The NSA Abroad: The UK Base That Makes US Targeted Killing Possible

The NSA Abroad: The UK Base That Makes US Targeted Killing Possible

Newly revealed documents leaked by Edward Snowden and reported by The Intercept detail the inner workings of the NSA's largest overseas base

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/06/nsa-abroad-uk-base-makes-us-targeted-killing-possible

By: Lauren McCauley
Date: 2016-09-06

In a damning exposé published Monday, The Intercept reporter Ryan Gallagher dives into the inner workings of National Security Agency's (NSA) largest overseas spying base, the U.K.'s Menwith Hill Station, and reveals concrete evidence that the British government is complicit in the United States' targeted killing program.

Citing top-secret documents obtained from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Gallagher reports, "The files reveal for the first time how the NSA has used the British base to aid 'a significant number of capture-kill operations' across the Middle East and North Africa, fueled by powerful eavesdropping technology."

And given the British government's repeated assertion that activities at Menwith Hill "have always been, and continue to be" carried out with its "knowledge and consent," the findings are all the more damning.

The National Security Agency's largest overseas spying base, Menwith Hill. (Photo: Trevor Paglen via The Intercept)

The Shadow Brokers Publish NSA Spy Tools, Demonstrating Possible Flaws in the NSA’s Approach to Security Vulnerabilities

The Shadow Brokers Publish NSA Spy Tools, Demonstrating Possible Flaws in the NSA’s Approach to Security Vulnerabilities

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/shadow-brokers-publish-powerful-nsa-spy-tools-demonstrating-flaws-nsas-approach

By: Rainey Reitman
Date: 2016-09-02

The Vulnerabilities Equities Process in Unaccountable, Secretive, and Nonbinding

A group calling itself the Shadow Brokers recently released powerful surveillance tools publicly on the Web and promises to publish more dangerous tools for the price of one million bitcoin – or to whomever makes the best offer, if they can’t get to a million.1

Powerful NSA hacking tools have been revealed online

Powerful NSA hacking tools have been revealed online

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/powerful-nsa-hacking-tools-have-been-revealed-online/2016/08/16/bce4f974-63c7-11e6-96c0-37533479f3f5_story.html

By: Ellen Nakashima
Date: 2016-08-16

Some of the most powerful espionage tools created by the National Security Agency’s elite group of hackers have been revealed in recent days, a development that could pose severe consequences for the spy agency’s operations and the security of government and corporate computers.

A cache of hacking tools with code names such as Epicbanana, Buzzdirection and Egregiousblunder appeared mysteriously online over the weekend, setting the security world abuzz with speculation over whether the material was legitimate.

The file appeared to be real, according to former NSA personnel who worked in the agency’s hacking division, known as Tailored Access Operations (TAO).

Word Games: What the NSA Means by “Targeted” Surveillance Under Section 702

Word Games: What the NSA Means by “Targeted” Surveillance Under Section 702

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/nsa-word-games-mass-v-targeted-surveillance-under-section-702

By: Cindy Cohn
Date: 2016-08-24

We all know that the NSA uses word games to hide and downplay its activities. Words like "collect," "conversations," "communications," and even "surveillance" have suffered tortured definitions that create confusion rather than clarity.

There’s another one to watch: "targeted" v. "mass" surveillance.

Since 2008, the NSA has seized tens of billions of Internet communications. It uses the Upstream and PRISM programs—which the government claims are authorized under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act—to collect hundreds of millions of those communications each year. The scope is breathtaking, including the ongoing seizure and searching of communications flowing through key Internet backbone junctures,[1]the searching of communications held by service providers like Google and Facebook, and, according to the government's own investigators, the retention of significantly more than 250 million Internet communications per year.[2] 

Yet somehow, the NSA and its defenders still try to pass 702 surveillance off as "targeted surveillance," asserting that it is incorrect when EFF and many others call it "mass surveillance."

NSA and CIA Double Their Warrantless Searches on Americans in Two Years

NSA and CIA Double Their Warrantless Searches on Americans in Two Years

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/03/nsa-and-cia-double-their-warrantless-searches-on-americans-in-two-years/

By: Jenna McLaughlin
Date: 2016-05-03

FROM 2013 to 2015, the NSA and CIA doubled the number of warrantless searches they conducted for Americans’ data in a massive NSA database ostensibly collected for foreign intelligence purposes, according to a new intelligence community transparency report.

The estimated number of search terms “concerning a known U.S. person” to get contents of communications within what is known as the 702 database was 4,672 — more than double the 2013 figure.

And that doesn’t even include the number of FBI searches on that database. A recently released Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruling confirmed that the FBI is allowed to run any number of searches it wants on that database, not only for national security probes but also to hunt for evidence of traditional crimes. No estimates have ever been released of how often that happens.

Israel and the NSA Scandal: This should read "Khazars and the NSA Scandal"

Vatic Note:  What you are going to read in this article is pure unadulterated "TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES" by those involved who are Americans and also dual Khazar citizens.  Can you even imagine how bad this will get if these Khazars ever convince us to globalize?   There goes our Constitution, our rights and freedoms, and all that we are about and believe in.

We are crazy if we do not make this an election issue.  Ask the candidates, "whose side are you on?  The American people or khazar special interest monied groups???  Make them give you an answer, an honest one.

FUNDRAISER CALL FOR HELP!  Sorry, since I have enough energy to do only one blog per evening, which is 2 down from my normal, but I am working toward getting well, and that takes time and energy, but the bills still continue and now I need help.  So, if you can afford it, please donate off to the right at the pay pal button and help us make our $210 deficit remaining for May 2016.  Thank you and God Bless you for all your support and caring.


Israel and the NSA Scandal
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/05/01/israel-and-the-nsa-scandal/  
By Kevin MacDonald & Jim Fetzer


“Two Israeli high tech firms (Verint and Narus) with ties to the Israeli secret police (MOSSAD), have provided the spy software for the NSA and this, of course, has opened a window for Israeli spying in the US against Americans opposed to the Zionist state.”–James Petras

CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits

Vatic Note:  Given the speed with which some of our more investigative articles are being gutted from the blog, this is one I strongly suggest you download and keep.   I suspect it will disappear soon since Wikipedia just told us that they do not track isp's that edit their offerings.   That does not make any sense once you read this and its why I put it up.  Mossad is doing the same thing.   Editing info about people and events that they do not want up there unless its already common knowledge and cannot be put back into the gate from whence it came,  like 9-11 and Mossad.   Too much already out there.  This got put up here to counter their claim that they do not have anyway  of knowing who is editing their offerings.

CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1642896020070816

By Randall Mikkelsen
WASHINGTON
Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:43pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program.

The changes may violate Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest guidelines, a spokeswoman for the site said on Thursday.

The program, WikiScanner, was developed by Virgil Griffith of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and posted this month on a Web site that was quickly overwhelmed with searches.

The program allows users to track the source of computers used to make changes to the popular Internet encyclopedia where anyone can submit and edit entries.

WikiScanner revealed that CIA computers were used to edit an entry on the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. A graphic on casualties was edited to add that many figures were estimated and were not broken down by class.