FORMER NSA JUDGE: The Spying Court Should Not Be Approving Dragnet Surveillance
On Tuesday a former federal judge who served on the secret court that oversees National Security Agency spying said that the 11-judge panel is flawed because blanket approval of entire surveillance...
View ArticleRussia Turns The Tables On US Chemical Weapons Claims In Syria
Chemical weapons were "clearly" used in Syria— but most likely by Syrian rebels, not the Syrian army, according to Moscow's ambassador to the United Nations.A team of Russian experts made the...
View ArticleNEW EDWARD SNOWDEN PICTURE
Edward Snowden is meeting with human rights activists at the Moscow airport.The Guardian has an excellent liveblog, and has a photo that was sent to them from Human Rights Watch's Tanya Lokshna.Join...
View ArticleEdward Snowden Makes An Appearance At Moscow's Airport, And Says He's...
National Security Agency leak source Edward Snowden, who leaked a trove of agency secrets and sparked a debate over government surveillance, is meeting with human rights officials in Moscow's...
View ArticleA Girl The Taliban Tried And Failed To Kill Just Gave An Extraordinary Speech...
Less than a year ago, a Taliban gunman boarded a school bus in Pakistan, approached 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai, aimed a pistol at her head, and pulled the trigger.The Taliban made a big mistake....
View ArticleSnowden Just Put Russia In A Major Bind
Due to his passport problems, prolific NSA leaker Edward Snowden is officially asking Russia for “temporary” asylum in order for him to leave a Moscow airport's transit zone “safely” to make his way to...
View ArticleWireless Companies Ranked By How Much They Charge The NSA For Tapping Your...
Verizon has a nice little business going in wiretaps. It charges the federal government $775 to tap a customer's phone and then $500 a month after that to maintain it, making it the most expensive of...
View ArticleItalian Astronaut Takes The Most Epic Selfie Of All Time
Luca Parmitano is a 36-year old Italian astronaut and Italian Air Force test pilot.He’s curently orbiting the Earth in the International Space Station.During his journey in the space, Parmitano, a...
View ArticleHere's The Full Statement Edward Snowden Gave To Human Rights Groups In...
The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, which has been advising National Security Agency leak source Edward Snowden, has released more details of Snowden's meeting with human rights groups in Moscow's...
View ArticleWhy Hasn't Anyone Fired James Clapper Already?
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the director of national intelligence, James Clapper has told Congress that the regime of Moammar Gadhafi would likely prevail in Libya, that Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood party was...
View ArticleHow Edward Snowden Sends His Ultra-Sensitive Emails
Want to email like a spy on the run? Use Lavabit.Edward Snowden is apparently using the service, which jumped into existence in 2004 as a result of privacy concerns about Gmail."At the time, Lavabit’s...
View ArticleUS Ambassador To Russia Says That One Of WikiLeaks' Edward Snowden Claims Is...
Michael McFaul, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, told Business Insider that he did not reach out to the Human Rights Watch organization about National Security Agency leak source Edward Snowden on...
View ArticleNew Video Emerges Of Edward Snowden's Meeting With Human Rights Activists
A brief video of Edward Snowden's meeting Friday with human rights activists in the Russian transit terminal has emerged.The video, provided by Russian website Life News, shows Snowden giving a...
View ArticleIt's Incredible How Much Money America Gives To Egypt
This article has been updated to reflect new developments. It was first published on Jan. 31, 2011.The recent military coup in Egypt has prompted a renewed debate about American aid to the country....
View ArticleUS Calls On Egyptian Army To Free Ex-President Mohamed Morsi
The United States on Friday urged the Egyptian military and interim leaders to free deposed president Mohamed Morsi for the first time since he was detained over a week ago.State Department spokeswoman...
View ArticleJapan Accidentally Leaks Emails And Sensitive Internal Communications
As we learned today from Edward Snowden's preferred encryption email service, Lavabit, security is no good "unless you actually use it."Cue the Japanese government, which set up a Google shared group...
View ArticleThere's Growing Evidence Of A Vast Conspiracy To Undermine Former Egypt...
In many ways Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is responsible for his own demise, but in a lot of others, everyone from young rebels to police to the military to even the people running the oil supply...
View ArticleRussia Says It Has Not Received An Asylum Request From Snowden
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia kept former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden at arm's length on Saturday, saying it had not been in touch with the fugitive American and had not yet received a formal...
View ArticleMilitary Special Ops: We First-Aid Train On Live Animals For Good Reason
The public has always been fascinated by the training that US Special Operations Forces receive. What goes in to making an elite warrior? What skill sets are cultivated and polished in these young...
View ArticleGLENN GREENWALD: Snowden Documents Could Become The United States' Worst...
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Fugitive former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden controls dangerous information that could become the United States' "worst nightmare" if revealed, a journalist familiar with...
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