Baltimore Sun The super-secret National Security Agency, traditionally reluctant to share its code-breaking secrets, is joining a new, highly classified social network that links its analysts for the first time with thousands of colleagues at other U.S. intelligence agencies. Gone are what used to b...

The Obama administration decided to release the DOJ OLC memos relating to the war on terror that the Bush administration had previously fought to keep secret. Unsurprisingly, the nine memos claim vast and sweeping powers on the part of the President to deal with any matter related to terrorism. Esse...

While the Obama administration has taken a turn in the (somewhat) right direction by choosing to charge al-Marri in the criminal justice system, they are still going to incredible lengths to defend the NSA domestic surveillance program by denying those who have been subject to surveillance even thei...

The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that a Federal Judge is questioning the constitutionality of the law designed to give the telecommunications companies blanket immunity for their illegal wiretaps. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has asked President Obama’s Justice Department to...

Wherein a NY Times critic's review of a PBS Nova special on the NSA annoys me. Beyond the general snarky tone and lack of substance, there are statements like this: The Soviet Union doesn’t even exist anymore, so it’s not really surprising that the government didn’t anticipate that the convict...

Heads up, America, it’s Tim the Talking Toilet here with the news that you probably missed because it came out the day after the Obama inauguration, upon which almost everyone in America was just sitting around in a kind of daze - like the kind that you get when you wake up from a nightmare an...

Keith Olbermann’s Countdown broke the story last night, with Russell Tice, former NSA analyst, stating explicitly that the Bush Administration (illegal) wiretap surveillance program was monitoring journalists. DailyKos has a good diary on the subject, but here’s the transcript of the Olb...

Today they wrote: In other news: Perhaps lost in the transition of presidential administrations is word that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review has affirmed the government's constitutional authority to use wiretaps to collect national-security intelligence from foreign sources. An...

Russell Tice, one of the NSA whistleblowers who exposed the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program, is speaking out now that the Bush administration is gone. On Countdown, Tice described, partially, the extent of the illegal wiretapping program. First, on the scope of the data monitoring: OLBERMANN: ...

  The NY Times allowed a liberal, disgruntled DoJ employee to expose one of our nation’s most valuable defensive programs against terrorist attack based on the man’s ignorance of the facts. I recently wrote about the traitor Thomas Tamm - who should be indicted and thrown in jail for pr...