Ron Paul: ‘We Now Live In A Police State’
Former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul says our entire system has been “based on lies and ignorance.” If Americans were honest with themselves they would acknowledge that the Republic is no more. We now live in a police state. If we do not recognize and resist this development, freedom and prosperity for all Americans […]
FBI Says It Doesn’t Need Warrant To Spy On Cell Phones In Public
January 5, 2015
You can’t have a presumption of privacy from the government when talking on a cell phone. The FBI won’t bother to obtain search warrants before it uses interception devices on people in public, according to a letter written by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and staffer Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). These devices include […]
Florida Congressman Alan Grayson believes he’s being denied access to 28 pages of classified information because of his criticism of the National Security Agency. Why was I denied? I have been instrumental in publicizing the Snowden revelations regarding pervasive domestic spying by the government and this is a petty means for the spying industrial complex […]
Rand Paul Squandered The Only Shot At NSA Reform For A Long, Long Time
November 20, 2014
The Keystone XL pipeline wasn’t the only piece of legislation that was killed on Tuesday. Make no mistake, it’ll unfortunately be back after the new Congress is sworn in next year, but for now it’s been blocked. The other item on Tuesday’s agenda was the USA Freedom Act, a bill designed to reform the National […]
Senate Republicans Block Sweeping Overhaul Of N.S.A. Program
November 18, 2014
Citing terrorism fears, freedom-loving Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a sweeping overhaul of the once-secret National Security Agency program that collects records of Americans’ phone calls in bulk. Mitch McConnell worked strenuously to defeat the bill. The New York Times reports: Democrats and a handful of Republicans who supported the measure fell two votes […]
Glenn Greenwald: ‘Nobody Should Use Facebook’
November 3, 2014
Speaking in Canada, Glenn Greenwald was asked why Edward Snowden isn’t on social media. “He doesn’t use Facebook because he hates Facebook,” he said. “They’re one of the worst violators of privacy in history. Nobody should use Facebook.” Greenwald did add that despite the difficulties of being the most wanted man in the world right […]
Once And For All, There’s No Such Thing As ‘The War on Whistleblowers’ And Here’s Why
October 27, 2014
One of the most tone deaf and unconstitutional things the Obama Justice Department could possibly do would be to imprison reporter James Risen of The New York Times for refusing to testify in an Espionage Act case during which he might be forced to give up his source for a series of articles about a […]
Journalist James Risen Facing Jail For Telling The Truth
October 24, 2014
James Risen, author of the new Pay Any Price, is facing jail time because of stories he broke about the NSA spying on Americans. He spoke on radio Thursday night of the corruption, excesses, and wasted billions in the war on terror. As the New York Times review of the book reported: We see how, […]
Glenn Greenwald Offers Up ‘Nothing to Hide’ Strawman Challenge
October 14, 2014
During his TED Talk presentation last week, The Intercept‘s Glenn Greenwald issued a challenge: If you defend the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities by insisting that you have nothing to hide, then you should send all of your usernames and passwords to Glenn Greenwald, allowing him to publish anything he finds particularly juicy. Here’s the […]
Greenwald: A Second Leaker Inside U.S. Intelligence
October 12, 2014
Glenn Greenwald says there is another leaker working inside the U.S. intelligence community, in addition to Edward Snowden. Towards the end of filmmaker Laura Poitras’s portrait of Snowden – titled Citizenfour, the label he used when he first contacted her – Greenwald is seen telling Snowden about a second source. Snowden, at a meeting with […]
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