[PDF file]: Facilitating Tyranny? Glenn Greenwald and the creation of the NSA’s ‘Panopticon’ Citizenseven No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State Glenn Greenwald London: Hamish Hamilton, 2014 Since becoming the conduit for the trove of classified documents from former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, Greenwald’s public profile has increased […]
[PDF file]: […] reported on German-Americans, labor organizers, antiwar activists and other dissidents. This public/private partnership achieved what one historian has called ‘arguably the world’s most intensive feat of domestic surveillance ever’.17 Many of their targets were arrested or deported during the Red scare of 1919-20 at the direction of Attorney 15 CF ‘A Brief History of […]
[PDF file]: […] first regular client: the CIA’s Office of Security. That branch handled many of the Agency’s most sensitive and illegal operations, including drug testing and mind-control experiments; domestic surveillance of antiwar activists; and even covert investigations of national columnist Jack Anderson. Most controversially, as we will soon see, it also oversaw plots to kill foreign […]
[PDF file]: […] for longrange power projection but for sustained power projection.’ 2 3 (emphases added) BAE’s High-Endurance Rapid Technology Integration drone includes the following capabilities: ‘Reconnaissance • Wide area surveillance • Border patrol • Maritime surveillance and protection • Infantry/front line support • Battle Damage assessment • Pipeline surveillance • High value asset protection • Law […]
[PDF file]: […] of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud London: Macmillan, 2023, 317 pages Colin Challen This is the first book about Pegasus, the cyber surveillance software developed by the Israeli company the NSO Group. It lays out the threat posed by the world’s leading cyber surveillance outfit. It is a sobering […]
[PDF file]: […] finance. 28 Thanks to Pincher, we have most of this from the horse’s mouth. Pincher describes, without quoting directly from, a report, probably originating with MI5, on surveillance of Wilson during January and February 1974: “. . . concern about his pro-Israeli stance . . . anxieties that a new Wilson government might increase […]
[PDF file]: […] a politically neutral Irish passport would seem obvious. Multiple passports – even if they are in the same name – would also aid in the avoidance of surveillance of flight data and passenger manifests. For instance, if one were to fly from the United States to Paris on a U.S. passport you could then […]
[PDF file]: […] to learn. The arrogant British often didn’t. Nor, more recently, have the Americans. Since the 1970s the US has built a huge lead in the field of surveillance technology (so that it no longer needed British ex-imperial listening stations, for example), and has become impatient of advice from anywhere. Ideology has also played a […]
[PDF file]: […] to the publication of Of G-Men and Eggheads with considerable interest. Unfortunately, while certainly worth reading, the book is actually something of a disappointment. It examines FBI surveillance of three New York intellectuals, associated at various times with the journal Partisan Review: Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald and Irving Howe. As Rodden makes clear, none […]
[PDF file]: […] was murdered in the streets of New York. The case against New York Mafioso, Carmine Galante of the Bonanno family, might have seemed air-tight; he was under surveillance at that time, for parole violation, and thus was placed in the murder vehicle at the time and place of the killing. But he was not […]
