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NSA staff pissed off at Obama: He isn’t sticking up for us
Foreign Policy magazine has an article highlighting how NSA employees are pissed off that President Obama hasn't been defending the NSA strongly enough these past few months. While many (including us) have been quite critical of President Obama's weak defense of the NSA programs, folks inside Ft. Meade are pissed off that he's not out there defending them more strongly
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Government shutdown won't delay lawsuit over NSA phone spying
In the wake of the government shutdown, the U.S. National Security Agency requested that a lawsuit seeking to stop some its controversial surveillance activities be delayed until the government resumed operations. A U.S. District Court judge denied the request, Polito reported.
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Skype under investigation in Luxembourg over link to NSA
Skype is being investigated by Luxembourg's data protection commissioner over concerns about its secret involvement with the US National Security Agency (NSA) spy programme Prism, the Guardian has learned.
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Should Snowden Have Been Stopped in 2009?
A report critical of Edward Snowden, written by his C.I.A. superior in 2009, could have stopped the now notorious whistleblower in his tracks had it been picked up by his successive employers. According to American officials privy to Snowden’s case, the report aired a suspicion that he was trying to access documents beyond his classification.
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Secure email service Lavabit to reopen for locked out users
THE EMAIL SERVICE Lavabit, which shut down in the wake of Edward Snowden's NSA whistleblowing revelations, is briefly reopening its servers to users.
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Glenn Greenwald Will Leave Guardian To Create New News Organization
Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer and blogger who brought The Guardian the biggest scoop of the decade, is departing the London-based news organization, for a brand-new, large-scale, broadly focused media outlet, he told BuzzFeed Tuesday.
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The NSA might have collected your email contacts
The latest report? The NSA is collecting email address books and IM contact lists from both U.S. and foreign accounts, according to a document leaked to The Washington Post. This is not a small-scale operation. Up to 250 million contact lists are scooped up by the NSA every year, according to the Post, which adds up to "a sizable fraction of the world's e-mail and instant messaging accounts."
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Greenwald on Snowden Leaks: The Worst Is Yet to Come
Although four months have passed since Edward Snowden’s explosive NSA surveillance leaks, the most revealing details have not yet been published, and could be rolled out in the international media over the coming weeks and months, beginning with U.S. spying activities involving Spain and France.
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Greenwald on Snowden Leaks: The Worst Is Yet to Come
Although four months have passed since Edward Snowden’s explosive NSA surveillance leaks, the most revealing details have not yet been published, and could be rolled out in the international media over the coming weeks and months, beginning with U.S. spying activities involving Spain and France.
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'The video the NSA doesn't want you to watch' debuts in NYC
A crowd of about a hundred gathered near New York City Tuesday night, Internet privacy on their minds. They’re pretty pissed about the National Security Agency. The event, hosted by activist groups Fight for the Future and Demand Progress, was focused on a short new documentary, referred to as simply “The NSA Video.”
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If we lose net neutrality, we lose the Internet
Well, we finally know it’s true. AT&T, Verizon and other communications companies collude with the government to trample our rights to connect and communicate. The National Security Agency leaks have proved that beyond a doubt. But to pawn it all off on the NSA would be a fallacy, too.
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Documents reveal NSA's extensive involvement in targeted killing program
It was an innocuous e-mail, one of millions sent every day by spouses with updates on the situation at home. But this one was of particular interest to the National Security Agency and contained clues that put the sender’s husband in the crosshairs of a CIA drone.
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A psychological history of the NSA
Before the NSA came to life on the eve of Dwight Eisenhower's election, its job was done by a loose group of three independent intelligence outfits in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
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Edward Snowden: I brought no leaked NSA documents to Russia
Edward Snowden, the source of US National Security Agency leaks, has said he left all the leaked documents behind when he flew from Hong Kong to Moscow and there is no chance of them falling into the hands of Russian or Chinese authorities.
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NSA delayed anti-leak software at base where Snowden worked
The U.S. National Security Agency failed to install the most up-to-date anti-leak software at a site in Hawaii before contractor Edward Snowden went to work there and downloaded tens of thousands of highly classified documents, current and former U.S. officials told Reuters.
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Research Claims Apple and NSA Can Read your iMessages, Apple Denies it
Security experts discovered that Apple and the National Security Agency (NSA) can actually read your iMessages. However, Apple stands firm that its instant messaging service is secured and impassable.
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Snowden leaks: France summons US envoy over NSA surveillance claims
The French government has summoned the US ambassador in Paris, demanding an explanation about claims that the National Security Agency has been engaged in widespread phone surveillance of French citizens.
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Why the NSA's Defense of Mass Data Collection Makes No Sense
The U.S. intelligence community claims it's not spying on citizens until someone actually looks at the data it collects. That argument is deeply flawed.
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The U.S. is losing its hypocrisy advantage
The U.S.’s private behavior is often starkly at odds with its public ideals. Because the U.S. is the most powerful state in the international system, it’s often able to get away with this. The leaders of other states know that the U.S. is behaving hypocritically, but often find it easier to say nothing about it.
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Snowden: NSA keeps record of every telephone call in the United States
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Thursday disputed Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) claim that the government's phone record collection program is not "surveillance."
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