List Of Americans Who Have Been Individually Spied On Will Soon Be Released "biggest disclosure yet" [View all]
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Greenwald Will Be Publishing The Names Of Americans Whom NSA Is Spying On
Note that this does not include blanket collection and storage of all phone and cleartext communications data for an indefinite period of time, which is ongoing. --LG
The man who helped bring about the most significant leak in American intelligence history is to reveal names of US citizens targeted by their own government in what he promises will be the “biggest” revelation from nearly 2m classified files.
Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who received the trove of documents from Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, told The Sunday Times that Snowden’s legacy would be “shaped in large part” by this “finishing piece” still to come.
His plan to publish names will further unnerve an American intelligence establishment already reeling from 11 months of revelations about US government surveillance activities.
Read more .... source: The Times (UK) (full article)
Greenwald's Finale: Naming Victims of Surveillance -- Real Clear Politics/Sunday Times
Sorry for the right-wing newspaper links in here but I can't find any articles by WPo or NYT about this news, oddly enough. I did find this blog post where the Wash Post condemns Greenwald as a "radical media-government adversarialist" for criticizing the editors of the Washington Post for being "very much old-style, old-media, pro-government journalists, the kind who have essentially made journalism in the U.S. neutered and impotent and obsolete"; a criticism that could also be leveled at the new editor of The Atlantic, David Frum. This despite Greenwald's praise for Barton Gellman et al. who won a Pulitzer Prize for their work which very nearly didn't get published, as its editors sat on it.
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'Biggest yet': Greenwald to publish names of Americans whom NSA is spying on -- RT
Greenwald: I'm Going to Publish Names of NSA Victims -- The Sunday Times / RCP
Snowden journalist set to make ‘biggest’ disclosure yet -- New York Post
Greenwald to publish list of U.S. citizens NSA spied on -- Washington Times
Glenn Greenwald Details The 'Fireworks Show' NSA Leak That He's Saving For Last -- Business Insider
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[div style="display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap"]By the way, you can really tell from reading the full Times article that this piece was meant as a piece on Greenwald and his new book, and the importance of this new scoop took over the article. It includes odd little bits, such as the following, at the end of the article:
Greenwald, who has 12 dogs, ranging in size from a Bernese mountain dog to a miniature pinscher, at his home in Brazil, also promised further revelations about GCHQ, the NSA’s British sister agency.
“The British are more unrestrained and vicious in their surveillance mindset than even the US.” he said. “When you go to the park in New York, you see these built-up muscular guys and they have these tiny Shih Tzu dogs.
“It will seem like a mismatch but the Shih Tzu is super-vicious and yapping. That’s how I see the relationship between the GCHQ and the NSA.”
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Snowden's Wrong, Our Gov't Wants To Expand...
...surveillance of the U.S. public by more comprehensively outsourcing it. These statements in my previous sentence are basic facts.
The entire concept that the government wants to "rein in" bulk collection by the NSA, is technically true. But, it's extremely deceptive. Our government is actively working to gut HR 3361/S 1699. This is another inconvenient fact.
HR 3361/S 1699 (HR 3361 has been passed by the House and is now in the Senate as S 1699) will provide our government with more comprehensive powers and tools to surveil our own country.
And, it will--far more likely than not--be passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee in a form similar to what the House passed, and then it will, more than likely, be passed by the full Senate and signed into law by a President who's been--from the get-go--all over this process to insure it IS gutted.
Per Marcy Wheeler, on Monday...
...Right now, we’re looking at a bill that outsources an expanded phone dragnet to the telecoms (with some advantages and some drawbacks), but along the way resets other programs to what they were before the FISC reined them in from 2009 to 2011. That’s the starting point. With a vote count that leaves us susceptible to further corruption of the bill along the way.
Edward Snowden risked his freedom to try to rein in the dragnet, and instead, as of right now it looks like Congress will expand it.
By the way, on top of everything else, it should be noted that the USA Freedom Act (HR 3361) extends (most notably the Section 215 provisions in) the Patriot Act sunset clause by two years, through 2017.
I realize Ed Snowden would like to think that the government "ending" the NSA's bulk collection of domestic surveillance is something that his efforts have accomplished. But, our government is making sure just the opposite will occur.
And, yes, Marcy's right about the reality that the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote the status quo line on this. What else may one say when Democrats like Schumer, Feinstein, Klobuchar and Whitehouse are ready to do whatever it takes to "protect our country"...just as long as they may spin a bullsh*t line like, "We've reined in bulk collection of the NSA," to provide a Kafkaesque version of "Mission Accomplished" to spin all of us in the unwashed masses into thinking that something's actually changing here!
You see, technically, something IS changing! Our government is EXPANDING domestic surveillance by outsourcing it.
by bobswern on Wed May 28, 2014 at 10:49 PM PDT (Daily Kos)
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Helpful resources: (from another blog)
• Prism Break: Stop reporting your online activities to the security
[font color="white"]• [/font]industrial complex with these free alternatives to common software.
• Tails: A live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer
[font color="white"]• [/font]from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving consumer privacy.
• UnlistMy.Info: Find out which top Online sites store data about you.
• PGP over e-mail
• OTR over text (Jabber, Facebook chat, etc. use XMPP which is compatible with OTR)
• FireChat and CryptoCat (new services for web-based community discussion, still being worked on)
• DuckDuckGo instead of Google
• RedPhone or Jitsi instead of Skype
• Google+ Isn't A Social Network - It's The Matrix -- The Guardian
• Project Chess: Report says Skype worked on secret project to provide chats -- Slate says it is proven Microsoft, owner of Skype lied to the public about an effort to ensure all Skype calls could be -- and are legally, per terms of service -- monitored through company-installed backdoors, this also seems to be true of Apple iOS, unfortunately. The NSA and Apple assured each other in one of the Snowden briefs that any iPhone can be easily cracked. (What of Android, you ask? Not unless it's jailbroken: Google has made Hangouts, part of Google+, an automatic requirement on users of new phones.)
Red Pills:
• NSA Spying on Americans
A presentation to the CCC Conference on its 30th anniversary by Jacob "@ioerror" Applebaum.
The number of Youtube comments seems to have leveled off at 1,337 for some reason... just saying.
Full Collection of Snowden Videos on NBC (available one week only, apparently)
There's an NBC sponsored Twitter poll where you can select #Patriot or #Traitor.
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