Why can the U.S. government collect my emails? Under authority ostensibly granted by something called Section 702, the U.S. government routinely collects and searches the online communications of innocent Americans without a warrant through what are commonly called “upstream” and “PRISM” (now called “downstream”) surveillance. Section 702 is a surveillance authority passed as part of […]
Decoding 702: What is Section 702?…
House GOP Plan for Separate Section 702 Law, ‘Dead for Now’…
House Republicans’ plans to vote on a stand-alone bill to renew a controversial surveillance authority are dead “for now,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told reporters less than 24 hours after lawmakers scheduled a Rules Committee vote on the measure. GOP lawmakers will attempt to hash out stark divisions in a conference meeting […]
U.S. Domestic, er, Foreign Spying Bill Progresses Through Congress…
Thought the Snowden leaks would make things better? Joke’s on you. A draft law protecting one of the US government’s spying programs has passed through the initial markup stage in the Congress, providing one more opportunity to witness the “up is down” world in which American politics currently resides. The USA Liberty Act put forward […]
Former U.N. Amb. Power Unmasked ‘Hundreds’ in Final Year of Obama Admin…
Former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power is believed to have made “hundreds” of unmasking requests to identify individuals named in classified intelligence community reports related to Trump and his presidential transition team, according to multiple sources who said the behavior is unprecedented for an official in her position. Power was first…
Former Obama Aide Ben Rhodes Is Now a Person of Interest in the Unmasking Investigation…
Former Obama White House National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes is now emerging as a person of interest in the House Intelligence Committee’s unmasking investigation, according to a letter sent Tuesday by the committee to the National Security Agency (NSA). This adds Rhodes to the growing list of top Obama government officials who may have improperly…
Lindsey Graham Asks Very Simple Question about ‘Unmasking’; Massive Evasion Effort Ensues…
For months now, Senator Lindsey Graham has been trying to get an answer to a very simple question, namely ‘if his conversations are ‘incidentally’ captured while he’s overseas talking with a foreign leader who’s being surveilled by the U.S. intelligence community and his name is subsequently unmasked, is he, as a United States citizen and/or […]
Declassified Memos Show FBI Illegally Shared Spy Data on Americans with Private Parties…
The FBI has illegally shared raw intelligence about Americans with unauthorized third parties and violated other constitutional privacy protections, according to newly declassified government documents that undercut the bureau’s public assurances about how carefully it handles warrantless spy data to avoid abuses or leaks. In his final congressional testimony before he was fired by President […]
Obama Intel Agency Secretly Conducted Illegal Searches on Americans for Years…
The National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall, according to once top-secret documents that chronicle some of the most serious constitutional abuses to […]
How John Brennan’s CIA Became a Big Consumer of Unmasked Intelligence on Americans…
As former CIA Director John Brennan faces Congress anew on Tuesday, there is growing evidence the agency he oversaw has become one of the largest consumers of unmasked intelligence about Americans even though its charter prohibits it from spying on U.S. citizens. The CIA routinely searches data collected overseas on Americans by the National Security […]
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