Leak of Russian ‘Threat’ Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say

While redirecting blame away from Turner and his cohorts, the claim is both false and deceptive, relying on assertions that, while farcical perhaps to legal experts, would be impossible for the public at large (and most of the press) to parse alone. The text that Fox News’ intelligence sources are referring to—which can be read … Read more

Asian Americans Raise Alarm Over ‘Chilling Effects’ of Section 702 Surveillance Program

Dozens of prominent Asian American groups are asking United States lawmakers this morning to hold fast in the face of an anticipated campaign by congressional leaders to extend the Section 702 surveillance program by securing it, like a rider, to another “must pass” bill. Sixty-three groups across the country representing and allied with Asian American … Read more

US Privacy Groups Urge Senate Not to Ram Through NSA Spying Powers

Some of the United States’ largest civil liberties groups are urging Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer not to pursue a short-term extension of the Section 702 surveillance program slated to sunset on December 31. The more than 20 groups—Demand Progress, the Brennan Center for Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice among … Read more

A Powerful Tool US Spies Misused to Stalk Women Faces Its Potential Demise

A federal law authorizing a vast amount of the United States military’s foreign intelligence collection is set to expire in two months, pulling the plug on history’s most prolific eavesdropping operation and the primary means by which US spies intercept the private communications of people deemed threatening, or simply interesting, by the US government—the world’s … Read more

High US Spies Meet With Privateness Consultants Over Surveillance ‘Crown Jewel’

Senior United States intelligence officers met privately in Virginia yesterday with over a dozen civil liberties teams to subject issues about home surveillance operations which have drawn intense scrutiny this summer time amongst an unlikely coalition of Democratic and Republican lawmakers within the US Congress. The closed-door session, convened on the Liberty Crossing Intelligence Campus—a … Read more

The US Is Brazenly Stockpiling Grime on All Its Residents

The US authorities has been secretly amassing a “great amount” of “delicate and intimate info” by itself residents, a gaggle of senior advisors knowledgeable Avril Haines, the director of nationwide intelligence, greater than a yr in the past.  The scale and scope of the federal government efforts to build up knowledge revealing the minute particulars … Read more