Monthly Archives: July 2013

Congress Is Holding Hearings on Government Spying … Here’s a Cheat Sheet If you’ve been too busy to catch up on the details of the spying scandal, here’s an overview: The government is spying on just about everything we do.  … Continue reading →

It’s WORTH Calling Unless you are among the one-quarter of Americans who like being a  slave to government surveillance and unnecessary anti-terror laws like the Patriot Act that have gutted our freedom, you should call your Congress critters and demand … Continue reading →

The Separation of Powers Which Define Our Democracy Have Been Destroyed The Department of Justice told a federal court this week that the NSA’s spying “cannot be challenged in a court of law”. (This is especially dramatic given that numerous … Continue reading →

Compare NSA Spying to the Inquisition McClatchy reports: [John] Conyers, the [House Intelligence] committee’s top Democrat, noted that the Fourth Amendment protects Americans from unreasonable search and seizure. “You’ve already violated the law as far as I am concerned,” Conyers … Continue reading →

And Says Snowden’s Revelations are “Helpful” One of Germany’s biggest newspapers – Spiegel – reports: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter … in the wake of the NSA spying scandal criticized the American political system. “America has no functioning democracy,” Carter … Continue reading →

Democracy v. Demarchy Do we really need politicians? Can’t we cut out the useless middlemen and do it ourselves? Professional politicians just pimp their services out to the highest bidder. And American democracy – once a glorious thing – has … Continue reading →

Start Here If You’re Too Busy to Read Up on the Spying Scandal If you’ve been too busy to keep up with the spying scandal, here’s an overview: The government is spying on just about everything we do  The government … Continue reading →

How Much Do Americans Despise Congress? Business Insider notes today: A June Gallup poll [showed that Congress] had a 10% approval rating [while] and one in March that showed North Korea with a 12% favorability rating among Americans. That’s nothing… … Continue reading →

NSA Spying Is the Kind of Thing Which Caused the Revolutionary War Against King George Georgetown professor of constitutional law Randy Barnett wrote yesterday in the Wall Street Journal: With the NSA’s surveillance program, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has … Continue reading →

Top American Officials Have Warned for Decades that Mass Surveillance by the NSA Would Lead to Tyranny We’ve repeatedly pointed out that massive surveillance of the American people started before 9/11 . That includes tapping undersea cables providing telephone and … Continue reading →

The Government Has Been Tapping Undersea Cables … And Started Before 9/11 The Washington Post published a new slide leaked by Edward Snowden showing that the NSA taps into the main undersea data cables along which telephone and internet communications … Continue reading →

The People Want Wrongdoing Exposed Bloomberg reports: A majority of U.S. registered voters consider Edward Snowden a whistle-blower, not a traitor, and a plurality says government anti-terrorism efforts have gone too far in restricting civil liberties, a poll released today … Continue reading →

Economies and Political Systems Worldwide Are Being Destroyed By Corruption We’ve extensively documented that institutional corruption in the United States has led to a collapse in trust … which is hurting the economy. And that the same thing is happening … Continue reading →

A Real Court Needs to Hear Both Sides We’ve noted that there is no real oversight by the courts or Congress on the NSA’s spying programs. The New York Times reports that the court overseeing the government’s spying programs only … Continue reading →

Top Terrorism Experts Say that Mass Spying Doesn’t Work to Prevent Terrorism The fact that mass spying on Americans isn’t necessary to keep us safe is finally going mainstream. The top counter-terrorism czar under Presidents Clinton and Bush – Richard … Continue reading →

Spying: The Big Picture If you’ve been too busy to keep up with the spying scandal, here’s an overview: The government is spying on virtually everything we do The government’s mass spying doesn’t keep us safe NSA spying did not … Continue reading →