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22 May 2015

Rein in the NSA

Political commentator Dick Morris says we desperately need to rein in the National Security Agency or NSA. The House last week voted to tone down surveillance conducted by the NSA under the Patriot Act by limiting collection of phone data from Americans. The bill–the USA Freedom Act–is currently making its way through the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is proposing a two-month extension of the law. Bad move, says Morris, as he explains in this edition of Dick Morris Reports.

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13 Feb 2014

Rand Paul Sues Obama, NSA

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, followed through on his threat to file a class-action lawsuit against President Obama and the NSA regarding the gathering of phone records. “On behalf of myself, Freedom Works and everyone in America who has a phone, we’re filing suit against the President of the United States in defense of the fourth amendment,” Paul said.  Here, Paul describes the suit on Fox News.

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24 Dec 2013

Math and the NSA Controversy

Edward Frenkel, professor of mathematics at the University of California-Berkeley, and Australian video journalist Brady Haran discuss exactly how the National Security Agency (NSA) hacked into our e-mails and social media, creating a worldwide surveillance scandal for the Obama Administration. Although the conversation gets a bit esoteric at times, Frenkel explains how the feds used modular, or clock, arithmetic, and equations with two variables to get their info in this edition of Numberphile.

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01 Oct 2013

NSA Spying on Social Media

If you posted something private online, you wouldn’t want family or friends stumbling upon it, would you? Well, recent documents have incriminated the National Security Agency (NSA) as doing just that. The latest evidence in the widening scandal says the NSA is now mining data from Facebook and other popular social-medial platforms. In the edition of SourceFed, Elliott Morgan and Lee Newton discuss the new revelation.

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06 Sep 2013

Will Youth Turn on Obama?

With Obamacare due to take effect in a few weeks, Dick Morris discusses whether the political time bomb will cause young voters to turn on the president. Morris says the first big loss for Obama, among young people, was the National Security Agency scandal, starring former CIA employee and whistleblower Edward Snowden, that blew up his youthful base. “The polling suggests that his (Obama’s) job approval among people under the age of 30 was 14 percent higher pre-Snowden as opposed to current post-Snowden.” Listen in as Morris lays out the about-face in this edition of Dick Morris Reports.

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25 Jun 2013

NSA, Justice Department Sued

“If there’s one thing that [the National Security Agency (NSA)] values, it’s secrecy,” says Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Mark Rumold. “They’ve been allowed to operate in ways that aren’t always consistent with the public’s understanding of the laws and the Constitution or even other parts of the executive branch’s interpretation of the laws.”

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit over a ruling by the secretive Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). That ruling found parts of a classified Department of Justice (DOJ) surveillance program to be in violation of  the Fourth Amendment. The court’s decision only became public after a letter from the NSA to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) mentioned it.

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16 Jun 2013

How to Fight NSA Wiretapping

If it isn’t on the Internet, the government can’t find it. H/T College Humor

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09 Jun 2013

Data Mining Blowback

TomoNews Funnies out of Taiwan offers a scathing, overseas take on the Obama administration’s approval of vast data mining operations by the National Security Agency. After detailing the extent of the spying on all manner of telephonic and Internet communications, this video ends on a grim note: The Statue of Liberty gunning down random members of the public.

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