Mit Transparenten und Schildern spazierten Überwachungsgegner am Neubau des Bundesnachrichtendienstes in Berlin vorbei

• Secret payments revealed in leaks by Edward Snowden
• GCHQ expected to ‚pull its weight‘ for Americans
• Weaker regulation of British spies ‚a selling point‘ for NSA

Aktueller Guardian-Scoop: Die NSA hat GCHQ 100 Millionen Pfund gegeben, damit die mal ordentlich alles abschnorcheln.

XKeyScore, revealed in a Guardian newspaper story Wednesday, uses “markers to look at someone and say, `yes they are a suspect or no they are not a suspect,’” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said in a brief interview Thursday.

It is “primarily an analysis program, not a collection program that is focused outside the United States, not on Americans,” said David Grannis, staff director for the intelligence committee.

Der Zeitpunkt des Gesetzes scheint absichtlich gewählt zu sein, da er nur wenige Tage vor der Inauguration des iranischen Präsidenten Rohani am Wochenende liegt. Viele Analysten sagen, dass dieser Beschluss ein Versuch ist, jegliche möglichen Gespräche mit der Regierung Rohani zu sabotieren.

So, after there was a bombing which no intelligence agency spotted beforehand, he‘s now claiming that the NSA got to jump into action to find out that there wouldn‘t be any more bombings because there was no bigger plot.

Officers showed up at our door suspecting we were terrorists because we looked up info on pressure cookers and backpacks

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Die NSA gelangt offenbar über Level 3 an die Daten am deutschen Internetknoten DE-CIX. Das hat der Betreiber indirekt bestätig

Ich lese das in dem selben Kontext wie „Dafür gibt es keine Rechtsgrundlage“ beim Bundestrojaner. Damit meinten die ja nicht „das geht halt nicht“ sondern „wir brauchen dringend eine Rechtsgrundlage, lasst uns schnell ein Gesetz machen“.

Der BND nutzt seit 2007 XKeyscore, ein System zur umfassenden Auswertung des gesamten Internettraffics. Der BND untersteht dem Bundeskanzleramt und muss die Aufsicht informieren.

Hat der Geheimdienst dem Kanzleramt verschwiegen, dass die NSA eine solche Software nutzt?
Hat das Bundeskanzleramt das parlamentarische Kontrollgremium informiert?
Wenn nicht: warum nicht?

(10.06.) In einer geheimen Sitzung der Konferenz der Präsidenten, dem Treffen der Fraktionsvorsitzenden, wurde die Rücküberweisung an den Ausschuss bereits im Vorfeld faktisch durchgesetzt. (…)

Damit ist offensichtlich, was hinter diesem politischen Spiel steckt: Es soll solange abgestimmt werden, bis das Ergebnis passt

(05.07.) Both the EU-US passenger name record (PNR) and the terrorist financial tracking programme (TFTP) agreements are currently up for annual review.

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(29.05.) Die Nationale Koalition der syrischen Oppositions- und Revolutionskräfte hat sich bei der Europäischen Union für die Aufhebung des Embargos über die Waffenlieferungen bedankt und die Hoffnung auf die baldigste Umsetzung der Entscheidung zum Ausdruck gebracht.

During the June 7 Internal Affairs Council session in Luxembourg, a meeting was held on the initiative of the French and Belgian interior ministers to share information and actions to counter the trend of “foreign fighters“. The letter was signed by ministers from Germany, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom, and Sweden.

Nine European Union nations urged the European Parliament on Thursday to set aside privacy concerns and back plans for an EU-wide passenger data list aimed at thwarting suspected militants travelling from Europe to fight in Syria.

Third: the released documents reinforce the NSA‘s expansive definition of the word „relevant.“ In its dictionary, „relevant“ means pretty much anything it can collect, store and „interrogate“ at its convenience. This is certainly not limited to metadata.

„Ich will nicht, dass das (die Änderung der Verfassung) inmitten eines Aufschreis passiert“, sagte Aso demnach. „Es leise zu machen, so wie einst die Weimarer Verfassung zur Nazi-Verfassung geändert wurde, ohne dass es jemand gemerkt hat; warum lernen wir nicht aus dieser Art von Taktik?“

Karlsruhe 08.09.12

#Deppenkolonie_elende

„Die deutsche Weimarer Verfassung wurde unbemerkt, ohne dass es jemandem auffiel, durch die Verfassung der Nazis ersetzt. Warum lernen wir nicht von dieser Taktik?“.

“Germany’s Weimar Constitution was changed before anyone noticed. It was changed before anyone was aware. Why don’t we learn from that technique,” Japanese media quoted Mr. Aso as saying. The comments were confirmed by his office.

(31.07.)
QUESTIONER: Yes. Thank you very much. You mean that the debt is sustainable—correct?

MR. GOYAL: Well, yes.

QUESTIONER: Very good.

The International Monetary Fund warned in a report that a persistent recession and the government’s failure to accelerate overhauls may create an 11 billion-euro hole in Greece’s finances over the next two years. (…)

That set off alarm bells in some corners of the I.M.F.

He said that if Congress doesn‘t act to avoid the cuts, the Pentagon may be forced to mothball up to three Navy aircraft carriers and order additional sharp reductions in the size of the Army and Marine Corps — shortfalls the military hasn‘t seen since World War II.

“If sequester-level cuts persist, DOD would experience nearly $1
trillion in defense spending reductions over the next 10 years,” Hagel said. (..)

The secretary said senior leaders and staff members from his office, the Joint Staff, the services, the combatant commands and defense field activities all participated in the review, and all options were examined with four priorities in mind:

— Prioritizing DOD’s missions and capabilities around its core responsibility of defending the nation;

— Maximizing the military’s combat power by looking to reduce every other category of spending first;

— Preserving and strengthening military readiness; and,

— Honoring the service and sacrifice of DOD’s people. (..)

New efficiencies pointed up during the review, he said, “should be pursued regardless of fiscal circumstances.” These include:
(..)
— Reducing intelligence analysis and production at combatant command intelligence and operations centers, which also will foster closer integration and reduce duplication across the defense enterprise.

In the interest of increased transparency, the Director of National Intelligence has authorized the declassification and public release of the attached documents pertaining to the collection of telephone metadata pursuant to Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act. DNI Clapper has determined that the release of these documents is in the public interest.

Several senior members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, when approached about the breaches, said they were aware of them but declined to answer questions about their nature.

“I don’t know why you need to ask me,” said the panel’s chairwoman, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

Sensing a looming shift in the privacy-versus-security cultural calculus, the White House responded: It has ordered the director of national intelligence to recommend changes that could be made to the phone-surveillance program, and President Barack Obama invited a bipartisan group of lawmakers to the White House on Thursday to discuss their concerns about the National Security Agency‘s surveillance programs.

President Barack Obama’s national security team acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that, when investigating one suspected terrorist, it can read and store the phone records of millions of Americans.

„Wir wollen, dass auf Gewalt verzichtet wird und dass ein demokratischer Neuanfang mit Wahlen in Ägypten möglich wird, bei dem alle politischen Kräfte mitwirken können“, sagte Westerwelle bei seinem Besuch in Kairo.