Erst „du bekloppter Verschwörungstheorietiker“, dann kommen Beweise raus, und dann, nahtlos, haben es alle schon immer gewusst. Achtet mal drauf. Niemand wird sich in ein paar Wochen noch daran erinnern können, andere Leute als Verschwörungstheoretiker abgetan zu haben, weil sie behauptet haben, die NSA höre auch Amerikaner ab.

Nein, nicht ob die NSA wirklich Amerikaner vorratsdatenspeichert, wo denkt ihr hin. Wer das geleakt hat!

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President George W. Bush had ordered the FBI „to adopt a wartime mentality“ after the Sept. 11 attacks, as Bush described it in his memoir. FBI director Robert Mueller, who had taken office a week before the attacks, had done his best.

(5. Juni 2013) “Jim has a flair for the dramatic and a desire to be the moral savior of mankind,” a former Bush White House official told The Daily Beast. (…)

omey, who served as deputy to Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, had a high-profile falling out with the Bush administration when he stood up to the White House over a surveillance program he believed to be illegal.

(16.Mai 2007) Washington: “James B. Comey, die pfeilgenaue ehemalige Nr.2 des Justizministeriums, offenbarte gestern dem Justizauschuss des Senats einen so schockierenden Bericht über die Gesetzlosigkeit der Bush Administration, der unglaublich wäre, wenn er aus einer weniger glaubwürdigen Quelle stammte,” so heute die eingermassen bürgerliche “Washington Post” über das, was ihr all die Jahre wieder einmal entgangen war. Gestern hatte James Comey vor dem “Senate Judiciary Committee” von einem Geschehen berichtet, wie es einfach nur die Realität abgibt und nie einen Fim, weil der einfach zu fantastisch wirken würde.

Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, and whether we like it or not, we‘re being tracked all the time. Google tracks us, both on its pages and on other pages it has access to. Facebook does the same; it even tracks non-Facebook users. Apple tracks us on our iPhones and iPads. One reporter used a tool called Collusion to track who was tracking him; 105 companies tracked his Internet use during one 36-hour period.

WikiLeaks‘ success in the courts has come about because the blockade is based, not on law, but on a falsehood. Our own Prime Minister Julia Gillard‘s statement that WikiLeaks was ‚illegal‘ has been cited in European Courts as the justification given by the banks for the blockade.

It is this unlawful and politically driven financial blockade which we now see extended to an Australian political party.

The Guardian has verified the authenticity of the document, a 41-slide PowerPoint presentation – classified as top secret with no distribution to foreign allies – which was apparently used to train intelligence operatives on the capabilities of the program. The document claims „collection directly from the servers“ of major US service providers.

“Collection directly from the servers of these U.S. Service Providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.”
PRISM was launched from the ashes of President George W. Bush’s secret program of warrantless domestic surveillance in 2007, after news media disclosures, lawsuits and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court forced the president to look for new authority.

The unauthorized disclosure of information about this important and entirely legal program is reprehensible and risks important protections for the security of Americans.

James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence

Die Behörden haben laut Guardian und Washington Post direkten Zugang zu den Servern von Unternehmen wie Facebook, Google, Yahoo und Microsoft. Damit könnten NSA und FBI die Internetpräsenz von Nutzern überwachen und auf deren Fotos, Videos, E-Mails sowie Verbindungsdaten zugreifen.

Towards the end of my piece this morning about the administration‘s ridiculous response to the leaked evidence and confirmation that the NSA is scooping up every single phone record (confirmed from Verizon at least, though you can assume it applies to everyone else as well) was a quick note mentioning that Senator Dianne Feinstein was saying that this was a continuation of the same program that had been going on for seven years.

Following the news that broke last night that the federal government was getting full records of all Verizon phone calls, the Obama administration is now trying to defend this move, by claiming they can break the law because terrorism is scary:

The U.S. secretly collecting Verizon phone info may be well-intentioned. But as on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, argue Rob Cox and Breakingviews columnists, how it‘s used is the worry.

In what is Russia‘s first permanent naval deployment in the Mediterranean since Soviet times, it has stationed 16 warships and three ship-based helicopters in the region, the chief of staff said.

Austria to remove all 380 of its troops from the 1,000-strong UN force on the Israel-Syrian border due to clashes in Syria