Interview with NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice
Transcript of a Jan. 7, 2006 Democracy Now! interview with Russell Tice. [In late December, 2005,] “a former N.S.A. intelligence officer publicly announced he wants to testify before Congress. His name...
View ArticleNewly Declassified NSA Docs Confirm Gulf of Tonkin Fraud
On December 1, 2005, the National Security Agency (NSA) declassified a batch of 140 top secret documents related to the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964. In case you had forgotten, it was this incident...
View ArticleThe Dept. of Justice White Paper on NSA Domestic Spying Authority
A central part of the Bush Admin’s current PR blitz to counteract the mounting scandal over domestic spying by the NSA is a white paper released by the Dept. of Justice detailing the administration’s...
View ArticleAble Danger Operatives Sue DOD
As reported by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune on March 4, Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and J.D. Smith, members of the top-secret Able Danger data mining operation, have filed suit against the Dept. of...
View ArticleNSA Domestic Snooping Resources
The Center for Democracy and Technology has posted a mother lode of NSA Domestic Snooping Resources — links to relevant laws, myriad Bush Administration documents, legal documents and memos, editorials...
View ArticleFederal Sources Confirm US Spying on Reporters
The Feds are targeting reporters who broke stories about politically damaging and illegal acts by US intelligence. Following below is a compile of three relevant stories, including independent (albeit...
View ArticleBelow the Fold on the NY Times Bank Data Story
The Bush spy-scandal du jour is, of course, about the massive data mining of international financial transfer data from the Belgian cooperative SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial...
View ArticleFBI Uses Razr, Nextel, and Samsung Phones as Bugs, Even When They’re Off
As reported in this Dec. 13, 2006, wire story in the Seattle Times (and originally reported by CNET on Dec. 1), the FBI now has the capability of using several high-end models of cell phones to conduct...
View ArticleWindows Vista! It’s Spook-erific!
Although just about a month old now, this news item just crossed the ol’ Brainpain today… For Windows Vista Security, Microsoft Called in Pros By Alec Klein and Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Tuesday,...
View ArticleInterview with National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell
This week the El Paso Times ran a rare on the record interview with Mike McConnell. As the current National Intelligence Director, he is responsible for coordinating the entire US intelligence...
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