Archive for June, 2013
FBI Has Started Using Surveillance Drones Inside U.S.
June 19th, 2013Via: Huffington Post: FBI Director Robert Mueller revealed Wednesday that the bureau uses drones to conduct surveillance on U.S. soil. Asked by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) if the FBI was following in the footsteps of the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in pursuing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, […]
Offensive Cyber Effect Operations
June 19th, 2013Via: CNN: Today, the United States is conducting offensive cyberwar actions around the world. More than passively eavesdropping, we’re penetrating and damaging foreign networks for both espionage and to ready them for attack. We’re creating custom-designed Internet weapons, pre-targeted and ready to be “fired” against some piece of another country’s electronic infrastructure on a moment’s […]
NSA Implementing ‘Two-Person’ Rule To Stop The Next Edward Snowden
June 19th, 2013This is great. They can spend all day trying to comply with their increasingly cumbersome security directives. Via: Forbes: The next Edward Snowden may need a partner on the inside. On Tuesday, National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander told a congressional hearing of the Intelligence Committee that the agency is implementing a “two-person” system to […]
U.S. Government Bans Americans From the Skies Without Explanation
June 19th, 2013Via: ACLU: The government does not have the unchecked authority to place individuals on a secret blacklist without providing them any meaningful opportunity to object, the ACLU argued in a brief filed last Friday with the federal district court in Oregon. We made the filing in Latif v. Holder, our lawsuit asserting that the government […]
3 NSA Veterans Speak Out On Snowden: We Told You So
June 19th, 2013Update: New Tice Interview — I wonder if Tice was invited to participate in this… Via: USA Today: In a roundtable discussion, a trio of former National Security Agency whistle-blowers tell USA TODAY that Edward Snowden succeeded where they failed. When a National Security Agency contractor revealed top-secret details this month on the government’s collection […]
Autism Tied to Air Pollution
June 19th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Researchers seeking the roots of autism have linked the disorder to chemicals in air pollution and, in a separate study, found that language difficulties of the disorder may be due to a disconnect in brain wiring. Researchers from Harvard University’s School of Public Health found that pregnant women exposed to high levels of […]
Bank of America Mortgage Swindling, Employees Told to Lie to Customers
June 19th, 2013Via: Salon: Bank of America’s mortgage servicing unit systematically lied to homeowners, fraudulently denied loan modifications, and paid their staff bonuses for deliberately pushing people into foreclosure: Yes, these allegations were suspected by any homeowner who ever had to deal with the bank to try to get a loan modification – but now they come […]
China’s Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities
June 18th, 2013Via: New York Times: China is pushing ahead with a sweeping plan to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns and cities over the next dozen years — a transformative event that could set off a new wave of growth or saddle the country with problems for generations to come. The government, often […]
Pentagon to Begin Training Women for Combat Roles by 2015
June 18th, 2013Anybody’s Son (Or Daughter) Will Due Via: CBS: Women may be able to start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under plans set to be announced by the Pentagon that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in elite special operations forces. Details of […]
GCHQ: Fake Internet Cafes
June 17th, 2013The fact that GCHQ spied on G20 delegates is just more intelligence agency non-news, which, for some reason, is very popular in the media these days. Targeting diplomatic traffic is a routine activity that all states carry out. You can read yourself to sleep with Bamford’s Puzzle Palace, published in 1982, if this comes as […]
