http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/20-7
Obama Pushes for Warrantless Access to Phone Data...Again
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/20-3
'Journalism Is Not Terrorism'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/08/20-1
David Miranda, Schedule 7 and the Danger All Reporters Now Face
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/20
Six Questions Journalists Should Ask Barack Obama When He Visits (Enter Your Country Name Here)
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/20-4
NSA-Corporate Collusion Built Network to Reach 75% of Internet Traffic
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/21
Guardian s Editor in Chief Vows to Continue Publishing NSA Documents
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/08/21-0
'Sending a Message': What the US and UK Are Attempting To Do
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/21-4
So The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear? After David Miranda We Now Know Where This Leads
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/21-0
Declassified Document Reveals NSA Lies, Flimsy Oversight
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/22-3
'Outing Corporate Evil' One City at a Time
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/22-7
Cynicism is Corporate America s Greatest Weapon: Disarm It
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/22-4
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Journalism Under Threat: The Day Government Agents Came and Smashed Our Hard Drives
By Alan Rusbridger
Guardian Editor
As the events in a Heathrow transit lounge, and the Guardian offices, have shown, the threat to journalism is real and growing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35913.htm
Government Threats to Journalist s 'Signaling Rise of Fascism'
Video
RT talks to WikiLeaks spokesperson, Kristinn Hrafnsson.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35915.htm
UK Media Crackdown: Greenwald s Partner Detained, Guardian Forced to Destroy Snowden Files
Video
Democracy Now! report
DAVID MIRANDA: [translated] I stayed in a room with three different agents that were entering and exiting. They spoke to me, asking me questions about my whole life. They took my computer, my video game, cellphone, everything.
http://is.gd/DuMEEE
White House was given 'heads-up' over David Miranda detention in UK
As the UK's anti-terror legislation watchdog called for a radical overhaul of the laws that allowed police to confiscate Miranda s electronic equipment, the US distanced itself from the action by saying that British authorities took the decision to detain him.
http://is.gd/E9AB16
Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches
If the police arrest you, do they need a warrant to rifle through your cellphone? Courts have been split on the question. Last week the Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve the issue and rule that the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless cellphone searches.
http://is.gd/30z0x4
Close Cameron aides asked paper to destroy Snowden data
News that Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood and National Security Adviser Kim Darroch were involved drags Cameron into a storm over Britain s response to coverage of leaks from the fugitive U.S. intelligence contractor, a response that left even its U.S. ally talking of the importance of media freedom.
http://is.gd/rji05u
Russia slams UK s 'double standards' over Guardian pressure
The incident at the Guardian office is just another example of 'the double standards practice applied by London in the sphere of human rights,' Lukashevich added.
http://rt.com/news/russia-slams-uk-guardian-792/
Thirteen Things the Government Is Trying to Keep Secret from You
By Bill Quigley
Whether people are lying or do not know what they are doing, either way, this is a significant crisis.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35950.htm
The Real, Terrifying Reason Why British Authorities Detained David Miranda
By Bruce Schneier
Both the U.S. and U.K. intelligence apparatuses have enormous money and power, and they have already demonstrated that they are willing to ignore their own laws.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35959.htm
NSA s Surveillance Programs
The 'Most Serious Attacks On Free Speech We Have Ever Seen'
By Josh Levy
The chilling of free speech isn t just a consequence of surveillance. It s also a motive.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35960.htm
U.S. Spy Agency Bugged U.N. Headquarters
By Reuters
Citing secret U.S. documents obtained by fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, Der Spiegel said the files showed how the United States systematically spied on other states and institutions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35965.htm
Guardian Editor: 'British More Complacent' about Surveillance
In an interview, Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger talks about his confrontation with the government and why the scandal isn t making waves in Britain.
http://is.gd/X2XolW
Google Received NSA Money, but That s Not All
By Natasha Hakimi
Google was right in saying it doesn t have a backdoor for government; its front door is wide open.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35976.htm
Snowden reveals US intelligence s black budget
Edward Snowden has leaked a new top-secret document that for the first time ever publically discloses how the United States spends tens of billions of dollars annually on clandestine spy programs.
http://is.gd/BzefJw
U.S. intelligence community s classified 'black budget' for fiscal year 2013
Read the leaked report as published by the Washington Post.
http://is.gd/YgpmFt
Welcome To Police State USA: Police Beat Man and Knock his Teeth Out
Video
Long beach police beat man and knock his teeth out he is not resisting and still gets tasered.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36119.htm
David Cameron Threatens The Guardian
By Ned Simons
David Cameron has indicated the government may try and use "tougher measures" against The Guardian to prevent it from publishing further revelations about the activities of British intelligence agencies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36672.htm
Louisiana Police tasered father as son died in house fire
"It s just heartless. How could they be so heartless? And while they all just stood around and waited for the fire department, what kind of police officer wouldn t try and save a three year old burning in a house?"
http://www.connecttristates.com/news/story.aspx?id=966109#.UnVYheK5iZG
What is a kill switch?
The US Government s Secret Plan to Shut Off Cellphones and the Internet, Explained.
http://billmoyers.com/2013/11/27/the-governments-secret-plan-to-shut-off-cellphones-and-the-internet-explained/
From Information Clearing House
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Miranda s Rights: How Europe Can Learn From Latin America s Independence
Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian: Brazil s action over the detention of Glenn Greenwald s partner shows South American nations no longer toe Washington s line, Mark Weisbrot writes.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18312-mirandas-rights-how-europe-can-learn-from-latin-americas-independence
The NSA: 'The Abyss From Which There Is No Return'
John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute: 'I often hear many Americans ask, 'if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you care?' writes Whitehead. 'Once the government starts operating outside the law, answerable to no one but itself, there s no way to rein it back in, short of revolution.'
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18384-the-nsa-the-abyss-from-which-there-is-no-return
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Obama s sinister crackdown on the press
CounterPunch
by David Lindorff
08/20/13
We have entered a very dark period in terms of freedom of the press, not to mention the basic freedom of travel, association and privacy, when people like Miranda are detained in this manner. No one has suggested that Miranda, Poitras or Greenwald has broken any law. They are doing what good journalists in a free society are supposed to do. But the US security state, which has its tentacles now spread through most of the world, with client state secret services, such as the police in Britain, doing its bidding...
http://tinyurl.com/jvr9fx3
In the chambers of the secret courts
CounterPunch
by Jeffrey St. Clair
09/22/13
Now we have our very own Sun King, a man almost universally praised for his high-learning and enlightened moral conscience. And, like the Bourbon monarch, Barack Obama too has his own dark court, an extrajudicial panel that operates in secret, authorizes domestic spying, wiretaps, detentions, renditions and even summary executions by drone strike...
http://tinyurl.com/p6z2c5k
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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The NSA and Its 'Compliance Problems'
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/ben-oneill/spying-usa/
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