Tag Archives: James Clapper

Obama Justifies NSA Mass Surveillance

Posted on January 18, 2014 by

One of these Obama speeches working with half-truths, a lot of hot air and frank propaganda had been delivered yesterday right in the Department of Justice in Washington. “The horror of September 11th brought all these issues [America left without a competing superpower, emerging … Continue reading →

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Collecting Metadata is More Intrusive

Posted on December 19, 2013 by

Glenn Greenwald has testified yesterday before the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties and Home Affairs via a video link from Rio, Brazil. The journalists who had mostly reported on whistle-blower Edward Snowden’s leaks on U.S. and U.K. mass surveillance … Continue reading →

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What Kind of Damage?

Posted on December 13, 2013 by

CBS reports that the U.S. intelligence community is split over the possibility of granting NSA total surveillance whistle-blower Edward Snowden amnesty after it has realized that just one per cent of the whole material (another 1.5 million classified documents) has … Continue reading →

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A Government Assessment

Posted on September 11, 2013 by

You may or may not believe Gareth Porter’s claim that, on 30 August, President Obama has made public his own assessment (“with high confidence”) of what has happened in Damascus on 21 August in order to convince the public that … Continue reading →

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Plausible Deniability

Posted on July 7, 2013 by

Der Spiegel reporter Marcel Rosenbach has entertained today in German TV presseclub “plausible deniability”, a common strategy when government officials need to lie and deceit when held accountable for their unconstitutional acts by  lawmakers and the public. One outrageous example … Continue reading →

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