Lawbreaking at the NSA: Bring On a New Church Committee
Image: Reuters The time is ripe for a new Church Committee, the surveillance oversight effort named for Senator Frank Church, who oversaw a mid-1970s investigation into decades of jaw-dropping abuses...
View ArticleRevealed: NSA spied on Martin Luther King and senators opposed to Vietnam War
The National Security Agency eavesdropped on civil rights icon Martin Luther King and heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali as well as other leading critics of the Vietnam War in a secret program later deemed...
View ArticleThe iPhone’s Fingerprint Scanner Has Shady Government Ties, Anonymous Says
Just as the US government shut itself down and put 800,000 people temporarily out of work, the hacktivist group Anonymous—who the FBI wrongly declared to be dead in August—released a video statement...
View ArticleSnowden: Calls For Intel Reform Justify NSA Leaks
Image:Reuters / Bobby Yip Ex-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden argued this weekend that calls for sweeping reform of mass government surveillance justify his leaks about the U.S. spy...
View ArticleSenate committee approves funding for NSA, witch-hunt on leakers
Congress has taken the first step towards expanding the abilities of the United States intelligence community by advancing a draft bill that will ensure the government’s spy budget stays intact into...
View ArticleWikiLeaks release: Internet governance body trying to stop NSA surveillance
WikiLeaks has published what the anti-secrecy organization says is the penultimate draft agreement expected to be discussed later this month in Brazil at a global internet governance meeting co-hosted...
View ArticleSenate Passes FISA Reauthorization Act, With Help of Democrats
With the help of 21 Democrats, the U.S. Senate passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017 on Thursday, a bill that critics argue expands the...
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