Danger Room from Wired.com
By Noah Shachtman
January 07, 2009 | 6:05:29 PM
For two decades or more, the CIA and the military allegedly plied the unwitting with acid, weed, and dozens of psychoactive drugs, in a series of zany (and sometimes dangerous) mind-control experiments. Now, the Vietnam Veterans of America are suing the agency and the Pentagon [...]

http://crooksandliars.com…
Three years after the New York Times first revealed the Bush administration’s program of illegal domestic surveillance by the NSA, whistleblower Thomas Tamm has acknowledged his role in making public the President’s lawbreaking. In its expose Sunday, Newsweek details how the former Justice Department official came to discover the White House’s violations of the FISA [...]

http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com…
h/t: blacklistednews.com
I’ve previously pointed out that the U.S. government heard the 9/11 plans from the hijackers’ own mouth. Most of what I wrote about involved the NSA and other intelligence services tapping top Al Qaeda operatives’ phone calls outside the U.S.
However, it turns out that the NSA was also tapping the hijackers’ phone calls inside [...]

http://www.democracynow.org…
h/t: 911truth.org
The Bush administration’s wiretapping program has come under new scrutiny this week. Two influential congressional committees have opened probes into allegations US intelligence spied on the phone calls of American military personnel, journalists and aid workers in Iraq. We speak to James Bamford about the NSA’s spying on Americans, the agency’s failings pre-9/11 and [...]

http://abcnews.go.com…
U.S. Officers’ “Phone Sex” Intercepted; Senate Demanding Answers
By BRIAN ROSS, VIC WALTER, and ANNA SCHECTER
Oct. 9, 2008—
Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who [...]

hat tip ~ Rogue Government
http://www.opednews.com/…
When somebody within your own government calls you out, do you show up? How do you handle it?
Wayne Madsen, always spoiling for a fight with Bush and Cheney, or the chance to show off his undies to minimum wage airport TSA workers, has an executive level NSA staff person on record [...]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/…

NSA faces new limits, but surveillance thrives
By Bradley Olson | Sun reporter
July 7, 2008
With Congress on the verge of outlining new parameters for National Security Agency eavesdropping between suspicious foreigners and Americans, lawmakers are leaving largely untouched a host of government programs that critics say involves far more domestic surveillance than the wiretaps they sought [...]

http://blacklistednews.com/…
Source: AP
The National Security Agency does not need to tell lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees whether their phones were tapped as part of the Bush administration’s domestic surveillance program, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

http://thinkprogress.org/…
Satyam
Last year, former deputy attorney general James Comey revealed that in 2004, he refused to “certify” the legality of certain aspects of the National Security Agency (NSA) spy program. Comey witnessed Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card try to force a bed-ridden John Ashcroft to approve the program. Comey, however, did not publicly give specifics [...]

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Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 11, @09:00AM
Wired is running a story about a recent security exercise in which the NSA attacked networks set up by various US military academies. The Army’s network scored the highest, put together using Linux and FreeBSD by cadets at West Point. Quoting:
“Even with a solid network design and [...]