestic Spying, Grant Telecoms Amnesty
Ryan Singel | Wired.com Breaking months of acrimonious deadlock, House and Senate leaders from both parties have agreed to a bill that gives the nation’s spy agencies the power to turn a wide swath of domestic communication companies into intelligence-gathering operations, and that puts an end to court challenges to telecoms such as AT&T that [...]
FBI Tried to Cover Patriot Act Abuses With Flawed, Retroactive Subpoenas, Audit Finds
Ryan Singel | Wired.com FBI headquarters officials sought to cover their informal and possibly illegal acquisition of phone records on thousands of Americans from 2003 to 2005 by issuing 11 improper, retroactive “blanket” administrative subpoenas in 2006 to three phone companies that are under contract to the FBI, according to an audit released Thursday. Top [...]
Is MTV Warning Viewers of Looming Police State
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Whistle-Blower: Feds Have a Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier — Congress Reacts
Kevin Poulsen | Wired.com A U.S. government office in Quantico, Virginia, has direct, high-speed access to a major wireless carrier’s systems, exposing customers’ voice calls, data packets and physical movements to uncontrolled surveillance, according to a computer security consultant who says he worked for the carrier in late 2003. “What I thought was alarming is [...]
Why, Even If You Have Nothing To Hide, Government Surveillance Threatens Your Freedom:
The Case Against Expanding Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Powers By JOHN W. DEAN / FindLaw.com “I’ve got nothing to hide, so electronic surveillance doesn’t bother me. To the contrary, I’m delighted that the Bush Administration is monitoring calls and electronic traffic on a massive scale, because catching terrorists is far more important that worrying about [...]
This is where your focus should be!
Nearly a year ago President Bush tried to grant himself and his entire administration immunity from war crimes that date back to September 11, 2001. Where is the outrage?
Point, Click … Eavesdrop: How the FBI Wiretap Net Operates
By Ryan Singel 08.29.07 | 2:00 AM The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act. The surveillance system, called DCSNet, for Digital Collection System Network, connects FBI [...]
The Timeline to Tyranny
Ten advances towards the end of freedom and privacy in the United States Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Tuesday, August 7, 2007 The top ten advances towards tyranny in the United States during the tenure of the Bush administration, from the Patriot Act to the latest expansion of the illegal eavesdropping surveillance program.
House Passes Bush’s FISA Law – American Civil Liberties Destroyed
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) says it all. It’s official, George Bush and Alberto Gonzales now have the legal authority to spy on you and I without a warrant at any time. The vote was as follows:Yea:227 Nay:183
