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Ron Paul, Congress Believes: Spy On Thee, But Not Me

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“The reaction of Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein to recent revelations that the CIA secretly searched Senate Intelligence Committee computers reveals much about what Washington thinks about the rest of us. ‘Spy on thee, but not on me!’  Feinstein’s hypocrisy on this issue is astounding. She is an enthusiastic backer of the National Security Agency spying on the rest of us, but when the tables are turned, and her staff is the target, she becomes irate. But there is more to it than that. There is an attitude in Washington that the laws Congress passes do not apply to its members. They can trample our civil liberties, they believe, but it should never affect their own freedom.”

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=4956

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CIA misled public on interrogation program, Senate report says

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“A Senate committee report concludes that the CIA misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interrogation program for years — concealing details about the severity of its methods, overstating the significance of plots and prisoners, and taking credit for critical pieces of intelligence that detainees had in fact surrendered before they were subjected to harsh techniques.  The report, built around detailed chronologies of dozens of CIA detainees, documents a long-standing pattern of unsubstantiated claims as agency officials sought permission to use — and later tried to defend — excruciating interrogation methods that yielded little, if any, significant intelligence.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-misled-on-interrogation-program-senate-report-says/2014/03/31/eb75a82a-b8dd-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html

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Leaked Snowden documents: NSA hacked Chinese telecom company

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“The U.S. National Security Agency monitored communications of top Huawei executives looking for evidence of ties to the Chinese government and military.  The documents do not confirm those ties, the Times reported.  The NSA was also interested in tapping into Huawei’s extensive networks, enabling it to monitor communications of Huawei customers in other countries, including Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kenya, and Cuba.  It was unclear from the Times report if those surveillance efforts were followed through on.  The surveillance program, dubbed ‘Shotgiant,’ was also reported by the German publication Der Spiegel.”

http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/23/technology/security/nsa-china-huawei/index.html

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CIA Director Relabelled “Dissidents” As “Terrorists” To Spy On Them

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“For 500 years, government spying has always aimed at crushing dissent.  Likewise, the U.S. government has long used anti-terror laws to crush dissent and protect the powers-that-be.  As Edward Snowden said: ‘These programs were never about terrorism: they’re about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They’re about power.’  He’s right. And see this.  Indeed, the government arbitrarily labels anyone it doesn’ t like – including American citizens – as ‘terrorists’.”

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/02/u-s-government-labels-dissent-terrorism.html

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Jon Stewart calls out Senator Feinstein for CIA hacking hypocrisy

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“The moment that a notoriously pro-surveillance member of Congress spent nearly an hour excoriating the CIA for breaking into Senate computers, a Daily Show sketch became inevitable. Jon Stewart doesn’t disappoint. The best reason to watch it, though, is that it’s actually a fantastic rundown of the whole story, from Bush-era torture practices to the CIA ‘assassinating data’ and then blaming IT administrators. If you’re looking to chew through Feinstein’s long, dense presentation, it’s the best appetizer you could possibly get.”

http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/13/5504222/jon-stewart-explains-the-cia-hacking-scandal-calls-out-feinstein

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Feinstein accuses CIA of hacking Congress, intimidating staff

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“Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), chair of the Intelligence Committee, has accused the CIA of searching Senate computers for copies of an internal agency interrogation report, accusing the CIA of violating both anti-hacking laws and the Constitution. In a speech on the Senate floor this morning, Feinstein corroborated reports made earlier by McClatchy, saying that the CIA had first stonewalled committee members who were trying to investigate its interrogation practices, rifled through files to figure out what they knew, and then turned around and accused them of stealing the report, intimidating staff in the process.”

http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/11/5495936/dianne-feinstein-says-cia-staff-searched-senate-computers-for-interrogation-report

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Optic Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ

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“Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal.  GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not. In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam imagery – including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications – from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo

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The DEA Manual: The Terrifying Way Law Enforcement is Lying to Us

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“A secretive unit within the DEA known as the ‘Special Operations Division’ (SOD) specializes in gathering information on defendants through cavalier means (including data-sharing with the NSA), and then helps investigators recreate information trails so evidence appears to have come from ‘normal investigative techniques.’  The new documents reveal ‘DEA trainers routinely teach the finer points of parallel construction to field agents and analysts across the country, not just within the SOD’.  In addition to concerns over constitutionality, the documents urge local law enforcement to hide their surveillance methods because ‘Americans don’t like [them.]’.”

http://www.alternet.org/peek-inside-dea-manual-terrifying-way-law-enforcement-lying-us

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Media Blacks Out New Snowden Interview

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“This past Sunday evening former NSA contractor Edward Snowden sat down for an interview with German television network ARD. The interview has been intentionally blocked from the US public, with virtually no major broadcast news outlets covering this story. In addition, the video has been taken down almost immediately every time it’s posted on YouTube.  In contrast, this was treated as a major political event in both print and broadcast media, in Germany, and across much of the world. In the interview, Mr. Snowden lays out a succinct case as to how these domestic surveillance programs undermine and erode human rights and democratic freedom.”

http://benswann.com/media-blacks-out-new-snowden-interview-the-government-doesnt-want-you-to-see/

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Greenwald: Use of NSA metadata to find drone targets kills civilians

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“The most common tactic employed by the NSA is known as ‘geolocation’, which entails locking on to the SIM card or handset of a suspected terrorist. A former drone sensor operator with the US Air Force, Brandon Bryant, told the Intercept that using the metadata led to inaccuracies that killed civilians.  The NSA uses a program called Geo Cell to follow potential targets and often do not verify whether the carrier of the phone is the intended target of the strike.  ‘It’s really like we’re targeting a cell phone. We’re not going after people – we’re going after their phones, in the hopes that the person on the other end of that missile is the bad guy,’ Bryant told the Intercept.”

http://rt.com/news/nsa-drones-civilian-casualties-383/

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