This is a video I made almost 8 years ago about why NSA wiretapping won’t work. This was back when the NSA was tapping AT&T at their location at Folsom St. in San Francisco. I think it was shortly after I was working at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. As you listen to this just substitute “Obama” for “Bush” and the rest of it still applies.
I guess that makes it OK. Nothing to see here.
It has certainly become hackneyed to call the government Orwellian, but in this case it’s unavoidable. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that he had given the “least untruthful” answer possible in March when he told a congressional hearing that the NSA does not collect information on millions of Americans, which it does, daily.
A response from the Left….
In researching the stunning pervasiveness of spying by the government (it’s much more wide spread than you’ve heard even now), we ran across the fact that the FBI wants software programmers to install a backdoor in all software…Digging a little further, we found a 1999 article by leading European computer publication Heise which noted that the NSA had already built a backdoor into all Windows software:
When it comes to conspiracies it just doesn’t get any better than this. Turns out that Edward Snowden was working for a company called Booz Allen Hamilton, who is owned by the Carlyle Group. The Carlyle Group is best known as the company linking the Bush family with the Bin Laden family of Saudi Arabia. Just what America needs to keep us safe. The Bush’s and the Bun Laden’s tracking everything we do. Senator Diane Feinstein’s husband Richard Blum is also connected.
This is too weird for words. My jaw is dropped. Mouth is open. I’m stunned.
Several people are saying, “Why do I care if the government is spying on me? I have nothing to hide!” You might be shocked to hear that this isn’t about just you. Here’s 10 reasons why the Prism program is a really really bad idea.
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The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell.
When government officials came to Silicon Valley to demand easier ways for the world’s largest Internet companies to turn over user data as part of a secret surveillance program, the companies bristled. In the end, though, many cooperated at least a bit.
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has sued Forbes magazine for libel in a British court, alleging its valuation of his wealth at $20 billion was short of the mark by $9.6 billion, Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported…
Trying to figure out if there’s really any difference. I think the only difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats are at least a little embarrassed when caught breaking the law.
Well, this could be a mess: the New York State Senate passed a bill today that makes annoying a police officer a felony, punishable by up to four years in prison. Meaning, punching a cop—albeit with tiny, ineffectual fists—might soon be on par with poking one a few times, or stepping on an officer’s heels while walking behind him. That’s the annoying-est.
The bill, which was sponsored by upstate State Senator Joe Griffo (R), only applies to physical contact, so you’re still free to hum “99 Bottles of Beer” while in a cop’s vicinity. But the proposed legislation—which states one is guilty of “aggravated harassment” of an officer when “with the intent to harass, annoy, threaten, or alarm…he or she strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects such a person to physical contact”—still seems like a dip into Thought Police territory.
“This bill will be so arbitrarily and capriciously applied to people that it is senseless,” Stacey Richman, a criminal defense attorney, told us.
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