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by themeek 11y ago
This is part of an ongoing cyberwar between great powers - the largest adversaries to the US being China (mostly smash and grab) and Russia (primarily sophisticated and surgical). It would be nice if there was some place where we could see
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Wasn't President John Adams the defense lawyer representing the British Soldiers at the Boston Massacre?
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Surveillance was used, however, to identify and track the Boston Bombers, leading to death and capture, and parallel construction was used to create an unstoppable court case, leading to imprisonment and death sentencing. But you are right
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The media focused almost exclusively on the domestic case and the PRISM program, leaving both the legal and the illegal surveillance programs focused externally to "new media", bloggers and forum commentators. So it's not rea
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I'll take this one further and add that selective timing of votes, polls, and application of law are all ways to 'rule by law' but game the system so that the rules have favoritism. Take the recent Visa application process in
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Journalists, however, released these documents. Snowden brought a trove of documents because there was no single document that acted as a smoking gun. If you are upset with the leak of international material you must be upset with Greenwald
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A note here that SNAP at Stanford is funded by NSF grants through DARPA SMISC, which is a research group in the DoD looking to learn how to get better at influencing social media groups online for propaganda. (Strategic Communication is the
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This is interesting, and of course geopolitics and strategy factor into the decision to acquire the bomb. It's certain that other nations, were Iran to be nuclear armed would feel the need to escalate (Israel) or would otherwise intens
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This is correct under the current interpretation of law.
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Can you provide a citation for that? Every study I know on how American people writ large feel about Snowden show conclusively across the country and across party lines that the American people felt that what NSA did was wrong are thankful
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by themeek 11y ago
Well, Israel has nukes but on an official level 'doesn't have nukes' - the Dr. Strangelove analysis isn't fully complete. (It is true that everyone knows that Israel has nukes). Iran does not have nuclear weapons but the
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by themeek 11y ago
I'm confused by your response. I do not understand the point you are trying to communicate.
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This characterization of the Ellsberg case misses its entire context. I'm not sure if you did that purposefully, but perhaps you think there are other reasons why he was acquitted. I do agree we are off point. Snowden can't argue
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But if they don't have to ask, were it to happen, it would be legal. It's like the recent Smith-Mundt reforms. You no longer have to prevent propaganda from reaching the American public. You just have to not intend for it to reach
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by themeek 11y ago
To catch you up on the Snowden leaks the government was collecting a lot more than metadata. It's also true that Smith v. Maryland is highly controversial. The Third Party Doctrine essentially states that you can't expect technolo
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by themeek 11y ago
Well, you're in the DC area. There's a colored perception there. My experience (Seattle) is quite different. Also colored.
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It is incorrect that foreign propaganda is never sustained. For example the United States government is currently engaged in a blanket of propaganda covering communications, social media and news outfit over the Middle East - they go so far
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Alas I do not know of a general site where information like this is curated. Cryptome sometimes posts similar information. Wikileaks, too. Following a variety of journalistic outfits with integrity (get to know the individual journalists -
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I don't see how using propaganda would imply that the same information are being sewn multiple places. Propaganda is merely the focused government effort to understand and engage key audiences to create, strengthen, or preserve conditi
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by themeek 11y ago
Please see the reference to Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers and the associated Supreme Court case where document leaking was protected by whistleblowing. You can also look at the COINTELPRO leaks. The Espionage Act has been used a total of
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Here is a 2009 report in the first session of the 111th Congress on Chinese Propaganda targeting the United States. http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/china/09_04_30_infl_ops.... America propagandizes C
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by themeek 11y ago
Could you unpack how you mean that voters have basically okayed torture, rendition, indiscriminate drone targeting (or use in general), and mass surveillance?
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I don't have time for anything comprehensive, but if you feel like doing your own research look into: - NGOs and CSOs the US has in China and their support of Civil Society; Civil Society is a comprehensive word that means signon to US
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In the history of Espionage Act cases - the Espionage Act being a wartime temporary restriction of normal constitutional proceedings that survived past its wartime statute - excludes the possibility of arguing a whistleblower case, which is
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Most people I meet seem to be under the persuasion that China is evil, corrupt and dictatorial - a unique wielder of force and propaganda. And they also do not know much about the America's support of Chinese civil unrest or the self-a
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The state doesn't think it did anything wrong. All the way up to the president - and don't think the president wasn't aware of these operations - our representatives believe that these capabilities are necessary for the curre
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Yeah I keep getting surprised that people I meet have no idea who Snowden is, haven't heard of mass surveillance or propaganda operations, aren't aware of the huge national security push being made by the United States across esse
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You are right to point this out. The United States has tried many times to use social media platforms to cause uprising in other nations. These very same nations (including the ones enumerated above) do cut off the services. Take the US i
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The decision to pivot to Asia started during the Bush years and through its inception had the backing of a wide number of individuals including Secretary Clinton. The actual discussions being had involve 11 other nations and hundreds of int
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This isn't really right. The FBI does perform surveillance, but they aren't in charge of signals collection. The NSA is in charge of these capabilities - and also the protection of the Gov networks. The FBI also spies, but it is n

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