passes for it, in this world of the online
political revolution. I produce stories on
stuff that I see because I can, and because
I think that we need to echo the stories of
the day. But I'm concerned about the
level of proof sometimes:
why is it that we're getting handed stories
that have been edited by a newspaper, and a
journalist after having been taken from
Snowden. When he says there's an exec order
allowing spying, I want to see it.
It's already hard enough to realise that we
can do nothing to change the Orwellian
crap that is being or will be used to control
us.
It's another to get the whistleblower talking
and yet not see the goods. So, I have
to assume the worst is true. There was an
order for an Internet shitstorm that was
ordered by the US.
I guess Germany is readying its lawyers.
So it must be true.
Read 'em: Democracy now
Terror
Bytes: Edward Snowden and the Architecture of Oppression
By
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
Edward
Snowden revealed himself this week as the whistleblower responsible for perhaps
the most significant release of secret government documents in U.S. history.
The former CIA staffer and analyst for the private intelligence consulting firm
Booz Allen Hamilton spoke to journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and
Barton Gellman in Hong Kong, providing convincing evidence that the U.S.
government, primarily the National Security Agency, is conducting massive,
unconstitutional surveillance globally, and perhaps most controversially, on
almost all, if not all, U.S. citizens.
… Snowden released Presidential
Policy Directive 20—a top-secret memo from President Barack Obama
directing U.S. intelligence agencies to draw up a list of targets for U.S. cyberattacks. Finally came proof of the program
called “Boundless Informant,” which creates a global “heat map” detailing the
source countries of the 97 billion intercepted electronic records collected by
the NSA in the month of March 2013. Among the top targets were Iran, Pakistan, Egypt and Jordan. The leaked map
color-codes countries: red for “hot,” then yellow and green. Last March, the
U.S. was yellow, providing the NSA with close to 2.9 billion intercepts.
The American Civil Liberties
Union filed
a lawsuit immediately after the programs were revealed, arguing that the
“practice is akin to snatching every American’s address book—with annotations
detailing whom we spoke to, when we talked, for how long, and from where. It
gives the government a comprehensive record of our associations and public
movements, revealing a wealth of detail about our familial, political,
professional, religious, and intimate associations.”
