Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
NSA Implementing ‘Two-Person’ Rule To Stop The Next Edward Snowden
June 19th, 2013This is great. They can spend all day trying to comply with their increasingly cumbersome security directives. Via: Forbes: The next Edward Snowden may need a partner on the inside. On Tuesday, National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander told a congressional hearing of the Intelligence Committee that the agency is implementing a “two-person” system to […]
3 NSA Veterans Speak Out On Snowden: We Told You So
June 19th, 2013Update: New Tice Interview — I wonder if Tice was invited to participate in this… Via: USA Today: In a roundtable discussion, a trio of former National Security Agency whistle-blowers tell USA TODAY that Edward Snowden succeeded where they failed. When a National Security Agency contractor revealed top-secret details this month on the government’s collection […]
GCHQ: Fake Internet Cafes
June 17th, 2013The fact that GCHQ spied on G20 delegates is just more intelligence agency non-news, which, for some reason, is very popular in the media these days. Targeting diplomatic traffic is a routine activity that all states carry out. You can read yourself to sleep with Bamford’s Puzzle Palace, published in 1982, if this comes as […]
Australia: Government Building New Data Center for Communications Intercepts
June 16th, 2013Via: The Age: The Australian government has been building a state-of-the art, secret data storage facility just outside Canberra to enable intelligence agencies to deal with a ”data deluge” siphoned from the internet and global telecommunications networks. The high-security facility nearing completion at the HMAS Harman communications base will support the operations of Australia’s signals […]
Greenwald: ‘You have no idea what is coming’
June 16th, 2013The release of the documents without any censorship by the media? Information about NSA operations that we haven’t already known about for years? More pics of the pole dancing girlfriend? Via: Twitter: You have no idea what is coming; and I’m promoting the leaks, not myself
NSA Admits Listening to U.S. Phone Calls Without Warrants
June 16th, 2013Via: cnet: The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed this week that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call […]
Naomi Wolf: My Creeping Concern That The NSA Leaker Is Not Who He Purports To Be
June 15th, 2013Update: Even AP Admits that Prism Is Chicken Feed Compared to What We Learned Years Ago About Mass Intercepts Via: AP: With Prism, the government gets a user’s entire email inbox. Every email, including contacts with American citizens, becomes government property. Once the NSA has an inbox, it can search its huge archives for information […]
U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms
June 14th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said. These programs, whose participants are known as trusted partners, extend far beyond what was revealed by Edward […]
U.S. Says It Will Give Military Aid to Syria Rebels
June 14th, 2013For the first time, no less. Via: BBC: The US is to supply direct military aid to the Syrian opposition for the first time, the White House has announced. President Obama made the decision after his administration concluded Syrian forces under Bashar al-Assad were using chemical weapons, a spokesman said. Ben Rhodes did not give […]
The Cyberwar Industrial Complex
June 13th, 2013Via: Wired: In short, despite the sequestration, layoffs, and furloughs in the federal government, it’s a boom time for Alexander. In April, as part of its 2014 budget request, the Pentagon asked Congress for $4.7 billion for increased “cyberspace operations,” nearly $1 billion more than the 2013 allocation. At the same time, budgets for the […]
