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Reason
by Andrew P. Napolitano

06/27/13

The very people in whose hands we have reposed the Constitution for preservation, protection, defense and enforcement have subverted it...

http://tinyurl.com/opmqlfb



The ''making you safe'' lie

Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi

06/27/13

Given the fact that the Internet and phone intercepts made by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) are in violation of the First and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution, there is only one nevertheless completely irrelevant argument for the government to make in their defense: that they have made Americans safer. But is that true?

http://tinyurl.com/nffvgeu



The national security state exposed

CounterPunch
by Jeff Mackler

07/02/13

And thus, in a matter of days, the Obama administration s effort to posture as defenders of civil liberties went up in flames, and the police-state-type mechanisms that had been meticulously put into place and illegally used for more than seven years, officially, were exposed around the world. What a small layer of political activists had justifiably taken for granted for decades and longer is now the public knowledge of millions and exposed by a handful of leakers who will inevitably face severe government persecution...

http://tinyurl.com/q2puzwb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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26 senators accuse NSA of using 'secret body of law' to justify 'broad surveillance'
http://ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11537/

Snowden s asylum request says he fears death for defending the US Constitution
http://ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11557/

US now has 'parallel Supreme Court' making secret law
http://ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11558/

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NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama

By Glenn Greenwald and Spencer Ackerman

The Obama administration for more than two years permitted the National Security Agency to continue collecting vast amounts of records detailing the email and internet usage of Americans, according to secret documents obtained by the Guardian.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35421.htm



Ecuador Snubs US Trade 'Blackmail' Over Snowden, Offers Human Rights Training

By RT

Ecuador is willing to allocate $23 million annually, an equivalent of the sum that it gained from the benefits, to fund human rights training in the US. It will ''avoid violations of privacy, torture and other actions that are denigrating to humanity,'' Alvarado said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35420.htm



Big Brother, not Snowden and Greenwald, Is the Story

By Sheldon Richman

Snowden and Greenwald have not ''aided the enemy'', unless the American people are the government s enemy. What they have done is embarrass the Obama administration by exposing criminal activity.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35424.htm



How the NSA is still harvesting your online data

A review of top-secret NSA documents suggests that the surveillance agency still collects and sifts through large quantities of Americans' online data, despite the Obama administration s insistence that the program that began under Bush ended in 2011.

http://is.gd/nkIhwN



U.S. Army Blocks Access to The Guardian Over NSA Info

The Army admitted Thursday to not only restricting access to The Guardian news website at the Presidio of Monterey, as reported in Thursday s Herald, but Armywide. Presidio employees said the site had been blocked since The Guardian broke several stories on data collection by the National Security Agency.

http://is.gd/31JuTH



Edward Snowden: A Conscience, Just Waiting For a Cause

By William Blum

So what is a poor National Security State to do? Well, they might consider behaving themselves. Stop the bombings, the invasions, the endless wars, the torture, the sanctions, the overthrows, the support of dictatorships...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35435.htm



Glenn Greenwald Speaks Out

Video

Glenn Greenwald speaks via Skype to the Socialism 2013 conference in Chicago regarding Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA s mass surveillance program.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35439.htm



New NSA Leaks Show How US is Bugging its European Allies

By Ewen MacAskill in Rio de Janeiro and Julian Borger

Edward Snowden papers reveal 38 targets including EU, France and Italy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35461.htm



Attacks from America: NSA Spied on European Union Offices

By Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Fidelius Schmid and Holger Stark

A ''top secret'' 2010 document describes how the secret service attacked the EU's diplomatic representation in Washington.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35454.htm



''Everyone is Corrupt, I have Come to Learn''

By Thomas Hedges

Imprisoned CIA whistle-blower John Kiriakou has advice for Snowden and a warning for the rest of us.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35525.htm



EU subservient to US: Irish MP who called Obama 'war criminal'

Standing up to one s government is becoming the only way for citizens to stop the spread of Western imperialism and its double standards, said Clare Daly, the now famous Irish MP who lambasted President Obama at Northern Ireland s G8 summit.

http://is.gd/odjHGk



Asylum for Snowden won t stop Greenwald from publishing more leaks

''There are many more domestic stories coming, and big ones, and soon,'' Greenwald wrote in an email to Politico on Friday.

http://is.gd/4Ixjyb



Glenn Greenwald: Snowden 'chose not to release' most damaging data

''Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the history of the United States,'' he told the paper in an interview published on Saturday.

http://is.gd/7NWM3G



Inside The Mind of NSA Chief Gen Keith Alexander

By Glenn Greenwald

A lavish Star Trek room he had built as part of his 'Information Dominance Center' is endlessly revealing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36234.htm



NSA director modeled war room after Star Trek s Enterprise

'When he was running the Army s Intelligence and Security Command, Alexander brought many of his future allies down to Fort Belvoir for a tour of his base of operations, a facility known as the Information Dominance Center.'

http://is.gd/KjXPRd



Snowden, Assange, Manning, Vanunu: The True Heroes Of Our Time

By Gideon Levy

Whistle-blowers are still regarded as traitors, but the real traitors are those who were responsible for the acts they exposed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36664.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Snowden, NSA, Blackmail, and the Boys in the Back Room
http://lewrockwell.com/rappoport/rappoport34.1.html

If You Like the Surveillance State, You ll Love E-Verify
http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul867.html

Is NSA Blackmail Inc. for the Military Industrial Complex?
http://lewrockwell.com/rappoport/rappoport35.1.html

Statement From Edward Snowden in Moscow
http://lewrockwell.com/rep4/snowden-statement.html

How to Tell if You Live in a Police State
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/07/david-galland/how-to-tell-if-you-live-in-a-police-state/

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Military Blackout: Army Blocks Access to NSA News Reports
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/28-1

Senators Blast NSA for 'Secret' Interpretation of Laws
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/28-10

'The World Will Be Shocked': Greenwald on Upcoming NSA Exposé
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/02-8

They 'Will Lie, Trick, and Deceive': Jailed CIA Whistleblower s Advice to Snowden
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/03-8

Edward Snowden: A Whistleblower, Not a Spy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/03-8

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NSA Secrets
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-surveillance-state/keith-alexander-nsas-prince-of-darkness.html

Whistleblowers are heroes
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/good-guys-1/whistleblowers-are-heroes.html

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Hints Surface That NSA Building Massive, Pervasive Surveillance Capability

Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers: Evidence is mounting that the National Security Agency is preserving billions of domestic emails and phone calls in powerful digital databases.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/17370-hints-surface-that-nsa-building-massive-pervasive-surveillance-capability



Why We Have a Do-Nothing Congress

The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: The stunning inaction and backlog in the 113th Congress can be traced back to January 20, 2009.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/17449-why-we-have-a-do-nothing-congress



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