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Edward Snowden: Facebook Is a Surveillance Company Rebranded As “Social Media”…

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NSA whistleblower and former CIA employee Edward Snowden slammed Facebook in a Saturday tweet following the suspension of Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and its political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, over what Facebook says was imporoper use of collected data. In a nutshell, in 2015 Cambridge Analytica bought data from a University of Cambridge psychology […]

FBI Supervisor Warned Comey in 2014 That Warrantless Surveillance Program Was Ineffective…

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An official who supervised the FBI’s Section 215 warrantless phone surveillance program revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013 says he warned then-Director James Comey it was woefully ineffective in catching terrorists and needed to be modified. Retired Special Agent Bassem Youssef, the chief of the FBI’s Communications Analysis Unit, said in an exclusive interview with […]

Opinion: Fearless Adversarial Journalism Doesn’t Work When You Are Funded by a Billionaire…

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Disobedient Media previously opined on the dagger-in-the-back publication of a hit piece against Wikileaks’ Julian Assange just one day after a UK magistrate, with blatant conflict of interest in the matter, shot down his legal representatives’ attempt to finally free him from the confines of the Ecuadorian embassy. What that article did not address was […]

FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks…

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The Daily Beast ran an exclusive report detailing how the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) was set to break ties with WikiLeaks amidst concerns among the foundation’s board, which includes such well-known figures as Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras, John Cusack and Glenn Greenwald, among others. The news was confirmed less than a […]

NSA’s Rogers to Retire this Spring…

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NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers has decided he will retire this spring, two former U.S. intelligence officials told POLITICO, ending a near four-year tenure bookended by major leaks that rattled the agency. It’s expected that President Donald Trump will nominate Rogers’ successor this month, putting a final Senate confirmation vote two to three months away. […]

10 Times the Intel Community Violated the Trust of U.S. Citizens, Lawmakers and Allies by Sharyl Attkisson…

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No matter where you stand politically, a growing body of facts raises the question: Is there systemic corruption or misfeasance at work inside America’s intelligence agencies? By that, I don’t mean people stealing money. I mean officials who are stealing our privacy — using the tools of intelligence-gathering and law-enforcing, which are meant to protect […]

Edward Snowden’s New App Uses Your Smartphone to Physically Guard Your Laptop…

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Like many other journalists, activists, and software developers I know, I carry my laptop everywhere while I’m traveling. It contains sensitive information; messaging app conversations, email, password databases, encryption keys, unreleased work, web browsers logged into various accounts, and so on. My disk is encrypted, but all it takes to bypass this protection is for […]

War on Transparency: How the CIA Successfully Fought to Remain Unaccountable…

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Declassified files provide a troubling insight into the US Government Accountability Office’s ill-fated efforts to audit the Central Intelligence Agency, with even the most routine queries batted away with claims relevant information was classified as protected as an intelligence source or method. Such was the CIA’s…

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