Germany Caught Spying on Israeli Prime Minister's Office
Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service has been spying on Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office for years, according to the German newspaper Der Spiegel.
The NSA Says It Will Finally Stop Spying On Millions of Americans at Midnight on Saturday
At midnight on Saturday, the federal government’s bulk data-gathering program for American phone conversations will come to an end at last.
Walmart's Absurd, Paranoid Corporate Spying Operation
It is actually very sad that you may not be shocked to learn that America’s largest corporate employer used expensive private spies to surveil its own employees who had the audacity to ask not to be paid poverty wages.
Judge Allegedly Asked FBI Agent to Spy on His Family, Offered to Pay in Beer
A judge in North Carolina’s Wayne County Superior Court is accused of abusing his power by asking a known FBI agent to snoop on his family members’ text messages. Judge Arnold Ogden Jones offered the agent two cases of beer in exchange for a disk full of texts, according to the federal indictment against him.
AT&T Went Above and Beyond to Help the NSA Spy on the Internet
According to documents provided to the New York Times and ProPublica by Edward Snowden, AT&T and the NSA have maintained for decades a “highly collaborative” relationship that has facilitated the government agency’s ability to spy on enormous quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States.
The Internet Knew About the Government's Spy Planes Two Years Ago
Today’s AP report on the FBI’s secret use of dummy corporations and surveillance planes is startling—but what’s almost as surprising is that the same information has been circulating in the internet’s darkest corners for years.
Two Years After Snowden Leaks, Senate Finally Passes NSA Reform
Two days after the sections of the Patriot Act that authorized the NSA’s phone data collection program expired in the face of a Rand Paul filibuster, the Senate passed a bill Tuesday to reinstate it, but with restrictions on what the agency can collect. President Obama, who supported the USA Freedom Act, is expected…
Federal Appeals Court: NSA's Phone Snooping Violates the Patriot Act
The National Security Agency’s widespread collection of telephone records is illegal and not authorized by Congress, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday in ACLU v. Clapper. A New York District court had previously refused to even review the bulk collection program, saying it was “for the other two…
A Terrified Nation Gets the NSA Debate It Deserves
Edward Snowden, an enemy of America, released top secret information so powerful that it would destroy the government's ability to keep Americans safe. Information so powerful that, in fact... nothing has changed.
CIA Admits it Snooped on U.S. Senators' Computers
The Central Intelligence Agency admitted Thursday that its spooks hacked the computers of senators and their staffers who were investigating "war on terror"-era torture and detention allegations against the agency.
Why Did Wikileaks Name "Country X" When Glenn Greenwald Wouldn't?
Earlier this week, the Intercept revealed another bombshell from Edward Snowden's cache of government secrets: The NSA soaks up all the mobile phone calls from the Bahamas and another country. When they didn't name that country, Wikileaks did. The question now is: why the secrecy?
Michael Kinsley Comes Out Against Journalism
With the release of Glenn Greenwald's new book about Edward Snowden, it is once again time to fire up the bizarre parade of media pundits condemning the practice of journalism. Up today: Michael Kinsley.
The NSA's Wizards Are Recording Every Single Phone Call
The unspooling revelations of what exactly the NSA has been up to are proof that sometimes, the paranoid lunatics are absolutely correct. Today we learn that the spy agency has been recording 100%—all!—of the phone calls made in an entire country.
Report: CIA Spied on Senate Intelligence Staffers
According to a report in McClatchy, the CIA secretly monitored computers used by Senate Intelligence Committee staffers that the spy agency had provided for the review of thousands of pages of classified documents.
Thatz Not Okay: Is My Landlord's Boyfriend Spying on Me?
I moved into the second bedroom of a house owned by a woman my age. It quickly became apparent that she was anorexic, controlling, and neurotic.
NSA Pleased to Learn America Is Ignoring It
The past year brought seemingly endless revelations about the mind-blowing extent of the NSA's spying on all of us. Last week, the president finally gave a speech about reforming the NSA. Nobody listened to it.
Obama: NSA Surveillance Is Awesome and Also Awful and Um... Yeah. USA!
In response to the uproar over NSA spying allegations, President Obama called for modest reforms to federal data collection Friday in a long, complicated speech that tried to thread a difficult needle, appearing adequately patriotic and tough on terror while respecting Americans' civil liberties.
CIA Secretly Storing Vast Amounts of Financial Data About Americans
Just like their Snowden-exposed colleagues at the NSA, the CIA is storing data in bulk that includes personal and financial information about American citizens. According to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, the CIA has built a giant database of international money transfers handled by companies like…
Michael Hayden, the Voice of Terror
Michael Hayden, the former head of the NSA and the CIA, is the official mouthpiece of the American surveillance state. His blithe, unquestioning acceptance of the idea that privacy is a foolish notion is horrifying. And for that, he is valuable.
U.S. Has Been Spying on Merkel Since 2002 and Obama Possibly Knew
A new report in Der Spiegel says the the United States has been spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel since 2002, and a different report (albeit from a less reputable source) says President Obama knew about it.
