This is the logo for NSA’s latest spy satellite launch … Ready for launch? An Atlas 5 will blast off at just past 11PM, PST carrying an classified NRO payload (also cubesats) pic.twitter.com/ll7s0nCOPg — Office of the DNI (@ODNIgov) December 5, 2013 … seriously “Ready for launch? An Atlas 5 will blast off at just past 11PM, PST carrying an classified NRO payload (also cubesats),” tweeted the Office of the
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August 16, 2013
“NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year.” [Darleen Click]
… but it’s a phony scandal! Do read the whole article. Much of it confirms what has already been suspected by the revelation of the vast hoovering of American citizen communications. Yet, what comes through here is the cavalier attitude of those connected with NSA towards the data gathered and the equivocations used to deflect concern. The documents, provided earlier this summer to The Washington Post by former NSA contractor
August 8, 2013
NSA: You know it has to be really, really bad … [Darleen Click]
… to have the New York Times dragged kicking and screaming to run an article on A1 about NSA gathering the CONTENTS of emails and text messages: The N.S.A. is not just intercepting the communications of Americans who are in direct contact with foreigners targeted overseas, a practice that government officials have openly acknowledged. It is also casting a far wider net for people who cite information linked to those