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White House refuses to accept that NSA phone dragnet is illegal

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“In a new interview with MSNBC, Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that he had not read the new surveillance report from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB)—but nonetheless disagreed with its findings. That report, which was released on Thursday by the Congressionally approved board, argued that the NSA’s telephone metadata program was illegal.  ‘At least 15 judges on about 35 occasions have said that the program itself is legal,’ Holder said. ‘I think that those other judges, those 15 judges, got it right.’  Holder and the White House have both expressed great skepticism at the PCLOB’s recommendations.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/white-house-refuses-to-accept-that-nsa-phone-dragnet-is-illegal/

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Exposed: Covert, Real-Time Spying on Youtube, Facebook, Blogs

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“The British government gave the U.S. lessons in how to spy on users of popular websites, including Youtube and Facebook, in real-time and without the consent of users or cyber companies.  The report unearths a slide presentation by British intelligence agency GCHQ, given to their U.S. counterparts in August 2012, detailing their ‘Squeaky Dolphin’ program that allows them to glean information from ‘the torrent of electronic data that moves across fiber optic cable and display it graphically on a computer dashboard,’ according to the NBC article.  Facebook and Google said they were not aware that governments were surveying this information and they had not granted permission.”

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/27-6

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Angry Birds, ‘leaky’ phone apps targeted for user data by NSA, GCHQ

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“The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities to take advantage of ‘leaky’ smartphone apps, such as the wildly popular Angry Birds game, that transmit users’ private information across the internet, according to top secret documents.  Many smartphone owners will be unaware of the full extent this information is being shared across the internet, and even the most sophisticated would be unlikely to realise that all of it is available for the spy agencies to collect.  Dozens of classified documents detail the NSA and GCHQ efforts to piggyback on this commercial data collection for their own purposes.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/nsa-gchq-smartphone-app-angry-birds-personal-data

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Greenwald: Obama’s NSA ‘reforms’ are little more than a PR attempt

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“The crux of this tactic is that US political leaders pretend to validate and even channel public anger by acknowledging that there are ‘serious questions that have been raised’. They vow changes to fix the system and ensure these problems never happen again. And they then set out, with their actions, to do exactly the opposite: to make the system prettier and more politically palatable with empty, cosmetic ‘reforms’ so as to placate public anger while leaving the system fundamentally unchanged, even more immune than before to serious challenge.  This scam has been so frequently used that it is now easily recognizable.”

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/17/obama-nsa-reforms-bulk-surveillance-remains

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‘Goldmine’: NSA Vacuuming Up Millions of Text Messages Daily

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“The National Security Agency vacuumed up nearly two hundred million text messages from around the world daily, the Guardian and the UK’s Channel 4 News report on Thursday.  Dishfire collects ‘pretty much everything it can,’ one of the documents stated.  Dishfire’s vast database of messages allowed the NSA to extract names, information from missed calls, credit card numbers, data from electronic business cards, financial transactions, details of border crossings, travel information and geolocation information.  Further, the Guardian and Channel 4 News report that the NSA’s British counterpart, the GCHQ, was given access to this database.”

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/01/16-10

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Obama’s Lies, NSA Spies, and the Sons of Liberty

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“When it comes to the NSA, Obama has been lying to the American people for quite some time now. There was the time he claimed the secret FISA court is ‘transparent.’ Then he insisted that ‘we don’t have a domestic spying program.’ And then, to top it all off, he actually insisted there was no evidence the NSA was ‘actually abusing’ its power. As David Sirota writes: ‘it has now become almost silly to insinuate or assume that the president hasn’t also been lying. Why? Because if that’s true — if indeed he hasn’t been deliberately lying — then it means he has been dangerously, irresponsibly and negligently ignorant of not only the government he runs, but also of the news breaking around him.'”

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/obamas_lies_nsa_spies_and_the_sons_of_liberty_will_you_choose_dangerou

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Sheldon Richman: The Surveillance State Lives

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“President Obama has some nerve. He opened his speech on NSA spying by likening his surveillance regime to Paul Revere and the Sons of Liberty. How insulting! They were helping people resist government tyranny, and the British spied on them to put down the coming rebellion.  To the extent Obama has become more favorable to surveillance since the Bush years it’s apparently because, as a former aide told the New York Times, ‘he trusts himself to use these powers more than he did the Bush administration.’  In light of this flagrant disregard for the truth and willingness to bamboozle the people, why should anyone take Obama’s ‘reforms’ seriously?”

http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-surveillance-state-lives/

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Obama reveals himself as a champion of the surveillance state

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“The president is at least as fond of passive constructions as Chris ‘Mistakes Were Made’ Christie. ‘Too often,’ Obama said, ‘new authorities were instituted without adequate public debate.’ But before the Snowden revelations, the American public didn’t know that the administration considered all Americans’ call records ‘relevant’ to terrorism investigations under section 215 of the Patriot Act–and Obama liked it that way.  Still, Obama pointed out, his review group on NSA surveillance found ‘no indication that this database has been intentionally abused.’ In the speech, Obama congratulated himself for maintaining a ‘healthy skepticism towards our surveillance programs.'”

http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-reveals-himself-as-a-champion-of-the-surveillance-state/article/2542550

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Blackwater Founder Erik Prince: War on Terror Has Become Too Big

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“Erik Prince is not the kind of man one expects to make the case for slashing U.S. intelligence and military budgets.  ‘America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security,’ he told The Daily Beast. ‘Whether it’s allowing the NSA to go way too far in what it intercepts of our personal data, to our government monitoring of everything domestically and spending way more than we should. I don’t know if I want to live in a country where lone wolf and random terror attacks are impossible ‘cause that country would look more like North Korea than America.’  He said he will never work for the U.S. government again.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/19/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-war-on-terror-has-become-too-big.html

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No Place to Hide: We’re All Suspects in Barack Obama’s America

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“Instead of crediting Snowden for forcing what the president concedes is a much-needed debate, Obama bizarrely cited the example of Paul Revere and the other early American rebels in the Sons of Liberty to denounce their modern equivalent. But the ‘secret surveillance committee’ Obama referenced that Revere and his fellow underground conspirators established was intended to subvert rather than celebrate the crimes of the British controlled government in power.  While modern town crier Snowden is judged guilty of a crime without trial, the folks in the NSA who have been spying on us are all depicted as honorable people to be presumed innocent, no matter evidence to the contrary.”

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/no_place_to_hide_were_all_suspects_in_barack_obamas_america_20140121

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