The NSA's 12-Year Struggle to Follow the Law
A change requested by the Trump administration will allow the NSA to keep information it acquired illegally. This spring, the government announced a change to the way the National Security Agency col…
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End Warrantless Deep State Spying: Don't Renew 702
Intelligence agencies that are run by Technocrats are data hoarders who are compelled to collect everything that is collectible, illegal or not. We have stated many times that American intelligence a…
Are the Shadow Brokers identical with the Second Source?
What a lot of people don't know, is that a range of classified documents from the NSA have not been attributed to Edward Snowden, which means that there was at least one other leaker inside the N…
Interview with Edward Snowden 'There Is Still Hope - Even for Me'
In an interview, whistleblower Edward Snowden discusses his life in Russia, the power of the intelligence apparatuses and how he will continue his battle against all-encompassing surveillance by gove…
NSA’s Quiet Presence at a Base in England’s Countryside Revealed in Snowden Documents
CIVIL WAR WAS raging in Libya, and Col. Moammar Gadhafi was in hiding. Two thousand miles away, on the outskirts of a small village in the English countryside, British and American spies were monitor…
CIA’s Top-Secret MK-Ultra Mind Control Research Program
Forty years later, the story still seems hard to credit: In the summer of 1977, Capitol Hill was gripped by revelations of the CIA’s top-secret MK-Ultra mind control research program, targeti…
Google is NSA
Google wants to be Big Brother’s eyeballs on you. All US internet gurus knew this since before the NSA was found out spying on everybody. But now the Mountain View boys are more determined than ever …
Alfred McCoy - Exploring the Shadows of the US Security State: How I Learned Not to Love Big Brother
This piece has been adapted and expanded from the introduction to Alfred W. McCoy's new book, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power . In the wake of th…
Trump elevates Cyber Command, setting the stage for NSA separation
The Trump administration this week elevated the US Cyber Command to a Unified Combatant Command, in a long-awaited move that underscores the growing importance of cyber warfare. The decision, announ…
Pine Gap plays crucial role in America's wars, leaked documents reveal
Intelligence from Australia's Pine Gap base is being used on US battlefields, leaked documents from the US National Security Agency have revealed for the first time. The documents reveal that the…
The U.S. Spy Hub in the Heart of Australia
A SHORT DRIVE south of Alice Springs, the second largest population center in Australia’s Northern Territory, there is a high-security compound, code-named “RAINFALL.” The remote base, in the heart o…
UFOs and the Intelligence Community Blind Spot To Surpise or Deceptive Data
The NSA Releases a Formerly Secret Document Via FOIA Request The NSA has released in full the document UFOs and the Intelligence Community Blind Spot to Surprise or Deceptive Data , following …
Film: The Tiny West Virginia Town Haunted by an NSA Secret
Antennae at the NSA listening post, codenamed TIMBERLINE, were built to capture Soviet satellite messages as they bounced off the moon, imbuing a pristine stretch of Appalachia with a sort of cosmic …
An Alternative History of Al Qaeda: The 9/11 Intelligence ‘Failure’
ClandesTime 117 - The 9/11 Intelligence 'Failure' from Tom Secker on Vimeo . In the five years running up to 9/11 the NSA were monitoring Osama Bin Laden’s satellite phone and Al Qaeda’s co…
NSA unlawfully surveiled Kim Dotcom in New Zealand: report
The National Security Agency (NSA) illegally used technology to spy on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, according to new documents from New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB…
Old NSA Records Remain Inaccessible to Researchers
Last year, the National Archives (NARA) acquired a large number of historically valuable National Security Agency records. But they remain inaccessible to researchers, at least for the time bei…
Newly declassified memos detail extent of improper Obama-era NSA spying
The National Security Agency and FBI violated specific civil liberty protections during the Obama administration by improperly searching and disseminating raw intelligence on Americans or failing to …
UFO FILES: The Untold Story
Air Force records show that the C.I.A. was notified several times of these [UFO] penetrations over nuclear missile and bomber bases The Defense Department message bears the classification CON…
Take UFOs Seriously, or Be Prepared for an Invasion by Aliens
In one the most startling government reports on UFOs ever, America's super-secret National Security Agency (NSA) says UFO are real – and warns that the country should prepare for a confron…
Whistleblowers Shouldn't Be Prosecuted Like Spies: Greenwald on Alleged NSA Leaker Reality Winner
The parent company of The Intercept—First Look Media—has announced that it will provide support for the legal defense of Reality Leigh Winner, the NSA contractor who stands accused of leaking a top-s…