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An Internal NSA Audit Found the NSA “violated privacy rules thousands of times” 16 Aug 2013 | 09:58 pm
The Christian Science Monitor reported that an “NSA audit from May 2012 counted 2,776 incidents in the preceding 12 months of unauthorized collection, storage, access to, or distribution of legally pr...
A Government Insider's Views About the NSA Leaks 14 Aug 2013 | 07:55 am
I found an interesting article by a former aide to Senator Ron Wyden, Jennifer Hoelzer, at Techdirt.com, about the NSA leaks, the Obama administration's lies about his desire to have an open debate ab...
Reuters: “U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans” 6 Aug 2013 | 08:58 pm
In an exclusive on Monday Reuters journalists John Shiffman and Kristina Cooke broke the following story about how the DEA has been using information gathered from the NSA surveillance programs to use...
My Thoughts About a Drone Debate 5 Aug 2013 | 09:36 am
On February 27, 2013 a debate took place titled America's Drone Campaign is Both Moral and Effective. Arguing the affirmative case were David Aaronovitch and Douglas Murray. Arguing against the premis...
Glenn Greenwald: “XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'” 31 Jul 2013 | 11:25 pm
Glenn Greenwald's latest piece highlights the NSA's tool called XKeyscore, which allows an analyst to search the billions of search history, emails, chat logs, websites visited, and social media posts...
The Ominous Warnings That Press and First Amendment Freedoms Are Being Threatened 30 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Democracy Now had an excellent discussion the other day about the dire consequences of the accusation that Bradley Manning “aided the enemy” by giving government information to Wikileaks, along with t...
The Tide Appears to be Changing Regarding the NSA Leaks 29 Jul 2013 | 09:11 pm
Last month I let my thoughts be known about the current state of affairs regarding the NSA surveillance program. Most recently, however, there appears to a shift in the views of not only Republicans b...
The Drone War Redux: Why No Cross No Crescent is Wrong, Part 3 24 Jul 2013 | 09:57 pm
I have written some about the drone wars a few months back when I responded to a series of posts by a fellow SIN blogger who believes the drone wars are both necessary and effective. I later followed ...
Mitch Daniels: "This terrible anti-American academic has finally passed away." 24 Jul 2013 | 07:17 am
A breaking Associated Press report about former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is attracting a lot of attention since emails have been released showing how he tried to ban certain books he did not lik...
My Thoughts About a Few Current Events 23 Jul 2013 | 05:23 am
Over the last several weeks I've watched the news unfold about the acquittal of George Zimmerman and the many protests that have sprung up across the country in response to the verdict. I've watched P...
