NZ Herald | 1 July 2015 What else have those spy agencies busied themselves with, apart from undermining the the US technology industry with surveillance efforts? How about reverse-engineering, or cracking as it’s also called, security software in order to hack and surveil targets? Not only that, but tracking users of antivirus and security products…
The Intercept | June 26, 2015 Three days after the New York Times revealed that the U.S. government was secretly monitoring the calls and emails of people inside the United States without court-approved warrants, the National Security Agency issued a top-secret assessment of the damage done to intelligence efforts by the story. The conclusion: the information could…
Glenn Greenwald | 21 June 2015 The spy unit responsible for some of the United Kingdom’s most controversial tactics of surveillance, online propaganda and deceit focuses extensively on traditional law enforcement and domestic activities — even though officials typically justify its activities by emphasizing foreign intelligence and counterterrorism operations. Documents published today by The Intercept demonstrate…
Glenn Greenwald | 14 June 2015 Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it’s hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, then uncritically accept those anonymously voiced claims as…
NZ Herald | 6 June 2015 In the two years since American whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the US National Security Agency and its sister intelligence partners were spying on hundreds of millions of people, debate has raged about the legality, morality and necessity of mass surveillance. That discourse has been especially rancorous in the…
Global Research | June 03, 2015 Even as talk about the expiry of various parts of the USA Patriot Act was taking place, the background was never going to move that much. Assumptions of security – or its other side, paralytic insecurity – are so entrenched in the complex of power that they tend to win…
Truth In Media | 2 June 2015 A new revelation from the trove of documents released by Edward Snowden reveal the US government and ally nations used spyware in phone apps. A new document from whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals that the United States, Canada, and other so-called “Five Eyes” nations hacked weaknesses in one of the…
The National Journal | 1 June 2015 A greater threat than Iran, ISIS, and “lone wolf” attacks: government lies. The president of the United States, most of Congress, the intelligence community, and virtually every institution in Washington wants to extend a Faustian bargain on domestic spying. “Trust us,” they say. We can’t. We won’t. Even…
NZ Herald | 30 May 2015 Security Intelligence Service chief Rebecca Kitteridge has apologised to Kim Dotcom for the behaviour of her spies, who swapped emails about the internet entrepreneur’s weight and wife while mocking his chances of getting New Zealand residency. An extraordinary cache of emails has emerged from an Official Information Act request…
John W. Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute | 26 May 2015 “The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control.”—William Binney, NSA whistleblower We now have a fourth branch of government. As I document in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this fourth branch came into being without any…