By Glenn Greenwald
For the first time since 9/11, Americans are now more worried about civil liberties abuses than terrorism.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35687.htm
How Giant Tech Firms Help the Government Spy on Us and Gut Privacy
By Tom Burghardt
Call the ''wrong'' person or click a dodgy link and you might just be the lucky winner of a one-way trip to indefinite military detention under NDAA, or worse.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35691.htm
NSA Collects 'Nearly Everything a User Does on the Internet'
By Glenn Greenwald
Analysts can also use XKeyscore and other NSA systems to obtain ongoing ''real-time'' interception of an individual's internet activity.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35708.htm
XKeyscore presentation from 2008
Training materials for the XKeyscore program detail how analysts can use it and other systems to mine enormous agency databases and develop intelligence from the web.
http://is.gd/QOsjuW
Intel chips could let US spies inside: expert
One of Silicon Valley s most respected technology experts, Steve Blank, says he would be ''surprised'' if the US National Security Agency was not embedding ''back doors'' inside chips produced by Intel and AMD, two of the world s largest semiconductor firms, giving them the possibility to access and control machines.
http://is.gd/1SAvOD
Documents show NSA violated court orders on collection of phone records
National Security Agency officials violated secret federal court orders authorizing the daily collection of domestic email and telephone data from hundreds of millions of Americans, according to previously top-secret documents made public Wednesday by the Obama administration.
http://is.gd/zd4Qlk
US: Phone Surveillance Program Was No Secret From Congress
Intelligence officials today released top secret internal briefings they had provided to members of Congress that outline the dragnet phone call metadata surveillance program lawmakers secretly knew about but could not tell Americans when publicly voting for it.
http://is.gd/YQflX8
US is Using Satellites to Spy on Citizens and News Organizations
Video
NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35745.htm
Manipulating Public Perceptions
The US Terror Scare
By Patrick Martin
Not a single voice is raised to question the claims or essential premises of the scare campaign.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35753.htm
Lawmakers travel the world on lobbyists' dime
U.S. lawmakers are once again taking advantage of their summer recess to race around the globe on privately financed tours to places like China, the Middle East and Scotland, trips watchdog groups cite as evidence that congressional ethics reforms are unraveling.
http://is.gd/qWvts6
From Information Clearing House
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The real criminals under our national security state system
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger
07/31/13
Let s recap the situation regarding criminal conduct within the U.S. national-security state, just to see how the national-security state has succeeded in corrupting the morals and values of our nation...
http://tinyurl.com/pjhtujt
Congress declares war on America
Liberty For All
by George Phillies
07/30/13
By a vote of 205-217, Congress has rejected the Amash-Conyers 'Defund the NSA' amendment, which would have shut down one of the many programs under which the Federal government wages electronic war on the American people. It was a vote by the Establishment, the Democratic and Republican Party leaderships and their fellow travelers. It was a vote against the American people. We are not trusted, so we must be monitored. Watched. Spied upon. Investigated. The American people should recognize the vote for what it was. It was a declaration of war...
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=9170
The danger of American apathy on NSA surveillance
Christian Science Monitor
by Ruth Goitein
07/31/13
New documents released today reveal the alarming scope of NSA data collection. But half of Americans see the spying as 'no big deal.' They are allowing government to chip away at freedoms that others, especially in the Arab world, are giving their lives to build...
http://tinyurl.com/l5s45kl
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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President Offers To Give Republicans The Store, They Demand More
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America s Future: Why did the President offer Republicans a corporate tax reform plan that gives them everything they want, even before negotiations begin?
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17924-president-offers-to-give-republicans-the-store-they-demand-more
The Last Chance to Stop the NDAA
Chris Hedges, TruthDig: Chris Hedges continues his fight against a key section of the National Defense Authorization Act(NDAA) that permits the military to seize US citizens, strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely in military facilities.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18539-the-last-chance-to-stop-the-ndaa
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The American Surveillance State Is Here. Can It Be Evaded?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/john-w-whitehead/the-american-surveillance-state%E2%80%A8/
Why Won t They Tell Us the Truth About NSA Spying?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/ron-paul/the-government-is-a-cabal-of-liars/
German and US Spy Agencies Share Vast Metadata Trove
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/05-1
Greenwald: Is U.S. Exaggerating Threat to Embassies to Silence NSA Critics?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/08/05-0
ACLU: NSA Casts Massive Dragnet Over Americans? International Communications
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/08/08
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Obama s Terrorism Hoax is Simply a Tool to Justify his Continued Tyranny
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/paul-huebl/the-terrorism-hoax/
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