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NSA NEWSLETTER #11, March 13, 2014
For a CULTURE OF
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Contents Nos. 8-10 at end
Contents of Surveillance/NSA Newsletter #11
Action:
Support the USA
Freedom Act
Hattem,
Congress Asks Obama for Black Budgets of Federal
Spy Agencies
Scahill
and Greenwald, NSA and Assassinations
Paglen,
Photos of US Intelligence Agencies
Hussain,
More Secrecy Abuses
Greenwald,
James Clapper, Obama’s Top Security Officer,
Liar
and Fear-Monger
Jim
Hightower, NSA and Snowden
Greenwald,
Poitras, Scahill: Welcome to The
Intercept,
New Online Magazine
Dan
Froomkin, Toll of Secrecy
Terrah Baker, “The Intercept”
Chris
Hedges, US Leaders Talk Democracy, Practice Repression
Contact
President Obama
Contents
of Nos. 8-10
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And call congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121 or tweet using
the hashtag #StoptheNSA.
Global
Network [globalnet@mindspring.com]Thursday, February 13, 2014 12:21 PM
February
12, 2014, 03:53 pm
Lawmakers
want to see the ‘black budget’
By
Julian Hattem
Dozens
of House lawmakers want the Obama administration to release the secret “black
budget” used to fund intelligence agencies.
A bipartisan group of 62
members of Congress wrote President Obama a letter on Wednesday asking him to
release the fiscal 2015 spending levels for 16 federal spy agencies when he
delivers the rest of his budget to Congress on March 4.
“The current practice of
providing no specificity whatsoever regarding the overall budget requests for
each intelligence agency falls woefully short of basic accountability
requirements,” the legislators wrote.
“As you develop your fiscal year 2015 budget, we strongly urge you to take a simple step toward much needed transparency by including the total amount requested for each of the sixteen intelligence agencies. We believe the top line number for each agency should be made public, with no risk to national security, for comparative purposes across all federal government agencies.”
Wednesday’s request was led by Reps. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), who last month introduced the Intelligence Budget Transparency Act. The bill would require the administration to release basic details about the spy agencies’ budgets.
The federal government has
disclosed the overall amount of money spent to fund the intelligence community
since 2007, but has kept classified more specific details about the individual
budgets of agencies like the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency (NSA).
Documents released by
former NSA contractor Edward Snowden last year showed that the CIA has grown to eat up about 28
percent of the $52.6 billion spent in 2013. The $14.7 billion it received was
about 50 percent more than the NSA’s funding.
The White House did not
immediately respond to an inquiry from The Hill about the lawmakers' request.
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The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program
10 Feb 2014
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The National
Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, as the
primary method to locate targets for lethal
drone strikes – an unreliable tactic that results in the deaths of innocent
or unidentified people. Read more
New Photos of the NSA and Other Top Intelligence Agencies
Revealed for First Time
10 Feb 2014
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What does a surveillance state look like?
Over the past
eight months, classified documents provided by Edward Snowden have exposed scores of secret government surveillance
programs. Yet there is little visual material among the blizzard of code
names, PowerPoint slides, court rulings and spreadsheets that have emerged from
the National Security Agency’s files. Read more
Obama DOJ’s New Abuse of State-Secrets Privilege Revealed
14 Feb 2014
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For nine years,
the U.S. U.S.
Clapper Reads From the Bush/Cheney/Nixon Playbook to
Fear-Monger Over Transparency
12 Feb 2014
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James Clapper,
President Obama’s top national security official, is probably best known for
having been caught lying outright to
Congress about NSA activities, behavior which (as some baseball players found
out) happens to be a felony under federal law. Read more
NSA
AND SNOWDEN
jim Hightower, “Citizen
Snowden: Why He Matters.” The Hightower Lowdown (Feb./Mar 2014). http://www.jimhightower.com/node/8242
CITIZEN SNOWDEN:
WHY HE MATTERS
Who knew that1984 was a how-to manual? Of course, George
Orwell did not intend for his novel about life in a dystopian, totalitarian
society to be a blueprint for a secret surveillance state. Yet, unbeknownst to
us supposedly sovereign US citizens, a cabal of militarists, corporate
contractors, a handful of in-the-know politicos, and some Rambo-esque
intelligence operatives appear to have been ripping pages right out of 1984 to
guide their clandestine creation of just such a despotic mechanism deep within
our own government.
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Intercept
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The Terrible
Toll of Secrecy
11 Feb 2014
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The Intercept’s inaugural exposé, by my colleagues Glenn Greenwald and
Jeremy Scahill, illuminates the deeply flawed
interaction between omnipresent electronic surveillance and targeted drone
killings –- two of the three new, highly disruptive instruments of national
power that President Obama has pursued with unanticipated enthusiasm. Read more
THE
INTERCEPT
Terrah
Baker. “The Intercept Keeps Up With
Leaked NSA Documents.” The Free Weekly (2-20-14). “The short-term mission is to provide a
platform to report on the documents previously provided by NSA whistleblower
Edward Snowden. . . .Their long-term mission is to produce fearless,
adversarial journalism across a wide range of issues.”
 Chris Hedges, Truthdig Op-Ed, NationofChange, Feb. 18, 2014: The government officials who, along with their courtiers in
the press, castigate Snowden insist that congressional and judicial
oversight, the right to privacy, the rule of law, right of the press and the
right to express dissent remain inviolate. They use the old words and the old
phrases, old laws and old constitutional allows our corporate totalitarianism
a democratic veneer. They insist that the system works. They tell us we are
still protected by the Fourth Amendment. |
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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
Four
on Tuesday Feb. 11 DAY WE FIGHT BACK
RootsAction,
Watchdog.net, Shalom Center, Free Press Action Fund
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,
Control of US by 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
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