John Dolva Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 (edited) http://www.wikileaks.org/NSA-and-GCHQ-spying-on-WikiLeaks.html NSA and GCHQ spying on WikiLeaks Julian Assange calls for the appointment of a Special Prosecutor to investigate the NSA, after documents show US spying on WikiLeaks and its supporters. Today, documents were published from the national security whistleblower Edward Snowden, detailing US and UK spying efforts against the publishing organization WikiLeaks. One document shows that as far back as 2010 the US National Security Agency added WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to a “MANHUNTING” target list, together with suspected members of al-Qaeda. Another shows that the NSA wanted to designate WikiLeaks as a “malicious foreign actor” in order to expand the NSA’s ability to target WikiLeaks staff, associates and supporters. And a third document, from 2012, demonstrates that the NSA’s UK partner GCHQ also spied on WikiLeaks and its readers. In response to these revelations WikiLeaks Editor Julian Assange has released the following statement: ’WikiLeaks strongly condemns the reckless and unlawful behavior of the National Security Agency. We call on the Obama administration to appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate the extent of the NSA’s criminal activity against the media including WikiLeaks and its extended network. News that the NSA planned these operations at the level of its Office of the General Counsel is especially troubling. No less concerning are revelations that the US government deployed "elements of state power" to pressure European nations into abusing their own legal systems; and that the British spy agency GCHQ is engaged in extensive hostile monitoring of a popular publisher’s website and its readers. The NSA and its UK accomplices show no respect for the rule of law. But there is a cost to conducting illicit actions against a media organization. We have already filed criminal cases against the FBI and US military in multiple European jurisdictions. The FBI’s paid informant, who attempted to sell information about me and my staff to the FBI, was imprisoned earlier this year. No entity, including the NSA, should be permitted to act against journalists with impunity. We have instructed our General Counsel Judge Baltasar Garzón to prepare the appropriate response. The investigations into attempts to interfere with the work of WikiLeaks will go wherever they need to go. Make no mistake: those responsible will be held to account and brought to justice.’ The disclosures come after yesterday’s release of two new documents from the long-running US Grand Jury against WikiLeaks. As of November 2013 the United States Department of Justice has stated that the investigation continues. For background on some of the US intelligence activities conducted against WikiLeaks, see Julian Assange’s affidavit. ___ edit format Edited February 19, 2014 by John Dolva Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 related (KEYSTONE COPS war on terror) OpEdNews Op Eds 2/18/2014 at 20:49:09 Honoring the "Accomplices" to Truth Who Caught Clapper in a LieBy Robert Scheer (about the author) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.opednews.com/articles/Honoring-the-Accomplices-by-Robert-Scheer-NSA_Snowden_Surveillance-140218-533.html clove cigarettes ........yup gotta keep track of clove cigarettes ..... (war on terror .....JOKE IT IS !!!!!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 Good point Steven, imo. Another indicator that it really is about industrial or economic espionage. That's what free enterprise is all about, making sure some are more free than others. In tandem with the questioning of Kerry's et al's credentials obviously James L. Crapper is a bit dodgy too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 (edited) John do you think the administration thinks NSA issues are “critical information” ? OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Why Is The Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors In Newsrooms? http://newswatch.us/why-is-the-obama-administration-putting-government-monitors-in-newsrooms/ ===================================================== (Matthew Clark) The Obama Administration’s Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is poised to place government monitors in newsrooms across the country in an absurdly draconian attempt to intimidate and control the media. Before you dismiss this assertion as utterly preposterous (we all know how that turned out when the Tea Party complained that it was being targeted by the IRS), this bombshell of an accusation comes from an actual FCC Commissioner. FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai reveals a brand new Obama Administration program that he fears could be used in “pressuring media organizations into covering certain stories.” As Commissioner Pai explains in the Wall Street Journal: Last May the FCC proposed an initiative to thrust the federal government into newsrooms across the country. With its “Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs,” or CIN, the agency plans to send researchers to grill reporters, editors and station owners about how they decide which stories to run. A field test in Columbia, S.C., is scheduled to begin this spring. The purpose of the CIN, according to the FCC, is to ferret out information from television and radio broadcasters about “the process by which stories are selected” and how often stations cover “critical information needs,” along with “perceived station bias” and “perceived responsiveness to underserved populations.” In fact, the FCC is now expanding the bounds of regulatory powers to include newspapers, which it has absolutely no authority over, in its new government monitoring program. The FCC has apparently already selected eight categories of “critical information” “that it believes local newscasters should cover.” That’s right, the Obama Administration has developed a formula of what it believes the free press should cover, and it is going to send government monitors into newsrooms across America to stand over the shoulders of the press as they make editorial decisions. This poses a monumental danger to constitutionally protected free speech and freedom of the press. Every major repressive regime of the modern era has begun with an attempt to control and intimidate the press. As Thomas Jefferson so eloquently said, “our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” The federal government has absolutely no business determining what stories should and should not be run, what is critical for the American public and what is not, whether it perceives a bias, and whose interests are and are not being served by the free press. It’s an unconscionable assault on our free society. Imagine a government monitor telling Fox News it needed to cover stories in the same way as MSNBC or Al Jazeera. Imagine an Obama Administration official walking in to the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal and telling it that the American public would be better served if it is stopped reporting on the IRS scandal or maybe that reporting on ObamaCare “glitches” is driving down enrollment. It’s hard to imaging anything more brazenly Orwellian than government monitors in newsrooms. Is it any wonder that the U.S. now ranks 46th in the world for freedom of the press? Reporters Without Boarders called America’s precipitous drop of 13 places in its recent global rankings “one of the most significant declines” in freedom of the press in the world. Freedom of the press is proudly extolled in the First Amendment, yet our nation now barely makes the top fifty for media freedom. We cannot allow the unfathomable encroachment on our free speech and freedom of the press to continue. We’ve seen, and defeated, this kind of attempt to squelch free speech before in the likes of the Fairness Doctrine and the Grassroots Lobbying Bill(incidentally one of my first projects at the ACLJ). Each one of these euphemistically named government programs is nothing more than an underhanded attempt to circumvent the Constitution and limit free speech – speech that the government finds inconvenient. They’re equally unconstitutional, and they each must be defeated. Join the ACLJ as we take a stand. Sign the ACLJ’s Petition to Stop the Obama FCC’s Free Speech Monitors. ################################### 1984 is ('is') here ....... Edited February 20, 2014 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 (edited) Reddit Censors Big Story About Government Manipulation and Disruption of the Internet Posted on February 25, 2014 by WashingtonsBlog ================================================== http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/02/reddit-censors-story-government-manipulation-disruption-internet.html ======== 1984 is ('is') here ....... Edited February 26, 2014 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Gaal Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 (edited) Dispatches How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations *********************************************************************** https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/ Edited February 26, 2014 by Steven Gaal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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