Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
‘Digital Blackwater’: Meet the Contractors Analyzing Your Private Data
June 12th, 2013Via: Salon: From Narus, the Israeli-born Boeing subsidiary that makes NSA’s high-speed interception software, to CSC, the “systems integrator” that runs NSA’s internal IT system, defense and intelligence, contractors are making millions of dollars selling technology and services that help the world’s largest surveillance system spy on you. If the 70 percent figure is applied […]
U.S. State Department Cover-Ups Range From Prostitution Charges To Drug Rings
June 10th, 2013Via: CBS: CBS News has uncovered documents that show the State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal and inappropriate behavior within their ranks. The Diplomatic Security Service, or the DSS, is the State Department’s security force, charged with protecting the secretary of state and U.S. ambassadors overseas and with investigating any cases of […]
Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations
June 10th, 2013Remember, The NSA Wiretapping Story Nobody Wanted? Klein was essentially ignored at first, and people like me, who mentioned Klein’s story and the implications, were called conspiracy theorists… Ok, so why are the same media apparently on-board now? Curious. Via: Guardian: The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history […]
Greenwald Apparently Has Some Technical Details of NSA Intercept Operations but Won’t Publish Them
June 9th, 2013If Greenwald has this, others must as well. It’ll have to be pretty good to top Klein’s revelations from 2007. Via: Twitter: @buffalopundit @green_footballs The highly detailed NSA technical materials on how they eavesdrop, that I have & am not publishing. — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 8, 2013
Boundless Informant
June 9th, 2013Via: Guardian: The National Security Agency has developed a powerful tool for recording and analysing where its intelligence comes from, raising questions about its repeated assurances to Congress that it cannot keep track of all the surveillance it performs on American communications. The Guardian has acquired top-secret documents about the NSA datamining tool, called Boundless […]
GCHQ Also Accesses PRISM
June 7th, 2013It’s probably not just the U.S. and Britain. See Five Eyes, which also includes Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Via: Guardian: The UK’s electronic eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ, has been secretly gathering intelligence from the world’s biggest internet companies through a covertly run operation set up by America’s top spy agency, documents obtained by […]
NSA Whistle-Blower: “Now We Are All Persons of Interest”
June 7th, 2013Via: Salon: For Thomas Drake, the former National Security Agency employee who blew the whistle on the agency’s expansive post-9/11 surveillance programs in 2006, the latest revelation of blanket surveillance is simply “déjà vu.” Drake, who was indicted under the Espionage Act and faced life in prison before federal charges against him were eventually dropped, […]
NSA Building $860 Million Data Center in Maryland
June 7th, 2013Via: Data Center Knowledge: As its current data collection makes headlines, the National Security Agency is continuing to expand its data storage and processing capabilities. The agency recently broke ground on an $860 million data center at Fort Meade, Maryland that will span more than 600,000 square feet, including 70,000 square feet of technical space. […]
NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies’ Servers, Including Google and Facebook
June 7th, 2013*snore* Why is the media losing its mind over this now? Thanks to Mark Klein, we learned way back in 2007 that NSA was getting everything. Update: And Now… Customer Records from the Three Major Phone Networks, Emails, Web searches, and Credit-Card Transactions Via: Wall Street Journal: The National Security Agency’s monitoring of Americans includes […]
Court Documents: NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Americans Daily
June 6th, 2013Via: Guardian: The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April. The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an “ongoing, daily basis” to give […]
