snowden given asylum same day he leaks NSA monitors all citizens internet activity

[cheguevara]

:lmao like a mofo boss

here is National Intelligence boss few months ago lying to Congress by the way. When is he getting indicted for this?

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there's your real criminals ppl

[cheguevara]

let's hear some input from Dear Dr. Paul

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"we live in a bad time when American Citizens have no rights and can be killed"

"we have a CIA agent in prison for saying we are torturing people in Guantanamo"

"I don't think for a minute that he is a traitor"

[cheguevara]

all the big Corps are in on it BTW. ALL

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[cheguevara]

meanwhile CNN with their groundbreaking news

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:lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao CNN

[boutons_deux]

GCQH colonials whoring for NSA empire

Exclusive: NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ

• Secret payments revealed in leaks by Edward Snowden
• GCHQ expected to 'pull its weight' for Americans
• Weaker regulation of British spies 'a selling point' for NSA

The US government has paid at least £100m to the UK spy agency GCHQ (http://www.theguardian.com/uk/gchq) over the last three years to secure access to and influence over Britain's intelligence gathering programmes.

The top secret payments are set out in documents which make clear that the Americans expect a return on the investment, and that GCHQ has to work hard to meet their demands. "GCHQ must pull its weight and be seen to pull its weight," a GCHQ strategy briefing said.

The funding underlines the closeness of the relationship between GCHQ and its US equivalent, the National Security Agency. But it will raise fears about the hold Washington has over the UK's biggest and most important intelligence agency, and whether Britain's dependency on the NSA (http://www.theguardian.com/world/nsa) has become too great.

In one revealing document from 2010, GCHQ acknowledged that the US had "raised a number of issues with regards to meeting NSA's minimum expectations". It said GCHQ "still remains short of the full NSA ask".

Ministers have denied that GCHQ does the NSA's "dirty work", but in the documents GCHQ describes Britain's surveillance laws and regulatory regime as a "selling point" for the Americans.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/01/nsa-paid-gchq-spying-edward-snowden?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20main-5%20Eds%20picks%202:Network%20front%20-%20all-purpose%20editable%20trailblock:Position2

[boutons_deux]

XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

• XKeyscore gives 'widest-reaching' collection of online data
• NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches
• Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data

[cheguevara]

A day after Snowden leaks XKeyScore framework and how every citizen's internet activity is collected:

US issues worldwide travel alert
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23554652

:lmao

scare tactics to the rescue of the Empire :lol

[cheguevara]

"unspecified al-Qaeda threat" :lmao

[cheguevara]

hey it could be worse, they could say Zombies will attack us...

oh wait....

DHS trains for Zombie Apocalypse: :lmao :lmao
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[SA210]

:lmao

:crickets:

[boutons_deux]

Barry trying to avoid another Benghazi phony scandal.

ragheads tweet, American Empire trembles.

[cheguevara]

:lmao

:crickets:

:lol

No worries. I still wont let this thread die. Still lots of laughs coming up regarding US military complex getting owned by a geeky nerd :lol

[FuzzyLumpkins]

MOAR YOUTUBE!

[SA210]

:lol

No worries. I still wont let this thread die. Still lots of laughs coming up regarding US military complex getting owned by a geeky nerd :lol

So bad their only response is "YouTubes!" :lmao

[DMX7]

It's a metaphor for tea bagger republicans.

[velik_m]

Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA

Documents provided by two House members demonstrate how they are blocked from exercising any oversight over domestic surveillance

Members of Congress have been repeatedly thwarted when attempting to learn basic information about the National Security Agency (NSA) and the secret FISA court which authorizes its activities, documents provided by two House members demonstrate.

From the beginning of the NSA controversy, the agency's defenders have insisted that Congress is aware of the disclosed programs and exercises robust supervision over them. "These programs are subject to congressional oversight and congressional reauthorization and congressional debate," President Obama said the day after the first story on NSA bulk collection of phone records was published in this space. "And if there are members of Congress who feel differently, then they should speak up."

But members of Congress, including those in Obama's party, have flatly denied knowing about them.

...


http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/04/congress-nsa-denied-access

[boutons_deux]

A Washington Riddle: What Is ‘Top Secret’?

But the deeper lessons lie in how the government is stumbling in its efforts to protect its secrets in the Internet age. Washington has still not heeded two decades of warnings that the best way to protect America’s biggest secrets is to have far fewer of them and to recognize that much of what is stamped “secret” today is widely available on the Internet.

It was this pooling of information that allowed Private Manning, sitting at a remote outpost in Iraq, to download cables from the American Embassy in Beijing, and let Mr. Snowden, at a small base in Hawaii, to download — without setting off alarms — documents about intelligence collection operations and secret court decisions that had nothing to do with his job.

“This failure originated from two practices that we need to reverse,” Ashton B. Carter, the deputy secretary of defense, said recently.

“There was an enormous amount of information concentrated in one place,” he said. “That’s a mistake.” And second, no individual should be given the kind of access Mr. Snowden had, Mr. Carter said. That has led to a new “two-person rule” for downloading classified data, akin to the two guys who would sit in nuclear silos, each with a separate key needed to launch a missile.


http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/sunday-review/a-washington-riddle-what-is-top-secret.html?from=homepage

So the people who fucked up badly, greatly pooled information, and gave wide access way beyond "need to know" are not punished, "just a mistake", while Manning spends life in prison.

[boutons_deux]

Other Agencies Clamor for Data N.S.A. Compiles

The National Security Agency’s dominant role as the nation’s spy warehouse has spurred frequent tensions and turf fights with other federal intelligence agencies that want to use its surveillance tools for their own investigations, officials say.

Agencies working to curb drug trafficking, cyberattacks, money laundering, counterfeiting and even copyright infringement complain that their attempts to exploit the security agency’s vast resources have often been turned down because their own investigations are not considered a high enough priority, current and former government officials say.

Intelligence officials say they have been careful to limit the use of the security agency’s troves of data and eavesdropping spyware for fear they could be misused in ways that violate Americans’ privacy rights.

The recent disclosures of agency activities by its former contractor Edward J. Snowden have led to widespread criticism that its surveillance operations go too far and have prompted lawmakers in Washington to talk of reining them in. But out of public view, the intelligence community has been agitated in recent years for the opposite reason: frustrated officials outside the security agency say the spy tools are not used widely enough.

“It’s a very common complaint about N.S.A.,” said Timothy H. Edgar, a former senior intelligence official at the White House and at the office of the director of national intelligence. “They collect all this information, but it’s difficult for the other agencies to get access to what they want.”

“The other agencies feel they should be bigger players,” said Mr. Edgar, who heard many of the disputes before leaving government this year to become a visiting fellow at Brown University. “They view the N.S.A. — incorrectly, I think — as this big pot of data that they could go get if they were just able to pry it out of them.”


http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/us/other-agencies-clamor-for-data-nsa-compiles.html?from=homepage

So the SEC hasn't been given access to go after the criminal financial sector?

The IRS no access to after the 1% and corporate felony tax evaders?

[SA210]

It's a metaphor for tea bagger republicans.


Oh cool. It's a good thing I'm not a Republican. :lol

[DMX7]

Oh cool. It's a good thing I'm not a Republican. :lol

Sure, you're not... :lmao

[SA210]

Sure, you're not... :lmao

:lmao That's what I love about the moronic fake liberals of the forum. They talk completely out of their asses to where it's just funny as hell.


:lmao Republican (dead giveaway that I'm not a Repug is that I call y'all fakes out for being fake liberals, crofl)

[velik_m]

http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-u-directs-agents-cover-program-used-investigate-091643729.html


Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.

Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.

The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to "recreate" the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant's Constitutional right to a fair trial. If defendants don't know how an investigation began, they cannot know to ask to review potential sources of exculpatory evidence - information that could reveal entrapment, mistakes or biased witnesses.
...

[SA210]

:lol Greenwald owns this sorry annoying establishment bitch


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Zvo8N3G94&feature=player_embedded