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When the Government Comes Knocking, Who Has Your Back?
When you use the Internet, you entrust your online conversations, thoughts, experiences, locations, photos, and more to companies like Google, Yahoo and Facebook. But what happens when the government asks these companies to hand over your private information? Will the...
This Type Of Police Brutality Needs To Stop: Ohio Officer Makes Death Threats & Goes Ape Sh*t!
On June 8, 2011 the following unfortunate arrest took place in Canton, OH. Notifying the policy when you have a firearm is required by Ohio Law, but when this individual with a thirty-day old license tries to do that he is repeatedly ordered to look away, shut up, or...
The Patriot Act’s Secret Law: How Hidden Legal Interpretations Expanded Government Surveillance
Senate Intelligence Committee Raises Alarms Over Secret Interpretations In the days leading up to the 2011 Patriot Act reauthorization vote, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee voiced serious concerns about how the Justice Department had been interpreting and...
CIA Rendition, Black Sites, and the Global Crackdown on American Covert Operations
Italy Convicts CIA Operatives for Milan Rendition In November 2009, an Italian court took the unprecedented step of sentencing 22 CIA operatives and one U.S. Air Force colonel, all in absentia, for their roles in the 2003 abduction of Muslim cleric Hassan Moustafa...
Patriot Act at Ten: 143,000 NSLs Issued, Zero Terrorism Prosecutions
Ten Years of the Patriot Act: Civil Liberties Under Siege On October 26, 2011, the USA PATRIOT Act marked its tenth anniversary. A decade of expanded surveillance authority had produced troubling results for civil liberties advocates, who argued the law's broad powers...
The Bill That Could Have Ended Internet Privacy in America
A Child Pornography Bill With Far-Reaching Surveillance Powers In 2011, the Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act made it through a House committee with a 19-to-10 vote. While framed as a tool to combat child exploitation, the bill’s actual...
The bin Laden hunter: ex-CIA man had bin Laden in his sights 10 times
Terrorist hunter Michael Scheuer tells Duncan Gardham and Iain Hollingshead how he was repeatedly ordered not to stop the al-Qaeda chief. Image 1 of 2 Michael Scheuer led a CIA bin Laden unit for three and a half years (AP) 9:00AM BST 21 May 2011 There are not many...
The Assassination of Fred Hampton How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther 1 of 3
Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. On December 4th, 1969, Chicago police raided Fred Hamptons apartment and shot and killed him in his bed. He was just twenty-one years old. Black Panther leader Mark Clark was also...
FBI Communities Against Terrorism Bulletins Targeted Preparedness Supply Purchases
The FBI Communities Against Terrorism Program and Military Surplus Stores In August 2011, the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force circulated a bulletin titled Communities Against Terrorism to military surplus store owners in Colorado. The document was part of a broader...
Technology and Surveillance at Occupy Wall Street Protests
The Occupy Wall Street movement became a flashpoint not just for economic inequality, but for a deeper confrontation between law enforcement technology and citizen journalism. As thousands gathered in New York's financial district throughout late 2011, both police and...
DOJ Proposed Criminalizing Terms of Service Violations Including YouTube Uploads
The Department of Justice proposed expanding federal cybersecurity laws to make violations of website terms of service agreements a criminal offense. Under this interpretation, actions as mundane as uploading a video that ran afoul of a platform's content policies or...
MORIS: The iPhone Iris Scanner That Gave Police Portable Biometric Identification
MORIS: The iPhone Attachment That Gave Police Iris-Scanning Capability In 2011, dozens of police departments across the United States began adopting a biometric scanning device designed to attach to an iPhone. The Mobile Offender Recognition and Information System...
Know Your Rights! Quiz
Do you know what to do when the police try to seize your server, computer, or phone? Take our quiz to see how well you know your rights when law enforcement threatens your digital data. 1) The cops have a warrant to search my computer. They're demanding my encryption...
Government Secrecy vs. Public Knowledge: The Information Security Dilemma
The Greenbrier Bunker: A Case Study in Secrecy Less than a year after the Cold War ended, one of its most closely guarded secrets was exposed when the Washington Post revealed the hidden purpose of West Virginia's Greenbrier Hotel. Beneath the luxury resort lay a...
Health Officials Raid Farm-to-Fork Dinner and Order All Food Destroyed With Bleach
Government Agents Raid Farm Dinner and Order Organic Food Bleached A community dinner event at a small organic farm in southern Nevada was shut down by health department officials who ordered all locally grown food destroyed with bleach, despite the farm owners having...
Global Intelligence Forum – Second Annual
According to the conference agenda (courtesy of cryptome.org) the theme this year will be Intelligence and the Decision Maker — focusing on the intelligence needs of leaders in the public and private sectors as they navigate a world of increasing globalisation: Also...
Jesse Ventura FEMA Camps Episode Pulled From TruTV and Scrubbed Online
TruTV Episode on FEMA Camps Pulled From Broadcast Schedule In 2010, the TruTV series "Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura" produced an episode focused on FEMA camps and domestic preparedness facilities that was pulled from the network's rebroadcast schedule shortly...
Federal Government Indicts Former Demand Progress Executive Director For Downloading Too Many Journal Articles
Cambridge, MA – Moments ago, Aaron Swartz, former executive director and founder of Demand Progress, was indicted by the US government. As best as we can tell, he is being charged with allegedly downloading too many scholarly journal articles from the Web. The...
FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists
The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has kept files on activists who expose animal welfare abuses on factory farms and recommended prosecuting them as terrorists, according to a new document uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act. This new information comes as...
Member of Hacking Group LulzSec Arrested for June 2011 Intrusion of Sony Pictures Computer Systems
LOS ANGELES—A member of the LulzSec hacking group was arrested this morning for his role in an extensive computer attack against the computer systems of Sony Pictures Entertainment, announced André Birotte Jr., the United States Attorney in Los Angeles; and Steven...
Facebook Building ‘Shadow Profiles’ of Non-Members, Experts Allege
Eight hundred million users are not enough. Facebook, the world's biggest social network, is now building profiles of non-users who haven't even signed up, an international privacy watchdog charges. The sensational claim is made in a complaint filed in August by...
FBI Expanded Domestic Surveillance Powers and the New Operations Manual
The FBI's 14,000 agents gained sweeping new investigative powers through a revised operations manual that loosened longstanding restrictions on domestic surveillance. The updated Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide expanded agents' ability to search...
FOIA Documents Raise Questions About CDC Handling of Thimerosal-Autism Study
In 2011, the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs (CoMeD) released documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request that raised questions about the CDC's handling of a Danish study on Thimerosal -- a mercury-based preservative used in some vaccines -- and...
Ex-CIA: ‘Forged document’ released as birth certificate
Retired Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, the chief of Stand Up America, a national security expert and Fox News contributor, says the “Certificate of Live Birth” released in April by the White House as “proof positive” of President Obama’s Hawaiian birth is a forgery, but the...
Conspiracy of Silence – Sex Trafficking Linked to Whitehouse
In 1993 a team from Yorkshire Television came to Omaha, Nebraska to document, investigate, and un-cover the mysteries surrounding the Franklin case and the ensuing cover-up. What the team would find through the course of their near year long investigation would...
CIA: We’re Hiring – Click Here To Apply
Clandestine Service The Ultimate International Career The CIA's Clandestine Service is the front-line source of clandestine information on critical international developments, from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction to military and political issues. The mission...
Intelligence: Speeches, Reports, and Official Documents
CREST (CIA Records Search Tool) at the National Archives User's Manual for the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST) - 2003 Edition, September 30, 2003 CIA-NARA Memorandum of Understanding, November 5, 1999 CIA Transfer of Computer Equipment to NARA, September 21, 1999...
Carlyle Group RFID Subsidiary Matrics and Its Swastika-Shaped Tracking Chip
The Carlyle Group and Its Defense Industry Ties The Carlyle Group, a major private equity firm led at the time by former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, held a strategic position in the years surrounding September 11, 2001. The firm had extensive investments...
How Blood Money Freed CIA Contractor Raymond Davis in Pakistan
In March 2011, a quiet courtroom proceeding inside a Lahore prison brought an abrupt conclusion to one of the most contentious diplomatic standoffs between the United States and Pakistan. Raymond Allen Davis, a CIA contractor who had shot and killed two Pakistani men...
A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X-Z A Access Board Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Administration for Native Americans Administration on Aging (AoA) Administration on Developmental Disabilities Administrative Committee of the...