Tag: Edward Snowden

U.S. Spies Have ‘Wide Range’ of Facilities on UK’s Cyprus Base Near Gaza and Share Intelligence with Israel Daily

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
An aerial view of Ayios Nikolaos Station, a British base on Cyprus which hosts a huge US spy facility. (Google Earth)

Leaked top secret documents reveal spying assets on British Cyprus are integrated with “military planning and operations”—and intelligence is likely being passed to Israel to help it bomb Gaza, further implicating Britain in war crimes.

U.S. Spies Have ‘Wide Range’ of Facilities on UK’s Cyprus Base Near Gaza and Share Intelligence with Israel Daily

Ron Wyden Wants To Know Why The DEA Still Has On-Demand Access To Trillions Of Phone Records

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

For decades, the government has used the Third Party Doctrine to obtain massive amounts of phone records without a warrant.

Even prior to the creation of the Third Party Doctrine by the Supreme Court in 1979, government agencies were obtaining phone records using pen register requests that provided them with info on numbers called and the length of the calls. This method, however, required the government to supply some information of its own: specifically, a targeted source phone number phone companies could use to search for call metadata.

Ron Wyden Wants To Know Why The DEA Still Has On-Demand Access To Trillions Of Phone Records

Six Eyes: Australia’s secret support for the Israeli assault on Gaza, through Pine Gap

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Australia is not only providing diplomatic support for the Israeli government’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, but logistics support too. Peter Cronau of Declassified Australia reports.

The Pine Gap US surveillance base located outside of Alice Springs in Australia is collecting an enormous range of communications and electronic intelligence from the brutal Gaza-Israel battlefield – and this data is being provided to the Israel Defence Forces.

Six Eyes: Australia’s secret support for the Israeli assault on Gaza, through Pine Gap

US spy agency NSA ‘hacked Huawei HQ’: China confirms Snowden leak

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Nearly a decade after documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed that the US National Security Agency(NSA) hacked the servers of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, Beijing has officially acknowledged the attack.

US spy agency NSA ‘hacked Huawei HQ’: China confirms Snowden leak

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EXCLUSIVE: US spies on Chinese mobile phone companies, steals SMS data: Edward Snowden

The Coming Fight Over American Surveillance

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The Coming Fight Over American Surveillance

But no threat of any kind is required to conduct surveillance under Section 702. The law permits surveillance of any foreigner abroad, as long as a significant purpose of the surveillance is to acquire “foreign intelligence information.” FISA defines this term extremely broadly to include any “information related to . . . the conduct of U.S. foreign affairs.” A conversation between friends about whether the United States should do more to support Ukraine would justify surveillance under this definition.

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