Tag Archives: Surveillance
Shorter Question Everything
UN: Israel
Israel insists troops did not violate international law despite ‘operational lapses and errors’.Israel has delivered a report to the UN defending its actions in last year’s Gaza war and insisting its troops did not violate international law, but has not agreed to hold an independent investigation as demanded.In the 46-page report, submitted on Friday [...]
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FBI broke law for years in phone record searches
John Solomon and Carrie Johnson / Washington Post
The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and interviews. FBI officials issued approvals after the fact to justify their [...]
The creepy mindset behind Cass Sunstein’s creepy proposal
Glenn Greenwald/Salon
(updated below – Update II)
Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama’s closest confidants. Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama’s head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs where, among other things, he is responsible for “overseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, [...]
Obama Quietly Backs Renewing Patriot Act Surveillance Provisions
Willam Fisher, IPS News/Alternet
Three contentious provisions are scheduled to expire next month; opponents of these sections have been pushing to roll them back. But Obama seems ready to renew them.
NEW YORK, 23 Nov (IPS) – With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is [...]
Maddow Rips Rep. Pete Hoekstra For Leaking Sensitive National Security Information
Think Progress
Last night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow accused Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee and current gubernatorial candidate, of leaking sensitive intelligence information to the press. Hoekstra told the Washington Post this week that Maj. Nidal M. Hasan had e-mail conversations with a radical Yemeni cleric, Anwar al-Aulaqi. Maddow [...]
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CIA Invests In Firm That Datamines Social Networks
Slashdot
Tuesday October 20
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Wired:
“In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ‘open source intelligence’ [...]
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