Posting History for First and Fourth
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| NSA Responds To ProPublica FOIA Request: We Don't Have The Technology To Search Our Own Emails ProPublica, without question, one of the most reliable sources for solid news anywhere on the planet, IMHO, is a little late to the table on this round of the NSA-surveillance-state stories. But, I’ |
bobswern | 07/23/2013 | 128 | 175 | 4 | - |
| NSA Revelations on Australia and Brazil; anti-Clinton warhorse on FISA court New revelations on the role Australia plays in NSA intercepts emerged in RT. New revelations on espionage against Brazil are in O Globo.
Also, separately, Ezra Klein of the Washington Post, ... |
CharlesII | 07/09/2013 | 77 | 143 | 4 | - |
| NSA: "We're Really Screwed Now:" Main Stream Media Turns Around Granted, the NSA official who told the press, " We're really screwed now, " was referring to Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein's new-found (and disingenuous considering her ... |
Jesselyn Radack | 10/30/2013 | 423 | 287 | 8 | - |
| NSA: u r pwnd It seems that our great protector the NSA is in the texting business in a very big way.
NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep
The National Security Agency has ... |
Richard Lyon | 01/16/2014 | 89 | 109 | 1 | - |
| NYT Lead: House Dems “Increasingly Unified” As “Momentum Builds Against N.S.A. Surveillance” Jonathan Weisman's lead story in Monday's New York Times reports that as many as 61 of the [http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/must-read/house-democrats-who-voted-against-amashconyers-amendment-rein-... |
bobswern | 07/29/2013 | 295 | 226 | 5 | - |
| NYT: “In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A.” FISC almost "...parallel Supreme Court" Mr. Orwell, your day has arrived.
From the front page of Sunday’s NY Times , a story that—despite recent and overwhelming evidence supporting these greater truths—far too many Americans ... |
bobswern | 07/06/2013 | 290 | 314 | 11 | - |
| Obama Admin Petitions Supreme Court To Allow Warrantless Cell Phone Searches The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable ... |
Heavy Mettle | 08/20/2013 | 302 | 149 | 3 | - |
| Obama appoints James Clapper to oversee "independent" NSA review (updated)
When President Obama announced his plan for a panel of "outside experts" to conduct an "independent" review of the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance activities, I didn't expect much. |
Deep Harm | 08/13/2013 | 851 | 389 | 5 | - |
| Obama meets with key lawmakers on NSA revelations, vows reforms
The debate between privacy and national security that President Obama has said he welcomes has begun, with ... |
Joan McCarter | 08/02/2013 | 144 | 47 | 1 | 16 |
| Obama Orders Federal Workers to Profile & Report Suspicious Colleagues. Here's Why it Won't Work... Originally published in Tikkun Daily |
President Obama's Insider Threat Program , instituted in 2011 as a response to Bradley Manning, essentially orders all federal employees to behaviorally ... |
David Harris Gershon | 07/10/2013 | 203 | 163 | 9 | - |
| Obama pondering fate of NSA's bulk data collection | Joan McCarter | 01/09/2014 | 26 | 37 | - | 6 |
| Obama: ‘We don’t have a domestic spying program’ Raw Story
The President was on the Jay Leno show last night and was provided an opportunity to assure Americans that they are not being 'spied upon'. What we do have are some mechanisms where we ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 08/07/2013 | 354 | 117 | 1 | - |
| Obama’s Escalating War on Freedom of the Press The part of the First Amendment that prohibits “abridging the freedom … of the press” is now up against the wall, as the Obama administration continues to assault the kind of journalism that ... |
NormanSolomon | 07/22/2013 | 372 | 162 | 3 | - |
| One Nation Under Borg The source is a quick read so I encourage everyone to take a look . Just a teaser here:
DARPA insists that Atlas is not being designed for adversarial military tasks, but for humanitarian reasons—... |
Words In Action | 07/24/2013 | 180 | 61 | 3 | - |
| Patriot acts National Security Operations Center
In the days before the House of Representatives voted on whether or ... |
Laurence Lewis | 08/04/2013 | 289 | 125 | 8 | 11 |
| PBS Newshour Gets Played By NSA Lawyers The other night, to it's credit, the PBS Newshour had NSA whistleblowers William Binney and Russell Tice on for an interview segment, titled, "NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic ... |
joe shikspack | 08/05/2013 | 101 | 121 | 2 | - |
| Police Are Beating Teachers At ALEC Protest Today is the big ALEC protest in Downtown Chicago at the Palmer House. Unions are there, ALEC Exposed is there, and teachers are there. They have shut down Monroe Street in front of the hotel.
And ... |
zenbassoon | 08/08/2013 | 185 | 191 | 5 | - |
| Police Utilizing Private Companies, Exploits To Access Data From Suspects' Smartphones "I'm thinking there's probably a wealth of information that just got tucked into your pocket," Norton says. "Something that we'd like to get our hands on." from the brute-force-attacks-that-don't-... |
xxdr zombiexx | 03/26/2014 | 13 | 17 | - | - |
| Police violate Fourth Amendment in order to get their hands on nifty gadgets How nifty?
The device is called a Stingray.
So super duper nifty.
What does a Stingray do?, you might ask.
Apparently it is a device that can be taken to a location it then pings all the cell ... |
Horace Boothroyd III | 03/06/2014 | 305 | 279 | 2 | - |
| PRISM: What It's Really All About Last night we had lots of company - as we usually do this time of year on the ol' homestead - and of course the late night conversation out on the back deck veered into NSA/Spy-State and what in the ... |
Joieau | 07/07/2013 | 196 | 200 | 5 | - |
| Progressive Magazine Editor Arrested for Taking Pictures of Singers in Wis Capitol Wrong on so many levels .
Sorry about the 2nd diary today, but I didn't see anyone else posting this.
The longtime editor of The Progressive magazine was swept up in arrests Thursday during the ... |
Puddytat | 08/15/2013 | 151 | 317 | 3 | - |
| Protest arrests at New England coal plant I went to the Brayton Point coal plant protest down near Fall River in Massachusetts on Sunday and I diaried about my experience here:
New England coal plant protest
Rugbymom also diaried here:
... |
cordgrass | 07/30/2013 | 11 | 18 | - | - |
| Quinnipiac: "Massive Shift" as Public Now Says War on Terror Has Gone Too Far How many times have you heard it? Americans are more than happy to submit to constant surveillance in the name of fighting terrorism. They're apathetic about civil liberties issues, which are a ... |
ukit | 07/10/2013 | 459 | 319 | 5 | - |
| Qwest CEO Who Resisted NSA Spying Finally Released From Prison After Four Years of Incarceration
Just one major telecommunications company refused to participate in a legally dubious NSA surveillance program in 2001. A few years later, its CEO was indicted by federal prosecutors. He was ... |
markthshark | 10/01/2013 | 95 | 238 | 2 | - |
| Religious Exemptions: The First and the Fourteenth This is the first of what I think will be three diaries that directly resulted from my experience at NN 14. Religious exemptions was identified as one of the five major post-marriage issues for the ... |
Dave in Northridge | 08/04/2014 | 41 | 25 | - | - |
| Republicans Bum Rush the democratic process and lay siege to your future. This originated as a comment in LaFeminista's We're not amused post from yesterday. I was surprised by the reaction and elected to post it as a diary, fleshed out and spell-corrected.
In this ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 07/27/2013 | 17 | 28 | - | - |
| SCOTUS Buffer Zone Ruling May Be Good News . . . for Occupy In a unanimous decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court struck down a Massachusetts law that prevented anyone from standing within a 35-foot buffer zone outside of abortion clinics. The law was ... |
Geenius at Wrok | 06/28/2014 | 188 | 278 | 4 | - |
| Secret court broadens NSA's powers, in secret
The New York Times' Eric Lichtblau has another must-read story on how the surveillance ... |
Joan McCarter | 07/08/2013 | 95 | 195 | 2 | 4 |
| Snowden's Personal Revelations Everyone from Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker to New York Times editor Jill Abramson to Apple's Steve Wozniak agrees that National Security Agency (NSA) ... |
Jesselyn Radack | 10/18/2013 | 369 | 339 | 9 | - |
| Songs in the Key of Brutality: Young Black Man Tackled, Immobilized and Jailed for Singing. (update) (Update at bottom of diary... new video compilation footage in!)
The Solidarity Sing Along continues to grow in Madison. Walker's palace guards are obviously getting frustrated, as the press is ... |
noise of rain | 08/26/2013 | 201 | 287 | 8 | 2 |
| Songs In the Key of Persistence: The Zip Ties Aren't Tight Enough To Silence the Singing. The singing begins promptly at noon, and it is loud, exuberant and tuneful. There are easily 200 or more people here, down on the rotunda floor, and also lining the first floor balcony. The Raging ... |
noise of rain | 08/22/2013 | 82 | 174 | 4 | - |
| Songs in the Key of Resistance: "Nitro, Nitro: This Man Needs Nitro!" (Update) UPDATE on Reverend Dary's condition: He is resting comfortably at UW Hospital - he has had heart issues in the past and things are looking O.K. for now. He will have a stress test tomorrow - He is ... |
noise of rain | 07/26/2013 | 92 | 138 | 4 | - |
| Songs In the Key of Resistance: Dueling Sing Alongs, Guns, Trombones, and American Resilience. I sit on the hard marble floor of the elegant Wisconsin State Capitol building, listening to America The Beautiful, God Bless America and other "patriotic" songs being sung by about 50 rightwing ... |
noise of rain | 07/30/2013 | 74 | 134 | 6 | - |
| Songs in the Key of Resistance: The Police Came in Waves Today. The police come in swarms today, in predator waves, jackals culling antelope, scanning the room not for the easy efficient takedowns, but for the ones they most begrudge. They lope into the large ... |
noise of rain | 07/25/2013 | 239 | 514 | 19 | - |
| Take 2. Taking The Freeway. Taking It Down as Oakland Rises Up For Trayvon Martin. At about 7:30 PM this evening, after one of the most idiotic manuevers by the Oakland Police I have yet seen, Trayvon Martin verdict protesters went up the down ramp onto an already backed up I880, ... |
jpmassar | 07/16/2013 | 23 | 40 | - | - |
| Takeover of NC Speaker Thom Tillis' office Moments ago, a group of students and other North Carolinians moved into the office of N.C. Speaker of the House Thom Tillis and initiated a sit-in a la Wisconsin and Florida.
Those of us not at the ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/24/2013 | 17 | 72 | 1 | - |
| TEN THOUSAND turn out to protest GOP in Asheville, NC
You've heard of the Moral Monday protests in Raleigh, NC over the tyrannical control over the state legislature? Well since they the legislative session is over, the NAACP took it on the road to ... |
esby | 08/06/2013 | 244 | 456 | 5 | - |
| The American Police State: Get Ready For The Next Stage Let's cut through the confusion, the subterfuge, the smokescreen, lies, and misinformation: The total information awareness surveillance police state's main function is to control and subjugate the ... |
Ray Pensador | 08/21/2013 | 331 | 302 | 9 | - |
| The answer to the NSA and the FISA court: James Otis, "On the Writs of Assistance," February 1761 MAY it please your Honors : I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance. I have accordingly considered it, and ... |
Superskepticalman | 07/09/2013 | 9 | 26 | 4 | - |
| The NSA - Hiding a Shadow Government Behind a Haystack, "To Keep Us Safe" The enormous service that a certain whistleblower has provided to Americans and the world at large, is becoming clear even in the face of shrill cries of "traitor" and histrionic accusations of "... |
joe shikspack | 07/25/2013 | 397 | 254 | 38 | - |
| The NSA's Rank Incompetence ALMOST Overshadows its Authoritarian Agenda Egregious constitutional violations aside, highlighting the sheer level of incompetence and malfeasance at the NSA will ensure that congressional reform will indeed happen.
The U.S. government's ... |
markthshark | 08/28/2013 | 77 | 119 | 2 | - |
| The White House Has Killed Irony The House will vote tomorrow on an important amendment that would limit the NSA's ability to engage in secret, bulk surveillance . It will be the first such piece of legislation to be voted upon ... |
David Harris Gershon | 07/23/2013 | 501 | 375 | 6 | - |
| The White House is Trolling Democracy with its Statement on the Amash-Conyers Amendment Reps. Justin Amash, John Conyers, Jr., Thomas Massie, Mick Mulvaney, and Jared Polis are proposing an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill that would curtail funding for the implementation ... |
Liberty Equality Fraternity and Trees | 07/23/2013 | 141 | 199 | 4 | - |
| There's Good News and Bad News about the NSA and your Personal Passwords The Good News: apparently the NSA doesn't yet have the know-how (or more likely the horsepower), to quickly crack our personal passwords.
The Bad News: apparently the NSA wants this no-road-... |
jamess | 07/27/2013 | 189 | 174 | 2 | - |
| This Thanksgiving Americans Prepare For a New War - A War on the Homeless. Have no doubt about it. It's war, and a new front has opened in Los Angeles, as the New York Times reported yesterday :
Facing an uproar from homeowners, two members of the Los Angeles City ... |
jpmassar | 11/28/2013 | 23 | 81 | 1 | - |
| Those Damned Hippies. They're Saving the Post Office. Yup. Hippies. Straight out of the 60's, looking oddly like grandparents these days. Hardcore labor unionists. Harscrabble activists. Street kids. Cal students. Throw in a few of Berkeley's famous ... |
jpmassar | 08/11/2013 | 82 | 304 | 4 | - |
| Time To Unite Against NSA Abuses: A Proposal We are entering a very dangerous period in history. Our national security is now firmly in the hands of for-profit private corporations and their lackeys in government. They have built a veritable ... |
Ray Pensador | 08/11/2013 | 34 | 70 | 3 | - |
| To the "It's Just Metadata Crowd" - The NSA Collects Content Thanks to whistleblower Edward Snowden, The Washington Post reports that the National Security Agency's mass surveillance operations include the content of telephone calls as well as the metadata.
... |
Jesselyn Radack | 03/19/2014 | 565 | 332 | 7 | - |
| U.S. spying on Americans: Unpopular, and unlikely to end The ongoing revelations about the government's spying programs have changed public opinion on the issue, but the institutions responsible for reining them in have no incentive to act.
Cross posted ... |
danps | 07/13/2013 | 9 | 9 | - | - |
| Under 300 Unique Phone Metadata Searches in 2012
That is a screengrab from a letter sent from the United States Department of Justice to the Judge hearing the NSA case. It illustrates the title to this diary with the following sentence: "In ... |
Tortmaster | 07/23/2013 | 43 | 9 | - | - |
| UNINTIMIDATED in Wisconsin, as Walker's Palace Guard overreaches Recently, there's been considerable Wisconsin media coverage of the fact that non-participant observers at the Wisconsin Capitol Solidarity Sing Along were warned that they were subject to arrest ... |
affinis | 08/23/2013 | 170 | 365 | 4 | - |
| UPDATED: North Carolina Gen. Assembly takes back 100 years of voters' rights Democratic members of the N.C. House of Representatives joined hands and bowed their heads in an emotional show of unity as votes on HB 589 were counted in a late-night session on July 25.
It is ... |
MsSpentyouth | 07/26/2013 | 189 | 280 | 7 | - |
| UPDATED: U.S. Pressures Latin America to Deny Snowden Asylum as He Meets With Human Rights Groups In its desperate attempt to persecute National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden , the U.S. government has taken on the role of oafish bully and is pressuring Latin American ... |
Jesselyn Radack | 07/12/2013 | 920 | 324 | 3 | - |
| US Senate IP Caught Defacing Edward Snowden's Wikipedia Entry Republished from Voices on the Square by permission because I wrote it.
Usually the only wiki we associate with Edward Snowden is WikiLeaks. However, in a hilarious turn of events, an IP address ... |
aigeanta | 08/04/2013 | 433 | 361 | 6 | - |
| Walker forced to back off from arresting observers of Solidarity Sing Along I'm reposting this from Corrente
In Wisconsin, the Department of Administration has now released a statement that observers of the Solidarity Sing Along will no longer be arrested or threatened ... |
affinis | 08/09/2013 | 89 | 337 | 4 | - |
| Want to know what can go wrong when the government collects data on you?
Here's an instructive look at what can happen when the government compiles massive amounts of personal data from millions ... |
Joan McCarter | 07/08/2013 | 241 | 134 | - | - |
| WaPo: Obama had NSA limits reversed The Washington Post has a new story up: Obama administration had restrictions on the NSA reversed in 2011 . |
Willa Rogers | 09/08/2013 | 419 | 351 | 5 | - |
| Warrior Cops--The New Men in Black If you hear someone banging on your door at about three in the morning, yelling, POLICE, SEARCH WARRANT. It’s unlikely you will be able to get up, put on something decent and get to the door ... |
ATexican | 07/20/2013 | 18 | 19 | - | - |
| Washington Times sues Homeland Security The original incident was diaried here - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/25/1250685/-Gun-Search-warrant-used-for-confiscating-journalist-s-files
Using a warrant to search for guns, Homeland ... |
ffour | 11/22/2013 | 2 | 9 | - | - |
| While the N$A is all up in your Internet, the TSA is having your car searched at the airport 2 .. 3... quick posts, side-by-side, showing the rabid onslaught against the 4th Amendment and the protections is is supposed to provide:
The Internet As We Know It Is On Its Deathbed The Snowden ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 07/31/2013 | 277 | 310 | 5 | - |
| White House sues Sprint for overcharging on compliance with federal phone taps heh. The Obama administration filed a suit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Monday, alleging that Sprint overcharged the government $21 million for expenses it incurred while complying ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 03/03/2014 | 23 | 24 | 1 | - |
| White house warning russia to not give Snowden a propaganda platform Hi,
I don't write too often here, but I should really do it more often.
Living outside the US I can often see things that don't get much attention in the states and maybe a different reflection of ... |
tyfon | 07/14/2013 | 26 | 19 | - | - |
| Whoa: New York Times Now Has Snowden Docs Carried By Secret Courier into the US And now the plot really thickens, as the New York Times enters the fray. |
bink | 08/23/2013 | 247 | 298 | 2 | - |
| Why Are Americans So Passive? This is a brief overview of a lengthy article currently posted at AlterNet. I was shocked and pleased to see it because I ask myself the same thing daily and am always thrilled to find out I'm not ... |
xxdr zombiexx | 07/13/2013 | 263 | 196 | 3 | - |
| Why Oil Companies can Declare a No Fly Zone Part II So the last diary was very very long.
I could have cut it up into pieces, but I figured it was just better to put that out and explain it as best as I was able, the disturbing material I am reading. |
GreenMother | 07/11/2013 | 35 | 35 | 2 | - |
| Why Oil Companies can make No Fly Zones Let me start this diary by saying, this is the kind shit that keeps me up at night. Contemplating the outcomes of the subject explored in this diary scares me. It causes me to lose hope for the ... |
GreenMother | 07/08/2013 | 94 | 113 | 16 | - |
| Wisconsin Capitol Arrests Continue for a 2nd Day
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s administration ordered its Capitol Police force to arrest singing citizens for a second consecutive day. Singers participating in the daily, noon-hour ... |
Giles Goat Boy | 07/25/2013 | 67 | 174 | 4 | - |
| Young Woman Has EPIC Rant in TX Abortion Hearings. Gets Hauled Off By State Troopers. You've got to listen to the courage of this young woman in confronting the Senate Committee in Texas "hearing" testimony against the anti-abortion bills they are trying to ram through another ... |
annrose | 07/09/2013 | 285 | 559 | 11 | - |
| “FBI will soon have equivalent of 20 pcs of intel on every American–and they share this broadly" From Marcy Wheeler’s [http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/09/17/aclu-to-jim-comey-welcome-now-fix-this/ emptywheel] blog, late this morning…
Today, in honor of Constitution Day, the ACLU just ... |
bobswern | 09/21/2013 | 138 | 157 | 6 | - |
| “Todd Gitlin, Are ‘Intelligence’ and Instigation Running Riot?” Do you want to maintain your constitutional rights to engage in unhindered social protest against Keystone XL, the destruction of our climate, our overwhelming surveillance state, the veritable ... |
bobswern | 07/09/2013 | 14 | 29 | - | - |