On Monday, Lopez Obrador had described the U.S. intelligence in the leaks as an “abusive, overbearing intrusion that should not be accepted under any circumstance,” adding that he did not plan to rebuke the U.S., but would at some point discuss “conditions for collaborative work.”When presented on Tuesday with new allegations of the use of...
Category: Surveillance
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Chinese Police Station in New York Is Part of a Vast Influence Operation
This week the Justice Department arrested two Americans for operating a secret Chinese police station in New York City and separately charged 44 Chinese officials with enforcing Chinese laws on U.S. soil. These actions spotlight a tiny piece of the network Beijing uses to exert influence inside the United States. Tackling this complex issue will...
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Two Senators Allege ‘Secret’ CIA spying on Unwitting Americans
The still-classified programme operates under the authority of a Reagan-era executive order and is therefore “entirely outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection,” they said. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) non-profit said: “These reports raise serious questions about what information of ours the CIA is vacuuming up in...
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How Aerial Surveillance Has Evolved Over the Past 200 Years
A Chinese spy balloon in the US is the latest in a long history of governments spying on each other from the sky. Aerial surveillance dates back to the French Revolution to UFO rumors to the Cuban Missile Crisis.It’s gone from hot air balloons to CIA gadgets to sophisticated live-streaming drones. Last month, the US...
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The Five Eyes: A New History Illuminates the West’s Global Surveillance Apparatus
From “Friends With Benefits,” by Tom Stevenson, London Review of Books, 19 January 2023