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MSNBC Interrupts US Congresswoman over NSA to Report Teen Pop Star Justin Bieber Arrested for DUI
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Americans making phone calls abroad may have had that information tracked by a government agency long before the National Security Agency launched its covert surveillance program in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The US Drug Enforcement Administration not only preempted the NSA, but it may have provided the blueprint for its controversial program, USA Today reported on Wednesday.
For more than two decades, the Justice Department and the DEA collected logs of every phone call from the United States to about 116 countries linked to drug trafficking. The records were used for narcotics investigations until the program was discontinued in 2013. But while some government officials say the program made Americans safer by cracking down on drug smuggling and other criminal activity, others say it invaded the privacy of citizens and may have been illegal.
"I am deeply concerned about this kind of suspicionless intrusion into Americans' privacy in any context, but it is particularly troubling when done for routine criminal investigations,'' Sen. Patrick Leahy (D) of Vermont wrote in a March 2014 letter to Attorney General Eric Holder.
Senator Leahy also said that the program was never reviewed in court and that no limits were placed on how and when the database was searched.
Meanwhile, the nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch filed suit against the DEA on Tuesday, saying the agency collected information about calls it made to certain foreign sources who the organization says could have been in life-threatening situations. The organizations legal counsel stated that the DEAs data collection was illegal.
Both the First and Fourth Amendment protect Americans from this kind of overreaching surveillance. This lawsuit aims to vindicate HRWs rights, and the rights of all Americans, to make calls overseas without being subject to government surveillance, said Nate Cardozo, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the organization representing Human Rights Watch.
But government officials have defended the program, saying it successfully put an end to the activities of drug cartels operating within the US and across its borders.
The program yielded "a treasure-trove of very important information on trafficking," former DEA Administrator Thomas Constantine told USA Today. It "produced major international investigations that allowed us to take some big people.
The DEA's surveillance program was first brought to public light in January after a federal judge ordered that the government reveal more information about the program. A DEA agent connected with the program originally disclosed information about it during a criminal case against a man in California accused of violating export restrictions on technological goods to Iran. The agents declaration revealed that the DEA used administrative subpoenas to amass an extensive database of phone records.
In the court filing, the official revealed that the agency had long used administrative subpoenas, instead of federal court order, to collect the metadata of calls to foreign countries that were determined to have a demonstrated nexus to international drug trafficking and related criminal activities.
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How do you get Americans to care about government surveillance? Dick pics, according to John Oliver.
How do you make Americans care about government surveillance? Naked photos, according to Last Week Tonight host John Oliver.
Oliver traveled to Russia recently to sit down with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and explained that most Americans don't seem to care about secret National Security Agency (NSA) programs that snatch up huge amounts of your data without your knowledge.
As Snowden explains why mass surveillance is a critical issue, Oliver interjects. "This is the whole problem. I glaze over because it's like the IT guy comes into your office and you go, 'oh s**t ... don't teach me anything, I don't want to learn, you smell like canned soup,'" he quipped.
What to do? Explain it in terms that people understand: Dick pics.
Oliver showed a clip of New Yorkers reacting to the possibility that the government had access to the naked photos they email or text to people. All of them were horrified. "This is the most visible line in the sand for people," Oliver says. "Can. they. see. my. dick."
So Oliver asked Snowden to explain each of the NSA's more controversial programs in the context or whether or not they allow the government to sift through your more private photos. Here's what he had to say:
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA): Yes. It allows the bulk collection of metadata that is one-end foreign. If you have Gmail, anytime that mail crosses outside the border of the U.S., your junk ends up in the database. Even if you send it to someone in the U.S., your domestic communication can go from New York to London and back, and get caught up in the database.
Executive Order 12333: This is what the NSA uses when the other authorities aren't aggressive enough or they're not catching what they want. When you send your junk through Gmail, that's stored on Google's servers. Google moves data from data center to data center, invisibly to you, so your data could be moved outside the borders of the U.S. temporarily. So when Google moves it, the NSA catches a copy of that.
PRISM: This is how they pull your junk out of Google with Google's involvement. The government deputizes tech companies to be their surveillance sheriffs.
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Apparently, the NSA's massive surveillance program wasn't a first: it was modeled after a precursor that ran from 1992 until 2013. According to USA Today, that program was called USTO, because it monitored almost every American's calls from the US to other countries. It was a joint initiative by the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration, which began as a way to keep tabs on Colombian drug cartels and their supply routes. Since then, it grew in scope (thanks in part to a powerful computer provided by the Pentagon) to cover all international calls made to around 116 countries worldwide, including Canada, Mexico, parts of Asia and Europe, and most of Central and Southern America. The group was only dissolved after Edward Snowden came public with the NSA's secrets in 2013.
USA Today says this is the US government's first known effort to gather intelligence on its citizens en masse. USTO didn't exactly listen or record phone calls, though -- instead, it asked carriers for phone call metadata, which contains numbers contacted, the time they were called and the duration of those conversations. Agents then used those to link data they got from other means, allowing them to piece together various information, such as drug distribution networks. The logs also didn't include names, but the team could easily link numbers to particular people by cross-referencing data.
These documents were transferred over a private network and came in like clockwork, that details were usually just a few days old when they reached the agents. USA Today's report didn't specify all the carriers involved, but mentioned that Sprint "expressed reservations" about participating in 1998 (the company was basically told it had no choice) and that AT&T was likely one of them, as well.
The DEA didn't allow anyone else, not even the FBI or the NSA to access its logs in the beginning. But over time, it gave other law enforcement agencies access to its database, especially after 9/11. Eventually, in an effort to keep this program hidden, the DEA's Special Operations Division started passing on intel to prosecutors and feds as "tips" that they could act on. When Reutersblew the lid off that practice in 2013, it gave this scenario as an example: A field agent would get a call from an informant, telling him to intercept a particular van at a certain time and location. However, that agent wouldn't be allowed to tell the court about the tip. Instead, he would have to reconstruct the case and find a way to arrive to the result without mentioning the DEA's participation.
After USTO was put to a stop post-Snowden revelation -- all records were reportedly purged -- DEA agents had to start getting call records via more difficult means. Now, they have to send carriers subpoenas daily to get those logs, and only for numbers already linked to drug trade or other crimes.
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Americans shouldn't curb their use of the Internet simply to avoid having intimate pictures or personal information intercepted by the NSA, according to Edward Snowden.
"You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing," the former surveillance contractor turned leaker told HBO's John Oliver. "If we sacrifice our values because we're afraid, we don't care about those values very much."
Snowden spoke to the "Last Week Tonight" host in Moscow, where he has been for more than a year since being charged with espionage after leaking classified information regarding the NSA's extensive surveillance programs.
Oliver asked Snowden to explain the implications of NSA surveillance on racy personal photos.
"The good news is there's no program named 'the d*** pic program'," Snowden said. "The bad news is they're still collecting everybody's information including your d*** pics.
He added: "When you send your junk through Gmail, for example, that is stored on Google's servers. Google moves that data from data center to data center invisibly to you. Without your knowledge, your data could be moved outside the borders of the United States temporarily. When your junk was passed by Gmail the NSA caught a copy of that."
The North Carolina-born Snowden also explained his decision to reveal classified information, saying he wanted to make Americans aware that government agencies were snooping on U.S. citizens.
"I worked with mass surveillance systems against Chinese hackers I saw that these things have some purpose," he told Oliver. "What you don't want is them spying inside your own country. Spies are great when they're on your own side. When they're off the leash they can end up coming after us.
"I did this to give the American people a chance to decide for themselves the kind of government they want to have. That is a conversation that I think the American people deserve to decide."
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NSA Spy Cam Blocker. Credit: Store.RandPaul.com
"That little front facing camera on your laptop or tablet can be a window for the world to see you - whether you know it or not! Stop hackers and the NSA with this simple camera blocker. Safe and practical," the online store says of the product.
Several of the Paul products include visuals of the Constitutionincluding a T-shirt and an iPhone casewhich is a political theme for the son of libertarian icon and former Texas congressman Ron Paul.
"I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government," a quote attributed to Paul says on his sitewhich broke the news the senator would run ahead of his scheduled midday in-person announcement.
The store even offers a $1,000 Paul-autographed Constitution. "It's hard to find a greater defender of the U.S. Constitution in the Halls of Congress than Rand Paul," the item's description says.
But the merchandise goes beyond accessories: Paul's branded clothing is "fashion for a cause," his website says.
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"It's easy to be a fashion plate for the world's biggest brands. When you wear the Rand Brand, you look good and stand for something bigger than all of us ... liberty," the site boasts, adding "Thomas Jefferson would be proud."
Such fashion includes a T-shirt proclaiming "Don't Drone Me, Bro!"
Even the payment options take a decidedly contemporary twist for the Kentucky senator's campaign. In addition to credit card and PayPal choices, Paul's website allows supporters to donate in bitcoin (the cryptocurrency boasts a strong following among a subset of libertarians).
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Malzberg | General Michael Hayden (R-USAF): NSA Phone Surveillance Programs Could End
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NSA Expert, James Bamford, Discusses Privacy and Surveillance
In celebration of the UCLA Board on Privacy and Data Protection #39;s 10th anniversary, the Board is hosting an afternoon presentation and reception with expert and decades-long chronicler of the...
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Local television showed two damaged vehicles near a gate and emergency workers loading an injured uniformed man into an ambulance. (AP)
(Updated: FBI identifies man involved in deadly incident at NSA security gate)
The overnight tryst began in Baltimore, with three men, two dressed as women. It continued at a motel on U.S. 1, and when one of the men woke up Monday morning, his two cross-dressing companions, and his Ford Escape, were gone.
The dark-colored Escape was headed south on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. Its driver, in what authorities believe could have been a mistake, took a restricted exit leading to a security post at the sprawling campus of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Md.
An NSA statement said the driver ignored police commands to stop and instead accelerated toward a police vehicle as at least one officer opened fire. The stolen SUV crashed into the cruiser. One man died at the scene, and the other was taken to a hospital for treatment. An NSA officer also was injured, though officials did not say how.
What had first appeared to be an attempt to breach security at the listening post that eavesdrops on communications throughout the world now appears to be a wrong turn by two men who police believe had robbed their companion of his vehicle and perhaps didnt stop because there were drugs inside.
A spokeswoman for the Baltimore office of the FBI, Amy J. Thoreson, said early in the investigation that authorities do not believe [the incident] is related to terrorism. A law enforcement official said: This was not a deliberate attempt to breach the security of NSA. This was not a planned attack.
Police have not released the identities of the people involved, or the conditions of the man who survived the incident and the injured NSA officer. The NSA statement did not say whether either person in the car was struck by gunfire or was injured as a result of the crash.
Details about how the incident began were pieced together with information from several law enforcement officials and others familiar with the case, who spoke on the condition they not be named in order to discuss a pending case.
A Howard County police spokeswoman confirmed that the men involved stayed at a Jessup motel and that the owner of the SUV called police Monday morning to report it stolen.
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NSA Shooting News - One Killed at Fort Meade Gate
News about the NSA gate shooting : One man was killed after trying to enter to Fort Meade.
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One dead, one injured in incident near NSA in Maryland
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Shep Hyken CSP NSA USA #NSAA2015 Loved the Leaning In Message with Tarran Deane
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2 Crossdressers Penetrate NSA Headquarters!
NSA Fails to prevent crossdressers from penetrating its headquarters despite mass surveillance. That #39;s because mass surveillance is meant to control the population http://www.infowars.com/nsa-fail...
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FBI Identifies Man Killed at NSA
The FBI identified the man shot and killed outside the gate of the National Security Agency on Monday as Ricky Shwatza Hall. LET #39;S CONNECT: Baltimore Sun http://bsun.md/1GFAzL3 Google+...
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