Summary: Marcus Ranum, our in-house cyber-expert, looks at the next stage of the government’s defense against the revelations of NSA surveillance. Like the surveillance itself, they rely on non-governmental agents to get the job done.
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(a) Comments on the Empire Striking Backs:
- “Edward Snowden and the selective targeting of leaks“, Jack Shafer, Reuters, 11 June 2013
- “The Sickening Snowden Backlash“, Kirsten Powers, Daily Beast, 14 June 2013 — “It’s appalling to hear the Washington bureaucrats and their media allies trash Edward Snowden as a traitor, when it’s our leaders and the NSA who have betrayed us”
(b) About surveillance:
- “How Britain Eavesdropped on Dublin“, The Independent, 16 July 1999
- “AT&T Whistle-Blower’s Evidence“, Wired, 17 May 2006
- “Ministry of Defence hid microwave phone-tap tower inside nuclear plant“, Richard Lamont, 1999
(c) See Wednesday’s post for links to a wide range of information about the surveillance of US citizens.
(d) Posts about these revelations, and what they show about America:
- Attention fellow sheep: let’s open our eyes and see the walls of our pen, 2009 — Five years ago these programs, and their growth, were easily visible. We just didn’t want to see.
- The NSA news might be a birthday for the New America!, 7 June 2013
- The US government spies on us because America is a democracy, 8 June 2013
- Our opinion leaders defend the government’s surveillance programs, 10 June 2013
- The government says “We do not have ‘direct’ access to your info …”, 11 June 2013
- Someone call Nixon’s plumbers. We need them again., 13 June 2013
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The Scorecard: Snowden Approval Rating 54%, Obama 46%, Congress 17%
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/06/14/the-scorecard-snowden-approval-rating-54-obama-46-congress-17/
Edward Snowden’s worst fear has not been realised – thankfully
The NSA whistleblower’s only concern was that his disclosures would be met with apathy. Instead, they’re leading to real reform
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/14/edward-snowden-worst-fear-not-realised
Color me unconvinced. So far I see the usual scandal pattern. Noise, pretty words. Perhaps we will go to the next stage: Congressional hearings.
Wake me when Obama signs legislation or an Executive Order.
Not quite demonization, but still worth mentioning. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/06/some-questions-and-about-edward-snowden
Kevin Drum, the consistent partisan, is more or less saying Snowden is an idiot we shouldn’t pay attention to, in not so many words.
Tradefaction,
Thanks for posting this. I read Drum rarely, so don’t know the background.
But we seem to be seeing a possible path to tyranny for America. The surveillance state has broad support by both parties — and the tech companies who are our idols (no matter how monopolistic or predatory). This is a coalition, large and difficult to stop.
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Cheney says NSA monitoring might have prevented 9/11
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/16/18987472-cheney-says-nsa-monitoring-could-have-prevented-911?lite
How could it? If the CIA had the crucial information? Or the FBI?
How quickly Cheney “forgot” that the FBI had agents trying desperately to get attention within the agency regarding mysterious arabs who wanted to learn to fly, and the CIA got (and did not pass on) warnings from Egyptian secret police.
If I were Cheney I’d also be trying to rewrite history (especially my part in it) but these are bald-faced lies.
Addendum: the NSA was monitoring prior to 9/11. If monitoring would have prevented 9/11, why didn’t it?
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