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Guardian teams up with New York Times over Snowden documents

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“In a brief story posted on its website, the Guardian said it ‘struck a partnership’ with the Times after the British government threatened the Guardian with legal action unless it either surrendered or destroyed files it received from Snowden about Government Communications Headquarters – Britain’s equivalent of NSA. ‘In a climate of intense pressure from the UK government, the Guardian decided to bring in a US partner to work on the GCHQ documents provided by Edward Snowden. We are working in partnership with the NYT and others to continue reporting these stories,’ the British newspaper said in a statement.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/24/us-usa-security-snowden-guardian-idUSBRE97I10E20130824

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Run Snowden Run!

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Run Snowden Run!

“NSA leaker Edward Snowden set the world on fire when he stood up to the powerful and secretive National Security Agency, exposing its illegal and unconstitutional spying to a global audience. Since that time, statists, neoconservatives, and supporters of the Obama administration have called for him to stand trial for treason. Meanwhile, civil liberties activists have hailed him as a whistleblower and a hero. Some have even suggested that the NSA should be disbanded, that its officials should be held accountable, and that Edward Snowden deserves a ticker tape parade. Today’s Enemies Domestic short tackles this national conversation head-on.”

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Arbitrary enforcement, secrecy, self-interest, and the loss of government legitimacy

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“The drug war and the national security scandals have overlapped in so many ways, not the least of which is a growing sense of the erosion of the very foundation of legitimacy of government. There are laws you must follow, but we’re not going to tell you what they are, or our interpretation of what they mean, but you must follow them anyway, and we’re going to gag you so you can’t talk about these laws you must follow, and if you try to take it to court, we’re going to invoke national security and say that the courts can’t be allowed to discuss it, plus since it’s secret it doesn’t exist anyway.”

http://www.drugwarrant.com/2013/08/arbitrary-enforcement-secrecy-self-interest-and-the-loss-of-government-legitimacy/

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Internet Giants Got Millions From Taxpayers to Cover PRISM Spying Costs

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“Internet giants like Google and Yahoo received millions of dollars from the NSA to cover their surveillance under the PRISM program. These payments occurred after a federal court ruled that surveillance requests the companies handled under the PRISM program were unconstitutional. The document also shows the NSA was anxious to get certifications from the FISA Court to authorize surveillance beyond the possible expiration of the law that authorized that surveillance. The law was set to expire on December 31, 2012, but the NSA received authorizations under that law to continue its surveillance until September 23, 2013.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/millions-paid-prism-compliance/

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Obama DOJ Asks Court to Grant Immunity to George W. Bush For Iraq War

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“In court papers filed today (PDF), the United States Department of Justice requested that George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz be granted procedural immunity in a case alleging that they planned and waged the Iraq War in violation of international law. Plaintiff Sundus Shaker Saleh, an Iraqi single mother and refugee now living in Jordan, filed a complaint in March 2013 in San Francisco federal court alleging that the planning and waging of the war constituted a ‘crime of aggression‘ against Iraq, a legal theory that was used by the Nuremberg Tribunal to convict Nazi war criminals after World War II.”

http://warisacrime.org/content/obama-doj-asks-court-grant-immunity-george-w-bush-iraq-war

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Memory’s Half-Life: A Social History of Wiretaps

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“American attitudes towards wiretapping significantly shifted during the 1940s, as the war and changes in the class distribution of telephones helped shift judicial acceptance of wiretaps.  President Roosevelt issued a secret executive order authorizing widespread Justice Department wire-taps of ‘subversives’ and suspected spies. Hoover used these vague new powers to investigate not just Nazis but anyone he thought subversive.  The social history of wiretaps is a history of mission creep, where FBI agents initially hunting for wartime Nazi spies soon monitored progressive activists fighting racial segregation.”

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/09/a-social-history-of-wiretaps-2/

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Ron Paul supports Snowden and Manning in Larry King interview

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“With Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison for his role in releasing sensitive military information to WikiLeaks and the US government’s hunt for Edward Snowden for revealing the NSA’s spying program, being a whistleblower isn’t an easy task. As some people see the two individuals as traitors, some people believe that these leaks are essential to gaining full government transparency. In an interview with Larry King, former Congressman Ron Paul expresses his appreciation for the leaked information.”

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NSA spied on Americans until a judge ruled it illegal in 2011

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“The National Security Agency spied on electronic communications between Americans in a program that was later scrapped after a judge ruled it illegal in 2011, US officials said Wednesday.  The court’s opinions are usually top secret but the move to release the documents came amid a firestorm over revelations of sweeping surveillance operations, following bombshell disclosures from a former US intelligence contractor, Edward Snowden.  Officials said the court rulings had been declassified to better inform the public about how the eavesdropping programs are carried out, and that a mistake had occurred due to a technical problem.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/21/nsa-spied-on-americans-until-a-judge-ruled-it-illegal-in-2011/

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Secret Court Opinion Finding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional Released

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“In response to EFF’s FOIA lawsuit, the government has released the 2011 FISA court opinion ruling some NSA surveillance unconstitutional. For over a year, EFF has been fighting the government in federal court to force the public release of an 86-page opinion of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). Issued in October 2011, the secret court’s opinion found that surveillance conducted by the NSA under the FISA Amendments Act was unconstitutional and violated ‘the spirit of’ federal law.”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/eff-victory-results-expected-release-secret-court-opinion-finding-nsa-surveillance

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Julian Assange: ‘Bradley Manning’s Apology Was Extracted By Force’

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“The United States government should be apologizing to Pfc. Bradley Manning, rather than the other way around, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said in a statement Wednesday. Assange said Manning’s apology had been coerced by abuse. ‘Mr. Manning’s apology is a statement extorted from him under the overbearing weight of the United States military justice system. It took three years and millions of dollars to extract two minutes of tactical remorse from this brave soldier,’ he said. ‘As over 100,000 signatories of his Nobel Peace Prize nomination attest, Bradley Manning has changed the world for the better.'”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/14/julian-assange-bradley-manning_n_3758542.html

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