The chair of CIA director Gina Haspel, who was promoted by John Brennan and Michael Hayden, is getting warmer, according to Politico Haspel was the CIA’s station chief in London in 2016 when the U.S. Embassy there was made aware of Mifsud’s contact with a Trump campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, by Australian diplomat Alexander Downer....
Category: Surveillance
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Former Bush Adviser Sells Repression in the Middle East
As counterterrorism adviser to President George W. Bush, Richard Clarke advocated vastly expanded spying powers for the U.S. government. As a private citizen, he sold the same idea to a Persian Gulf oil monarchy. The Reuters investigated, and the resulting story, Made in America shows how and why private intelligence firms are flourishing. Undemocratic governments...
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Inspector General: NSA Is Not Complying With Law Requiring Disposal of Old Surveillance Data
The National Security Agency Office of the Inspector General (NSA OIG) announced today its release of an unclassified study with disturbing conclusion: the secretive agency is not in compliance with legal requirements it to dispose of signals intelligence data. As exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the NSA collects massive amounts of information (“metadata”) about the...
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How China Runs Its Mass Detention Camps
From the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – ICIJ The extraordinary coercive power of China’s Ministry of State Security is Xinjiang province, where the Beijing government is seeking to control the Uighurs, a non-Chinese Muslim minority. ICIJ obtained an operations manual: A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for...
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House Democrats Include Patriot Act Reauthorization in Funding Bill
Congressional Democrats still refuse to end the post 9/11 legal regime of mass surveillance. That regime violates the constitution as Edward Snow notes, and it uncovered exactly one terrorist plot. The Democrats voted to keep it alive. Evan Greer, deputy director of digital rights group Fight for the Future, highlighted the provision on Twitter shortly...