USA (United States of America)

The NSA´s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program –...

10 Feb 2014 – The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, as the primary method to locate targets for lethal drone strikes – an unreliable tactic that results in the deaths of innocent or unidentified people.

The Fact That The US Intelligence Community So Readily Admits...

Jan 17th 2014 – We’ve mentioned things in the past like former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden "jokingly" talking about how he’d like to put Ed Snowden on a "kill list" while simultaneously suggesting that the NSA should be a part of determining who to target. While some would dismiss this as a tasteless "joke" it seems like he’s not the only one in the intelligence community with such thoughts. We just recently noted that reporter Steven Levy, who spent over two hours interviewing NSA officials, had said that they appear to have a real and passionate hatred towards Snowden.

Schneier on Security: How the NSA Threatens National Security

January 13, 2014 – Secret NSA eavesdropping is still in the news. Details about once secret programs continue to leak. The Director of National Intelligence has recently declassified additional information, and the President’s Review Group has just released its report and recommendations.
With all this going on, it’s easy to become inured to the breadth and depth of the NSA’s activities. But through the disclosures, we’ve learned an enormous amount about the agency’s capabilities, how it is failing to protect us, and what we need to do to regain security in the Information Age.

On Secrecy, Oaths, and Edward Snowden | Freedom of the...

January 8, 2014 – These two pieces, the first by Marcy Wheeler, in part commenting on the second by Amy Davidson in the New Yorker (along with Snowden himself, in his interview with Bart Gellman) are the first I’ve seen making a point I’ve been making for years: contrary to the frequent assertions in the last week (including by Fred Kaplan) that Snowden is particularly reprehensible because he "broke his OATH of secrecy," neither Snowden nor anyone else broke such a secrecy "oath."

Burglars Who Took On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows – NYTimes.com

January 7, 2014 – Stealing J. Edgar Hoover’s Secrets: One night in 1971, files were stolen from an F.B.I. office near Philadelphia. They proved that the bureau was spying on thousands of Americans. The case was unsolved, until now.

Das Memorandum an den US-Präsidenten
unterzeichnet von William Binney, Thomas Drake, Edward Loomis, J. Kirk Wiebe, Ray McGovern, Elizabeth Murray, Coleen Rowley, Daniel Ellsberg
NSA Insiders Reveal What Went Wrong | Consortiumnews

January 7, 2014 – In a memo to President Obama, former National Security Agency insiders explain how NSA leaders botched intelligence collection and analysis before 9/11, covered up the mistakes, and violated the constitutional rights of the American people, all while wasting billions of dollars and misleading the public.

October 26, 2013 – Washington DC – Rally Against Mass Surveillance

Washington DC, Saturday October 26, 2013. On a beautiful fall day social justice activists from a bewildering array of often antagonistic groups unite in front of Union Station and march to the reflecting pool near the US Capitol for an afternoon rally. The primary focus was the nearly unbridled and unlawful US government spying worldwide by the NSA and other agencies as exposed by whistle blower Edward Snowden.
Bild: Stephen Melkisethian

Reform Government Surveillance

The undersigned companies believe that it is time for the world’s governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance of individuals and access to their information. While the undersigned companies understand that governments need to take action to protect their citizens’ safety and security, we strongly believe that current laws and practices need to be reformed...
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