US Senator Rand Paul has said that much of the US National Security Agency’s spying program is unconstitutional as he urged congressional hearings on the spy agency’s data collection practices. “You know, I think it would be better with more oversight, but there are some things they are doing that I fundamentally think are unconstitutional,” […]
Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship surged sixfold in the second quarter from a year earlier as the government prepares to introduce tougher asset-disclosure rules. Expatriates giving up their nationality at U.S. embassies climbed to 1,131 in the three months through June from 189 in the year-earlier period, according to Federal Register figures published today. That brought […]
Ladar Levison says the U.S. government forced him to either commit “crimes against the American people” or close his business. Now, he says, the government forbids him from even saying why. Did a FISA court demand information from Lavabit, Levison’s secure email service used by leaker Edward Snowden? Did the NSA require him to install […]
An NSA source has admitted the agency’s data collection technology makes it impossible to intercept communication with foreigners without gathering data on US citizens first. This counters Obama’s lie that US surveillance only concerns ‘terrorist threats.’ A senior official at the National Security Agency anonymously explained the process to The New York Times, broadly confirming […]
In a remarkable admission that will rock the Internal Revenue Service again, testimony released Thursday by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp reveals that an agent involved in reviewing tax exempt applications from conservative groups told a committee investigator that the agency is still targeting Tea Party groups, three months after the IRS […]
The Obama administration is demanding that major Internet companies divulge users’ stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed. The United States is appearing more and more like a Stalinist era state under the Obama administration, American freedoms are […]
Nearly half of the US homeowners, who had their loans modified under a government aid program, are now defaulting again on their mortgages at an alarming rate, according to a report on Wednesday by a watchdog organization. The report by the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), said that around 865,100 […]
By Fred Branfman July 18, 2013 “– Edward Snowden’s revelations have illuminated the most critical political issue facing America today: how an authoritarian U.S. Executive Branch which has focused on war abroad for the last 50 years now devotes increasing resources to surveillance, information management, and population control at home, posing a far greater threat to […]
A top Republican senator is pressing Attorney General Eric Holder for answers following allegations by a government watchdog that the IRS may have improperly accessed the tax records of a political donor or candidate — but the Justice Department declined to prosecute the case and instead the Department of Justice had solicited the public for […]
America controls the sky. Fear of what America might do can make countries divert planes – all because Edward Snowden might be on one. Owning the sky has somehow got to me more than controlling theinternet. Maybe because I am a simpleton and sometimes can only process what I can see – the actual sky, rather than invisible […]
