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NSA Courtesy Cam: The 24th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony – Video

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Snowden reveals connection between NSA and Israel's spying on Palestinians

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JERUSALEM, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- The "refusniks," a group of dissenting spies from Israel's Unit 8200 agency, spoke out against Israel's spying on Palestinians last Friday. The group of 43 dissenters wrote a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of Israel's army claiming the citizens they were spying on posed no security threat and should not be spied on any longer. Now, Snowden documents reveal the NSA may have had a hand in the spying that was done.

NPR's Arun Rath spoke with James Bamford, a journalist who's interviewed Snowden recently, and he explained documents from Snowden that show the NSA spied on Palestinian-Americans and shared the information with Israel without any censoring of names, which is something that is usually done.

"You have a lot of Palestinian-Americans who happen to live in the United States, and if their private communications with relatives in Israel and occupied Palestine, then that puts them at great risk, puts their relatives at great risk," Bamford told Arun Rath. "If they talk about confidential things in an email, or in a telephone call, what right does the U.S. government have to give that information to a government that's basically hostile to them?"

It remains unclear if the NSA has been directly involved in spying on Palestinians not located within the borders of the United States.

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MSNBC Host Interrupts Congresswoman Talking about the NSA to Report on Justin Bieber – Video

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Poll finds Americans no longer have faith in the corporate media to report the real news: http://theantimedia.org/gallup-poll-finds-american-trust-in-corporate-media-at-all-time-low/ FAIR...

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Former CIA Spy: NSA And DHS Have Not Prevented A Single Terrorist Attack – Video

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Former CIA Spy: NSA And DHS Have Not Prevented A Single Terrorist Attack
Alex Joens talks with former CIA spy Robert David Steele about the state of America. http://www.infowars.com/house-approves-plan-to-arm-and-train-isis-to-fight-isis/ Follow Alex on TWITTER...

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NSA & The Snowden Trilogy All Campaign(er)s Are Now False – Morris – Video

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Link to the Gaza refugees drowning by Malta: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/sinking-hundreds-fleeing Link to the Ship from Liberia with sick people: http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/ship-from-liberi...

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Audio Reveals How Islamofascist Terrorists Plot Attacks (NSA Internet Surveillance Program Useless) – Video

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Audio Reveals How Islamofascist Terrorists Plot Attacks (NSA Internet Surveillance Program Useless)
There is shocking new audio from a convicted terrorist talking to a jihadi operative. CNN has obtained tapes showing the secret ways foreign fighters communicate with one another. They talk...

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NSA chief has regrets on ISIS intelligence collection

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National Security Agency (NSA) Director Adm. Mike Rogers said Thursday that his agency's collection of intelligence on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, also known as ISIL) could have been "stronger."

"If I'm honest with myself, I wish the transition of ISIL from an insurgency to an organization that was now focused on holding ground, territory, the mechanism of governance....in hindsight I wish we had been a little bit - I'll only speak for me and the NSA - I wish we'd been a little stronger about," he said.

Rogers, who is also the head of U.S. Cyber Command, spoke at an intelligence summit alongside Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan and Letitia Long, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

ISIS' quick rise appeared to take the U.S. by surprise as it swept through northern Iraq, taking hold of vast amounts of territory and virtually erasing the border with Syria. Although U.S. airstrikes in Iraq helped to stem the group's expansion, the U.S. still struggles to collect enough intelligence on the group's activities.

Matt Olsen, who directs the National Counter Terrorism Center, told a House committee Wednesday that intelligence agencies have very little idea where foreign fighters go and what they do once they reach Syria, so they can't estimate how many have joined ISIS or other extremists.

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Foreign fighters from the U.S. and Western Europe who have joined extremists in Syria are particularly alarming to U.S. officials because it is easy for them to re-enter their home countries without raising suspicion and carry out attacks.

Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that stopping the flow of foreign fighters joining the ISIS will be far more important than airstrikes in the mission to stamp out the extremist group.

"The military piece is one piece. It's one component of this. It's a critical component, but it's only one component," Kerry said from Paris after meeting with representatives from 26 countries to discuss the effort.

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Middle-School Dropout Codes Clever Chat Program That Foils NSA Spying

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The National Security Agency has some of the brightest minds working on its sophisticated surveillance programs, including its metadata collection efforts. But a new chat program designed by a middle-school dropoutin his spare time may turn out to be one of the best solutions to thwart those efforts.

Prompted by Edward Snowdens revelations about the governments intrusive surveillance activities, loosely knit citizen militias of technologists and security professionals have cropped up around the world to develop systems to protect us from government agencies out to identify us online and grab our communications.

John Brooks is now among them.

Brooks, who is just 22 and a self-taught coder who dropped out of school at 13, was always concerned about privacy and civil liberties. Four years ago he began work on a program for encrypted instant messaging that uses Tor hidden services for the protected transmission of communications. The program, which he dubbed Ricochet, began as a hobby. But by the time he finished, he had a full-fledged desktop client that was easy to use, offered anonymity and encryption, and even resolved the issue of metadatathe to and from headers and IP addresses spy agencies use to identify and track communicationslong before the public was aware that the NSA was routinely collecting metadata in bulk for its spy programs. The only problem Brooks had with the program was that few people were interested in using it. Although hed made Ricochets code open source, Brooks never had it formally audited for security and did nothing to promote it, so few people even knew about it.

Ricochet is idiot-proof and anonymous.

Then the Snowden leaks happened and metadata made headlines. Brooks realized he already had a solution that resolved a problem everyone else was suddenly scrambling to fix. Though ordinary encrypted email and instant messaging protect the contents of communications, metadata allows authorities to map relationships between communicants and subpoena service providers for subscriber information that can help unmask whistleblowers, journalistss sources and others. Its not just these kind of people whose privacy is harmed by metadata, however; in 2012 it was telltale email metadata that helped unmask former CIA director and war commander General David Petraeus and unravel his affair with Paula Broadwall.

With metadata suddenly in the spotlight, Brooks decided earlier this year to dust off his Ricochet program and tweak it to make it more eleganthe knew hed still have a problem, however, getting anyone to adopt it. He wasnt a known name in the security world and there was no reason anyone should trust him or his program.

Enter Invisible.im, a group formed by Australian security journalist Patrick Gray. Last July, Gray announced that he was working with HD Moore, developer of the Metasploit Framework tool used by security researchers to pen-test systems, and with another respected security professional who goes by his hacker handle The Grugq, to craft a secure, open-source encrypted chat program cobbled together from parts of existing anonymity and messaging systemssuch as Prosody, Pidgin and Tor. They wanted a system that was highly secure, user friendly and metadata-free. Gray says his primary motivation was to protect the anonymity of sources who contact journalists.

At the moment, when sources contact a journalist, theyre going to leave a metadata trail, whether its a phone call record or instant message or email record [regardless of whether or not the content of their communication is encrypted], he says. And that data is currently accessible to authorities without a warrant.

When Brooks wrote to say hed already designed a chat program that eliminated metadata, Gray and his group took a look at the code and quickly dropped their plan to develop their own tool, in favor of working with Brooks to develop his.

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Angry NSA Employee Denies NSA Collects Information on Americans (Video)

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An NSA employee wearing name tag Neal Z. recently attended the the University of New Mexicos Engineering and Science Career Fair.

The NSA rep was trying to recruit college students to work at the controversial agency, which collects tons of metadata, emails, phone calls and various other information on American citizens.

University of New Mexico grad Andy Beale and student Sean Potter asked Neal Z. about the massive collection of information by the NSA, reports The Intercept.

Beale and Potter filmed the incident from two angles (videos below).

Amazingly, Neal Z. claimed, "NSA is not permitted to track or collect intelligence on U.S. persons.

However, after NSA leaker Edward Snowden revealed the mass surveillance of Americans by the NSA, the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, admitted to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) in an April letter that the NSA does collect information on Americans, noted The Guardian.

In June, the NSA admitted it was spying on American phone calls, reported CNET, and even the phone habits of the U.S. Congress, according to The New American.

Later, Neal Z. admitted the NSA does collect data under the guidance of the (secret) FISA court, which is not open or accountable to the public.

After Beale and Potter politely debunked several of Neal Z's claims, Neal Z. angrily threatened to call authorities to silence the two Americans: You do not know what youre talking about. If you dont leave soon, Im going to call university security to get you out of my face.

Neal Z. tried to grab Potter's iPhone, but it was Potter and Beale who were removed from the fair by campus police for causing a disturbance.

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