At the moment when the Obama administration is feeling more heat then ever before, it starts another war. Suddenly everyone in the mainstream media is talking all about Syria and not about the IRS scandal, Benghazi, NSA snooping or any of the other political scandals that have popped up in recent weeks.
http://is.gd/NClZmq
NSA Admits Listening to U.S. Phone Calls Without Warrants
NSA Spying Flap Extends To Contents of U.S. Phone Calls
By Declan McCullagh
National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35306.htm
Nine Reasons You Should Care About NSA s PRISM Surveillance
By Sean Rintel
The issue with the NSA PRISM program, is not that we have ''nothing to hide'', it s that we have everything to lose.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35314.htm
David Brooks, Tom Friedman, Bill Keller Wish Edward Snowden Had Just Followed Orders
By Norman Solomon
What a contrast between big-name journalists craven enough to toss the Fourth Amendment overboard and whistleblowers courageous enough to risk their lives for civil liberties.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35310.htm
The Deeper Meaning of Mass Spying in America
By James Petras
The vast majority of Americans are becoming aware that fear instilled at home serves the interest of waging imperial wars abroad.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35313.htm
Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers Guardian readers questions
The whistleblower behind the biggest intelligence leak in NSA history is answering your questions about the NSA surveillance revelations, follow it live now.
http://is.gd/tUs4yY
Leaker Vows Details on NSA Access to Tech Servers
By Doug Stanglin
''Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American,'' Snowden responded, ''and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him, (Sen. Dianne) Feinstein, and (Rep. Peter) King, the better off we all are.''
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35325.htm
Edward Snowden: The Globalisation of Whistleblowing
By Annie Machon
The US is increasingly claiming global legal hegemony over the entire internet, as well as the right to kidnap, torture and murder foreigners at will.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35338.htm
The Whistleblowers Are The New Generation of American Patriots
By Gary Younge
Their defiance stems from the fact that, in acting as they have, they don t believe they have let down America. They believe they had to act because America was letting itself down.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35324.htm
A Look Inside A Secret and Empty Process
By Glenn Greenwald
Obama and other NSA defenders insist there are robust limitations on surveillance but the documents show otherwise.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35347.htm
The Art of Crushing the Messenger to Crush the Message
By William Rivers Pitt
Edward Snowden is experiencing one of the more broad-spectrum efforts at character assassination in recent memory after his deliberate exposure of the far-reaching nature of NSA domestic surveillance.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35340.htm
Totalitarianism Goes Folksy
By Norman Pollack
Spying, like targeted assassination, has become the American way.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35342.htm
From Information Clearing House
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NSA Secrets, Keith Alexander s Influence and Massive Growth of Surveillance, Cyberwar
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/06/14-0
Snowden: ?The Truth is Coming and Cannot be Stopped?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/17-1
NSA Scandal Goes Global: British Government Spied on G20 Delegates
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/17-0
UK Grapples With Spying Disclosures
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/17-8
As Obama Makes ''False'' Surveillance Claims, Snowden Risks Life to Spark NSA Debate
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/06/18-0
Lawsuit Filed Against NYPD Spying on Muslims
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/06/18-8
Obama s 'Insider Threat' Program a 'Sweeping' Crackdown on Leakers
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/21-3
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One Big Issue: Surveillance and Expansionism Are Linked
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff410.html
Why This Gigantic 'Intelligence' Apparatus?
http://lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs188.html
Virtually No One Trusts the Mainstream Media
http://lewrockwell.com/gucciardi/gucciardi18.1.html
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Permanent Washington?s backlash to Edward Snowden
In These Times
by David Sirota
06/14/13
Whether in celebrity culture or in our Facebook-mediated interactions, we live in the age of the human being as a public brand. So there s nothing surprising about the reaction to this week s disclosures about the National Security Agency s unprecedented surveillance program. In our cult-of-personality society, that reaction has been predictably, and unfortunately, focused less on the agency s possible crimes against the entire country than on Edward Snowden, the government contractor who disclosed the wrongdoing. Almost universally, the government officials, pundits and reporters who comprise Permanent Washington have derided Snowden...
http://tinyurl.com/m6gdbbh
The Stalinization of Amerika
Independent Institute
by Mary Theroux
06/17/13
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, rather than hold accountable and roll the heads of the bunglers at the U.S. intelligence agencies who failed to follow up on multiple reports of possible terrorist activity.... Intelligence agencies were instead granted the expanded budgets and power that are always sought in the aftermath of a crisis. They were forced to abandon the nifty name and logo they had come up with (pictured at right, above) when it?s too-graphic, Big Brother-isc depiction elicited protest, but the spirit was fully retained, and a new era of unprecedented, total and widespread spying on innocent Americans began...
http://blog.independent.org/2013/06/17/the-stalinization-of-amerika/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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The great NSA lie
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/22708.html
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From Greenwald to Assange: Prosecuting Our Watchdogs of Democracy
J. Andres Araiza, Occupy.com: While many whistleblowers are on trial, some are calling for the prosecution of the journalists who published leaked documents. It seems that under the Obama administration, there is a fine line between being a watchdog of democracy and being a traitor.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/17076-from-greenwald-to-assange-prosecuting-our-watchdogs-of-democracy
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