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. [...]
NYPD’s ‘Operation Sentinel’ To Track EVERYTHING
Marcia Kramer | WCBSTV.com NEW YORK (CBS) ― It’s called “Operation Sentinel” and it proves just how far the NYPD will go to protect this city from terrorists. The plan involves some high-tech tracking that is coming under fire from some groups. New York City is going to great lengths to make sure that bomb-toting [...]
CNN Reporter Criticizes TSA, Finds Self on Terror Watch List
David Edwards and Nick Juliano | RawStory.com The post-9/11 airline watch list that is supposed to keep terrorists off of airplanes has swelled to more than 1 million names, including at least one investigative reporter who had been critical of the Transportation Security Agency, which maintains the watch list.CNN’s Drew Griffin reported on the bloating [...]
Obama Calls For National Civilian Stasi
Paul Joseph Watson | InfoWars.com Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama has called for a “civilian national security force” as powerful as the U.S. military, comments that were ignored by the vast majority of the corporate media but compared by one journalist to the Nazi Hitler Youth. “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order [...]
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. [...]
Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom
Ryan Singel | Wired.com Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users’ names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday. Viacom wants the data to prove that infringing material is [...]
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 [...]
US to get access to UK citizens personal files – bank details, visited websites, salaries…
Daniel Martin | DailyMail.co.uk American intelligence agencies may soon be able to access the most private and personal details of British citizens. Under an agreement being negotiated between the EU and Washington., U.S. agencies including the CIA will be allowed to view details of bank accounts, travel plans and even the sites individuals visit on [...]
D.C. Agents Impound Investigative Reporter’s Laptop for No Reason
Alex Kingsbury | U.S.News.com Returning from a vacation to Germany in February, freelance journalist Bill Hogan was selected for additional screening by customs officials at Dulles International Airport outside Washington. Agents searched his luggage, he said, “then they told me that they were impounding my laptop.” Shaken by the encounter, Hogan examined his bags and [...]
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 [...]
Shops Track Customers Via Mobile Phone
Signals given off by phones allow shopping centres to monitor how long people stay and which stores they visit Jonathan Richards | TimesOnline.co.uk Customers in shopping centres are having their every move tracked by a new type of surveillance that listens in on the whisperings of their mobile phones. The technology can tell when people [...]
Senate Approves Telco Amnesty, Legalizes Bush’s Secret Spy Program
By Ryan Singel | wired.com The Senate overwhelming voted Tuesday evening to legalize President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program and grant amnesty to the phone companies that helped out with the domestic spying.. The 68 to 29 vote is a major step in radically re-configuring 30 year-old limits on how the nation’s spying services operate inside [...]
FBI’s Sought Approval for Custom Spyware in FISA Court
By Kevin Poulsen | wired.com The FBI sought approval to use its CIPAV spyware program from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in terrorism or foreign spying cases, THREAT LEVEL has learned. Officials processing a Freedom of Information Act request from Wired.com have turned up some 3,000 pages of FBI documents about the CIPAV, according to an [...]
FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping
From Kelli Arena and Carol Cratty | cnn.com CLARKSBURG, West Virginia (CNN) –The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people’s physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists. The FBI wants to use eye scans, combined with other data, to help identify [...]
Firefighters asked to report people who express discontent with the government
David Edwards and Muriel Kane Published: Thursday November 29, 2007 Original Story: The Raw Story It was revealed last week that firefighters are being trained to not only keep an eye out for illegal materials in the course of their duties, but even to report back any expression of discontent with the government. A year [...]
