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Saturday, July 6, 2013
On tour, Giffords' actions speak on gun control
In this photo taken Friday, July 5, 2013, former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords greets Jackie Barden, right, mother of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Daniel Barden, as local supporter Mary Ann Sosnoff, center, looks on at the Orchard Street Chop Shop in Dover, N.H. Three years after being shot in the head, Giffords is in New Hampshire to urge support for background checks on gun purchases. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
In this photo taken Friday, July 5, 2013, former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords greets Jackie Barden, right, mother of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Daniel Barden, as local supporter Mary Ann Sosnoff, center, looks on at the Orchard Street Chop Shop in Dover, N.H. Three years after being shot in the head, Giffords is in New Hampshire to urge support for background checks on gun purchases. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
In this photo taken Friday, July 5, 2013, former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, retired astronaut and combat veteran Capt. Mark Kelly, arrive to meet with local supporters and parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School victims at the Orchard Street Chop Shop in Dover, N.H. Three years after being shot in the head, Giffords is in New Hampshire to urge support for background checks on gun purchases. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
In this photo taken Friday, July 5, 2013, former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, right, and her husband retired astronaut and combat veteran Captain Mark Kelly, center right, seen from behind, meet with New Hampshire supporters and parents of Newtown, Conn., Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims at the Orchard Street Chop Shop in Dover, N.H. Those attending include New Hampshire state Sen. David Waters, left, and Sandy Hook parents Nicole Hockley, third from left, mother of Dylan, and Jackie and Mark Barden, center, parents of Daniel. Three years after being shot in the head, Giffords is in New Hampshire to urge support for background checks on gun purchases. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
DOVER, N.H. (AP) ? Thirty months after she was shot through the head, former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords sits in a New Hampshire restaurant facing parents of children killed in the nation's latest school shooting.
They are here to talk political strategy, but Giffords doesn't say much. She doesn't have to.
The 43-year-old Democrat has become the face of the fight for gun control ? a woman now known as much for her actions as her words as she recovers from a 2011 attack that forever changed her life and ended six others. Giffords has already traveled more than 8,000 miles this week, her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, at her side, encouraging political leaders from Alaska to Maine to have the courage to defy the National Rifle Association.
"I don't think any of us thought this was going to be easy," Kelly tells three parents of children killed in the Newton, Conn., school shootings, with Giffords next to him, nodding her agreement. "This is not going to be a quick fix. But we're trying."
The couple is nearing the end of a seven-state-in-seven-day tour across America, meeting with allies and opponents alike to generate momentum for federal legislation that would expand background checks on gun purchases. It's a scaled-back version of a broad legislative package to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines proposed in the aftermath of the Newtown shooting rampage that left 20 children dead. But even scaled back, the measure was defeated in the Senate in April and has stalled in a divided Congress now preparing for its summer recess.
As Giffords' tour stretched into Maine on Saturday, the couple shared a private lunch with former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, at their estate in Kennebunkport, Maine.
It's unclear if Giffords and Kelly discussed gun control with the Bushes, who are personal acquaintances.
Giffords' cross-country trek is the centerpiece of a summertime campaign designed to pressure elected officials in their own backyards. At the same time, her recently formed super PAC and related nonprofit group have ambitious plans to expand their political clout through the 2014 midterm elections and beyond. Organizers say that the group, known as Americans for Responsible Solutions, is expected to raise at least $20 million to fuel paid television ads and political activities to coincide with the next election, the next gun control vote or both.
So far, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has bankrolled much of the campaign to expand background checks through his own organization, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, pouring more than $12 million into advertising designed to pressure lawmakers in places like New Hampshire, Arizona and Arkansas.
But this week, Giffords and Kelly are playing a more personal role. They are eating pie, sharing hugs and having frank conversations to connect with voters in traditional gun-owning states whose leaders have been largely reluctant to support expanded background checks in the face of NRA opposition.
And they are shooting guns to help make their point.
Kelly, a former Navy pilot whose parents were police officers, purchased a new rifle ? he said it was his sixth or seventh gun ? at the Village Gun Shop in New Hampshire's north country on Friday. He waited less than five minutes for a background check and later tested his Savage .30-06 bolt-action rifle at a nearby shooting range. Giffords joined him at a Nevada shooting range earlier in the week, firing a gun for the first time since a mentally ill man took aim at her and opened fire in a Tucson, Ariz., shopping center as she met with constituents. Jared Lee Loughner, 24, was sentenced in November to seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years, after he pleaded guilty to 19 federal charges in the case.
It's an attack that Kelly refers to often, using phrases like, "what happened to Gabby" and "when my wife was shot." The couple is traveling with a handful of guns packed in a suitcase ? all for personal use on their trip.
Sandy Holz, the shop's owner in Whitefield, N.H., says she's reluctant to endorse broad gun control legislation but would support a bill to requiring background checks for sales at gun shows and on the Internet, as the failed Senate bill would have done.
A Washington Post-ABC News poll in mid-May found that 67 percent of Americans felt the Senate wrongly rejected the background check bill.
A Pew Research Center poll conducted in early May found 81 percent favor making private gun sales and sales at gun shows subject to background checks, support that transcends party lines. Another 73 percent of respondents said that if the background check bill were brought up for another vote, Congress should pass it.
But there is little sign of movement in Washington.
Despite Giffords' and Bloomberg's continued lobbying, none of the bill's proponents report winning a single new vote since the measure's April defeat. If anything, their task may have grown more difficult since the death last month of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who supported the checks. He has been replaced by Republican Sen. Jeff Chiesa, whose view on the subject is unclear.
Giffords and Kelly say they will not give up despite obvious health issues.
More than two years after the attack, Giffords travels with nurses and a speech therapist, a rarely used wheelchair in tow. Her right leg and arm are partially paralyzed. She walks on her own, her right leg dragging slightly, and she climbs stairs, often with Kelly or a staff member holding her left hand.
The brain injury has also affected her ability to speak.
Giffords offers enthusiastic, but slightly slurred stump speeches on the tour, in a halting style that sometimes brings tears to the eyes of her audience ? and her staff.
"We must never stop fighting. Fight. Fight. Fight. Be bold, be courageous, the nation is counting on you," she said at a Portland, Maine press conference.
The entire speech, just 62 words, lasted less than two minutes.
The cross-country tour is run with the efficiency and detail of a presidential campaign, with schedules planned down to the minute. Surrounded by a handful of young staffers and her service dog, Nelson, Giffords and Kelly use private planes and at times helicopters, visiting venues usually frequented by politicians.
After her Friday speech, Giffords and Kelly stopped for ice cream. As she often does, Giffords expressed herself more with body language than words as they decided what to eat. She tapped her finger on the menu and said, "Apple pie."
She was greeted warmly by a steady flow of customers and restaurant staff, offering them a hug and responding to their praise with a simple "Thank you very much."
They visited New Hampshire to help remind voters that Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte opposed the background check measure.
"Sen. Ayotte respects Congresswoman Giffords and her brave recovery," Ayotte spokesman Jeff Grappone said, adding that Ayotte favors a Republican-backed bill that emphasizes improvements to the mental health system.
Giffords and Kelly know they will face continued opposition, although it comes in all forms on the tour.
Giffords exited one event through a back entrance to avoid a small group of protesters, including one carrying an AR-15 assault rifle. Shortly before they left, the man appeared to be napping in the shade with his gun at his side.
"Apparently, he got tired," Kelly later said at the dinner with Newtown parents. "You can't sleep when you've got your loaded AR-15 next to you. This is not responsible."
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Associated Press writer Alan Fram and Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta in Washington contributed to this report.
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SHAHEEN TOURS AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMUNITIES, TOUTS CLEAN ENERGY AND EFFICIENCY INVESTMENTS
Berlin, NH ? July 5, 2013 ? (RealEstateRama) ? U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) toured affordable housing communities today in Conway and Berlin and commended their investments in clean energy and energy efficiency measures that are helping reduce consumption and emissions.? At Conway Pines and the Berlin Housing Authority, which showcase the benefits of energy efficiency and clean energy investments, Shaheen also discussed how her bipartisan energy efficiency plan would help communities, consumers and individuals lower their energy use, save money, and help create jobs.
?Conway Pines and the Berlin Housing Authority are perfect examples of the types of projects we need to kick start around the country. Because of their investments in clean energy and energy efficiency, they?re saving money, lowering their consumption, and reducing emissions,? Shaheen said. ?We need to promote these types of investments at the national level which is why I?ve pushed for the Senate to pass my energy efficiency bill. This will help lower emissions nationally, reduce costs for consumers and businesses, and help create good paying jobs for American workers.?
Shaheen has been a national leader on energy efficiency policy and her Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act bill promotes the use of energy efficient technologies, much like those used by Conway Pines and the Berlin Housing Authority. Today Shaheen toured the newly-constructed Conway Pines affordable housing community ? a 32-unit project that is using geothermal heating and cooling systems to help lower costs and emissions. In fact, it is the first and only affordable housing project in New Hampshire that uses no direct fossil fuel energy. Shaheen later visited the Berlin Housing Authority, which recently installed wood pellet boilers as part of an overall energy efficiency project through the Berlin BetterBuildings program and the Northern Forest Center?s Model Neighborhood program.
?We are extremely pleased to have Senator Shaheen visit Conway Pines and have a chance to see the green and energy efficient features we use in the workforce housing project,? said Chris Davies, a managing member of Great Bridge Properties, which was established in 2000 to build and renovate affordable housing projects like Conway Pines.
?New Hampshire is leading the nation in the practical application of renewable energy policy, and you can see that right here in Berlin,? said Rob Riley, president of the Northern Forest Center, of the energy efficiency improvement projects at the Berlin Housing Authority. The projects are part of a joint investment in the Berlin Housing Authority from the Northern Forest Center?s Berlin Model Neighborhood and the Berlin BetterBuildings program. The energy efficiency effort is expected to help the Berlin Housing Authority save $11,000 a year on heating fuel costs.
Riley added, ?We?re thrilled with the success of the Model Neighborhood Project, and that the Center could help Berlin Housing Authority switch from heating with oil to heating with wood pellets. This energy-efficient technology combined with building improvements is a win-win for our economy and our environment. We applaud Senator Shaheen for championing energy efficiency and innovation through the bipartisan Shaheen-Portman Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act.?
The Shaheen-Portman legislation builds upon several Shaheen-Portman energy provisions that?were signed into law last year?and offers a deficit-neutral framework designed to promote the transition to a more energy efficient economy while driving economic growth and encouraging private sector job creation.
The bipartisan bill passed through the Senate Energy Committee on a strong?bipartisan vote of 19-3?and has received?resounding support from a broad coalition of business, labor and environmental leaders. ?A?study?by experts at the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy found that last year?s version would have saved consumers $4 billion by 2020 and helped businesses add 80,000 jobs to the economy.
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Friday, July 5, 2013
Muscle power: Bats power take-off using recycled energy
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Bats are uniquely able to stretch and store energy in their bicep and tricep tendons during take-off and climbing flight, giving them an extra power boost. A new study on fruitbats, to be presented at the meeting of the Society for Experimental in Valencia on July 4, used cutting edge technology to image how these small mammals move through the air.
Dr Nicolai Konow (Brown University, USA), who led the research said: "Energy is stored in the triceps tendon, which is used to power elbow extension in essence, elbow extension happens using "recycled" energy. State of knowledge, and our results, indicates that bats are unique among small mammals in stretching their tendons, as small mammal limb tendons are thought to be too thick and stiff to be stretched."
"By combining information about skeletal movement with information about muscle mechanics, we found that the biceps and triceps tendons of small fruitbats are stretched and store energy as the bat launches from the ground and flies vertically."
The researchers used a cutting edge 3D imaging technology called XROMM (X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology) that allows visualizing rapid internal skeletal movement. XROMM combines 3D models of bone morphology with movement data from biplanar x-ray video to create highly accurate re-animations of the 3D bones moving in 3D space. The researchers also used a novel method called fluoromicrometry, where small radio opaque markers are implanted directly into muscle, which allows measuring length change with high precision and accuracy during contractions.
These findings indicate that the action of muscles powering animal movements through fluids may be influenced by series elasticity, and that at least some limb tendons in small mammals can be stretched by muscular and aerodynamic forces, enabling force control of joint movement.
This research will likely have relevance for the development of autonomous micro aircrafts and potentially also amphibious search and rescue vehicles.
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Bats are uniquely able to stretch and store energy in their bicep and tricep tendons during take-off and climbing flight, giving them an extra power boost. A new study on fruitbats, to be presented at the meeting of the Society for Experimental in Valencia on July 4, used cutting edge technology to image how these small mammals move through the air.
Dr Nicolai Konow (Brown University, USA), who led the research said: "Energy is stored in the triceps tendon, which is used to power elbow extension in essence, elbow extension happens using "recycled" energy. State of knowledge, and our results, indicates that bats are unique among small mammals in stretching their tendons, as small mammal limb tendons are thought to be too thick and stiff to be stretched."
"By combining information about skeletal movement with information about muscle mechanics, we found that the biceps and triceps tendons of small fruitbats are stretched and store energy as the bat launches from the ground and flies vertically."
The researchers used a cutting edge 3D imaging technology called XROMM (X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology) that allows visualizing rapid internal skeletal movement. XROMM combines 3D models of bone morphology with movement data from biplanar x-ray video to create highly accurate re-animations of the 3D bones moving in 3D space. The researchers also used a novel method called fluoromicrometry, where small radio opaque markers are implanted directly into muscle, which allows measuring length change with high precision and accuracy during contractions.
These findings indicate that the action of muscles powering animal movements through fluids may be influenced by series elasticity, and that at least some limb tendons in small mammals can be stretched by muscular and aerodynamic forces, enabling force control of joint movement.
This research will likely have relevance for the development of autonomous micro aircrafts and potentially also amphibious search and rescue vehicles.
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Thursday, July 4, 2013
NSA Scandal: Snowden Betrayed, Washington Post Attacks Whistleblower
2:46 PM?Along with The Guardian, a more popular newspaper based in England,
Snowden Breaks Silence ... Or Does He?
Monday, July 1, 2013 7:55 PM?For the first time since he dragged the NSA's surveillance machine into the light, Edward Snowden has released a statement to the public.
Snowden Asks For Asylum In Russia
2:02 PM?Surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden
Did WikiLeaks Get Snowden Stuck In Moscow?
1:14 PM?Surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden
Thursday, June 27, 2013 12:09 PM?With NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden still in hiding at the Moscow airport, the writer who broke the story is now being targeted by the tabloids. Glenn Greenwald,
Snowden Hides In Moscow Airport
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 3:01 PM?The former NSA contractor who turned the world's attention to widespread surveillance of telephone and Internet users is still within the "transit zone"
11:45 AM?Russian president Vladimir Putin has flatly rejected Washington's demands that Snowden be handed over to the Americans, describing Snowden as a "transit passenger"
Snowden a No-Show On His Flight To Cuba
Monday, June 25, 2013 11:56 AM?Edward Snowden's seat on the Russian airliner
Monday, June 24, 2013 10:26AM?Was Snowden's purchased seat on the Aeroflot jet to Havana just a trick to fool reporters?
Sunday, June 23, 2013 1:00PM?Russian media has confirmed that Edward Snowden is now in Moscow
Snowden's final destination may not be Havana, however. The current speculation is that he may go to Caracas after landing in Havana. Other rumors point to Iceland. Wikileaks claims his final destination is Ecuador. Julian Assange and his organization claim they are helping him.
U.K. Internet Spying & U.S. Drone Evidence
Friday, June 21, 2013 3:40 PM?The extent of the FBI's domestic drone spying is revealed by "drone licenses"
NSA and Silicon Valley In Same Business
Thursday, June 20, 3:25 PM?The National Security Agency wants information on everybody. Tech giants such as Facebook and Apple and Google have information on everybody. They're all in the same business, and the subject of this massive combined technology-intelligence operation
And it's not just data that flows between the California technology giants and the NSA. Facebook's former security chief, Max Kelly, left the social network to take a similar job with the National Security Agency.
Snowden's "Wargame," FBI Drones Over USA
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:39 PM?The veteran leaks site Cryptome.org calls Edward Snowden's NSA leaks
Opinion
Some tech experts say all this should be expected
Others say it's a march to fascism
Tuesday, June 18, 10:45 PM?The surveillance of Americans' phone calls and Internet activity is "transparent
The NSA and FBI has had access to private accounts on Facebook, Microsoft,
Monday, June 17, 10:45 PM?Edward Snowden?the NSA contractor employee who revealed the secret US government spy program Prism on June 6?now says that more details are coming.
11:23 AM?Answering The Guardian readers' questions, Prism whistleblower
10:42 AM?Apple has admitted that the government obtained data from 9,000 to 10,000 devices as part of investigations on "robberies and other crimes, searching for missing children, trying to locate a patient with Alzheimer?s disease, or hoping to prevent a suicide." The company also claims
Saturday, June 15, 2013 3:00 PM?The Associated Press has numerous sources detailing that Prism's collaboration with tech companies is just the tip of the iceberg?the NSA actually captures every single bit of data that comes in and out the United States, storing it for analysis:
...larger NSA effort that snatches data as it passes through the fiber optic cables that make up the Internet's backbone. That program, which has been known for years, copies Internet traffic as it enters and leaves the United States, then routes it to the NSA for analysis.
Thursday, June 13, 2013 1:55 PM?The Silicon Valley giants are telling a very different story
Patriot Or Traitor: Edward Snowden and the NSA Prism Surveillance Web
Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 7:25 PM?More Americans see Prism whistleblower Edward Snowden as a patriot than as a traitor, according to a new opinion poll. But the 29-year-old former intelligence contractor who leaked the details of the NSA's massive data mining operation is still unknown to most Americans?46% have no opinion on his motivations.
1:40 PM?Prism whistleblower Edward Snowden has resurfaced in Hong Kong
Since the shocking revelations were revealed a week ago, Snowden has been vilified as a defector but also hailed by supporters such as WikiLeaks? Julian Assange.
?I?m neither traitor nor hero. I?m an American,? he said, adding that he was proud to be an American. ?I believe in freedom of expression. I acted in good faith but it is only right that the public form its own opinion.?
Snowden tells the Hong Kong paper, ?I will never feel safe."
Ron Paul Fears Edward Snowden Will Be Assassinated
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:39 PM?Congressman Ron Paul, the Texas Republican who first became a hero to young computer technicians in 2007, said today that he fears that the United States government will assassinate Edward Snowden using either a "cruise missile or a drone missile
Google, Microsoft and Facebook released open letters today asking the U.S. government to get the tech firms off the hook for cooperating with widespread electronic spying on Americans by the biggest tech firms as revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
In Maryland, the father of Snowden's girlfriend described Snowden as a man of "strong convictions of right and wrong." But because Snowden is generally "shy and reserved," Jonathan Mills said he was shocked by the revelations.
Lindsay Mills, the 29-year-old girlfriend of Snowden, reportedly texted her father but did not reveal her whereabouts. Snowden disappeared from his Hong Kong hotel at least a day ago, and has yet to surface.
6:40 PM?While the world's attention turned to Edward Snowden's pole-dancing ballerina girlfriend
The ACLU lawsuit is the first challenge to the widespread phone company spying revealed by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old American who has single-handedly brought the nation's attention back to the long forgotten issue of constant surveillance.
2:31 PM?The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald wrote the shocking stories based on Snowden's leaks, but Greenwald knows firsthand that surveillance dragnets allegedy created to target foreign terrorists are just as easily?and clumsily?turned on U.S. citizens critical of an overreaching government that increasingly seems to exist only to protect itself from the nation it ostensibly serves. The Nation's Lee Fang describes what was revealed just two years ago:
Two years ago, a batch of stolen e-mails revealed a plot by a set of three defense contractors (Palantir Technologies, Berico Technologies, and HBGary Federal) to target activists, reporters, labor unions, and political organizations. The plans ? one concocted in concert with lawyers for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to sabotage left-leaning critics, like the Center for American Progress and the SEIU, and a separate proposal to "combat" WikiLeaks and its supporters, including Glenn Greenwald, on behalf of Bank of America ? fell apart after reports of their existence were published online. But the episode serves as a reminder that the expanding spy industry could use its government-backed cyber tools to harm ordinary Americans and political dissident groups.
The episode also shows that Greenwald, who helped Snowden expose massive spying efforts in the U.S., had been targetted by spy agency contractors in the past for supporting whistleblowers and WikiLeaks.
Majority of Americans Support NSA Spying
Monday, June 10, 2013 5:42 PM?NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has left his Hong Kong hotel
Nearly 19,000 people have signed the "Pardon Edward Snowden" petition at WhiteHouse.gov. Daniel Ellsberg, whose life was upended by his decision to leak the Pentagon's bleak assessment of its war in Vietnam, today is praising Snowden's "conscience and patriotism."
Meanwhile, a solid majority of Americans surveyed by Pew Research Center say they're just fine with the constant surveillance of telephone calls and Internet use?56% of Americans support the illegal domestic spying
3:04 PM?Palantir, the Silicon Valley startup named for an evil all-seeing rock from Lord of the Rings reportedly behind the NSA's Prism program to spy on all Internet activity, takes the hobbit life very seriously. A company director explained in 2010 that a surveillance program called "Save the Shire
Sunday, June 9, 10:00PM?Edward Snowden: This is the man who told the world about PRISM, the NSA spy network capable of grabbing all your personal data?including private messages, photos and videos?with the help of America's top tech companies.
According to the Guardian, Snowden worked for the last four years
Following the revelation of his identity, Edward Snowden was hiding in a Hong Kong hotel.
Despite Denials, Tech Companies Collaborated With NSA
Saturday, June 8, 3:30 PM?The Guardian has revealed the existence of a second NSA surveillance network. Its name is Boundless Informant and, unlike PRISM, it covers the entire planet
3:10 AM?The New York Times says that Facebook, Google and Apple are collaborating with the NSA, rebutting the companies' carefully worded statements. According to their sources, companies like Facebook built specific systems so the government could easily request and access their data.
This information contradicts Zuckerberg's denial, posted on his Facebook page Friday afternoon, which has the vague sound of many, many lawyers parsing their own language:
Facebook is not and has never been part of any program to give the US or any other government direct access [added emphasis] to our servers. We have never received a blanket request or court order from any government agency asking for information or metadata in bulk, like the one Verizon reportedly received. And if we did, we would fight it aggressively. We hadn't even heard of PRISM before yesterday.
Google's Larry Page posted something that sounds remarkably similar to Zuckerberg's statement:
First, we have not joined any program that would give the U.S. government?or any other government?direct access [emphasis added] to our servers. Indeed, the U.S. government does not have direct access or a ?back door? to the information stored in our data centers. We had not heard of a program called PRISM until yesterday.
According to the Times, the key words here are direct access. The government didn't have a backdoor to access the data, but these companies built a system for them:
New York Times | Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program
[C]ompanies were essentially asked to erect a locked mailbox and give the government the key, people briefed on the negotiations said. Facebook, for instance, built such a system for requesting and sharing the information, they said.
Obama Says PRISM Exists To "Keep Us Safe"
Friday, June 7, 3:31 PM?A mysterious Facebook-connected startup
1:36 PM?Obama claimed the massive, unprecedented national surveillance system involves only "modest encroachments on privacy
12:41 AM?Barack Obama, speaking live in Silicon Valley right now, said the electronic snooping "helps protect us from terrorism" and insists all the eavesdropping of every mobile call, email, instant message and file attachment is completely legal. Obama is in San Jose raising campaign money from the Internet billionaires who allow the NSA to spy on all Americans.
11:18 AM?The nine major tech companies
NSA Surveillance Program Is Called PRISM
Thursday, June 6, 2013 10:29 PM?The Washington Post reports that the NSA and FBI are working with the top nine U.S. tech companies
Their spying system is called PRISM
Newly exposed proof that all the major telecommunication companies in America continue to hand over all phone data
Along with monitoring of web traffic, email and searches through the major telecom carriers, all phone calls been wiretapped
White House Says Spying On Millions of Verizon Calls a "Critical Tool"
Wednesday, June 6, 2013 9:03 AM?America's spy agencies have had full access to US cellphone call data
The secret order was obtained by the British newspaper and reported Wednesday night.
Reuters | Obama administration defends phone record collection
The Obama administration on Thursday acknowledged that it is collecting a massive amount of telephone records from at least one carrier, reopening the debate over privacy even as it defended the practice as necessary to protect Americans against attack. Read...
AP | White House Defends Collecting Phone Records
The White House on Thursday defended the National Security Agency's need to collect telephone records of U.S. citizens, calling such information "a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats." Read...
Forbes | NSA's Verizon Spying Specifically Targeted at Americans
[T]he 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 explicitlyexcluded those outside the United States. Read...
CNN | Obama administration reacts to phone records report
A senior Obama administration official [...] stressed that the information acquired by the purported order "does not include the content of any communications or the name of any subscriber. It relates exclusively to metadata, such as a telephone number or the length of a call." Read...
Data from all incoming and outgoing calls is provided to the NSA
Past revelations of major U.S. telecommunications companies spying on Americans suspected of no crimes has shown that the other carriers have consistently opened their lines and data banks to America's spy agencies since 2001.
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
WikiLeaks 'most wanted' list becomes evidence in Manning trial
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Army Pfc. Bradley Manning arrives at the courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., on June 28, for his court-martial. Manning is charged with indirectly aiding the enemy by sending troves of classified material to WikiLeaks. He faces up to life in prison.
By Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News
A military judge on Monday allowed prosecutors in the Bradley Manning trial to use a WikiLeaks ?most wanted" list as evidence against the Army private who revealed secret documents to the world.
WikiLeaks? "Most Wanted Leaks of 2009" list was proposed as evidence Manning in order to support the most serious of the 21 charges that Manning faces ? aiding the enemy.
Military prosecutors argue that Manning assisted al Qaeda by dumping a slew of classified documents into the hands of the anti-secrecy advocates at WikiLeaks in 2010.
According to the WikiLeaks website, their ?Most Wanted Leaks of 2009? was a wish-list of knowledge from the frivolous, ?The Editorial Guidelines for Fox News? to the more serious requests for information on Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Manning has admitted to sending WikiLeaks the latter, as well as war logs disclosing lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as over 250,000 State Department diplomatic correspondences. ?
Manning justifies each of his actions, saying he wanted to reveal the military?s lack of value for human lives and the government?s duplicitous actions in foreign affairs. He said he didn?t consider the information that he leaked as a national security risk.
Prosecutors yesterday also submitted as evidence a passage of from an al Qaeda online magazine that reads, "anything useful from WikiLeaks is useful for archiving."
They also presented evidence that, before his death, Osama bin Laden specifically requested and attained the documents that Manning provided to WikiLeaks and a transcript from?Adam Gadahn, an al Qaeda spokesman in which he said, "By the grace of God the enemy's interests are today spread all over the place."
Manning, whose trial started on June 3, has? pleaded guilty to reduced charges on seven of eight espionage counts and two computer fraud counts. He also pleaded guilty to violating a military regulation prohibiting wrongful storage of classified information. The offenses he has admitted to carry a combined maximum prison term of 20 years.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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