Wisdom Quarterly; firstlook.org/TheIntercept; Associated Press (ap.org)
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| Not content that Facebook already helps FBI and CIA, NSA got into the act (infowars.com). |
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| The face of mega spying social media site |
Posting on his Facebook page, Zuckerberg wrote today that he's "been so confused and frustrated by the repeated reports of the behavior of the U.S. government."
He adds that when Facebook's "engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting [users] against criminals, not our own government."
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| Have you been paying any attention, Mark? |
White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden confirmed that the president spoke with Zuckerberg.
- White House has been covering up presidency’s role in torture From 2009 to 2012, the Obama administration went to extraordinary lengths to keep a single short phrase secret, one describing Pres. Bush’s authorization of the torture program.
- Foreign Officials in the dark about their own spy agencies’ cooperation with NSA (Glenn GreenwaldTop political officials in other nations have repeatedly demonstrated, or even explicitly claimed, wholesale ignorance about their nations’ cooperation with the NSA, as well as their own spying activities. Were these top officials truly unaware, or were they pretending to be?
- Calls for Brennan’s ouster emerge along with details of illegal CIA search of Senate computers CIA Director John Brennan’s decision to search Senate committee computers was such a blatant violation of the Constitutional separation of powers that some pro-accountability groups in Washington are starting to seek his ouster.
- How the NSA plans to infect "millions" of computers with malware Top-secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency is dramatically expanding its ability to covertly hack into computers on a mass scale by using automated systems that reduce the level of human oversight in the process.
- CIA search of Congressional computer sparks Constitutional crisis ( Two top Senate leaders declared Tuesday that the CIA’s recent conduct has undermined the separation of powers as set out in the Constitution, setting the stage for a major battle to reassert the proper balance between the two branches.
- The Intercept welcomes its new editor and two new writers ( We at The Intercept are very excited to announce our new editor-in-chief, John Cook, who joins us after after serving as editor-in-chief of Gawker.
- The NSA Has An Advice Columnist. Seriously. An NSA official, writing under the pen name “Zelda,” has served as a Dear Abby for spies. One of her most intriguing columns responds to an NSA staffer who complains that his (or her) boss is spying on employees.
- The inverse of oversight: CIA spies on Congress [about Congress investigating the CIA]) In the wake of an explosive new allegation that the CIA spied on Senate intelligence committee staffers, one senator felt this morning that he needed to make something clear: “The Senate Intelligence Committee oversees the CIA, not the other way around,” Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) said in a press release.
- RT Host Abby Martin condemns Russian incursion into Crimea – on RT The vast bulk of the commentary issuing from American commentators about the Russian military action in Ukraine involves condemning exactly that which they routinely advocate and which the U.S. itself routinely does.
- The Washington Post uses biased experts to promote propaganda on Venezuela ( The Washington Post's Feb. 19th article about the recent spate of unrest in Venezuela took a breathlessly laudatory stance towards the opposition against Pres. Nicolás Maduro. The opening paragraphs offer a good indication of its tenor.
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