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Aren't we glad the scientists of the '70s were not followed blindly? http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

Seriously, it took longer to paste the link to slashdot than to google them.

NSA 'engaged in industrial espionage' - Snowden
NSA Busted Conducting Industrial Espionage In France, Mexico, Brazil, China and All Around the World
NSA accused of spying on Brazilian oil company Petrobras

Two wrongs doesn't make one right, but China isn't the worst offender here.
Now that we both know that NSA is doing illegal things that makes everyone hate the US, could you please stop defending them?

The facts seem to disagree, see the Global Terrorism Database. While Sunni are the main perpetrators of terrorist attacks globally, Muslims are the primary target. What's interesting about this fact is that we (US/Canada/Europe) count those as terrorist attacks but do not count mass-shootings/bombings/etc unless they are carried out by a Muslim. They are "murders" if carried out by a non-Muslim.

Looking at the US data:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

7% of attacks by anti-abortionists vs 4.6% of attacks by Jewish terrorists vs 2.5% by Muslim terrorists. Who's the real threat?

Good luck with that.

We all (UK, US) fund the Syrian "rebels" aka ISIS with our tax dollars. The same terrorist organization responsible for the beheading - receiving money and training directly and indirectly through us and from our close allies. If mainstream media have "suppressed" this little detail (well, not mentioned very much), then suppressing the video so that not many see that either won't be too hard.

Wait, didn't I hear something similar back in the seventies? Hope this works out better.

Please provide a single scientific proof of anything Al Gore ever accomplished?

OTOH:

Blood And Gore: Making A Killing On Anti-Carbon Investment Hype

Al Gore invests millions to make billions in cap-and-trade software

Al Gore Invests $6M To Make BILLIONS In Cap And Trade

Gore lies to Congress about personal finances

Gore’s Dual Role: Advocate and Investor

The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade

Al Gore pushes Global Warming for personal profit

Cyber-Thieves Make Millions from Emissions Cap-and-Trade Scam

Obama's draft budget projects cap-and-trade revenue

Cap-and-trade: The biggest scam of all

Experts: Carbon Tax needed and NOT Cap-and-Trade Emission Trading Scheme (ETS)

Leading Global Warming Crusader: Cap and Trade May INCREASE CO2 Emissions

Cap-and-Trade's Unlikely Critics: Its Creators

Fraud in Europe's Cap and Trade System a 'Red Flag,' Critics Say

Spending Cap and Trade Auction Revenues Will Undermine California’s Climate Goals

Yet LFTR get's pooh poohed because it's experimental. Amazing.

Read this page: The REAL Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan

General Eisenhower, Admiral Leahy, General MacArthur, General LeMay, and several other high ranking US officers said that the dropping of the US bomb was completely unnecessary. If the US simply allowed the institution of the emperor to stand (which we ended up doing in the end anyway), the Japanese would have agreed to surrender far before Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Perhaps even before Okinawa. There were two main reasons for dropping the bomb: 1.) To gather data on how to maximize the damage that a nuclear weapon could cause on an urban environment. This would be useful in a hypothetical future war with the USSR. 2.) Racism. Many Americans of the time saw the Japanese as subhuman. We use lab rats in experiments. Why not Japanese?

Also, read this: The REAL Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan

Several members of US command, including Eisenhower said that dropping the bombs was not necessary for a surrender, contrary to your well-documented evidence. Historical revisionism is a real thing. Even in the US.

On a recent poll about 1/3 in the USA believe in a young earth (10,000 years or less) and do not believe in natural evolution[1]. About half of the Christian believe that Jesus will come back in the next 40 years[2]. This is pure asinine to any reasonable long term policy and if not tamed could very well doom us all, especially because those believes comes from a first world country, that is military and economically superior. In addition, you have millions of delusional Christians that think WWIII will speed up the second coming of Jesus[3][4].

Moreover, if being religious is deeply ignorant, you should be able to provide strong evidence against the existence of a God. Not just point to a lack of evidence you like, but evidence against it.

First, that proves for me your ignorance of logic. You demand to prove a negative, which is a logical fallacy. Second, absence of evidence is evidence for absence. For example, if I make the claim that I have a cat in my house and you come over and look everywhere for my cat and you don't find anything, that is strong evidence that I lied and that I have no cats. The same is for God or for gods.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article...
[2] http://www.alternet.org/survey...
[3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ame...
[4] http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

All the proof you need unless you think US military CO2 is different from what you exhale out your mouth or tailpipe:

By every measure, the Pentagon is the largest institutional user of petroleum products and energy in general. Yet the Pentagon has a blanket exemption in all international climate agreements.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

No it doesn't prove "fake" it does establish the schemes as bullshit. If we cared, we would end the wars overseas and domestic (as well as efforts to curtail nuclear until it is established as similarly dangerous as any other energy form, it ain't).

I'm just not buying it. The progressives had a better anti-war, anti-spying, anti-WoD GOP president. You fucking shat all over him and called him a racist. He didn't need to be elected, keep him in the mix instead of letting your media masters annoint Romney. FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU.

I think they can gleam that same information from a smart meter.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

Actually, the *are* recording a lot of phone calls. That's just a different program Snowden released info about - and there have been dozens of them.

And "just metadata" allows them to track your location, see who you speak to, and much more:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

NSA_backdoor_trojan:

AMD processors were found to have similar vulnerabilities.

Mascarading as a debug mode, all hardware and thus software security features can be bypassed. Essentially allowing both stealth software operation, bypassing root and administrator authentication restrictions, and more. Intel is known to have similar functionality, but its not publically disclosed yet.. http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...

NSA compiled and uses all these exploits whether it was installed there for them or not.

Windows also has NSAKEY installed and all vulnerabilities and the source code of Windows is turned over to the NSA before the things can be patched, allowing NSA to locate and exploit vulnerabilities for hacking us and everyone else. http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

RSA also put in exploits so SSL / Etc would be vulnerable to their attack, as the leaks indicated. http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...

Stuxnet virus was created by NSA. http://rt.com/news/snowden-nsa...

NSA and GCHQ are recording us masturbating. http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

FBI records us even when our devices are powered off. http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

NSA is ceiling cat watching us masturbate with space capability and electron imaging/radar systems. They are recording all calls and saving the content, not just metadata. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb... and http://youtu.be/d6m1XbWOfVk

NSA has Thought Amplifier and Mind Interface (patented by Robert Malech in 1974, deployed in all radar in 1976), aka Remote Neural Monitoring first disclosed in Nexus Magazine in 1996 by John St Claire Akwei. Backed up today by Dr. Robert Duncan who helped invented these weapons, being used to attack and control us. http://www.oregonstatehospital... http://www.oregonstatehospital...

TAO hacking unit, NSA: http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Obama is raping and murdering and torturing thousands of his own citizens, committing acts of Genocide worse than any dictator ever before. He has killed his own people and covered it up. http://www.obamasweapon.com/

NSA_backdoor_trojan:

AMD processors were found to have similar vulnerabilities.

Mascarading as a debug mode, all hardware and thus software security features can be bypassed. Essentially allowing both stealth software operation, bypassing root and administrator authentication restrictions, and more. Intel is known to have similar functionality, but its not publically disclosed yet.. http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...

NSA compiled and uses all these exploits whether it was installed there for them or not.

Windows also has NSAKEY installed and all vulnerabilities and the source code of Windows is turned over to the NSA before the things can be patched, allowing NSA to locate and exploit vulnerabilities for hacking us and everyone else. http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

RSA also put in exploits so SSL / Etc would be vulnerable to their attack, as the leaks indicated. http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...

Stuxnet virus was created by NSA. http://rt.com/news/snowden-nsa...

NSA and GCHQ are recording us masturbating. http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

FBI records us even when our devices are powered off. http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

NSA is ceiling cat watching us masturbate with space capability and electron imaging/radar systems. They are recording all calls and saving the content, not just metadata. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb... and http://youtu.be/d6m1XbWOfVk

NSA has Thought Amplifier and Mind Interface (patented by Robert Malech in 1974, deployed in all radar in 1976), aka Remote Neural Monitoring first disclosed in Nexus Magazine in 1996 by John St Claire Akwei. Backed up today by Dr. Robert Duncan who helped invented these weapons, being used to attack and control us. http://www.oregonstatehospital... http://www.oregonstatehospital...

TAO hacking unit, NSA: http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Obama is raping and murdering and torturing thousands of his own citizens, committing acts of Genocide worse than any dictator ever before. He has killed his own people and covered it up. http://www.obamasweapon.com/

OMG, there's code in Microsoft Windows too, called NSAKEY, letting them bypass all Windows secret features and install NSA signed software code. lmfao: http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

This isn't just Zuckerberg's plaything anymore. There are investors to whom they must answer.

You think Facebook is worried about investors, or that the investors are any different than the people demanding censorship? Does the current political powers have say in this regardless of the investors desires? Facebook has already stated that they plan to censor. Not only sales mind you but any pro 2nd amendment discussion could be blocked to anyone under 18.

Facebook has already been banning members and hiding discussion regarding pro 2nd amendment rights (as well as other topics the Government does not want people discussing). The bans stick method of censorship has been used for a couple years already. Censorship is not only happening there, Reddit had a nice article about the same thing, and Slashdot could suffer similar problems to Reddit and Digg.

In all of the yelling about 2nd amendment we should not lose sight of the real problem which is censorship and conditioning.

Dependable banks pretty much require somebody large enough backing them. That is generally governments who can print money.

What good is it to have "dependable banks" when the only thing they have is wholly undependable fiat currency? Petro-dollars are not sustainable. Maybe Bitcoin isn't, either, but at least its value isn't determined by a small group of wealthy oligarchs.

FBI utilizes all the same surveillance tools as the NSA. They hack phones remotely, using the microphone even when the phone is powered off. They use the NSA to access digital communications from all sources from the past. The FBI has SIGINT of its own, including satellites for tracking heart rate, breathe, human movement and brainwaves from space.

Links to all this:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com...
http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

FBI Tim Clemente says they utilize both foreign and domestic tools to access all digital communications, anything from the past, and that no communication is secure, and everything is saved.

Look up FBIs COINTELPRO, the FBI is fucking nuts and doesn't care about our rights any more than the NSA.

http://www.oregonstatehospital...

FBI utilizes all the same surveillance tools as the NSA. They hack phones remotely, using the microphone even when the phone is powered off. They use the NSA to access digital communications from all sources from the past. The FBI has SIGINT of its own, including satellites for tracking heart rate, breathe, human movement and brainwaves from space.

Links to all this:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com...
http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

FBI Tim Clemente says they utilize both foreign and domestic tools to access all digital communications, anything from the past, and that no communication is secure, and everything is saved.

Look up FBIs COINTELPRO, the FBI is fucking nuts and doesn't care about our rights any more than the NSA.

http://www.oregonstatehospital...

not the organisations that they worked for, where the fine would just be added to the national tax bill.

Ah, the "taxpayers" chestnut. First, costs of judgements are borne by insurance companies, not local taxpayers. Second, if the problem is systemic, the system should pay some of the price, not just individuals (see: LAPD). Third, if taxpayers had a line item on their forms to make reparations for the 20 to 30 million people the U.S. has killed or gotten killed since WWII, maybe the taxpayers would dust off their voting hats and make some changes, and send some politicians to prison.

> Users of Truecrypt should be extra careful of physical security of their systems to prevent investigators from gaining access to the contents of physical memory."

By investigators, do you mean government workers conducting industrial espionage?

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/nsa-busted-conducting-industrial-espionage-in-france-mexico-brazil-and-other-countries.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-04/asio-arrests-key-witness-in-east-timor-spying-scandal/5132954
http://www.globalresearch.ca/canada-spied-on-brazils-government-as-part-of-global-commercial-espionage-campaign/5353642
http://www.smh.com.au/national/australian-spy-agency-helped-bhp-negotiate-trade-deals-20131106-2x1sw.html
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131111/11532125198/australia-spied-japan-to-help-companies-negotiate-trade-deals.shtml
http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/12/02/revealed-the-government-agency-stealing-ideas-from-businesses/
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0000940560
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/16/gchq-intercepted-communications-g20-summits

Backdoor into human mind through Remote Neural Monitoring/Electronic Brain Link to steal passwords and security certificates direct from the horse. Also hacks into PS/2, USB, DVI, WiFi, Ethernet, and Cellular signals remotely from space. Thank those "SIGINT/ELINT" satellites: http://www.oregonstatehospital.net/d/russelltice-nsarnmebl.html

Then there's the backdoor built into the Windows operating system itself since 1999, which is an actual NSA digital certificate: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/microsoft-programmed-in-nsa-backdoor-in-windows-by-1999.html

Then there's the backdoor that was exposed as being in AMD processors back in 2010, allowing all software and hardware security features to be bypassed, and unlocking secretive extra registers and other resources for use to run code in secret along side the actual operating system: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/11/12/047243/hidden-debug-mode-found-in-amd-processors (nobody knows where the debug mode originated, or if it was really put there for the NSA to use.). Intel has similar debug modes, however no public information has been provided on how to use it yet.

Oh, look. An NSA shill posting AC on Slashdot. Didn't see that coming!

Name a single innocent person who has been affected by the NSA.

Besides everyone that has the constitutional right to not be searched without probably cause and warrant? How about the companies that were being spied on for economic purposes? Were they big winners from that? No? How strange.

How about the big tech companies (such as anyone in cloud computing or cryptography) that took a major hit as a result of the leaks? You think they are happy that they are losing money now that people know how insecure these systems really are? How about Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/etc. that are suffering the same backlash on top of needing to invest a lot more resources to fix holes that the NSA was exploiting? What about RSA?

How about Lavabit and Silent Circle? These are just two examples of businesses that were dismantled because of legal pressure. They are completely legal businesses.

How about anyone that isn't actually doing anything wrong, but our government decides to harass/blackmail/defame anyways? We know that the NSA will find your porn and be more than happy to tell everyone about it. Blackmail is NOT OK!

We also know that the NSA has been writing and distributing malware. How about TorMail or any other (legitimate) service provided by Freedom Hosting? We know that the FBI confiscated the servers, but the NSA helped with installing malware on any connection and siphoning data regardless of whether or not the user was attempting to access a legal service or not. Hell, we even know that the NSA took part in hacking consumer Tor nodes to initiate a MITM attack in the hope that they might be able to track someone unrelated.

I think I've made my point. I could keep going, if I had to. There is a hell of a lot of people being wronged by this program, but lets turn your own game on you.

Name a single innocent person who has been affected by the NSA.

It's your turn. Name a single person or incident that has been stopped, hindered, or investigated in relation to terrorism from the NSA's programs. Trick question, we already know that there isn't any These programs have nothing to do with terrorism, so get your head out of your ass and stop pretending that it's OK for the government to infringe on our rights for their own personal gain.

They literally get away with crime on a routine basis. They have satellites that can track and watch us in our homes, and remotely tap communications signals and perhaps even thought and brainwaves directly. They target and set people up, with no way to know how they obtained their data or that they were even involved. This means we have no protections from our own government, and they misuse their power. They misused it against me, warrantlessly spied on me during a major US Department of Justice investigation, and took over my life in order to cover this shit up.

I experience daily abuses from government agents, gang stalking, and have severe brain and bodily injuries from physical attacks and torture that occurred. The link to my story and the unique blend of surveillance I was targeted with is here: http://www.oregonstatehospital.net/d/russelltice-nsarnmebl.html

NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice has also repeatedly claimed they were monitoring more than metadata, but also contents of communications, including recording telephone calls of law abiding citizens with no court oversight or order. He personally targeted people like Senator Obama, Senator Feinstein, General Patraeous, .. lawyers, judges, journalists, activists, and more. He also did some of this through space capability, which the NSA hasn't even been defending against, and there is virtually no way to monitor or protect from. Bill Binney and Russell Tice repeatedly say this is going on, including in this PBS interview from August 2013: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/nsa-whistleblowers-nsa-collects-word-for-word-every-domestic-communication.html

Russell Tice makes similar claims on MSNBC and Abby Martin/rt in the videos on the first link I provided.

I trust that our whistleblowers were right, and our government is lying to the public, spreading misinformation in order to make their operations seem less abusive and less suspect than they really are. They are keeping the American people in the dark in order to prevent us from making truly informed decisions about their operations. They may be sitting on the fact that everyone is being spied on, no one is immune, and hundreds of targets have been murdered, raped, tortured, and experimented on in some way. If push come to shove, our government chooses to disown us, and take matters into its' own hands in secret with no due process.

You would think so but this backdoor in all versions of Windows since Win95 was only recently discovered thanks to an external security researcher:
But according to two witnesses attending the conference, even Microsoft’s top crypto programmers were astonished to learn that the version of ADVAPI.DLL shipping with Windows 2000 contains not two, but three keys. Brian LaMachia, head of CAPI development at Microsoft was “stunned” to learn of these discoveries, by outsiders. The latest discovery by Dr van Someren is based on advanced search methods which test and report on the “entropy” of programming code.

Within the Microsoft organisation, access to Windows source code is said to be highly compartmentalized, making it easy for modifications to be inserted without the knowledge of even the respective product managers.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/microsoft-programmed-in-nsa-backdoor-in-windows-by-1999.html

Ok, how about this one - those cosmic rays that are being let in willy-nilly have a [possibly slight] impact on climate.

If you want to tap dance around the subject and hint that blackmail is going on without proof, fine, but I'll remain skeptical. Correlation without documentation doesn't necessarily equal proof. But point me towards something, if you care to. There are plenty of people on Slashdot that "know" things that aren't necessarily so.

Indeed there are. I can point you to this: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/nsa-whistleblower-nsa-spying-on-and-blackmailing-high-level-government-officials-and-military-officers.html. It's not blackmailing of ordinary citizens, it's actually worse.

or he'd have some explaining to do!

I think we can guess this one: "We need more money."

That aside, I was reading a paper this morning about how the fluoridation chemicals that most cities put into their water supply, aside from causing cancer, causes lead to leach out of plumbing. America has half of the world's fluoridated population. Coincidence, perhaps.

Your point and my point are not really in conflict; they're just two sides of the same coin. Ultimately, the first goal of government, sadly, is and has always been maintaining and concentrating power. It shouldn't be that way, but it is. Other governments knowing things about your citizens weakens your own government's power, because those other countries could potentially learn some of your country's secrets. (This is particularly true for business communications.) Your own government knowing things about its citizens increases its power, because it gives them information not only about security threats, but also about potential threats to your power. It also gives them ammunition that they can use for blackmail if they need to silence a dissenter. Therefore, the natural tendency is for a government to want to increase its ability to spy on its citizens while decreasing the ability of other governments to do so. I cite as an example the extensive U.S. government surveillance of people involved in the Occupy movement.

Complete global decentralization, which the Internet typically trends towards in the absence of interference, limits the ability of all governments to spy on anyone. This does not meet the above goals. However, regional centralization (such as EU member governments encouraging people to use servers within the EU) in lieu of global centralization decreases the ability of governments to spy on people from other countries/economic communities, while increasing governments' ability to spy on people in their own countries. This is a win-win for European governments; they get the political win of being able to say that they're protecting people from the watchful eye of the nefarious U.S. government, all the while centralizing that data in a location where it is more easily reachable by their own governments through subpoenas and what not.

This article is a good read on the subject.

You may note that Iraq is primarily Shia and the US worked to protect it.

Can you elaborate? I'm confused as how come the war on Iraq can qualify as protection.

I doubt the House of Saud is strongly interested in reestablishing the Caliphate since they would have to pledge fealty to it.

Unless the House of Saud delivers the caliph. Which, based on its military potential, would not surprise me or others.

Al Qaida considers the House of Saud to be bad rulers, not Islamic enough in the right way for their tastes. As a result al Qaida has long been trying to overthrow the Kingdom.

Doesn't stop them from being financed now and then by the bad rulers, does it?

I have to admit, that was the one part of this narrative that almost got me thinking that the Syrian regime was implicated in the chemical attacks. Then I read this: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/debunking-u-s-claims-about-un-weapons-inspections.html ...specifically the part about when the request for UN inspectors was officially delivered. As a mere spectator in these events, it's impossible to separate the truth from the utter BS, but thinking logically about these things, it doesn't add up. Also, I dug through my ancient browser history from a backup last summer, and found this thing I was reading at the time: http://rt.com/news/syria-chemical-weapons-plot-532/ Those two articles, and tons of other analysis I've been reading over the last few days have cast serious doubt in my mind...

I don't believe Syria gov't has used chemical weapons any more than that Sadam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction...

How long will it take for people to suspect on what the read/watch on mainstream media?

Isn't enough to remember that the last time the U.S. blamed the Syrian government for a chemical weapons attack, that claim was debunked?

Em, it's already being used like that.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/constitutional-expert-president-obama-says-that-he-can-kill-you-on-his-own-discretion-he-can-jail-you-indefinitely-on-his-own-discretion.html

• 2 Senators on the intelligence committee said the violations revealed in the Post article were just the âoetip of the icebergâ

• Glenn Greenwald notes: âoeOne key to the WashPost story: the reports are internal, NSA audits, which means high likelihood of both under-counting & white-washingâ.(Even so, the White House tried to do damage control by retroactively changing on-the-record quotes)

• The government is spying on essentially everything we do. It is not just âoemetadataâ ⦠although that is enough to destroy your privacy

• The government has adopted a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act which allows it to pretend that âoeeverythingâ is relevant ⦠so it spies on everyone

• NSA whistleblowers say that the NSA collects all of our conversations word-for-word

• Itâ(TM)s not just the NSA ⦠Many other agencies, like the FBI and IRS â" concerned only with domestic issues â" spy on Americans as well

• The information gained through spying is shared with federal, state and local agencies, and they are using that information to prosecute petty crimes such as drugs and taxes. The agencies are instructed to intentionally âoelaunderâ the information gained through spying, i.e. to pretend that they got the information in a more legitimate way ⦠and to hide that from defense attorneys and judges

• 2 Senators on the intelligence committee said the violations revealed in the Post article were just the âoetip of the icebergâ

• Glenn Greenwald notes: âoeOne key to the WashPost story: the reports are internal, NSA audits, which means high likelihood of both under-counting & white-washingâ.(Even so, the White House tried to do damage control by retroactively changing on-the-record quotes)

• The government is spying on essentially everything we do. It is not just âoemetadataâ ⦠although that is enough to destroy your privacy

• The government has adopted a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act which allows it to pretend that âoeeverythingâ is relevant ⦠so it spies on everyone

• NSA whistleblowers say that the NSA collects all of our conversations word-for-word

• Itâ(TM)s not just the NSA ⦠Many other agencies, like the FBI and IRS â" concerned only with domestic issues â" spy on Americans as well

• The information gained through spying is shared with federal, state and local agencies, and they are using that information to prosecute petty crimes such as drugs and taxes. The agencies are instructed to intentionally âoelaunderâ the information gained through spying, i.e. to pretend that they got the information in a more legitimate way ⦠and to hide that from defense attorneys and judges

• 2 Senators on the intelligence committee said the violations revealed in the Post article were just the âoetip of the icebergâ

• Glenn Greenwald notes: âoeOne key to the WashPost story: the reports are internal, NSA audits, which means high likelihood of both under-counting & white-washingâ.(Even so, the White House tried to do damage control by retroactively changing on-the-record quotes)

• The government is spying on essentially everything we do. It is not just âoemetadataâ ⦠although that is enough to destroy your privacy

• The government has adopted a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act which allows it to pretend that âoeeverythingâ is relevant ⦠so it spies on everyone

• NSA whistleblowers say that the NSA collects all of our conversations word-for-word

• Itâ(TM)s not just the NSA ⦠Many other agencies, like the FBI and IRS â" concerned only with domestic issues â" spy on Americans as well

• The information gained through spying is shared with federal, state and local agencies, and they are using that information to prosecute petty crimes such as drugs and taxes. The agencies are instructed to intentionally âoelaunderâ the information gained through spying, i.e. to pretend that they got the information in a more legitimate way ⦠and to hide that from defense attorneys and judges

• 2 Senators on the intelligence committee said the violations revealed in the Post article were just the âoetip of the icebergâ

• Glenn Greenwald notes: âoeOne key to the WashPost story: the reports are internal, NSA audits, which means high likelihood of both under-counting & white-washingâ.(Even so, the White House tried to do damage control by retroactively changing on-the-record quotes)

• The government is spying on essentially everything we do. It is not just âoemetadataâ ⦠although that is enough to destroy your privacy

• The government has adopted a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act which allows it to pretend that âoeeverythingâ is relevant ⦠so it spies on everyone

• NSA whistleblowers say that the NSA collects all of our conversations word-for-word

• Itâ(TM)s not just the NSA ⦠Many other agencies, like the FBI and IRS â" concerned only with domestic issues â" spy on Americans as well

• The information gained through spying is shared with federal, state and local agencies, and they are using that information to prosecute petty crimes such as drugs and taxes. The agencies are instructed to intentionally âoelaunderâ the information gained through spying, i.e. to pretend that they got the information in a more legitimate way ⦠and to hide that from defense attorneys and judges

• 2 Senators on the intelligence committee said the violations revealed in the Post article were just the âoetip of the icebergâ

• Glenn Greenwald notes: âoeOne key to the WashPost story: the reports are internal, NSA audits, which means high likelihood of both under-counting & white-washingâ.(Even so, the White House tried to do damage control by retroactively changing on-the-record quotes)

• The government is spying on essentially everything we do. It is not just âoemetadataâ ⦠although that is enough to destroy your privacy

• The government has adopted a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act which allows it to pretend that âoeeverythingâ is relevant ⦠so it spies on everyone

• NSA whistleblowers say that the NSA collects all of our conversations word-for-word

• Itâ(TM)s not just the NSA ⦠Many other agencies, like the FBI and IRS â" concerned only with domestic issues â" spy on Americans as well

• The information gained through spying is shared with federal, state and local agencies, and they are using that information to prosecute petty crimes such as drugs and taxes. The agencies are instructed to intentionally âoelaunderâ the information gained through spying, i.e. to pretend that they got the information in a more legitimate way ⦠and to hide that from defense attorneys and judges

• 2 Senators on the intelligence committee said the violations revealed in the Post article were just the âoetip of the icebergâ

• Glenn Greenwald notes: âoeOne key to the WashPost story: the reports are internal, NSA audits, which means high likelihood of both under-counting & white-washingâ.(Even so, the White House tried to do damage control by retroactively changing on-the-record quotes)

• The government is spying on essentially everything we do. It is not just âoemetadataâ ⦠although that is enough to destroy your privacy

• The government has adopted a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act which allows it to pretend that âoeeverythingâ is relevant ⦠so it spies on everyone

• NSA whistleblowers say that the NSA collects all of our conversations word-for-word

• Itâ(TM)s not just the NSA ⦠Many other agencies, like the FBI and IRS â" concerned only with domestic issues â" spy on Americans as well

• The information gained through spying is shared with federal, state and local agencies, and they are using that information to prosecute petty crimes such as drugs and taxes. The agencies are instructed to intentionally âoelaunderâ the information gained through spying, i.e. to pretend that they got the information in a more legitimate way ⦠and to hide that from defense attorneys and judges

• 2 Senators on the intelligence committee said the violations revealed in the Post article were just the âoetip of the icebergâ

• Glenn Greenwald notes: âoeOne key to the WashPost story: the reports are internal, NSA audits, which means high likelihood of both under-counting & white-washingâ.(Even so, the White House tried to do damage control by retroactively changing on-the-record quotes)

• The government is spying on essentially everything we do. It is not just âoemetadataâ ⦠although that is enough to destroy your privacy

• The government has adopted a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act which allows it to pretend that âoeeverythingâ is relevant ⦠so it spies on everyone

• NSA whistleblowers say that the NSA collects all of our conversations word-for-word

• Itâ(TM)s not just the NSA ⦠Many other agencies, like the FBI and IRS â" concerned only with domestic issues â" spy on Americans as well

• The information gained through spying is shared with federal, state and local agencies, and they are using that information to prosecute petty crimes such as drugs and taxes. The agencies are instructed to intentionally âoelaunderâ the information gained through spying, i.e. to pretend that they got the information in a more legitimate way ⦠and to hide that from defense attorneys and judges

• 2 Senators on the intelligence committee said the violations revealed in the Post article were just the âoetip of the icebergâ

• Glenn Greenwald notes: âoeOne key to the WashPost story: the reports are internal, NSA audits, which means high likelihood of both under-counting & white-washingâ.(Even so, the White House tried to do damage control by retroactively changing on-the-record quotes)

• The government is spying on essentially everything we do. It is not just âoemetadataâ ⦠although that is enough to destroy your privacy

• The government has adopted a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act which allows it to pretend that âoeeverythingâ is relevant ⦠so it spies on everyone

• NSA whistleblowers say that the NSA collects all of our conversations word-for-word

• Itâ(TM)s not just the NSA ⦠Many other agencies, like the FBI and IRS â" concerned only with domestic issues â" spy on Americans as well

• The information gained through spying is shared with federal, state and local agencies, and they are using that information to prosecute petty crimes such as drugs and taxes. The agencies are instructed to intentionally âoelaunderâ the information gained through spying, i.e. to pretend that they got the information in a more legitimate way ⦠and to hide that from defense attorneys and judges

• 2 Senators on the intelligence committee said the violations revealed in the Post article were just the âoetip of the icebergâ

• Glenn Greenwald notes: âoeOne key to the WashPost story: the reports are internal, NSA audits, which means high likelihood of both under-counting & white-washingâ.(Even so, the White House tried to do damage control by retroactively changing on-the-record quotes)

• The government is spying on essentially everything we do. It is not just âoemetadataâ ⦠although that is enough to destroy your privacy

• The government has adopted a secret interpretation of the Patriot Act which allows it to pretend that âoeeverythingâ is relevant ⦠so it spies on everyone

• NSA whistleblowers say that the NSA collects all of our conversations word-for-word

• Itâ(TM)s not just the NSA ⦠Many other agencies, like the FBI and IRS â" concerned only with domestic issues â" spy on Americans as well

• The information gained through spying is shared with federal, state and local agencies, and they are using that information to prosecute petty crimes such as drugs and taxes. The agencies are instructed to intentionally âoelaunderâ the information gained through spying, i.e. to pretend that they got the information in a more legitimate way ⦠and to hide that from defense attorneys and judges

I don't think it is useful to exaggerate. We don't have any evidence (yet) of malicious intent - almost all of the stuff in this report was just sloppiness because nobody was there to keep them in line. It isn't like they were digging up dirt on political candidates in order to sway elections or blackmailing the leaders of the Occupy movement to make them back off.

That may not be true. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/exclusive-top-nsa-whistleblower-spills-the-beans-on-the-real-scope-of-the-spying-program.html

it is not what it was once thought to be. Originally, TC/TCM was just supposed to be a secure method for storing crypto keys and secure method for communication over the bus and processor to enable unbreakable hardware backed encryption. this would allow not just the operating system, but the user to securely store keys that couldn't be broke. at this point after seeing all the NSA stuff, they believe that the public isn't allowed to store information in true secured format. they have had the NSAKey installed in Windows since 1998, which has given them backdoor root access to Windows cryptography service. more recently, they have shown they have the ability to force anyone to include in secret, secure backdoors and Trojans into software and services just so that nothing is truly encrypted or kept private from the NSA. you will find this in the secret court orders from FISA that have forced disclosure of Internet and phone records, and access to encrypted email and communication over Skype. they now have the ability to break into any system illegally, with the cooperation of the hardware and software vendors. so this is fucking insane - I absolutely believe TCM is unsafe, and likely has a built in backdoor for the NSA in it. it is not secure, will never be secure, and they can even if there is no backdoor built in directly, force the hardware and software vendors into turning over keys and other sensitive information that belongs to you or that you think is protected by TCM. what I think is really happening with TCM, is it is being deployed to control user end data in a controlled non-secure fake secured encryption scheme. it has to be government approved, and there HAS to be ties to the NSA for them to approve it. at this point I think that these assholes want to lock down computing, and their goal is to have Trojans and remote control capability of all machines with this system. TCM is going to be a way to prevent hackers from bypassing their security, and to prevent us from running our machine and code the way we want. it is most definitely a huge risk having a system with TCM, and once it is mandated in all machines, you will have no security on your box any more from the NSA. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/microsoft-programmed-in-nsa-backdoor-in-windows-by-1999.html

by the way. there is already exposed backdoor CPU modes on AMD processors. when we first uncovered this in 2010, we thought it was just a debug mode. but it was likely and could have been a secret NSA/government backdoor that allowed code to bypass the kernel and system function on all our systems. it allows code to elevate privileges and bypass all hardware and software security features. it exposes additional registers and hardware features already built in place for running code along side other code on x86 CPUs. it gives full root access, without them knowing your password. all I can say, is this whole scam has NSA all around it. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/11/12/047243/hidden-debug-mode-found-in-amd-processors

TCM should be considered a compromised hardware feature that works against the publics interest. There is no way to verify if it's safe or not. Because the NSA isn't going to disclose anything about it, and the hardware vendors and software vendors aren't going to disclose anything about it. It is never going to be disclosed, and I bet NSA and court orders are in place that prevent it. A feature this crucial to computing has all the signs of being a crucial component to NSA spying, this is exactly the type of thing they have control over. I am sure, most of what they do with it, will be nefarious as usual. http://www.oregonstatehospital.net/d/story.html#nsa

Beyond the fate of Private Manning as an individual, the 'aiding the enemy' charge — unprecedented in a leak case — could have significant long-term ramifications for investigative journalism in the Internet era.

Since he was acquitted of the charge, isn't that particular kind of potential ramification now less dire? It doesn't prove that the government will never be able to overreach in that manner, but the fact that they couldn't get a conviction on that charge here, even in a military court and little dispute about the underlying facts of document release, suggests that it won't be that easy.

Agreed, the summary was over-reaching.

Its almost impossible to convict Journalists in this day and age of anything related to espionage.

Still when this administration Taps Reporters phones and even taps Congressional Phones we are pretty close to a police state where you dare not even complain to your Congressman any more.

They don't go after the congressmen or the journalist, just the people they talk to. (Or so they say).

In no instance has the person reporting the corruption ever faced repercussions, but hey, reality is just a bit more boring than tv.

That's an impressive bubble you live in. Snowden saw what happens to the people who report things through proper channels.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/why-didnt-snowden-go-through-proper-channels-to-blow-the-whistle.html

Microsoft has been installing the NSAKey in Windows since Windows 98; a special root key that grants them access to Windows cryptography services, ability to generate their own keys, decrypt things, and maybe install rootkits, bypassing the user. Some people think it's Trojan that even gives them stealth remote control capabilities. Microsoft has always been working with the NSA, and in turn, the NSA has always been getting into whatever they could possibly get their hands into. Welcome to the ultimate rootkit in society, next to Remote Neural Monitoring and Electronic Brain Link.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/microsoft-programmed-in-nsa-backdoor-in-windows-by-1999.html

and nsa.pdf @ http://www.oregonstatehospital.net/

Hell, it's even a higher chance of getting struck by lightning than getting killed by a terrorist...

Chance of getting struck by lightning in a year 1 in 1000000 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_strike )
Chance of getting killed by a terrorist 1 in 20000000 ( http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/06/chances-of-dying-in-a-terrorist-attack-number/ )

Some more statistics on helthcare-risks http://www.washingtonsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CDC-Mortality-CHart.jpg

http://terrorism.about.com/od/issuestrends/a/EconomicImpact.htm :

The US alone now spends about US $500 billion annually--20 percent of the US federal budget--on departments directly engaged in combating or preventing terrorism, most notably Defense and Homeland Security. The Defense budget increased by one-third, or over $100 billion, from 2001 to 2003 in response to the heightened sense of the threat of terrorism – an increase equivalent to 0.7 per cent of US GDP. Expenditures on defense and security are essential for any nation, but of course they also come with an opportunity cost; those resources are not available for other purposes, from spending on health and education to reductions in taxes. A higher risk of terrorism, and the need to combat it, simply raises that opportunity cost.

Estimated cost of NSA per year ~$4 Billion
Amount spent on cancer research by US goverment per year ~$5.6 Billion ( http://report.nih.gov/categorical_spending.aspx )
Amount needed to end world hunger ~$30 Billion per year.
Amount needed for universal healthcare in the US ~$200 Billion ( http://truecostblog.com/2009/05/13/how-much-would-universal-healthcare-cost/ )

200 whole rounds of ammo? I cringe in wide-eyed fear. The NYPD once spent 41 rounds of ammo shooting at a single unarmed civilian (reference).

Cops are way more likely to kill you by accident than terrorists are on purpose (reference).

If the cops really thought it was dangerous outside, instead of just putting on security theater, they'd have let the donut shops close too (reference).

The war on terror is like real war, except that we have millions of people in our "army" and they have dozens in theirs. Peanut allergies kill more Americans than terrorists.