Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush stated that he is “nervous” about criticism of the NSA and that he wished the president would do a better job defending government surveillance systems on Monday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” Bush said that lone wolf
A vehicle attempted to ram the gate at the headquarters of the National Security Agency in Ft. Meade, Maryland at roughly 9:30 on Monday morning, initiating a confrontation with security forces that ended with shots being fired. At least one uniformed guard appears to have been injured and loaded into an ambulance.
We’ve known for years that most Americans support the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance apparatus. Poll after poll shows that about roughly 53 percent of Americans think the government should prioritize investigating terrorism over privacy.
(Reuters) – A Russian lawyer for Edward Snowden said on Tuesday the fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of the government’s mass surveillance programs was working with American and German lawyers to return home.
The New York Times has a depressing article headlined “Mutual Suspicion Mars Tech Trade With China,” whose title buries the lede. The story is more about tech companies suspicious of both China and the Obama Administration. There is a serious information-technology trade war underway, and China is eating Team Obama’s lunch, in part due to continuing fallout from Edward Snowden’s revelations of Obama’s digital surveillance state.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) declared that what you say on your cell phone is “none of the government’s damn business” on Thursday’s “Hannity on the Fox News Channel. Describing his supporters, Paul said, “these kids are sort of the ‘leave me alone’
Citizenfour, the HBO documentary about notorious NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, picked up the Oscar for Best Documentary during Sunday night’s broadcast of the 87th annual Academy Awards.
At a Stanford University cyber-security summit on Friday, President Obama is expected to announce yet another executive order bypassing Congress, this time pertaining to Internet security.
Cyber-war is everywhere, most assuredly including the conflicts where physical bullets and bombs are flying. The struggle to topple the Assad regime in Syria, for example, has been “marked by a very active, if only sporadically visible, cyberbattle that has engulfed all sides,” according to a weekend article at the New York Times.
The Obama Administration has dropped a plan to outsource the storage of cell-phone metadata to third-party vendors, but the Surveillance State is still very much interested in that data. From a public-relations standpoint, the goal of these post-Snowden reform proposals is to erase the image of phone companies “giving our phone data to the government.” If the companies are storing the data themselves and making it accessible to the government, the public’s comfort level with the process might increase.
The Obama administration has officially linked the North Korean government to the Sony Pictures hack, perpetrated by a group calling itself the “Guardians of Peace” in retaliation for a film that mocks North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
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In response to an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit and the filing of a Freedom of Information Act request, on Christmas Eve, the National Security Agency (NSA) released 12 years of “compliance error” reports that detail its agency’s failures to comply with U.S. law since the 2001 start of the War on Terror. Although the reports are heavily redacted, the sheer volume of supposed “errors” is stunning
