All of us want security from terrorism, but at what price? The NSA, for instance, is now running roughshod over our freedoms, pretty much trashing and thrashing the Fourth Amendment. Pundit Dick Morris spells how this rogue agency, in concert with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance or FISA court, is making a mockery of American values.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has offered asylum to U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, the state-run AVN news agency reported Friday, without offering details. The report came shortly after Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said he would grant Snowden asylum in his country “if the circumstances permit.”
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Meanwhile, Snowden has received an unexpected surprise during his extended layover in a Moscow airport transit zone. Anna Chapman, the former Russian spy and current Russian model, proposed to him via Twitter. Since her spying career came to its ignominious end in 2010, Chapman has reinvented herself as a TV host and model. Marrying Chapman might not be the worst choice for Snowden, who could use the Russian passport to finally get out of the airport.
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Rep. Justin Amash (R-Michigan) and Judge Andrew Napolitano attempt to school John Stossel on the danger of a government surveillance state.
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Restore the Fourth is a day of protest on July 4th calling for the protection of the US Constitution’s Fourth Amendment. Visit Restore the Fourth’s website at http://www.restorethefourth.net/ to locate a protest near you. The movement started on Reddit and spread via 4Chan and Mozilla. Restore the Fourth will show that Americans won’t tolerate unaccountable government agencies violating their privacy. NSA, are you listening in?
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Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who broke the initial Edward Snowden NSA leaks in The Guardian, says the United States is engaged in a vast spying program, so massive that the world will be shocked to learn its scope. Greenwald appears on Fox News, and while declining to reveal specifics, promises he will soon drop another big NSA scoop.
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Michael Hayden, who previously served as the heads of both the CIA and NSA, sat down with CBS’ Bob Schieffer Sunday to weigh in on the international manhunt for Edward Snowden and how much top-secret information he has released to the public about NSA surveillance. Hayden expressed confidence that if the NSA carefully releases more details about the scope and limit of the programs, people will feel more assured, but admitted to Schieffer that “in an ideal world, I’d keep all this secret.”
Schieffer brought up President Obama downplaying the urgency of bringing Snowden back to the United States. Hayden said it’s important to get Snowden, suggesting Obama is just trying to “limit diplomatic and perhaps even political damage.” He claimed the NSA leaks have done “severe and irreversible” damage to the intelligence community, especially the potential damage it could do to U.S. foreign relations when other countries start thinking that American intelligence can’t keep secrets.
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European politicians are furious over claims that the United States spied on EU offices in Washington and New York, describing them, if true, as “abhorrent”, “intolerable” – and treating us like the enemy.
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Obama is sweating bullets in Berlin, CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson claims she was hacked and the CIA places al-Qaeda on the US taxpayers’ dime. All this, plus Muppet prisons, in this edition of THE GREAT EIGHT, hosted by Ben Crystal for the Personal Liberty Digest.
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“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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If President Obama meeting with an independent board dedicated to protecting Americans’ privacy and civil liberties today makes you feel better about the ever-expanding NSA scandal, wake up and smell the public relations. The president has been insisting there has been plenty of government oversight and reassuring the public the FISA court is transparent (the latter being such an obvious lie), and it’s almost like every time Obama or someone else in his administration says something, new information comes out to contradict it. Obama’s meeting with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board today is notable for two reasons: 1) we now know there is such a thing as the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, and 2) before today, the number of times Obama had met with this board is zero. Zilch. None.
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