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Whistle Blower Outs NSA Spy Room
In San Francisco, a "secret Internet switching room packed with surveillance gear and wired to AT&T's backbone network" was interconnected to other major Internet providers. The documents detailing this setup had been sealed due to a class-action lawsuit against AT&T, in which a civil liberties group "charged that the company had helped the government eavesdrop on Americans' domestic and international Internet traffic without a warrant."
Tags: Internet; national security; government eavesdropping; Web surveillance; AT&T; NSA
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No Place to Hide
American Radio Works producer Biewen and Washington Post reporter O'Harrow Jr. investigate in this one-hour program and the extent to which private companies are working with the U.S. government to create a growing and largely secret domestic intelligence system in the post-9/11 era. They particularly look at how the government utilized information technology to help it achieve its surveillance goals.
Tags: domestic spying; intelligence; Department of Defense; Department of Homeland Security; CAPPS II; Total Information Awareness; oversight; surveillance; U.S. government
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No Place to Hide
Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr. investigates how the U.S. government has used information technology to watch over Americans in the post-9/11 era. He reveals the extent to which private companies are working with the government to create a growing and largely secret domestic intelligence system.
Tags: domestic spying; intelligence; security-industrial complex; Matrix; Department of Defense; Department of Homeland Security; ChoicePoint; CAPPS II; Total Information Awareness; oversight; surveillance; U.S. government
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FBI Files
CBS News reports on a little known decade-long surveillance operation designed to spy on American citizens. FBI started the operation in the late 1970s under the Reagan's administration. It was conceived as an anti-Soviet initiative to limit the communist propaganda in the United States but eventually turned into a widespread domestic spying, CBS reports. Surprisingly, central to the program was then-undercover Soviet spy Robert Hanssen.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; FOI requests; intelligence; unclassified records; Soviet Union; cold war
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At FBI, a Traitor Helped in Search for Subversives
A joint investigation by the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Los Angeles Times reveals that Robert Philip Hanssen, a confessed spy for the Soviet Union in the 1980s, headed up a domestic spying program for the FBI during that same decade."The role -- and historical irony -- of confessed traitor Hanssen has not been reported before..." The Times and CIR broke the story with the help of 2,815 pages of "formerly classified documents recently obtained under a federal Freedom of Information Act request submitted nearly 15 years ago."
Tags: Robert Philip Hanssen; spying; espionage; Soviet Union; FBI; domestic spying; Regan Administration; Bush Administration
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At FBI, A Traitor Helped Search For Subversives
The Center For Investigative Reporting reports on confessed spy Robert Hanssen. After 15 years for a FOIA request to come through, the investigation revealed that Hanssen had supervised a Regan-administration domestic spy program called "Active Measures," which reported on U.S. citizens associated with liberal causes; this was the same type of spying Hanssen did for the Soviets.
Tags: FOIA; FBI; spy; Robert Hanssen; Active Measures
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Echelon
A CBS News 60 Minutes investigation discovers that a top-secret, "little-known system called Echelon is able to intercept virtually any electronic transmission worldwide." The story reports on the European Union concerns over corporate espionage by the NSA. It finds that "the Echelon program is far more vast than the EU had presented, and that the globe is peppered with huge spy stations..." The report reveals that, while the American National Security Agency "is forbidden by American law to spy on American citizens, .... Canada and England do the spying on behalf of the NSA and simply send the information to their American colleagues." The investigation finds that these two countries "use the same loophole to get around their own domestic surveillance rules," and uncovers reports that Echelon has listened in on late Princess Diana, Amnesty International and Greenpeace.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; FOIA; intelligence; national security; Federation of American Scientists; Menwith Hill; House Intelligence Committee; Congress; traffic; parliament; encryption; law enforcement
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Two faces of War
San Diego Magazine runs a two-part series on Americans taking opposite sides in the Nicaragua war; finds San Diego connection to the contra supply network; support in the United States for the Sandinistas seems greater than for the contras; new information on domestic spying by FBI.
Tags: Singlaub; Nicaraguan Civil War; United States; Contras; Sandinista government; FBI
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Cointelpro is Back: Government Surveillance in the 1980s
Desert West News (Tucson) radio piece documents the return of government surveillance on domestic political groups by the FBI and other agencies, comparing it to the abuses of J. Edgar Hoover's Cointelpro in the 1960s and 1970s.
Tags: Tape; Hoover; domestic; spying; surveillance; 1980s; Cointelpro