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U.S. Domestic, er, Foreign Spying Bill Progresses Through Congress…

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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 […]

The Senate Intelligence Committee 702 Bill Is a Domestic Spying Bill…

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Contrary to what you’re reading about it not “reforming” 702, the SSCI bill makes dramatic changes to 702. Effectively, it makes 702 a domestic spying program. The SSCI expands the kinds of criminal prosecutions with which it can use Section 702 data. It does so in Section 5, in what is cynically called “End Use […]

Obama’s UN Ambassador Sought to Unmask Americans on Nearly Daily Basis…

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Samantha Power, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was ‘unmasking’ at such a rapid pace in the final months of the Obama administration that she averaged more than one request for every working day in 2016 – and even sought information in the days leading up to President Trump’s inauguration, multiple sources…

This Is How CIA Disables Security Cameras During Hollywood-Style Operations…

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In last 20 years, we have seen hundreds of caper/heist movies where spies or bank robbers hijack surveillance cameras of secure premises to either stop recording or set up an endless loop for covert operations without leaving any evidence. Whenever I see such scenes in a movie, I wonder and ask myself: Does this happen […]

Syp Agencies Changed Rules, Making It Easier to Unmask Members of Congress…

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President Obama’s intelligence chief issued revised procedures in 2013 that made it easier for executive branch officials to “unmask” the names of lawmakers or congressional staffers caught up in intelligence intercepts overseas, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The Hill. Procedures issued by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper…

Amazon Considering Allowing Developers Access to Alexa Transcripts…

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Amazon’s Echo system was one of the first mass-marketed home assistants available, giving it a head start over other devices such as Google Home. However, while Amazon currently does not allow developers access to everything users say, Google Home does; with Apple moving into the market as well, Amazon cannot afford to lose the lead […]

Island Leaders Penned in by ‘Five Eyes’ Intelligence Bloc Die Suddenly…

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The small Pacific island states may pride themselves on being independent, but they remain under the effective suzerainty of the dominant neo-colonial powers of the region, namely the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. These states, extending from Palau in the western Pacific to Tonga in the south Pacific, are slaved to the domination of […]

With a Single Wiretap Order, U.S. Authorities Listened in on 3.3M Phone Calls…

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US authorities intercepted and recorded millions of phone calls last year under a single wiretap order, authorized as part of a narcotics investigation. The wiretap order authorized an unknown government agency to carry out real-time intercepts of 3.29 million cell phone conversations over a two-month period at some point during 2016, after the order was […]

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