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Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.
Renegade:
Washington's Blog comes out swinging hard (as usual):
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/nsa-blackmailing-world.html
Exclusive: High-Level NSA Whistleblower Says Blackmail Is a Huge – Unreported – Part of Mass Surveillance
The Untold Story In the NSA Spying Scandal: Blackmail
It is well-documented that governments use information to blackmail and control people.
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More at the link.
If government can't be bought & paid for, it can be blackmailed...
Renegade:
Another fellow blowing the whistle:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/a-new-surveillance-whistleblower-emerges/374722/
New Surveillance Whistleblower: The NSA Violates the Constitution
A former Obama administration official calls attention to unaccountable mass surveillance conducted under a 1981 executive order.
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More at the link.
Shows how far back some of the "rules" go - 1981 in this case.
Renegade:
This is kind of old news, but I suppose it's "official" now:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/government-agents-directly-involved-us-terror-plots-report
Government agents 'directly involved' in most high-profile US terror plots
• Human Rights Watch documents 'sting' operations
• Report raises questions about post-9/11 civil rights
Nearly all of the highest-profile domestic terrorism plots in the United States since 9/11 featured the "direct involvement" of government agents or informants, a new report says.
Some of the controversial "sting" operations "were proposed or led by informants", bordering on entrapment by law enforcement. Yet the courtroom obstacles to proving entrapment are significant, one of the reasons the stings persist.
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More at the link.
Renegade:
Lengthy article on TOR & Snowden, etc.
http://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/
Almost everyone involved in developing Tor was (or is) funded by the US government
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It goes into history and quite a bit of depth on the topic.
tl;dr - Tor isn't the ultimate answer and the NSA & GCHQ aren't opposed to it.
Renegade:
Got your popcorn?
Cue in 3... 2... 1...
The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist
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https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/07/23/blacklisted/
How can you get on a list? Oh, they have many ways! Oh, so many, many ways...
While the guidelines nominally prohibit nominations based on unreliable information, they explicitly regard “uncorroborated” Facebook or Twitter posts as sufficient grounds for putting an individual on one of the watchlists. “Single source information,” the guidelines state, “including but not limited to ‘walk-in,’ ‘write-in,’ or postings on social media sites, however, should not automatically be discounted … the NOMINATING AGENCY should evaluate the credibility of the source, as well as the nature and specificity of the information, and nominate even if that source is uncorroborated.”
There are a number of loopholes for putting people onto the watchlists even if reasonable suspicion cannot be met.
One is clearly defined: The immediate family of suspected terrorists—their spouses, children, parents, or siblings—may be watchlisted without any suspicion that they themselves are engaged in terrorist activity. But another loophole is quite broad—”associates” who have a defined relationship with a suspected terrorist, but whose involvement in terrorist activity is not known. A third loophole is broader still—individuals with “a possible nexus” to terrorism, but for whom there is not enough “derogatory information” to meet the reasonable suspicion standard.
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(I wish Greenwald would release the documents in text, and not PDFs of images. Text is MUCH easier to read/search.)
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