Die Israelis drückten Besorgnis darüber aus, dass Wut über den Ausbau der Siedlungen und fehlenden Fortschritt im Friedensprozess, sowie die schlechte Behandlung von palästinensischen Gefangenen in israelischer Militärgefangenschaft zu einer neuen Intifada führen könnten.

Die Meldungen sind erschreckend: 2.000 Anschlagsopfer in nur zwei Monaten. Der Irak sei „kurz davor zu explodieren“, ein Höhepunkt der Gewaltwelle wäre erreicht. Die USA haben einen Scherbenhaufen hinterlassen. Derweil sprudelt dort das Öl wie nie zuvor. Doch zum Ärger der Invasoren profitiert davon hauptsächlich China.

Mehrmals wurde ich von den Einheimischen gefragt, ob es eine Bedeutung hätte warum die Bilderberger sich in England getroffen haben. Ich sagte zu ihnen, ganz sicher, denn wie die Erfahrung zeigt, passiert mit dem Land danach etwas schlimmes und sie können sich darauf gefasst machen.

The tenfold increase drew little public attention because the number of NSLs issued by the bureau was much higher – 15,229 in 2012. But as the example of Verizon showed, a Section 215 request may be used to obtain a broad array of records involving millions of people.

Even in the wake of recent revelations about the NSA, the administration has simply said Obama “welcomes” the debate.

In addition to Section 215, other provisions expanded the FBI’s power to issue so-called “national security letters,” requiring individuals and business to turn over a more limited set of records without any court order at all.

Die Mitarbeiter des Fernsehsenders ERT nutzen das Internet und den Privatkanal 902 der Kommunistischen Partei zur Übertragung einer Diskussion über das Aus für den Sender.

It was made clear to me that the original intent of government was to gain access to all the information it could without regard for constitutional safeguards. „You don‘t understand,“ I was told. „We just need the data.“

In the first week of October 2001, President Bush had signed an extraordinary order authorizing blanket dragnet electronic surveillance: Stellar Wind was a highly secret program that, without warrant or any approval from the Fisa court, gave the NSA access to all phone records from the major telephone companies, including US-to-US calls.

Polish prosecutors have extended until early October the five-year-old criminal investigation…

If that were confirmed, it would certainly change the debate somewhat. The standard justification that massive surveillance is indispensable in the fight against terrorism if lives are to be saved, would be replaced by the rather weaker one that it‘s rather handy being able to spy on Germany since its industrial secrets can be pilfered. It will be interesting to see whether any future revelations about the NSA‘s activities shed more light on this area.

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Italy is position 69 in the freedom of information classification according to the 2013 report from Freedom House. A country deemed to be partially free. Among the countries ahead of us there are Ghana, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, the Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Namibia and Guyana.

By law, CSEC mandate includes: acquiring and using “information from the global information infrastructure for the purpose of providing foreign intelligence” and providing “technical and operational assistance to federal law enforcement and security agencies in the performance of their lawful duties.”

In other words, it spies.

The federal privacy watchdog says she will look into any implications for Canada posed by possible U.S. government snooping on a wide scale.

As the NSA spying scandal lumbers along, or as some reports suggest, begins, reports of American apathy have already rolled in. Of course, those supposed indifferent shrugs tend to amount more to how the questions are being asked than actual viewpoints.

„Denn ein Imperium erfordert immer gewisse Elemente nicht nur in der Außen-, sondern auch in der Innenpolitik. Ein Imperium kann es sich nicht leisten, Schwäche an den Tag zu legen. Aber jegliches Streben, Vereinbarungen auf Paritätsgrundlage zu erzielen, wird im Land selbst als Ausdruck der Schwäche empfunden, was die Landesführung aus politischen Erwägungen heraus nicht zulassen kann.“