Dumbest Logic Ever: 9/11 Happened Without Today's NSA Surveillance, And That's Proof Why It's Necessary. Oh, Stewart Baker.
Bruce Schneier Speculates On NSA Double Laundering Information It Obtains Via Network Infiltration. Edward Snowden: From Russia with love. Edward Snowden: From Russia with love 9 November 2013 Edward Snowden’s resume is brief but compelling, even when propped up on a fake Edward Snowden Twitter account “I am responsible for leaking the existence of Prism and XKeyscore,” it says laconically.
Inside Canada's top-secret billion-dollar spy palace - Politics. While the Harper government is preaching government austerity, it is spending almost $1.2 billion on a new Ottawa headquarters for a little-known military spy agency. It's the most expensive Canadian government building ever constructed. Under tight security, CBC obtained an exclusive tour of the top secret complex that most Canadians will otherwise never get to see, a development even National Defence apparently thinks is so grandiose that the department dubbed the project “Camelot” in official documents. When completed next year, the facility in suburban Ottawa will house the roughly 2,000 employees of the Communications Security Establishment Canada, a federal agency that spies mainly on foreigners by hacking into their computers, reading their email and intercepting their phone calls.
CSEC officially estimates the complex will cost $880 million. The former head of CSEC makes no apologies for what he calls an “architectural wonder” at public expense. Top US Lawmakers Oppose Clemency To Edward Snowden Eurasia Review. By VOR Senior American lawmakers said Sunday that intelligence leaker Edward Snowden should not be given clemency by the United States following his disclosures of widespread government surveillance.
The heads of the Senate and House intelligence committees spoke just days after a German lawmaker published a letter from the fugitive and said Snowden was ready to testify to Congress to shed light on “possibly serious offenses.” Revealed: NSA pushed 9/11 as key 'sound bite' to justify surveillance. The National Security Agency advised its officials to cite the 9/11 attacks as justification for its mass surveillance activities, according to a master list of NSA talking points.
The document, obtained by Al Jazeera through a Freedom of Information Act request, contains talking points and suggested statements for NSA officials (PDF) responding to the fallout from media revelations that originated with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Invoking the events of 9/11 to justify the controversial NSA programs, which have caused major diplomatic fallout around the world, was the top item on the talking points that agency officials were encouraged to use.
Under the subheading “Sound Bites That Resonate,” the document suggests the statement “I much prefer to be here today explaining these programs, than explaining another 9/11 event that we were not able to prevent.” NSA head Gen. Asked to comment on the document, NSA media representative Vanee M. The Navy Opens its First Solar Powered Electric Vehicle Charging Station! Source: Last week, the Navy got its first ever solar powered electric vehicle charging station, serving as another demonstration of a slow but steady transition out of petroleum dependency by the US military.
The Navy has also moved forward with a contract to replace a 1950′s era coal fired power plant at its Indian Head, Maryland base, which is the very last coal power plant located at a Navy facility in the US. Although solar EV chargers are becoming more relevant in the mainstream of public fueling availability, they are still a rarity at military facilities. The Navy chose carefully when placing its first solar EV charging station at Naval Support Activity Mid-South in Millington, Tennessee. NSA to open facility at Fort Gordon. March 26, 2007 FORT GORDON, Ga.
---Augusta will soon play a new role in the War on Terror. The government agency that breaks down enemy communication and protects our own is opening a new facility at Fort Gordon. The National Security Agency and Central Security Service work around the clock to get the enemy's top secret information...and protect ours. A hotbed for global intel. Edward Snowden shows evolution of smuggling secrets. The Los Alamos National Laboratory and the town of Los Alamos, N.M., in 1999.… (Joe Raedle, Getty Images ) WHITMORE VILLAGE, Hawaii — Sure, Edward Snowden just used a simple thumb drive to smuggle classified information out of the National Security Agency.
But one look at the sprawling NSA compound where he is believed to have worked in the mountains of central Oahu — with its chain-link fences and barbed wire, massive entrance gates and "Keep out" signs — raises the question of how even a trusted employee with a high-level security clearance could sneak out even an innocuous piece of equipment. The hulking tan building was dedicated with great fanfare in January 2012, a $358-million project that the NSA boasted in a news release would "help to further integrate national security efforts. " FISA records document “daily violations” by government spy agencies. By Tom Carter 14 September 2013 FISA court records declassified Tuesday show that government spy agencies systematically violated court orders in order to conduct illegal spying on Americans, while lying in court as to the extent of their activities.
Previously secret rulings show that the Obama administration was found to be committing “daily violations” of court orders related to its spying activities. Court orders U.S. government to declassify rulings justifying NSA surveillance, credits Edward Snowden for forcing its hand. Peter Kramer/AP The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled Friday that the U.S. government must declassify rulings justifying the NSA's surveillance activities.
The court's ruling comes two days after Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer (pictured) said that if you don't comply with NSA requests for user data, 'it is treason.' The secretive court that authorizes NSA surveillance of phone call data ordered the government to declassify rulings justifying the practice — and gave credit to Edward Snowden for forcing its hand. What Happened to Obama’s NSA Reforms? Early in August, before Middle Eastern dramas from Egypt to Syria to Iran began consuming the White House, Barack Obama’s biggest headache was the bipartisan furor over government surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency.
At an August 9 press conference, the president sought to assuage public discontent with a series of promises about coming reforms and new transparency for the NSA’s activities. Given the secrecy and confusion, Obama said, it was time to “put the whole elephant out there.” Booz Allen Hamilton Wins Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Contract ... - MarketWatch. Facebook reveals 25,000 government requests for data - INTERNET. Google, Microsoft prepare for showdown over NSA spying. Google and Microsoft are fierce rivals in the marketplace, skewer each other in ads and wage lobbying wars against each other in Washington. But the tech giants are joining forces for a legal battle with the Obama administration over the right to disclose more information about how the National Security Agency is spying on their users. The companies argue that publishing aggregated statistics about the scope of the surveillance would not threaten national security and that they have a First Amendment right to discuss the information.
Report: Snowden documents detail U.S. cyber offensives. Edward Snowden leaks U.S. intelligence's $52.6B "black budget" - Washington Business Journal. Laura Poitras / Praxis Films / cc-licensed Edward Snowden, former Booz Allen Hamilton employee, has leaked the $52.6 billion “black budget” for fiscal 2013 to The Washington Post. Staff Washington Business Journal. Big bucks for Big Brother spies - World.
Rogue spy agencies are conducting mass surveillance on the public without real oversight Last week's explosive revelation from whistleblower Edward Snowden that the United States' National Security Agency is hoovering up billions of phone and internet records worldwide, a bombshell that unleashed a firestorm of international condemnation, was not without a certain ironic symmetry. Before James Clapper, who told the Senate Intelligence Committee in March the NSA never collected "any type of data" on Americans, at least not "wittingly", became the Director of National Intelligence he had worked for a private security company, Booz Allen Hamilton.
When Snowden revealed the NSA had harvested data worldwide - arguably the most damning leak of US secrets ever, demolishing Clapper's testimony - the whistleblower said he earned US$200,000 ($251,000) a year at Booz Allen Hamilton. About 1.4 million Americans have top-secret security credentials. Security Wars: Inside the Military's Big, Messy Fight With Palantir, the Company They Pay to Spy on You Online. Security Wars: Inside the Military’s Big, Messy Fight With Palantir, the Company They Pay to Spy on You Online. Lee Fang discusses Palantir, private contractors and the NSA.
How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut. Palantir, private industries ... who helped NSA to build Prism? HBGary, Palantir, Prism, Facebook & The Industrial Surveillance Complex. Palantir: Financial institutions must collaborate to defeat cyber threats. The Palantir Technologies model, lights and shadows on a case of success. Palantir CEO Alex Karp: 4 things to know. National Security Darling: Why Condoleezza Rice, David Petraeus and George Tenet Back Palantir. Right Before Snowden Leaks, President Obama Fired Nearly All Members On Key Intelligence Advisory Board.
Feds Threaten To Arrest Lavabit Founder For Shutting Down His Service.
Snowden: NSA Is ‘In Bed With The Germans’ Former NSA Head: Snowden Is Worse Than Every American Traitor In History. Secret US court's actions mired in controversy. The NSA maths: Just how big is the dragnet? NSA snooping could cost tech companies big bucks. Snowden, Greenwald and Wikileaks are winning - Opinion. "It is a slap in the face of all Americans," said Senator John McCain (R - AZ), referring to Russia's decision to grant asylum to Edward Snowden. He demanded that the Russians face " serious repercussions " for their decision. Well, turn the other cheek, I say. McCain ran for president in 2008 promising to be more belligerent towards the Russians, so this is normal for Dr.Strangelove and his crusty Cold War foaming at the mouth.
Not to be outdone, Democratic Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) said that Russia had "stabbed us in the back," and that "each day that Mr. Snowden is allowed to roam free is another twist of the knife". Twist and shout! Indeed, the whole chase scene is symbolic of the difficulties in which Washington finds itself immersed. Meanwhile, Snowden and Glenn Greenwald and Wikileaks are winning. Surveillance scandal rips through hacker community. LAS VEGAS -- It used to be that the playful Defcon contest of "Spot the Fed" gave hackers and the government agents tracking them a chance interact in a less serious manner. Hackers who found a government agent among the conference attendees would wear with pride T-shirts that read, "I spotted the Fed.
" The agent would be given a shirt that read, "I am the Fed. " And by flipping the cat-and-mouse dynamic for at least one weekend a year, the two groups more or less came to a greater understanding of each other. More on NSA and Snowden’s “Wiretap Anyone” Claim. Two updates for those following the XKeyScore debate: Joshua Foust has written an excellent post that clarifies a few things I didn’t cover in my earlier post. He notes that XKeyScore allows analysts to recover only material that NSA has collected and stored; that’s important because just being able to enter the President’s email address is not the same as ordering up a full wiretap.
NSA has limitations on what it collects, particularly in the United States, and no one thinks that the front end XKeyScore system overrides those limits. Thus, as Foust suggests, it may well be that XKeyScore can only search metadata, and I think it’s highly likely that XKeyScore can only search databases that have already been filtered to exclude the great bulk of US communications. All that makes Snowden’s claim about being able to wiretap anyone extremely unlikely — and certainly not demonstrated by the latest disclosures, despite Glenn Greenwald’s claims to the contrary.
Yes, They Are Watching: Online Search for Pressure Cooker Sparks Chilling Police Visit. Major opinion shifts, in the US and Congress, on NSA surveillance and privacy. Jimmy Carter: 'America is no longer a democracy' - Wilmington Civil Rights. Compare: Clapper 'Unscathed' After Lying About Surveillance; Snowden 'Stateless' & 'Hounded' For Revealing Those Lies. DOJ: Now That We've Been Embarrassed For Spying On Journalists, We'll Be A Little More Careful.
Prism: Microsoft aurait collaboré avec les agences de renseignement américaines. Comprendre le programme "Prism". Obama, On Edward Snowden, Won't 'Scramble Jets' Steve Wozniak Edward Snowden Is A Hero. Twitter CEO Defends 'Principled' Data Request Policy Eurasia Review. NSA Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny Anything Without Causing 'Exceptionally Grave Damage' To National Security. The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant.
Is Encryption Effective Against Snooping? German Government Says No, Snowden Says Yes. Discovering Names Of Secret NSA Surveillance Programs Via LinkedIn. Why The NSA And President Bush Got The FISA Court To Reinterpret The Law In Order To Collect Tons Of Data. NSA Whistleblower: Everyone in US under virtual surveillance, all info stored, no matter the post. FBI Boss: Collecting Billions Of Phone Records Could Prevent Next 9/11, Boston Bombing. Why The Tech Industry Should Be Furious About NSA's Over Surveillance. Former NSA Whistleblower Bill Binney: The NSA Is Making Itself Dysfunctional With Too Much Data. Senator Biden Teaches President Obama A Lesson About NSA Spying From The Past. Dear NSA, let me take care of your slides. Netflix, Facebook — and the NSA: They’re all in it together. Booz Allen Hamilton: Edward Snowden's US contracting firm. 500,000 contractors can access NSA data hoards.
Why is the NSA spying on PalTalk? Europeans Ask if Prism Has Been Spying on Them, too. Big Money and the NSA Scandal … How Dangerous is the "Security/Digital Complex"? Edward Snowden and Washington's revolving-door culture - Opinion. Edward Snowden and the Underground High-Tech Economy. Outsourced Intelligence: How the FBI and CIA Use Private Contractors to Monitor Social Media.
Google Reveals Some Data About National Security Letters, May Have Exposed DOJ Duplicity. PRISM Program: Obama Administration Held 22 Briefings For Congress On Key FISA Law. Now That Booz Allen Scared The Gov't Into Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars In Contracts, It's Time To Cash Out. From 11 To PRISMgate How The : London: The News. Big Money and the NSA Scandal ... How Dangerous is the "Security/Digital Complex"?
Booz Allen As Of Today This Name Is Untouchable and related news. Snowden, Booz Allen And The NSA. NSA leak highlights key role of private contractors. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Big Money and the NSA Scandal ... How Dangerous is the "Security/Digital Complex"? NSA 'Prism' leak highlights key role of private contractors. From 9/11 To PRISMgate - How The Carlyle Group LBO'd The World's Secrets. The Carlyle Group Has Made $2 Billion Off Of Booz Allen. Carlyle to Acquire Booz Allen Unit for $2.54 Billion (Update3) Booz Allen shares fall as employee revealed as leaker. NSA revelations put Booz Allen Hamilton, Carlyle Group in uncomfortable limelight. Leaked secrets pose a risk for Booz Allen, where secrecy means billions.
A violation of the Fourth Amendment. Undermining the Fourth Amendment: NSA Memos Expose Obama Administration’s Lies about Wiretapping. The NSAs Data Mining Operation and Other News you Need to Know. PRISM data collection draws attention to consumer data tracking. Greens unveil plan to require warrant to access phone and internet records. Data-collection program got green light from MacKay in 2011.
Anger swells after NSA phone records court order revelations. PRISM by the Numbers: A Guide to the Government’s Secret Internet Data-Mining Program. NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others. Edward Snowden Contact Glenn Greenwald Should Be 'Disappeared', Security Officials 'Overheard Saying' Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations. Do Dutch Spies Also Have Access To PRISM's Data? And If So, Who Else Does?
NSA Infringed Adam Hart-Davis' Photograph For Its PRISM Logo.