Everything is coming up roses at the NSA
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 09/06/2021 - 4:38pmThree weeks ago a federal court confirmed that as long as everyone's rights were being violated, then it doesn't matter if individual rights are violated.
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The GOP/Billionaire domestic spying partnership
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 05/23/2020 - 4:35pmThe right-wing is having a fit over Obamagate (as well they should), but almost no one care about a GOP/Billionaire domestic spying public/private partnership that targets their political enemies.
Let's start with Blackwater founder Erik Prince.
Palantir: Where the GWOT meets spying on progressives
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 04/20/2018 - 5:44pmForget Cambridge Analytica. Palantir is the real scandal.
The Hypocrisy and Phoniness of the #McResistance on full display
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 01/12/2018 - 1:18pmThe House passed a renewal of Section 702 of the 2008 FISA Amendments Act yesterday, the same section that Snowden blew the whistle on in 2013, but they made it even worse.
NSA leaking like a sieve; so Congress moves to give them more power to spy
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 12/01/2017 - 11:46amIt's been a tough year for the agency tasked with monitoring internal dissent.
First was the Shadow Brokers leak.
Evening Blues Preview 8-17-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 08/17/2015 - 3:14pmThis evening's music features early urban bluesman from St. Louis, Clifford Gibson.
An update on the Patriot Act debate
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 05/23/2015 - 2:49pmThe debate in the Senate about extending the Patriot Act has gotten so bizarre that I suspect it is all kabuki.
Mitch McConnell's inability to muster a fillibuster-proof 60 votes for a straight extension of the controversial act has gotten most of the headlines, but there is a lot more happening underneath that we need to be aware of.
