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New NSA leaks show how US is bugging its European allies

US intelligence services are spying on the European Union mission in New York and its embassy in Washington, according to the latest top secret US National Security Agency documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.

One document lists 38 embassies and missions, describing them as "targets". It details an extraordinary range of spying methods used against each target, from bugs implanted in electronic communications gear to taps into cables to the collection of transmissions with specialised antennae.

Along with traditional ideological adversaries and sensitive Middle Eastern countries, the list of targets includes the EU missions and the French, Italian and Greek embassies, as well as a number of other American allies, including Japan, Mexico, South Korea, India and Turkey. The list in the September 2010 document does not mention the UK, Germany or other western European states.

US intelligence targeted Italy and France embassies

LONDON: France, Italy and Greece were among 38 "targets" of spying operations conducted by US intelligence services, according to documents leaked to Guardian newspaper by fugitive former CIA operative Edward Snowden.

One of the leaked US National Security Agency(NSA) files said that intelligence officials targeted embassies and UN missions by implanting bugs in electronic communications gear, tapping into cables and collecting communications using specialised antennae, according to a report on the Guardian's website Sunday.
Attempts were made to eavesdrop on the French, Italian and Greek embassies in Washington while Japan, Mexico, South Korea, India and Turkey were all named as subjects of operations in a 2010 document.German weekly Der Spiegel earlier revealed that the European Union was one of the "targets" of Washington's huge Internet spy programme, with bugs hidden in EU offices in Brussels and the US.

NSA Can Store A Billion Cell Phone Calls Every Day - The Guardian | ET | The Guardian Website Blocked

Glenn Greenwald: NSA Can Store A Billion Cell Phone Calls Every Day

Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald says he has another big scoop about the National Security Agency's surveillance practices up his sleeve.

Speaking over Skype to the Socialism Conference in Chicago, Greenwald claimed that the NSA has the ability to store one billion phone calls each day.

Greenwald's reporting earlier this month sparked the scandal over NSA surveillance practices that is currently plaguing the Obama administration. The stories were based on classified documents leaked to him by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and Greenwald indicated Friday night that he's sitting on several more -- one of which he decided to talk about even though his story on it hasn't been public.

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The Guardian Blocked By The Army After NSA Stories

The Guardian's recent stories about NSA surveillance have been blocked across the entire US Army , the Monterey Herald reported on Thursday night.

The paper has made huge waves, of course, with its series of explosive stories about the NSA's highly classified surveillance programs. Though it has

always maintained an American presence, its visibility has skyrocketed in the wake of the scoops.

Fewer than 300 phones under lens in 2012: US | ET | Obama Thinks It Violates Customer Privacy

Fewer than 300 phones under lens in 2012: US

300 Phones under lens

WASHINGTON: The US government only searched for detailed information on calls involving fewer than 300 specific phone numbers among the millions of raw phone records collected by the National Security Agency in 2012, according to a government paper obtained by Reuters on Saturday.

The unclassified paper was circulated on Saturday within the government by US intelligence agencies and apparently is an attempt by spy agencies and the Obama administration to rebut accusations that it overreached in investigating potential militant plots.

The administration has said that even though the NSA, according to top-secret documents made public by former agency contractor Edward Snowden, collects massive amounts of data on message traffic from both US based telephone and internet companies, such data collection is legal, subject to tight controls and does not intrude on the privacy of ordinary Americans.

The paper circulated on Saturday said that data from the NSA phone and email collections programmes not only led US investigators to the ringleader of a plot to attack New York's subway system in 2009, but also to one of his co-conspirators in the United States.

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NSA Wants To Filter People's Emails And Tweets | ET | NSA snooping: Facebook reveals details of data requests

Keith Alexander, NSA Director, Wants To Filter People's Emails And Tweets, According To Expert

The National Security Agency isn't quite sure that it's doing enough when it comes totuning into people's digital lives. A profile of NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander in Wired magazine offers this frightening possibility: One day the organization may intercept online communications directly.

"In his telling, the threat is so mind-bogglingly huge that the nation has little option but to eventually put the entire civilian Internet under his protection, requiring tweets and emails to pass through his filters, and putting the kill switch under the government’s forefinger," wrote James Bamford for the magazine. It may seem like an exaggeration, but Bamford, author of about a half dozen books on the agency, should know better than anyone else.

Read the rest of Wired's profile of Alexander.

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NSA snooping: Facebook reveals details of data requests

Facebook reveals snooping details

WASHINGTON: Facebook revealed on Friday it received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for user data from US authorities in the second half of last year, as it seeks to shield itself from a growing scandal. 

The requests covered issues from child disappearances to petty crimes and terror threats and targeted between 18,000 and 19,000 accounts, the social networking site said, without revealing how often it complied with the requests. 

Facebook "aggressively" protects its users' data, the company's general counsel Ted Ullyot said in a statement. 

"We frequently reject such requests outright, or require the government to substantially scale down its requests, or simply give the government much less data than it has requested. And we respond only as required by law," he added. 

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NSA Surveillance Violates Constitution | ET | Facebook and Microsoft Release Numbers on Government Information Requests

Al Gore: NSA Surveillance Violates The Constitution

Former Vice President Al Gore broke with many of his fellow Democrats Friday and said that the NSA surveillance programs violate the constitution.

"This in my view violates the constitution. The fourth amendment and the first amendment – and the fourth amendment language is crystal clear," he told The Guardian, which revealed the agency's phone surveillance and reported on its Internet data-mining. "It is not acceptable to have a secret interpretation of a law that goes far beyond any reasonable reading of either the law or the constitution and then classify as top secret what the actual law is."

"I quite understand the viewpoint that many have expressed that they are fine with it and they just want to be safe but that is not really the American way," he added.

Gore called "blanket" surveillance "obscenely outrageous" in a tweet on June 5. Nevertheless, he has mostly criticized Obama over climate change, an issue where the 2000 presidential nominee won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in 2007.

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Facebook and Microsoft Release Numbers on Government Information Requests

Facebook has disclosed that it has received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests from “government entities in the U.S.” in the six month period ending December 31, 2012.  These requests are “from any and all government entities in the U.S. (including local, state, and federal, and including criminal and national security-related requests),” according to a blog post written by Facebook general counsel Ted Ullyot.

And, according to Reuters, Microsoft disclosed Friday that it has received between 6,000 and 7,000 government requests during the last six months of 2012 that affected between 31,000 and 32,000 users.

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Man Stab's Brother Over Macroni & Cheese .!

Randy Zipperer Allegedly Stabs Brother After Macaroni And Cheese Goes Missing

Randy Zipperer, 47, has been charged with aggravated battery and obstructing an officer without violence.

Looks like this guy wasn't using his noodle.

Randy Zipperer, 49, is accused of stabbing his younger brother following an argument about missing macaroni and cheese.

A witness told deputies in Volusia County, Fla. that Randy and his brother, 47-year-old Edward Zipperer, started arguing over Randy's missing macaroni and cheese, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported. His younger brother helped him look, but during the mac-hunt, Edward knocked over a beer Randy had been drinking.

The spill allegedly made Randy even angrier, and deputies say he began waving around a knife that wound up inserted in his brother's stomach.

When deputies arrived, Edward had a small puncture wound in his abdomen. Investigators noted a trail of blood between the kitchen and bedroom, according to Click Orlando.

Randy allegedly admitted that "I poked him a little with the knife, but I didn't mean to."

He has been charged with aggravated battery and obstructing an officer without violence.
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Controversial spying programme helped nab Headley \ET\ US secret surveillance programme failed to track Headley

US secret surveillance programme failed to track Headley: Report

Headley 

WASHINGTON: Questioning the effectiveness of America's secret surveillance programme, a top investigative publication here has said the US intelligence failed to track Mumbai attack convict David Headley and he was arrested only after a tip off was provided by the British intelligence.


The US officials have repeatedly mentioned Headley's case to defend the controversial spying programme, saying the surveillance had been critical in thwarting potential terror attacks and also to track the 2008 Mumbai attack convict. 

"The government surveillance only caught up with Headley after the US had been tipped by British intelligence. And even that victory came after seven years in which US intelligence failed to stop Headley as he roamed the globe on missions for Islamic terror networks and Pakistan's spy agency," said ProPublica, an investigative publication. 

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Controversial spying programme helped nab Headley: Top American lawmaker

WASHINGTON: Defending the controversial phone and internet surveillance programmes of the US, a top American lawmaker backed the stand of the country's leaders and said it had prevented several terrorists' attacks and helped in nabbing David Headley, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks convict. 

Congressman Peter King, chairman of the counterterrorism and Intelligence Subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee, said yesterday during a Congressional hearing. 

"The Director of National Intelligence (DNI), General (James) Clapper, has revealed that Headley's terror ties were discovered through the same National Security Agency programs that have come under criticism in past days," King said during the hearing which debated the threat being posed by LeT for a Mumbai type attack on the US. 

The Internet With The Potential To Change The World & Embarrassed USA ..!!

The First Technological Innovation Since The Internet With The Potential To Change The World

Even within the infrastructure of the American surveillance apparatus, the National Security Agency is notoriously secretive. The spy agency jealously guards from public view practically all aspects of its operations, from the information it collects to its plans for a massive 100,000-square-foot building being constructed in the Utah desert.

But when it comes to the agency's primary tool for making sense of all that data, the NSA hasn't been secretive at all. Indeed, two years ago, it made public the very code for a key program it uses to analyze the firehose of information pouring into its computer servers.

The NSA’s decision to give away that code to developers has helped fuel what is now a booming trend in technology known as "big data." The technology, Accumulo, makes it possible for companies to sift through massive amounts of information with essentially the same degree of sophistication and security as the country's top spy agency.

The use of computers to spot connections along a trail of digital breadcrumbs is hardly new. For years, major companies, from Amazon to Facebook to Google, have analyzed customer information to suggest books, friends or search results.

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Embarrassed USA closes ranks over snooping disclosures

WASHINGTON: An embarrassed American establishment began rolling out a ''national security'' imperative as an explanation for Washington's secret monitoring of electronic communication worldwide, even as the first lawsuit challenging the constitutional validity of government snooping was filed on Tuesday. 

In its constitutional challenge, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argued that the NationalSecurity Agency's program violates the U.S First Amendment rights of free speech and association as well as the right of privacy protected by the Fourth Amendment. The complaint also charges that the dragnet program exceeds the authority that Congress provided through the Patriot Act. 

"It is the equivalent of requiring every American to file a daily report with the government of every location they visited, every person they talked to on the phone, the time of each call, and the length of every conversation." Jameel Jaffer, ACLU's deputy legal director, said in statement accompanying the challenge, maintaining that the dragnet program is "one of the largest surveillance efforts ever launched by a democratic government against its own citizens." 

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