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Description:This week on The Corbett Report we present a special audio and video edition of the podcast/vodcast. This week we delve into the true history of the illegal NSA wiretap program and how it connects to the bigger picture of government surveillance.
Documentation
| Documentation – CALEA and the Stellar Wind (video) | |
| Time Reference: | 15:22 |
| Description: | Begin watching the YouTube video version of this episode here. |
| Link To: | YouTube |
| Documentation – 22% of the US public trust their government | |
| Time Reference: | 17:37 |
| Description: | 22% too high… |
| Link To: | PewResearch |
| Documentation – Graph of public (mis)trust of government over time | |
| Time Reference: | 18:12 |
| Description: | Provided by Pew Research |
| Link To: | People-Press.org |
| Documentation – 45% Say Random People From Phone Book Better Than Current Congress | |
| Time Reference: | 18:50 |
| Description: | Only 45%? |
| Link To: | Rasmussen |
| Documentation – Bush Lies About Wiretapping | |
| Time Reference: | 19:27 |
| Description: | Surprise, surprise |
| Link To: | YouTube |
| Documentation – Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts | |
| Time Reference: | 20:41 |
| Description: | The New York Times article that broke the story in December 2005. |
| Link To: | NYTimes |
| Documentation – Amy Goodman interviews Eric Lichtblau About Wiretapping Story | |
| Time Reference: | 23:22 |
| Description: | Reporter talks about how the story came to be published. |
| Link To: | YouTube |
| Documentation – Wikipedia entry on NSA Wiretapping | |
| Time Reference: | 28:15 |
| Description: | Use the references, not the spin. |
| Link To: | Wikipedia |
| Documentation – Electronic Frontier Foundation | |
| Time Reference: | 29:02 |
| Description: | Online civil liberties group that has been fighting the NSA wiretapping program in the courts since it was first revealed. |
| Link To: | EFF.org |
| Documentation – Court Rejects Government’s Executive Power Claims and Rules That Warrantless Wiretapping Violated Law | |
| Time Reference: | 29:43 |
| Description: | Good news. |
| Link To: | EFF.org |
| Documentation – Interview with Rebecca Jeschke | |
| Time Reference: | 31:00 |
| Description: | The Corbett Report talks to Rebecca Jeschke about the EFF’s legal battles against the NSA wiretapping program. |
| Link To: | The Corbett Report |
| Documentation – Obama Lies About Ending Wiretapping | |
| Time Reference: | 35:11 |
| Description: | Surprise, surprise |
| Link To: | YouTube |
| Documentation – Olbermann Exposes Obama on Wiretapping | |
| Time Reference: | 36:07 |
| Description: | Obama is worse than Bush. |
| Link To: | YouTube |
| Documentation – PBS NOW report on NSA Spy Room in AT&T Hub | |
| Time Reference: | 39:36 |
| Description: | Features the story of Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed the existence of Room 641A. |
| Link To: | YouTube |
| Documentation – CALEA Act | |
| Time Reference: | 45:49 |
| Description: | Read the legislation online. |
| Link To: | ASKCALEA.net |
| Documentation – EFF vs. CALEA | |
| Time Reference: | 46:28 |
| Description: | Information on EFF’s problems with the troubling possibilities for internet spying with recent changes to CALEA. |
| Link To: | EFF.org |
| Documentation – Frontline covers Total Information Awareness | |
| Time Reference: | 48:00 |
| Description: | Part of a PBS documentary on gov’t spy programs. |
| Link To: | YouTube |
| Documentation – Cryptome.org | |
| Time Reference: | 51:26 |
| Description: | Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance — open, sec |
| Link To: | Cryptome.org |
| Documentation – John Young on The Corbett Report | |
| Time Reference: | 52:30 |
| Description: | We talk to John Young about government surveillance. We also have a lengthy discussion about the Wikileaks phenomenon. |
| Link To: | The Corbett Report |
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[…] the Bush Administration was setting up the Department of Homeland Security and expanding a covert surveillance program that illegally captured the personal phone calls, faxes, and emails of ordinary […]
[…] the Bush Administration was setting up the Department of Homeland Security and expanding a covert surveillance program that illegally captured the personal phone calls, faxes, and emails of ordinary […]
[…] the Bush Administration was setting up the Department of Homeland Security and expanding aย covert surveillance program that illegally captured the personal phone calls, faxes, and emails of ordinary […]
[…] the Bush Administration was setting up the Department of Homeland Security and expanding aย covert surveillance programย that illegally captured the personal phone calls, faxes, and emails of ordinary […]
[…] the Bush Administration was setting up the Department of Homeland Security and expanding a covert surveillance program that illegally captured the personal phone calls, faxes, and emails of ordinary […]
[…] the Bush Administration was setting up the Department of Homeland Security and expanding a covert surveillance program that illegally captured the personal phone calls, faxes, and emails of ordinary […]
[…] the Bush Administration was setting up the Department of Homeland Security and expanding a covert surveillance program that illegally captured the personal phone calls, faxes, and emails of ordinary […]
[…] the Bush Administration was setting up the Department of Homeland Security and expanding aย covert surveillance program that illegally captured the personal phone calls, faxes, and emails of ordinary […]
[…] the Bush Administration was setting up the Department of Homeland Security and expanding a covert surveillance program that illegally captured the personal phone calls, faxes, and emails of ordinary […]
[…] the Bush Administration was setting up the Department of Homeland Security and expanding a covert surveillance program that illegally captured the personal phone calls, faxes, and emails of ordinary […]
[…] the Bush Administration was setting up the Department of Homeland Security and expanding aย covert surveillance programย that illegally captured the personal phone calls, faxes, and emails of ordinary […]
[…] the Bush Administration was setting up the Department of Homeland Security and expanding aย covert surveillance programย that illegally captured the personal phone calls, faxes, and emails of ordinary […]
[…] the Bush Administration was setting up the Department of Homeland Security and expanding aย covert surveillance programย that illegally captured the personal phone calls, faxes, and emails of ordinary […]
[…] into law since the passage of the Communications Assistance for Law Enfocement Act of 1994, or CALEA. That this level of surveillance has been mandated by statute for 19 years is not conjecture or […]
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[…] As we explored in previous editions of The Eyeopener, government/corporate collaboration has been at the heart of Silicon Valley since its very inception. As we have also previously examined, the CIA has been directly involved in fostering advanced IT R&D since 1999 through In-Q-Tel, its own venture capital arm. And as has been previously outlined on The Corbett Report, the hardwiring of backdoor access for the US intelligence agencies into all major telecommunications equipment was first mandated in 1994 through the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA. […]
[…] More information on the CALEA Act http://www.corbettreport.com/episode-129-calea-and-the-stellar-wind/ […]
[…] the Bush Administration was setting up the Department of Homeland Security and expanding a covert surveillance program that illegally captured the personal phone calls, faxes, and emails of ordinary […]
Stellar Wind Inspector General report from 2009 has been declassified.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/25/us/25stellarwind-ig-report.html?_r=0
useful breakdown here
http://www.emptywheel.net/2015/04/25/stellar-wind-ig-report-working-thread/