Government misconduct is now official policy. We know that thanks to Snowden. He needs a place to live. Why not you, Brazil?

Yasha Levine PandoDaily http://pando.com/ “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.” “Your digital identity will live forever… because there’s no delete button.” —Eric Schmidt Some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley recently announced that they had gotten...

Chris Hedges TruthDig.com http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/shooting_the_messenger_20131208 There is a deeply misguided attempt to sacrifice Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning and Jeremy Hammond on the altar of the security and surveillance state to justify the leaks made by Edward Snowden. It is argued that Snowden, in exposing the National Security Agency’s global spying operation, judiciously...

Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch.com http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175771/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_a_surveillance_state_scorecard/ Given how similar they sound and how easy it is to imagine one leading to the other, confusing omniscience (having total knowledge) with omnipotence (having total power) is easy enough.  It’s a reasonable supposition that, before the Snowden revelations hit, America’s spymasters had made just that mistake.  If...

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Now we know that even the president needs leaks from Edward Snowden to be fully informed about the dastardly acts of his own top spy agency.

A talk about the NSA surveillance program, by Paul George, Director of Peninsula Peace and Justice Center. November 3 at the Humanist Forum.

Each day the NSA collects contacts from an estimated 500,000 buddy lists on live-chat services as well as from the inbox displays of Web-based e-mail accounts.

These videos are the first of Mr Snowden after being granted asylum in Russia.

The bill that Senator Dianne Feinstein is busy working on is a way to provide a fig leaf for the intelligence community to do what it wants to continue to do. by Andrea Peterson Washington Post In the months since Edward Snowden revealed the full extent of National Security Agency...