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Clapper: U.S. Intel Community ‘Unmasked’ 1,934 U.S. Persons in 2016…

Barack Obama’s former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, testified Monday before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism that the intelligence community “unmasked” 1,934 U.S. persons in 2016. Clapper said the term “unmasking” is often misunderstood and that it is important to know the context. “There are cases when, to fully understand the […]

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‘Power Grab’: FCC Website Hit with 128k Anti-Net Neutrality Messages in Bot Cyberattack…

After the FCC announced plans to rollback net neutrality regulations, their public comment system was flooded with hundreds of thousands of comments crashing the system. Many of the comments appear to be fake and from a bot. Two weeks ago, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Ajit Pai announced plans to reverse net neutrality rules put […]

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FBI Paid Nearly $1M to Hack into San Bernardino Killer’s iPhone…

“I was so struck when San Bernardino happened and you made overtures to allow that device to be opened, and then the FBI had to spend $900,000 to hack it open,” said Senator Feinstein, (D-California) during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week, according to AP. “And as I subsequently learned of some of the […]

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Turning Gen. Flynn into Road Kill by Robert Parry…

Not to defend retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn for his suspect judgment, but it should be noted that his case represents a disturbing example of how electronic surveillance and politicized law enforcement can destroy an American citizen’s life in today’s New McCarthyism. The testimony on Monday by former acting Attorney General Sally Yates and former […]

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Open Internet Advocates Vow to Fight Trump FCC’s Plan to Kill Net Neutrality…

Ten years of fighting for internet freedom, potentially out the window because Donald Trump was elected president and chose as his top telecom regulator a former Verizon lawyer who’s hell-bent on killing federal rules safeguarding net neutrality, the internet’s open access principle. That’s the prospect facing open internet advocates following Wednesday’s announcement that Trump’s…

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Rand Paul: Obama May Have Spied on Me, Other Lawmakers Using NSA Intercepts…

Sen. Rand Paul, the former Republican presidential candidate and vocal champion of civil liberties, has received allegations that the Obama administration sought intercepted intelligence from the National Security Agency on him and other members of Congress and has asked President Donald Trump to conduct a formal investigation, Circa has learned…

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Trump Put Susan Rice on Blast for Refusing to Testify about the ‘Unmasking’ of U.S. Citizens…

President Trump criticized former National Security Advisor Susan Rice in two early-morning tweets about how Rice refused to appear before a Senate subcommittee about Russian meddling in the 2016 election. In a letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who had requested that Rice appear before the subcommittee, Rice’s attorney, Kathryn Ruemmler, said that her client […]

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State Dept. Told To Release New Benghazi Emails From Hillary’s Server…

A federal judge ordered the Department of State to release new emails stored on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private server regarding the 2012 attack in Benghazi, a nonprofit government watchdog group announced Friday. Two previously unreleased emails have a subject line “Quick Summary of POTUS Calls to Presidents of Libya and Egypt” and […]

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Wikileaks Publishes Secret CIA Tools That Attacked Computers Inside Offices…

WikiLeaks published on May 5 “Archimedes”, a tool used by the CIA to attack a computer inside a Local Area Network (LAN), usually used in offices. It allows the re-directing of traffic from the target computer inside the LAN through a computer infected with this malware and controlled by the CIA…

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President Obama’s Team Sought NSA Intel on Thousands of Americans During the 2016 Election…

During his final year in office, President Obama’s team significantly expanded efforts to search National Security Agency intercepts for information about Americans, distributing thousands of intelligence reports across government with the unredacted names of U.S. residents during the midst of a divisive 2016 presidential election. The data, made available this week by the Office of […]

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Comey Testifies Classified Emails Were Forwarded to Anthony Weiner…

Hillary Clinton emails containing classified information were forwarded to former congressman Anthony Weiner, the director of the FBI testified Wednesday as he defended his handling of politically sensitive probes surrounding the last year’s presidential race. Under questioning from the senior Democrat on the committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), James B. Comey revealed…

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NYPD Sued for Refusing to Disclose Face Recognition Technology Docs…

A privacy group is suing the NYPD for documents related to their secretive and unregulated facial recognition program. They say the technology can misidentify people, causing innocent people to be investigated or arrested. The Center on Privacy & Technology (CPT), a university think tank at Georgetown Law, announced Tuesday that it filed a Freedom of […]

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Reined-In N.S.A. Still Collected 151 Million Phone Records in ’16…

The National Security Agency vacuumed up more than 151 million records about Americans’ phone calls last year via a new system that Congress created to end the agency’s once-secret program that collected domestic calling records in bulk, a report disclosed Tuesday. Although the number is large on its face, it nonetheless represents a massive reduction […]

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Former Facebook Exec: “They’re Lying Through Their Teeth”…

For two years I was charged with turning Facebook data into money, by any legal means. If you browse the internet or buy items in physical stores, and then see ads related to those purchases on Facebook, blame me. I helped create the first versions of that, way back in 2012. The ethics of Facebook’s […]

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BEWARE: Monsanto Accused of Hiring Army of Trolls to Silence Online Dissent…

Biotech giant Monsanto is being accused of hiring, through third parties, an army of Internet trolls to counter negative comments, while citing positive “ghost-written” pseudo-scientific reports which downplay the potential risks of their products. The documents emerged during pre-trials on 50 lawsuits against Monsanto which were pending in the US District Court in San Francisco…

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U.S. Researchers Eliminates HIV Infection in ‘Humanized’ Mice…

U.S. researchers said Monday they have successfully removed HIV DNA from the genomes of living animals using a gene-editing tool, giving scientists a boost in confidence to eventually eliminate the AIDS virus infection in human patients. In a new study published in the journal Molecular Therapy, researchers at Temple University and the University of Pittsburgh […]

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Creator of Fake News List Speaks: The Truth About Fake News (PODCAST)…

Chris Martenson: Okay. Great. So this list. First, what made one necessary, in your mind? Melissa Zimdars: So, it wasn’t actually supposed to be a list originally. This all started as media literacy exercise in my Intro to Mass Communication course. I felt like my students were having a difficult time determining the credibility of […]

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