The Daily Caller | 17 Feb 2015 Noted cybersecruity firm Kaspersky Lab has discovered evidence of advanced spyware likely tied to the National Security Agency embedded deep in hard drives from more than a dozen manufacturers worldwide. According to the Moscow-based firm, which released a report detailing the threat Monday, the spyware is able to…
NZ Herald | 15 March 2016 Labour leader Andrew Little met United States’ intelligence chief James Clapper yesterday – on the initiative of the Prime Minister’s office. Mr Little told the Herald he probed Mr Clapper about Congress oversight of US intelligence agencies. “We talked about the Senate and the House committees on intelligence and…
RT | 23 Feb 2016 Wikileaks published a new trove of top secret documents revealing that the NSA spied on the private meetings of major world leaders, including UN chief Ban Ki-Moon, German chancellor Merkel, as well as the prime ministers of Italy and Israel. The National Security Agency (NSA) listened in on high-level meetings…
Washington’s Blog | 20 November 2015 As usual, the politicos and talking heads are all talking their own book, using the Paris terror attacks to push their own agendas. As shown below, they’re spouting nonsense. Mass Surveillance Won’t Help The NSA and other spy agencies are pretending that the Paris attacks show that we need…
The Intercept | Whistleblowers are always accused of helping America’s enemies (top Nixon aides accused Daniel Ellsberg of being a Soviet spy and causing the deaths of Americans with his leak); it’s just the tactical playbook that’s automatically used. So it’s of course unsurprising that ever since Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing enabled newspapers around the world to…
Activist Post | 30 Oct 2015 This week, the European Parliament voted to offer Edward Snowden asylum and protection and drop all criminal charges against him. When at one time most of the world was bullied by the US government into pressing charges against Snowden and forcing him into exile, the entire European continent has…
New Eastern Outlook |19 September 2015 Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden’s revelations rocked the world. According to his detailed reports, the US had launched massive spying programs and was scrutinizing the communications of American citizens in a manner which could only be described as extreme and intense. The US’s reaction was swift and to…
Jon Rappaport | 26 Aug 2015 Suppose masters of surveillance know exactly what emails have been scrubbed from Hillary Clinton’s private server? Suppose they’ve had a complete collection of all her emails all along? Suppose masters of surveillance have an enormous database of emails and phone calls from every current presidential candidate and his/her staff?…
The Intercept | 31 July 2015 The Obama administration’s central strategy against strong encryption seems to be waging war on the companies that are providing and popularizing it: most notably Apple and Google. The intimidation campaign got a boost Thursday when a blog that frequently promotes the interests of the national security establishment raised the…
RT | 20 July 2015 A leaked NSA intercept shows that German FM Steinmeier was relieved to have “not received any definitive response” from the US on its rendition program at the time of the scandal, which exempted him from the need to act on the matter, WikiLeaks claims. The WikiLeaks publication intercept of the German…