Drones Are Used For Domestic Surveillance, FBI Director Admits
posted 06/19/2013, 12:58 PM (Zero Hedge)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Not sure if this one fits with the "fairness doctrine" or the "inconvenience" paradigm (where the government is here to protect you in exchange for ceding all those pesky constitutional amendments), but moments ago yet another "conspiracy theory" become fact when the FBI director Robert Mueller admitted to the domestic use of drones for surveillance purposes.
From RT:
The FBI uses drones for domestic surveillance purposes, the head of the agency told Congress early Wednesday.
Robert Mueller, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, confirmed to lawmakers that the FBI owns several unmanned aerial vehicles, but has not adopted any strict policies or guidelines yet to govern the use of the controversial aircraft.
"Does the FBI use drones for surveillance on US soil?" Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) asked Mr. Mueller during an oversight hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"Yes," Mueller responded bluntly, adding that the FBI's operation of drones is "very seldom." Well as long as it's very seldom... The good thing about the rabbit hole is, it never really ends. |
14-Year-Old Faces Year In Jail Over Pro-Gun T-Shirt
posted 06/17/2013, 5:20 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
14-year-old Jared Marcum faces a year in jail after he was arrested by police in Logan County, West Virginia for refusing to remove a pro-Second Amendment t-shirt.
The incident began at Lincoln Middle School on April 18 when Marcum was asked by a teacher to remove the NRA shirt, which features the words “protect your right” above an image of a hunting rifle, or be suspended, despite the fact that the shirt did not violate the school’s dress code which bars images featuring "profa... (more) |
If You've Got Nothing To Hide, You've Actually Got Plenty To Hide
posted 06/17/2013, 5:20 PM (Techdirt)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
The line "if you've got nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about" is used all too often in defending surveillance overreach. It's been debunked countless times in the past, but with the line being trotted out frequently in response to the NSA revelations, it's time for yet another debunking, and there are two good ones that were recently published. First up, we've got Moxie Marlinspike at Wired, who points out that, you're wrong if you think you've got nothing to hide, because our ... (more) |
Yahoo! Fought Back Against PRISM, Lost In Secret Ruling
posted 06/17/2013, 5:19 PM (Techdirt)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
As more and more details come out about PRISM, it appears that the attention and blame really belongs on the government, rather than the tech companies (for the most part). While it was known that an unnamed company had fought back against FISA Court orders back in 2008, the name of the company was not known. However, now the NY Times is reporting that Yahoo! fought back against being told to provide info on users, until the court ruled against them -- and the ruling (as an unnamed company... (more) |
NSA Admits Listening to U.S. Phone Calls Without Warrants
posted 06/16/2013, 1:23 PM (CNET News)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
 The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed this week that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call could be accessed "simply based on an analyst deciding that."
If the NSA wants "to listen to the phone," an analyst's decision is sufficient, without any ot... (more) |
Janet Napolitano Denies Existence of "Orwellian State"
posted 06/16/2013, 1:23 PM (Politicker)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano weighed in on the NSA intelligence leaks on Friday, telling NY1 that fears over government surveillance were overblown.
“I think people have gotten the idea that there’s an Orwellian state out there that somehow we’re operating in. That’s far from the case,” she told Errol Louis during an appearance on Road to City Hall.... (more) |
KickassTorrents Domain Seized After Music Industry Complaint
posted 06/16/2013, 1:23 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
After a mystery disappearance yesterday it has now been confirmed that KickassTorrents’ domain name has been seized by the Philippine authorities. The action was taken following a complaint from local record labels who argued that the second largest torrent site on the Internet was causing “irreparable damages” to the music industry. KickassTorrents, however, appears undeterred by the intervention and is continuing business as usual under a new domain name.... (more) |
Kim Dotcom: Prism concerns over government tyranny are legitimate
posted 06/13/2013, 12:16 PM (The Guardian)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Nobody would be shocked to hear me admit that I have a problem with authority. During most of my adult life, I have resisted the notion that the government always acts in the best interests of its citizens. Edward Snowden’s recent interview with the Guardian underscores the possibility that those like me – who see the state as a potential threat to basic civil rights and liberties – may have been right all along.... (more) |
Kim Dotcom Releases New Raid Footage Captured By In-House CCTV
posted 06/13/2013, 12:16 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Following the high-profile raid on his New Zealand mansion in 2012, Kim Dotcom released dramatic film of the event taken from police helicopters. Now the Megaupload founder is back with new footage captured by his own in-house CCTV system. Among other events, the new material shows police carrying machine guns fitted with silencers, arrests of staff and the towing of his cars. Dotcom’s sense of humor s... (more) |
France Disconnects First File-Sharer From the Internet
posted 06/13/2013, 12:15 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
France is seen as the pioneer of so-called “three strikes” anti-piracy legislation, in which repeated file-sharing offenders are disconnected from the Internet. This week, following the issuing of millions of warning notices, the law has finally resulted in the first disconnection. The news comes as somewhat of a surprise since the Hadopi regime is set to be scrapped after doing little to stop online piracy.... (more) |
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Invasive TSA Search Brings Cancer Survivor to Tears
posted 06/12/2013, 12:57 PM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
While the US government is running around making excuses for spying on everyone for everything, it should be noted other US government agents are still invading people's privacy by sexually molesting them at our nation's airports. In this story out of San Antonio, a cancer survivor was moved to tears after a TSA agent treated her like a worthless piece of garbage.
Via KENS 5:
SAN ANTONIO -- A woman is speaking out in hopes of restoring her dignity. She sa ... (more) |
DHS-Funded Exercise Portrays "Free America Citizens" as Terrorist Cell
posted 06/12/2013, 12:57 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
 A Homeland Security-funded training exercise in Boston dubbed “Operation Urban Shield” that was delayed due to April’s marathon bombing revolved around a terrorist cell dubbed “Free America Citizens,” another indication of how the DHS is characterizing liberty-loving Americans as domestic extremists.
“Months of painstaking planning had gone into the exercise, dubbed "Operation Urban Shield," meant to train dozens of detectives in the Greater Boston area to work together to thwart ... (more) |
Maher and the Liberals Defend NSA Surveillance Grid
posted 06/12/2013, 12:57 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Bill Maher trusts Obama to use the NSA’s surveillance grid to find terrorists and crazies with nuclear bombs. "We live in a world of nuclear weapons and there are religious fanatics who would love to get one and set it off here," he said on Friday night.
Bill Maher said he’s scared and that’s why he supports turning America into a Stasi surveillance state. He wants the rest of us to be s... (more) |
Ex-NSA Leaker's Advice To Snowden: "Always Check Your Six"
posted 06/12/2013, 12:57 PM (Zero Hedge)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
"Be lawyered up to the max... find a place where it's going to be that much more difficult for the US to make arrangements for his return... and and always check your six," is the warning (advice) that Thomas Drake offers Edward Snowden, adding that, "it's now validation of this vast, now systemic, industrial-scale leviathan surveillance system."
As Reuters reports, Drake is one of the few people who understands from personal experience what the NSA Whistlebl... (more) |
Is it More Treasonous to Violate the Constitution or to Expose Those Violations?
posted 06/12/2013, 12:54 PM (Activist Post)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
In a free society the government is supposed to be open and transparent while the citizens enjoy privacy. What, then, do you call a society where the government is ultra secretive and all citizens are spied on by the state?
Establishment pundits are frantically attempting to make the NSA spy scandal story about whether the whistleblower is a hero or a traitor instead of debating the real issue -- whether broad government spying on U.S. citizens violates their Constitutional rights... (more) |
NSA leaker Snowden says he's not avoiding justice
posted 06/12/2013, 12:54 PM (Associated Press)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
HONG KONG (AP) - The former CIA employee who leaked top-secret information about U.S. surveillance programs said in a new interview in Hong Kong on Wednesday that he is not attempting to hide from justice here but hopes to use the city as a base to reveal wrongdoing.
Edward Snowden dropped out of sight after checking out of a Hong Kong hotel on Monday. The South China Morning Post newspaper said it was able to locate and interview him on Wednesday. It provided brief excerpts from ... (more) |
Off-duty cops collect DNA samples at Alabama roadblocks
posted 06/12/2013, 12:52 PM (The Daily Caller)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
ccording to Lt. Freddie Turrentine with the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department, drivers were asked to voluntarily offer samples of their saliva and blood for a study being conducted by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation.
The drivers were compensated for their samples.
“They’ve got big signs up that says ‘paid volunteer survey’ and if they want to participate they pull over there and they ask them questions and if they are willing to give them a mou... (more) |
Poll: Most Americans Support Being Spied on by NSA
posted 06/11/2013, 12:42 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
 NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has sacrificed his freedom, his future, his family, his home and his model girlfriend in order to warn Americans that they are the targets of a monolithic spy agency which is working feverishly to ensure that privacy is demolished – and most Americans simply don’t care.
Revelations that the National Security Agency was collecting records of millions of US customers of Verizon under a secret court order issued in April, followed by news that the... (more) |
How Can NSA Surveillance Leaks Both Be No Big Deal *And* Put Us All In Danger?
posted 06/11/2013, 12:38 PM (Techdirt)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
As the NSA and the administration continue to seek to spin the fallout from the leaks that revealed some of the overreaching surveillance efforts of the NSA, what's incredible is how self-contradictory the statements are, even when coming from the same source. The go-to defender of the program has been Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who has tried arguing both that the leaks and these programs are no big deal and that they present a grave danger to intelligence operatio... (more) |
He told you so: NSA Whistleblower Bill Binney talks NSA leaks
posted 06/11/2013, 12:38 PM (YouTube)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
In the wake of multiple leaks regarding the data mining programs PRISM and Boundless Informant, whistleblowers are coming out in droves to talk about the unprecedented government surveillance on the American public. RT Correspondent Meghan Lopez had a chance to sit down with NSA whistleblower William Binney to talk about the latest developments coming out of the NSA case. Binney is a 32 year veteran of... (more) |
Leaker's Employer Became Wealthy by Maintaining Government Secrets
posted 06/10/2013, 1:04 PM (New York Times)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
 WASHINGTON -- Edward J. Snowden's employer, Booz Allen Hamilton, has become one of the largest and most profitable corporations in the United States almost exclusively by serving a single client: the government of the United States.
Over the last decade, much of the company's growth has come from selling expertise, technology and manpower to the National Security Agency and other federal intelligence agencies. Booz Allen earned $1.3 billion, 23 percent of the company's total reven... (more) |
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