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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

N.S.A. Halts Collection of Americans’ Emails About Foreign Targets…

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The National Security Agency has halted one of the most disputed practices of its warrantless wiretapping program: collecting Americans’ emails and texts to and from people overseas that mention foreigners targeted for surveillance, according to officials familiar with the matter. National security officials have argued that such surveillance is lawful and helpful in identifying…

NSA Blimp Spied in the United States…

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To residents of Maryland, catching an occasional glimpse of a huge white blimp floating in the sky is not unusual. For more than a decade, the military has used the state as a proving ground for new airships destined for Afghanistan or Iraq. But less known is that the test flights have sometimes served a […]

Officer Who Thinks ISIS War Is Illegal Heads Back to Court to Plead His Case…

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Army Capt. Nathan Smith is trying to sue the United States over the war with ISIS because he believes it’s illegal. Except, he thinks it’s a just war that we need to be fighting. So why is he pursuing legal action? He wants Congress to officially declare war. “My conscience bothered me,” Smith said in […]

Leaked NSA Tools Compromising Vulnerable, Unpatched Windows Systems…

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The NSA’s Equation Group hacking tools, leaked last Friday by the Shadow Brokers, have now been used to infect thousands of Windows machines worldwide, we’re told. On Thursday, Dan Tentler, founder of security shop Phobos Group, told The Register he’s seen rising numbers of boxes on the public internet showing signs they have DOUBLEPULSAR installed […]

Japan Made Secret Deals With the NSA That Expanded Global Surveillance…

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It began as routinely as any other passenger flight. At gate 15 of New York City’s JFK Airport, more than 200 men, women, and children stood in line as they waited to board a Boeing 747. They were on their way to Seoul, South Korea’s capital city. But none would ever make it to their […]

House Intel Panel Calls Comey, Clapper, Rogers, Brennan, & Yates to Testify On Russia…

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Just when you thought it was over – after Trump ‘Tomahawks’ Putin’s pal Assad, and Tillerson trounces Lavrov – and the media had stopped the constant “Russia did it” narrative, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (which seems like as big an oxymoron as can occur) has called numerous current (and former) officials to […]

Leaked NSA Hacking Tools Are a Hit on the Dark Web…

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Underground hackers are now sharing, promoting and working to adopt executable computer code evident in NSA documents that were published last week by the Shadow Brokers, private sector intelligence analysts tell CyberScoop. Tutorials on how to utilize some of the tools began appearing the same day the NSA documents were originally published, according to researchers […]

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