Carriers Got 1M Gov’t, Police Requests for Data in 2012

Requests for customer mobile phone data from federal, state, and local authorities topped 1 million last year

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CIA Secretly Collects Global Records of Financial Data

The CIA is secretly collecting bulk records of international money transfers handled by companies like Western Union — including transactions into and out of the US

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The Last Patriots in Congress

Worse, the NSA has cloaked its operations behind such a thick cloud of secrecy that even if the NSA promised reforms, we would lack the ability to verify them

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$52 Billion ‘Black Budget’ - U.S. Spying Revealed in Leaked Report

The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from former ­intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny

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NSA Intentionally Abused Spying Powers

National Security Agency analysts deliberately ignored restrictions on their authority to spy on Americans multiple times in the past decade

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Gitmo Costs $2.7 Million Annually Per Inmate

President Barack Obama continues to call for closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison, but it’s not just supposed human rights violating inching him along. Keeping the detention center open will cost the government $5.2 billion by the end of next year

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House Forces Vote on Amendment That Would Limit NSA Surveillance State

Congressional opposition to the NSA’s bulk surveillance on Americans swelled on Tuesday as the US House prepared to vote on restricting the collection of US phone records and a leading Senate critic blasted a “culture of misinformation” around government surveillance

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The Irrationality of Giving Up This Much Liberty

It is not rational to give up massive amounts of privacy and liberty to stay marginally safer from a threat that, however scary, endangers the average American far less than his or her daily commute

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NSA’s Secret Verizon Spying Order Targeted American Citizens

The latest revelation of the extent of the NSA’s surveillance shows that it has focused specifically on Americans, to the degree that its data collection has in at least one major spying incident explicitly excluded those outside the United States

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Electronics Can Be Searched Based on Hunches

U.S. border agents should continue to be allowed to search a traveler’s laptop, cellphone or other electronic device and keep copies of any data on them based on no more than a hunch, according to an internal Homeland Security Department study

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