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  • NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden

    04/16/2024 5:56:31 AM PDT · by george76 · 45 replies
    Coin Telegraph ^ | APR 15, 2024 | Tom Mitchelhill
    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...
  • Trump Has Emergency Powers We Aren’t Allowed to Know About

    07/13/2020 12:06:29 PM PDT · by eastforker · 34 replies
    The New York Times ^ | April 10, 2020 | Elizabeth Goitein and Andrew Boyle
    Given that they could make their first appearance in the coronavirus crisis, Congress should insist on having full access to them. The past few weeks have given Americans a crash course in the powers that federal, state and local governments wield during emergencies.