OMNI CIVIL LIBERTIES/SURVEILLANCE, NSA NEWSLETTER #10,
February 7,2014, for a CULTURE OF PEACE
AND JUSTICE. Compiled by Dick Bennett. (#1 Jan. 28, 2008; #2 Jan. 22, 2011; #3
Oct. 25, 2011; #4 Jan. 31, 2012; #5 June 9, 2013; #6 July 22, 2013; #7 Sept.
11, 2013; #8 Oct. 18, 2013; #9 Jan. 5, 2014).
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From the White House: Write or Call
President
Obama is committed to creating the most open and accessible administration in
American history. That begins with taking comments and questions from you, the
public, through our website.
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Nos. 6 and 7 at end
Contents
#8
Oct. 18, 2013
Oct. 18, 2013
DC
Stop Watching Us Rally October 26
Greenwald,
End of Privacy
NSA
Chief Admits Full Collection of GPS Cell Phone Data
NSA
Reporting in the Arkansas
Calabrese
and Harwood: US National Surveillance
State
Noam
Chomsky
Risen
and Poitras in NYT, NSA Spies on
Social Relations
Obama Tries to Block
Supreme Court Review of NSA Spying
US
Copies Stasi
Lazare,
Oversight of NSA a Sham
Boadle:Brazil
Webb, US/UK Surveillance Partners
Peter Maass: Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald
The Nation: Should Focus on Systems Not Individuals
Boadle:
Webb, US/UK Surveillance Partners
Peter Maass: Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald
The Nation: Should Focus on Systems Not Individuals
Contents
#9 Jan. 5, 2014
Abdo: ACLU Sues, Larger Sweep of Snowden Documents
Revealed
Cole,
NSA on Trial
Glanz
and Lehren,
NSA
Stopped No Terror
Snowden’s
Christmas Message
Three
Reports: Giant Tech Industries Ask
Government to Limit Surveillance
Sesenbrenner, NSA Budget vs. US Economy
To
Kerry: Reinstate Snowden’s Passport
Lisa
Graves, NSA from Nixon to Obama [comprehensive]
Nader
vs. US Corporate State of Surveillance
Reuters,
Germany and Brazil
Present Resolution to UN
Engelhardt
Tomgram, Surveillance
State
Cole,
Limit Uncontrolled Electronic Surveillance of Foreigners
Greenwald,
Surveillance Conformity
Contents #10
Illegal, Unconstitutional NSA
Two
on Tuesday Feb. 11 DAY WE FIGHT BACK
RootsAction,
Watchdog.net
Cohn
(National lawyers Guild): It’s Worse than Orwell Imagined
Sanger,
NSA Implanted Software Around the World
Amy
Goodman, FBI’s COINTELPRO, NSA, and Secrets Revealed
Jaffer
and Toomey, Crimes on All Levels, Snowden’s Evidence Reveals
Hedges,
Intelligence Services
OBAMA, NSA Speech, Other NSA Revelations
Senator
Rand Paul Sues Obama Admin.: NSA Unconstitutional
Greenwald,
Obama’s NSA “Reforms” Inadequate
Pew
Research, Public Little Affected by Speech
Lizza,
Obama Offers Cosmetic Changes to NSA’s Telephone Metadata
Carpenter,
What Obama Didn’t Say, What He Will Do
Ackerman,
Clapper Untruthful
NSA DEPREDATIONS
TWO ON TUESDAY FEB. 11 DAY WE FIGHT BACK, RootsAction
and Watchdog.doc
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Dick,
This Tuesday, February 11th, is The Day We Fight Back (against mass surveillance) -- and we need your help to make it as impactful as it can be.
We understand the
Yet for years, the NSA has exploited secret legal
interpretations to undermine our privacy rights -- thus chilling speech and
activism, and thereby threatening to subvert the very
underpinnings of our democracy itself.
They range from the left (sites like DailyKos) to right (the
Koch Brothers' group FreedomWorks), with plenty in between. Together, they
wield a tremendous amount of influence.
On Tuesday, February 11th, we
are mobilizing thousands to call on Congress to:
1.
Pass the USA FREEDOM Act, which would end the bulk collection
of Americans' phone records and institute other key reforms.
2.
Defeat the so-called FISA Improvements Act, which would
entrench -- and potentially expand -- the spying.
3.
Create additional privacy protections for non-Americans.
4.
End the NSA's subversion of encryption and other data security
measures.
We're reminding you about it today because we need your help to make Feb. 11th all
that it can be. We have built a banner that people -- like you -- can
post on websites they run, in order to encourage their visitors to take action
on the 11th. Those banners will look like this:
You might think this seems different from the way we usually
fight for or against legislation, and you'd be right. But this sort of activism has proved particularly successful
at defending the Internet against bad policies.
In particular, it is very similar to what worked during the
fight against another bill that threatened to undermine our civil
liberties: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which would have
instituted a new Internet censorship scheme. You might remember that
thousands of websites mobilized their visitors to help defeat that
legislation two years ago.
As in other major battles for Internet Freedom, we think an online uprising can work again now.
And we're not even that far from winning on at least one key
front:
The
This summer an amendment that's very similar to parts of the
USA FREEDOM Act failed to pass in the House of Representatives by just a handful of votes. Enough lawmakers now say they would
have voted in support that it would pass if
it came up for a vote today.
That's in large part because of the groundswell of grassroots
energy that Internet activists like you brought to bear in support of the
amendment.
Now it's time to move the ball
forward once more.
If we persist, we will win this fight.
-
Watchdog.net
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Marjorie Cohn. “Beyond Orwell's Worst
Nightmare.”
Reader Supported News, Feb. 2, 2014 .
Cohn writes: "Orwell never could have imagined that the National Security Agency (NSA) would amass metadata on billions of our phone calls and 200 million of our text messages every day."
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Reader Supported News, Feb. 2, 2014 .
Cohn writes: "Orwell never could have imagined that the National Security Agency (NSA) would amass metadata on billions of our phone calls and 200 million of our text messages every day."
READ MORE
NSA Devises Radio
Pathway Into Computers
David E. Sanger, Thom Shanker, The New York Times , RSN,15 January 14 Reader Supported News
David E. Sanger, Thom Shanker, The New York Times , RSN,15 January 14 Reader Supported News
Excerpt:
"The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000
computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct
surveillance on those machines."
READ MORE
READ MORE
Amy
Goodman, The FBI, the NSA and a Long-Held Secret Revealed. Amy Goodman, Truthdig,
RSN, Jan. 9, 2014.
Goodman writes: "This week, more news emerged about the theft of classified government documents, leaked to the press, that revealed a massive, top-secret surveillance program."
Goodman writes: "This week, more news emerged about the theft of classified government documents, leaked to the press, that revealed a massive, top-secret surveillance program."
Amy Goodman. (photo: unknown)
The FBI, the NSA and a
Long-Held Secret Revealed
his week, more news emerged about the theft
of classified government documents, leaked to the press, that revealed a
massive, top-secret surveillance program. No, not news of Edward Snowden and
the National Security Agency, but of a group of anti-Vietnam war activists who
perpetrated one of the most audacious thefts of government secrets in
Passionately opposed to the U.S.
war in Vietnam Philadelphia suburb of Media , Pa.
"The citizens' right to dissent is the last line of
defense for freedom," John Raines told me. He was a professor of religion
at Temple University Washington
SNOWDEN’S EVIDENCE REVEALING CRIMES ON ALL LEVELS
Jameel
Jaffer and Patrick Toomey. “Spying and
Lying.” The Nation (Jan. 6/13, 2014).
Snowden’s Evidence Shows Government Lied in Clapper v. Amnesty. The
Supreme Court rejected a challenge by The
Nation and other organizations to a 2008 law that permitted the NSA to
conduct dragnet surveillance of We the people’s international
communications. Snowden’s evidence shows
the government lied. This is a Paean to
Snowden, perhaps the grandest defender of US liberty in our nation’s history.
–Dick
Chris
Hedges | What Obama Really Meant Was...
- Truthout
Truthout [Scathing
denunciation of takeover of US by intelligence agencies. –Dick]
Jan 20, 2014 - Obama said Friday that
he would require intelligence agencies to obtain permission
from a secret court before tapping into a vast trove of ... GO TO
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21335-chris-hedges-what-obama-really-meant-was
OBAMA AND
NSA
Rand Paul
Sues Obama Admin. for NSA’s Unconstitutional Actions
“Sen.
Rand Paul, R-Ky, said he is filing suit against President Barack Obama’s
administration over the data-collection policies of the National Security
Agency, and he believes everyone in the U.S. with a cellphone would be
eligible to join the suit as a class action.”
PHONE: 202-224-4343.Washington, DC
124 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington DC, 20510
Glenn Greenwald | Obama's NSA 'Reforms' Inadequate, Cosmetic Gestures, Glenn Greenwald, Guardian UK , RSN, 18 January 14, Reader Supported News
124 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington DC, 20510
Glenn Greenwald | Obama's NSA 'Reforms' Inadequate, Cosmetic Gestures, Glenn Greenwald, Guardian UK , RSN, 18 January 14, Reader Supported News
Greenwald writes: "Now we have the spectacle of President Obama reciting paeans to the values of individual privacy and the pressing need for NSA safeguards. 'Individual freedom is the wellspring of human progress,' he gushed with an impressively straight face. ... But those pretty rhetorical flourishes were accompanied by a series of plainly cosmetic 'reforms.'"
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PEW
RESEARCH
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Obama’s NSA Speech Had Little
Impact on Public
Just half have heard about Obama’s changes and most who did say they won’t increase privacy. Overall approval of the surveillance program has declined 10 points since July, from 50% to 40%. READ MORE > |
A Major Victory for Snowden and NSA Reformers
Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker, 18 January 14, Reader Supported News.
Lizza reports: "It's reasonable to suspect that the modifications to the N.S.A.'s telephone-metadata program that Obama announced on Friday are simply cosmetic changes meant to short-circuit the pressure for substantive reform."
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Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker, 18 January 14, Reader Supported News.
Lizza reports: "It's reasonable to suspect that the modifications to the N.S.A.'s telephone-metadata program that Obama announced on Friday are simply cosmetic changes meant to short-circuit the pressure for substantive reform."
READ MORE
What Obama Didn't
Say in His Speech on NSA Spying
Zoe Carpenter, The Nation, 18 January 14, Reader Supported News
Zoe Carpenter, The Nation, 18 January 14, Reader Supported News
Carpenter writes: "The really significant parts of Obama's speech were the things he did
not mention. He did not call for a full stop to the bulk collection of
communication records, only a transfer of ownership. Instead, he endorsed the
idea that data about millions of Americans should be stored and made available
to intelligence analysts."
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READ MORE
“Obama Admits Clapper Gave
"Untruthful" Testimony.”
Spencer Ackerman, GuardianUK
Ackerman reports: "President Barack Obama has said his director of national intelligence, James Clapper, ought to have been 'more careful' in Senate testimony about surveillance that Clapper later acknowledged was untruthful following disclosures by Edward Snowden."
READ MORE
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian
Ackerman reports: "President Barack Obama has said his director of national intelligence, James Clapper, ought to have been 'more careful' in Senate testimony about surveillance that Clapper later acknowledged was untruthful following disclosures by Edward Snowden."
READ MORE
Contents #6
July 22, 2013
Ellsberg,
Join ACLU Action
Petition
to President Obama
Jimmy
Carter, US Democracy
SNOWDEN
Greenwald,
Edward Snowden
Majority
Would Prosecute Snowden, Pew
Research Center
William
Blum on Snowden, NSA History, CIA, Whistleblower
Philip Agee (Anti-Empire Report
#118)
Greenwald,
Lack of FISA Oversight
Sign
Petitions on Snowden, NSA, FISA
The Nation, Snowden vs. Surveillance Net
and End of Privacy
Lindorff,
Not China But US is the Great Hacker
Snyder,
“Maincore”: US Martial Law Detainee List
Harris,
The Rise of the America’s Surveillance
State
Surveillance
Cameras
Greenwald,
Future Surveillance
Solomon,
Effective Resistance
New York Times Reports on
Surveillance. For example, Lichtblau (NYT), Data-Gathering Law Widened. ADG (7-6-13) 1A.
Contents #7 Sept. 11, 2013
Resisting
National Security Abuse
Free
Press Action Fund
Free
Press.net
Rothschild,
US
NSS
Durst,
US
NSS: NSA
NSA
vs. Fourth Amendment
VFP,
Feds Caught in Lies
VFP,
FBI Tapping Phones
Jay
Rosen,NSA Controlling Johns Hopkins
Greenwald,
et al., NSA Intelligence to Israel
END SURVEILLANCE/NSA NEWSLETTER #10
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