Heads of the House Intelligence Commitee said yesterday that Edward Snowden is lying about his access to and the nature of the domestic secret surveillance program he revealed last week. Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) and senior Democrat Rep Dutch Ruppersberger
An Investor’s Business Daily opinion piece makes the claim that mosques are excluded from the massive dragnet surveillance operation of the US Government. “That’s right, the government’s sweeping surveillance of our most private communications excludes the jihad factories where homegrown
Speaking to the South China Morning Post, Edward Snowden has revealed the NSA has been hacking computers since 2009, including computers in China. “Snowden said that according to unverified documents seen by the Post, the NSA had been hacking computers
In an interview yesterday with NPR, Former NSA Director Michael Hayden denied the NSA is data mining their massive collection of “business records” that were secretly collected. “Business records” is a less offensive way of describing all the data they
In an exclusive interview with South China Morning Post, Edward Snowden said he will fight extradition efforts and wants “the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate. I have been given no reason to doubt your system.”
CBS has released a new poll concerning the recent revelations on the government’s domestic surveillance efforts. The questions are better (from a quantitative perspective, not a propaganda perspective) than the WaPo/Pew poll which showed a relaxed attitude on civil liberties
At a fundraising dinner for the Democrats’ candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, Ed Markey, in Washington last night, Vice President Joe Biden voiced his concern about freshman Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) (emphasis added): “Have you
The Washington Post in conjunction the Pew Center, have released a new poll about government surveillance that is making the rounds today. The results are alarming from a civil liberties perspective: 62% say the government should investigate terrorist threats regardless
This morning, Speaker of the House John Boehner called NSA whistleblower/leaker a “traitor” and described his actions as a “giant violation of the law.” On Good Morning America, Boehner explained, “The president outlined last week that these are important national security
According to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, the Russians are considering granting political asylum to Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower/traitor. Snowden, a government contractor, revealed the existence of a massive National Security Agency surveillance operation last week. Kommersant daily quoted President Vladimir Putin’s
CBS News is reporting that government officials are “in the process” of filing charges against Edward Snowden. Snowden admitted to leaking secret documents, revealing the large-scale data-mining and surveillance program of the U.S. government. The FBI will oversee the
Edward Snowden, whistleblower or leaker of state secrets–you decide, is the internet’s new sex symbol. The some of the internet is gushing over the hero/traitor, ‘I know I should get past the “Edward Snowden looks totally hot” thing and focus
Michael Mukasey, former US Attorney General, has written an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, defending the government’s nationwide surveillance operation. Mukasey describes concern over the surveillance as “misdirected” and throws in a reference to Orwell’s 1984 for good
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) called for the NSA surveillance leaker to be prosecuted aggressively. “If Edward Snowden did in fact leak the NSA data as he claims, the United States government must prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law
Former CIA officer Bob Baer said on CNN Sunday evening officials are speculating that Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing could be “potential Chinese espionage.” Snowden came forward yesterday and identified himself as the leaker of the NSA’s massive surveillance operation. Snowden revealed
The NSA has requested a criminal probe into who was the whistle blower leaked information about their massive surveillance operation known as PRISM. A “crimes report has been filed,” said Shawn Turner, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of
The WSJ is reporting that in addition to monitoring cell phone records, emails and web activity, the National Security Agency is monitoring credit card transactions. “NSA has established similar relationships with credit-card companies, three former officials said.” The arrangement gave
Two IRS staffers in the Cincinnati office told investigators in Congress that Washington DC “helped direct the probe of tea-party groups that began in 2010.” The WSJ reviewed transcripts of the interviews. Elizabeth Hofacre said her office in Cincinnati sought
A Brooklyn couple who were the hosts of the WBAI radio show “The Pursuit of Happiness” committed suicide by putting plastic bags over their head and breathing in helium. Lynne Rosen and John Littig were found dead in Park Slope
Sarah Murnaghan is a 10 year old girl who has end stage cystic fibrosis. She needs a lung transplant to live but she is one year too young to get an adult lung. Children’s lungs are much harder to come
A Willow County fire captain teamed up with a local rapper to shoot a rap video on county property. The video was filmed with Fire Captain “Marcus” while he was “on duty, using the district’s equipment and building without county
Yesterday, Gallup unveiled a report detailing the reasons why their polling efforts failed to predict an Obama victory in 2012. The report offered four main reasons why their survey efforts did not predict Obama’s victory. The final poll released by
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told his mother that people are sending him money. In a recording of their first call placed from prison, Tsarnaev informed his mother someone opened an account for him and deposited money. He received “at least” a thousand
GOP members on the House Appropriations Committee stated they would use ‘purse strings’ to get to the truth about IRS’ ideological profiling of tea party and conservative organizations. Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) said “his panel may impose conditions on IRS funding,
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) today received a letter from Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik in response to a recent letter they sent to
