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The FISA 702 bill has been described by critics as a “dramatic and terrifying” expansion of the United States government’s surveillance powers. . The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is only days away from “taking over the internet” with a massive expansion of its surveillance powers, according to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. In an April 16 post to X, Snowden drew attention to a thread originally posted by Elizabeth Goitein — the co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice — that warned of a new bill that could see the U.S. government...

On Sunday, NSA leaker Edward Snowden landed in Moscow on a flight from Hong Kong. The United States had asked for Snowden’s extradition, but officials in Hong Kong said the request did not comply with their laws. Snowden will probably not be allowed to stay in Russia, and reports vary on where the fugitive will go next – Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, or some other questionable country. The flight from Hong Kong took Washington by surprise, and it is unclear when Snowden will make the next leg of his journey into permanent exile. But the Obama administration might take a lesson...

@Snowden One of the strongest defenders of your 4th Amendment Right to Privacy, Justin Amash, is running for office. If you're in Michigan, you should vote for him and not his opponent—who personally backed surveillance programs so extreme that our courts had to declare them illegal.

On February 5th Citizen Free Press noted that Tucker Carlson may also interview Edward Snowden and Biden rape accuser Tara Reade while in Moscow. Tucker spotted in Moscow, again. He is likely trying to interview both Putin and Edward Snowden while he is in Moscow. Tara Reade is also living in Russia.pic.twitter.com/iLCcSzFzxx — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) February 5, 2024 Semafor reported on this earlier. Tucker Carlson has kept a busy agenda in Moscow, meeting with two key American figures living in exile there. The former Fox News host met for hours Thursday with the NSA leaker Edward Snowden, Semafor...

@RepThomasMassie Were it not for Edward Snowden, the elected lawmaking body of the United States would not know about vast unconstitutional programs that were being run by the unelected government of the U.S. I say this definitively as 1 of 535 elected lawmakers of the U.S. government.

Pelosi, Schiff, and Biden have politicized a career intelligence community position by demanding the removal of a national security professional.Hours after President Joe Biden delivered his inaugural address promising to bring unity and healing to the country, his administration began a politically charged attack on a highly respected, newly appointed career intelligence official over fears he would be insufficiently loyal to Democratic partisans. The attempted purge has thus far followed the playbook publicly laid out by top Democrats and their left-wing media enablers. In a stunning violation of precedent, Biden’s National Security Agency (NSA) placed General Counsel Michael J. Ellis...

Reuters has an interesting piece looking at how many experts are concerned that mass surveillance efforts by the federal government are making a mockery of the 4th Amendment. The focus of the article is on the scan of all Yahoo email that was revealed back in October, but it certainly touches on other programs as well. The concern is easily summarized by Orin Kerr: "A lot of it is unrecognizable from a Fourth Amendment perspective," said Orin Kerr, a former federal prosecutor and Georgetown University Law School expert on surveillance. "It's not where the traditional Fourth Amendment law is." But,...

Is the military handling of a Chinese balloon, identified as a surveillance device, and other unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) in recent days, just being hyped by the lapdog media to divert attention from the news that the Democrat administration of POTUS Joe Biden may have blown up the Nord Stream pipeline? That is a question on the minds of many Americans and many other people around the world. Answers are not so easy to come by as the Democrats have long and rambling press conferences to try to explain why such massive military action has been taken and what the...

In the Russia-Ukraine conflict an official of the Donestsk People's Republic telling Russian TV that the city of Bakhnut (Artyomovsk) is surrounded. He claims that the city is surrounded by Russian forces with striking forces getting ready to attack from two directions... The Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva says he's convinced that Presidential Palace employees helped protesters... Israeli police are concerned that rallies against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government this weekend may turn into riots... Meanwhile the President of Israel's Supreme Court Esther Hayut declaring that proposed legislation to overhaul the judiciary in Israel is a "fatal blow"...

Snowden noted that prior to Biden, others having been in illicit possession of secret docs include former US presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, as well as ex-CIA boss David Petraeus, hadn't been prosecuted MOSCOW, January 12./TASS/.Former NSA (National Security Agency) whistleblower Edward Snowden said on Thursday that US President Joe Biden (during his tenure as vice-president) "absconded" with more-classified documents that many whistleblowers. "Worth noting that the President seems to have absconded with more classified documents than many whistleblowers. For comparison, Reality Winner was sentenced to 5 YEARS for just one document," Smowden tweeted, commenting on the news that...

In mid-November, while the whole world was focused on the Ukraine crisis, the US midterms or whatever other “big story” the media decided was more important, a truly momentous shift took place in the global financial system. It might seem like a small step on the surface, but it has the potential to bring about a real and possibly irreversible sea change in the way we use money; or better said, the way it uses us. As Reuters reported on the 15th of November, “Global banking giants are starting a 12-week digital dollar pilot with the Federal Reserve Bank of...

"I strong condemn Lapid's attempts to incite a revolt among army officers and mayors against the elected government under our leadership" Israel's Prime Minister-Designate Benjamin Netanyahu illustrating the tensions in Israel... WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange filing an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights... Speaking at Australia's elite think tank The Lowy Institute the Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin saying that Europe is dependent on the United States... The Chief of Staff of New York Attorney General Letitia James resigning... Politics in the US the Democratic National Committee acting to shake up the 2024 Presidential nominating process... Tonight on...

June 12, 2013, Glenn Beck today on his show stated that he plans to break news within 24 hours that could take down the entire power structure of the government. The news that Beck said he will break within 24 hours comes on the reports of the NSA spying scandal when NSA contractor, Edward Snowden exposed the vast spy network that covered every single communication apparatus in America.

Newsdump Alert: 30 Dead, 88 Wounded In Ukrainian Attack ON Convoy Entering Russian Zaporozhye Region in Ukraine... Keeping Cuba Communist: A Referendum On Gay Marriage... News Update: And Whoa Cuba asking the US for help over the power grid damage from Hurricane Ian with protests underway over the power outage... The "enemies" of the USA are sanctioned heck North Korea, Iran, Russia and China. Individuals are sanctioned among these nations. So the challenge for Presidential candidates and heck this could apply to candidates running for office here in 2022... Upset With Edward Snowden New Russian Citizen Well I Put Things...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin granted citizenship to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden on Monday, the news revived a long-simmering debate about the propriety of his revelations of U.S. government secrets. At the same time, it prompted reiterations of a widely-embraced falsehood: that Snowden “fled to Russia.”The disinformation-trafficking wasn’t limited to random people on social media. Among others, The New York Times, The Guardian, ABC, Christian Science Monitor and Canada’s CBC all asserted in the past week that Snowden “fled to Russia” in 2013 after revealing that the United States government had created a mass surveillance regime targeting its own citizens,...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin granted citizenship to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden on Monday, the news revived a long-simmering debate about the propriety of his revelations of U.S. government secrets. At the same time, it prompted reiterations of a widely-embraced falsehood: that Snowden “fled to Russia.” That disinformation-trafficking wasn’t limited to random people on social media. Among others, The New York Times, The Guardian, ABC, Christian Science Monitor and Canada’s CBC all asserted in the past week that Snowden “fled to Russia” in 2013 after revealing that the United States government had created a mass surveillance regime targeting its own...

Chinese telecom giant Huawei is hiring Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta to try and 'warm relations with the Biden administration,' according to Politico which cites two people familiar with the matter.Podesta will work to advance a variety of the company’s goals in Washington, according to one of the people. He declined to comment. A spokesperson for Huawei also declined to comment.Huawei faces a host of challenges in Washington. In February 2020, the Justice Department charged the company with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO — a key DOJ tool for going after organized crime. DOJ alleged that...

President Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, nine years after he exposed the scale of secret surveillance operations by the National Security Agency (NSA).

A long line of suppressed disclosures has shown that the federal government is indeed spying on Americans, and Congress still hasn’t done anything about it.Facing an increasing backlash against the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governing Board (DGB), Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas promised it would not monitor Americans. It was not enough. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security was forced to put the DGB on “pause,” and its director, Nina Jankowicz, resigned under public pressure. Now DHS says it is “reviewing” the board while “continuing” its “critical work…to address disinformation.” No matter what happens with the board, it is hard to...

“Blake Percival is one of the most important whistleblowers in recent history,” Attorney Larry Golston says. “We as a country are safer because of what he did.” Blake Percival was born in Panama City, Florida where he was raised in a traditional Southern home. He graduated from High School in Montgomery, Alabama in 1984 and served 6 years in the U.S. Army where he was Honorably discharged at the rank of Sergeant in 1992. He then worked as a Police officer in West Virginia and Alabama. He is a graduate of the West Virginia State Police Academy, The Montgomery Police...