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News Topics for 4.30.14

4/30/2014

See the links under the 04.23.04 post for discussion about Clapper and about the film 1971

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Recent Stories on Snowden and the NSA
Snowden Retained Expert in Espionage Act Defense er States to Live Up to
EFF Joins Coalition Calling On FOC Member States to Live Up to Their Stated Commitments

News Stories of the 04.23.14 Broadcast

4/23/2014

The Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer for NSA Coverage Echoes Tradition in News
Post, Guardian win Pulitzers for NSA revelations

General James R. Clapper, Director of Intelligence, NSA
NAPOLITANO: NSA wrong doing revealed
Clapper bans US intelligence employees from unauthorized media contact
The Mentality of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Undergirs Today's Surveillance State

New Postings at The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.org)
EFF Outlines Key Issues With Mass Surveillance To Government Oversight Board
Designing A Prize For Usable Cryptography
Comparing NSA Reforms To International Law: A New Graphic By Access Now
Access Now

On Fear Mongering
NSA Blow Its Own Top Secret Program in Order To Propagandize
Engendering Crises To Justify The National Security State

News Stories for the 04.16.14 Broadcast

4/16/2014

Kent State, I.F. Stone, Glen Greenwald and LIU's George Polk Awards
Wikipedia: Kent State Shootings
NPR's Investigating Power: I.F. Stone
Long Island University's George Polk Awards
LIU's Announcements of February 16th of the 2013 Polk Award Winner
UK Guardian's coverage of last Friday's Polk Award Ceremonies

The Guardian Reviews the Meat and Potatoes of the NSA Story
Silicone Valley could force NSA reform, tomorrow. What's taking so long?
NSA slides explain the PRISM data collection program
NSA PRISM program taps into user data of Apple, Google and others
Duleing dilemmas for national security reform

Christopher Soghoian
Thought Experiment: Imagine if Google built encrypted SMS into Android by default....
The next version of Yahoo Messenger will be 'encrypted.' If Yahoo is smart....
Soghoian's Home Page

The Arts
Novelist and screenwriter Dan Brown, famous for The Da Vinci Code and for Angels and Demons published his first novel, Digital Fortress, in 1998. Did you know it was on the topic of the NSA (which has had it's controversies since the 80's, if not earlier.) I'm reading it now and it's blowing my mind how topical it is to today's post-Snowden headlines.

Speaking of earlier controversies, the work of James Bamford, whom New Yorker magazine describes as the NSA's "chief chronicler," has been doing investigative journalism on the NSA since the 1982 publication of his book The Puzzle Palace

Sifting through the NSA Reform: Broadcast 04.09.14

4/9/2014

Overviews:
Reforming the NSA: the rival pans to curb government surveillance
What the Proposed NSA Reforms Wouldn't Do
Beware the surveillance reform Trojan horse: What's not in the new NSA laws?

The USA Freedom Act
Wikipedia: The USA Freedom Act
A Floor, Not A Celing: Supportin the USA FREEDOM Act
ACLU: Support the USA Freedom Act As A Step Toward Less Surveillance
Patriot Act Author: Only My Anti-NSA Bill Will Close "Loophole" Spying On Americans
House NSA reformer: There's more than enough votes to pass the FREEDOM Act.":

House Intelligence Committee Bill
NSA critics express "deep concern" over route change for House reform bill.
An NSA "Reform Bill" of the Intellience Community, Writen by the Intelligence Community, and for
the Intellience Community
Senate Intelligence Committee Passes Bill That Codifies, Expands NSA Powers.
Under the Hood of the House Intel Committee's NSA Reform Bill

Topics for the 04.02.14 Broadcast

4/2/2014

Reforming the NSA: the rival pans to curb government surveillance
NSA critics express 'deep concern' over route change for House reform bill
Beware the surveillance reform Trojan horse: What's not in the new NSA laws?
No more NSA spying? Sorry Mr. Obama, that's not true.
Senate NSA critic urges Barack Obama to end bulk data collection now
NSA revelations 'changing how businesses store sensitive data.'
NSA performed warrantless searches on Americans calls and emails - Clapper

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