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NSA Whistleblower: Snowden Never Had Access to the JUICIEST Documents

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NSA Spying On Congress, Admirals, Lawyers Content As Well As Metadata Cheney Was Running the Show

NSA whistleblower Russel Tice was a key source in the 2005 New York Times report that blew the lid off the Bush administrations use of warrantless wiretapping.

Tice told PBS and other media that the NSA is spying on and blackmailing top government officials and military officers, including Supreme Court Justices, highly-ranked generals, Colin Powell and other State Department personnel, and many other top officials:

He says the NSA started spying on President Obama when he was a candidate for Senate:

Many of Tices allegations have been confirmed by other government whistleblowers. And see this.

Washingtons Blog called Tice to find out more about what he saw when he was at NSA.

RUSSELL TICE: We now know that NSA was wiretapping [Senator] Frank Church and another Senator. [That has been confirmed.]

And that got out by accident. All the information the NSA had back then and probably many other senators and important people too, back in the 70s they shredded and they destroyed all of that evidence. As much as they could find, they destroyed it all. By accident, something popped up 40 years later.

And, in fact, they were asked 40 years ago whether NSA had bugged Congress. And, of course, they lied. They lied through their teeth.

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Government Ordered Again Not to Destroy Evidence in NSA Spying Case

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San Francisco, CA - infoZine - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a judge today to schedule an emergency hearing, after learning that the government is apparently still destroying evidence of NSA spying despite a temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by the court in March. In an order issued in response this afternoon, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White instructed the government not to destroy any more materials and file a brief responding to EFF's allegations by 12 p.m PT on Friday.

"In communications with the government this week, EFF was surprised to learn that the government has been continuing to destroy evidence relating to the mass interception of Internet communications it is conducting under section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act even though the court explicitly ordered it to stop in March," said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. "Specifically, the government is destroying content gathered through tapping into the fiberoptic cables of AT&T."

EFF filed its Jewel v. NSA lawsuit in 2008. In recent weeks, declarations from the government in the Jewel case made it clear that the government has destroyed five years of the content it collected between 2007 and 2012, three years worth of the telephone records it seized between 2006 and 2009, and seven years of the Internet records it seized between 2004 and 2011, when it claims to have ended the Internet records seizures. In an emergency hearing last March over that evidence destruction, Judge White issued the current TRO, ordering the government to stop any further destruction of records or content until the matter could be sorted out.

"There can be no dispute that the government was aware of the broad scope of this TRO, and in his order this afternoon, Judge White confirmed that it reached materials gathered under Section 702," Cohn said. "We're asking Judge White to enforce the order and impose on the government whatever further measures are necessary to ensure that no further destruction of evidence occurs. It will be very interesting to see what the government says in its defense in its briefing tomorrow."

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A Simple Plan to Impede the NSA Is Taking Hold

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More e-mail providers are using encryption, meaning messages cant be intercepted and read by the NSA or hackers.

A year after revelations first emerged from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden about mass Internet surveillance, more e-mail providers are adopting encryption, a simple change that could make it harder for spy agencies to vacuum up huge numbers of communications in transit.

In an analysis released this week, Google said 65 percent of the messages sent by Gmail users are encrypted when delivered, meaning the recipients provider also supports the encryption needed to establish a secure connection for transmission of the message. (Establishing a secure communication channel requires both e-mail providers to exchange encryption keys beforehand. Even if an e-mail provider tries to encrypt messages by default, messages will be sent in the clear to providers that do not support encryption.) Gmail has more than 425 million accounts worldwide and was an early adopter of e-mail encryption.

Only 50 percent of incoming messages are encrypted, Google says, but thats up from 27 percent on December 11, 2013. And the numbers could get even better as more providers offer encryption by default to their customers. Charlie Davis, a Comcast spokesman, says the Internet service provider is working on it and plans to gradually ramp up encryption with Gmail in the coming weeks.

There are still significant gaps: less than 1 percent of traffic to and from Gmail from Comcast and Verizon is currently encrypted, and fewer than half of e-mails from Hotmail accounts to Gmail are encrypted.

Whats more, messages are protected only in transittheres nothing to stop the NSA from reading them if it gains access to an e-mail providers servers. Even here, though, the tide may be turning: on Tuesday Google released draft source code of a tool, called End-to-End, that would secure a message from the moment it leaves one browser to the moment it arrives at anothermeaning even e-mail providers couldnt read them as they travel between two people, because they wouldnt have the keys needed to decrypt those messages.

Stephen Farrell, a computer scientist at Trinity College in Dublin and a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the group of engineers who maintain and upgrade the Internets protocols, says the Google data shows progress. More e-mail is being encrypted between mail servers, he says. One would hope thats a general, and good, trend.

Embarrassed by Snowdens revelations, many Silicon Valley giants are advertising increased use of encryption. Last month, Facebook reported that about 58 percent of the notification e-mails it sent out were encrypted from its systems to recipients e-mail providers.

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Julian Assange Predicts Orwellian Future, Internet Will Be …

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Julian Assange believes that in the near future, the worlds governments will control every aspect of human life, taking a page from Orwells 1984.

According to the WikiLeaks chief, things are going to turn creepy with government officials taking DNA samples at birth and encoding it into the citizens IDs.

We will see a situation that Sweden has had for more than a decade... which is everyone has a number, everyone's DNA is taken at birth, their DNA is encoded onto their identity documents or connected to it, to their tax records, to their credit report, Assange said during a New York conference.

Assange is currently living in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, trying to avoid being arrested by the police and turned over to the Swedish authorities where is being under investigation for sexual assault.

Following the NSA scandal, Assange has said on several occasions that we are moving into a totalitarian world, where the intelligence agencies of the world, such as the NSA and the GCHQ, have the ability to spy the entire world, especially since their capabilities double every 18 months.

Assange said that the ability to spy on everyone in the world is almost here, but we might still have a few years until this happens. This will, of course, translate into a huge transfer f power from the people who are surveyed upon those who control the surveillance complex.

During the past year, it has become obvious that the surveillance powers held by the NSA alone are huge and that the agency can virtually snoop in on anyone it wants without repercussions. After all, the agency has actually spied on world leaders and the US got off with a slap on the wrist and investigations that are too weak to go anywhere because lawmakers are afraid to damage the diplomatic relationship between nations.

Considering that the United States is actually working alongside intelligence agencies from other countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, chances are that the number of people that are being spied on is even greater.

WikiLeaks has been responsible for a great number of scandals within the United States after leaking diplomatic wires belonging to the countrys officials which had been shared by Chelsea Manning (formerly known as Bradley Manning) from Iraq.

Manning is currently serving time in prison after being accused under the Espionage Act. Assange believes that the British authorities wont actually send him off to Sweden, as they claim, but rather to the United States, which is how he justifies remaining behind doors within the Ecuadorean embassy.

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Assange may stay in Ecuador embassy ‘forever’

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UK: Julian Assange, hiding inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London for almost two years, may remain there indefinitely, the Ecuadorean ambassador said, adding "it's a pity" that UK citizens have to cover the growing policing bill.

The 67 year old diplomat, Juan Falconi Puig said that Assange was "suffering" in custody but could remain there for a long time after the Wikileaks founder lost a Supreme Court bid to stop his extradition to Sweden, where the 42-year-old Australian is wanted for questioning over rape allegations, The Times reports.

Assange is "not a fugitive", Falconi stressed, reminding that Ecuador's President, Rafael Correa, granted him asylum on human rights grounds - and that Assange, if eventually extradited to the US, would face persecution and could even be tortured.

"He thinks it is a very strong possibility. The (Ecuadorean) government have accepted that position," Falconi said.

The UK has been refusing to provide Assange safe passage to Ecuador ever since the Australian sought refuge inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in June 2012.

Since he entered the embassy, the security measures implemented by the British security services to prevent Assange from escaping the Ecuadorian premises have amounted to 6 million for the British taxpayers.

"The estimated total cost of policing the Ecuadorean embassy between June 2012 and the end of March 2014 is 5.9 million, of which 4.9 million is opportunity costs and 1 million in additional costs," a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police Service announced in April, causing some outcry from the British public.

"It is absolute madness. I have been asking the Met questions about this because clearly at the moment the cost is falling on London taxpayers as a net police cost," Baroness Jenny Jones, deputy chair of the Police and Crime Committee at the London Assembly, was quoted in April.

She suggested that the Metropolitan Police should just walk away. "I do understand the legal ramifications of the case, but the fact is this is a complete nonsense. He could stay there for years."

Commenting on the growing bill, Falcone said, "That's not our problem."

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Wikileaks document shows contradictory reports of Bergdahl’s capture

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WASHINGTON, June 6 (UPI) --WikiLeaks has released a document containing intercepted Taliban communication stating that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl had not left the base when he was captured.

The document suggests that Bergdahl was relieving himself when he was taken by Taliban militants.

"We were attacking the post he was sitting taking expletive he had no gun with him," the document reads under an entry from July 1, 2009.

It is the same document referenced in a 2012 Rolling Stone article by the late Michael Hastings, titled "America's Last Prisoner of War", that suggest Bergdahl's actions had little to do with his capture.

The document contradicts itself, it also reports that "an American Soldier with a camera is looking for someone who speaks English."

Bergdahl is currently recovering and is receiving medical care at a military hospital. A military review conducted after his capture suggests he simply left base at night.

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