President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room at the White House, June 5, 2017, in Washington. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Trump Now Backs Permanent Spying Powers He’d Previously Criticized

Without any congressional moves to stop it, FISA Section 702 is slated at the end of the year.

by Jason Ditz

Wikileaks: CIA “False Flag” Attack Likely Used To Plant Evidence For Trump Tower Wiretap

The first “false flag” operation conducted by the CIA’s UMBRAGE program – exposed by Wikileaks’ release of the “Vault 7” documents – may have involved planting “proof” that led to the approval of a request to wiretap Trump Tower last October.

Wikileaks: CIA “False Flag” Attack Likely Used To Plant Evidence For Trump Tower Wiretap

WASHINGTON, DC – Like many of the scandals and controversies involving President Trump, it all started with a tweet. Last Saturday, Trump made a daring accusation against his predecessor Barack Obama, accusing Obama of wiretapping his campaign headquarters in Trump Tower in

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Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb is a writer and researcher for The Last American Vagabond and a MintPress News contributor and former staff writer. She has contributed to several independent media outlets and her work has been featured by The Real News Network, The Ron Paul Institute, The Zero Hour, and The Jimmy Dore Show, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.

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US Surveillance Of Yahoo Email Seeks To Weaken Concept Of ‘Privacy’

Back in October, it was revealed that Yahoo has been scanning every single email of every single account belonging to every single user, likely covering in excess of a billion separate accounts.

US Surveillance Of Yahoo Email Seeks To Weaken Concept Of ‘Privacy’

(REPORT) — Officials familiar with the NSA surveillance program targeting Yahoo’s email service say that the program reflects an ongoing effort to dramatically weaken the concept of “privacy” online, resting heavily on nebulous

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Snowden Disclosures Helped Reduce Use Of Patriot Act Provision To Acquire Emails

Leaks in 2013 helped shift FBI away from using controversial Section 215 to acquire email and other metadata, US justice department watchdog finds.

Snowden Disclosures Helped Reduce Use Of Patriot Act Provision To Acquire Emails

Edward Snowden’s disclosures were partially responsible for reversing a massive growth in the use of a controversial provision of the Patriot Act for acquiring email and other so-called “business records”, the US justice department’s internal watchdog has found. The Patriot Act provision, known as Section 215, permits intelligence and law

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Obama Lawyers Asked Secret Court To Ignore Public Court’s Decision On Spying

Justice Department’s national security chief cites six-month transition period in the USA Freedom Act as a reason to turn the bulk surveillance spigot back on.

The legal request, filed nearly four hours after Barack Obama vowed to sign a new law banning precisely the bulk collection he asks the secret court to approve, also suggests that the administration

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What You Need To Know About The FISA Court—And How It Needs To Change

Should interpretation of the laws and Constitution of the United States take place in one-sided secretive courts, away from the public eye?

What You Need To Know About The FISA Court—And How It Needs To Change

Should interpretation of the laws and Constitution of the United States take place in one-sided secretive courts, away from the public eye? For years, it has. But even Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) judges don’t agree on how exactly the FISC should work. Since the Snowden disclosures, hundreds of lawmakers have made it clear that

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Newly Revealed Snowden Docs Expose Near Global Reach of NSA

FISA court–which operates in secret and provides no real oversight–gave OK for vast scope of “foreign intelligence gathering.”.

The U.S. National Security Agency was given legal authority to gather communications covering nearly the entire globe, the Washington Post has revealed. A 2010

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