Cyber attack fear used to expand spy grid Cyber attacco paura utilizzati per espandere spia griglia

By Da Ashlee Vance in Mountain View Ashlee Vance a Mountain View

Not content with spying on other countries, the NSA (National Security Agency) will now turn on the US’s own government agencies thanks to a fresh directive from president George Bush. Non contenti di spionaggio su altri paesi, la NSA (National Security Agency), ora su US proprie agenzie governative, grazie ad una nuova direttiva del presidente George Bush.

Under the new guidelines, the NSA and other intelligence agencies can bore into the internet networks of all their peers. In base alle nuove linee guida, la NSA e le altre agenzie di intelligence può annoiare in internet le reti di tutti i loro coetanei. The Bush administration pulled off this spy expansion by pointing to an increase in the number of cyber attacks directed against the US, possibly from foreign nations. L'amministrazione Bush ha tirato fuori da questa spia di espansione che punta a un aumento del numero di cyber attacchi diretti contro gli Stati Uniti, anche da nazioni straniere. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) will spearhead the effort around identifying the source of these attacks, while the Department of Homeland Security and Pentagon will concentrate on retaliation. L'Ufficio del Direttore della National Intelligence (ODNI) saranno la punta di lancia lo sforzo intorno identificare la fonte di questi attacchi, mentre il Department of Homeland Security e il Pentagono si concentrerà sulla ritorsione.

The Washington Post appears to have broken the news about the new Bush-led joint directive, which remains classified. The Washington Post sembra aver rotto le notizie sulle nuove congiunta Bush-ha portato direttiva, che resta classificato. The paper La carta reported Segnalati that the directive - National Security Presidential Directive 54/Homeland Security Presidential Directive 23 - was signed on Jan. 8. Che la direttiva - Direttiva Presidenziale di Sicurezza Nazionale di Sicurezza 54/Homeland Direttiva Presidenziale 23 - è stato firmato l'8 gennaio. Earlier reports from the Baltimore Sun documented the NSA’s plans to add US spying to its international snooping duties. Relazioni precedenti dal Baltimore Sun documentato la NSA's prevede di aggiungere alla sua US spionaggio internazionale snooping doveri.

The new program will - of course - drains billions of dollars out of US coffers and be part of Bush’s 2009 budget. Il nuovo programma - ovviamente - i canali di scolo miliardi di dollari US di casse e di essere parte di Bush del bilancio 2009.

During Bush’s presidency, US citizens have come under an unprecedented spying regime. Durante la sua presidenza Bush, i cittadini americani sono venuti in virtù di un regime di spionaggio senza precedenti. In addition to upping its focus on suspected criminals, the administration permitted a system for wiretapping the phone calls of Average Joes and Janes. In aggiunta a upping la sua attenzione su sospetti criminali, per la gestione di un sistema di permesso wiretapping le telefonate di media Joes e Janes. The government is also funding specialized computers from companies such as Cray that can search through enormous databases at incredible speed. Il governo è anche un finanziamento da parte di aziende specializzate computer come Cray, che possono cercare attraverso enormi banche dati a velocità incredibile. Ah, if only Stalin could see us now. Ah, se solo Stalin poteva vedere noi adesso.

The government points to cyber attacks against the State, Commerce, Defense and Homeland Security departments as the impetus for expanding the NSA’s powers. Il governo punta a cyber attacchi contro lo Stato, il Commercio, Difesa e Sicurezza servizi come l'impulso per ampliare i poteri della NSA. “US officials and cyber-security experts have said Chinese Web sites were involved in several of the biggest attacks back to 2005, including some at the country’s nuclear-energy labs and large defense contractors,” the Post reported. "Funzionari statunitensi e cyber-esperti di sicurezza hanno detto cinese siti Web sono stati coinvolti in vari attacchi dei più grandi indietro al 2005, di cui alcune a del paese di energia nucleare-laboratori di difesa e grandi imprenditori", il Post riportava.

Critics of the new directive will point to the NSA’s ability to operate in total secrecy as cause for concern. I critici della nuova direttiva punta alla NSA la capacità di operare in totale segretezza, come motivo di preoccupazione.

More troubling, however, may be the Pentagon and Homeland Security’s aspirations to hit attackers with counter-strikes. Più preoccupante, tuttavia, possono essere il Pentagono e Homeland Security's aspirazioni a colpire con attaccanti contro-scioperi.

Proving that a nation rather than a rogue set of attackers are behind a cyber attack will likely be very difficult. Dimostrando che una nazione piuttosto che un insieme di canaglia attaccanti sono dietro un cyber attacco sarà probabilmente molto difficile. In addition, the international community has yet to address the rules of cyber war in any meaningful way. Inoltre, la comunità internazionale deve ancora affrontare le regole della guerra cibernetica in modo significativo. ®

Just learned following within the past few days: Appena appreso in seguito ai giorni scorsi:

Certain privacy/full session SSL email hosting services have been purchased/changed operational control by NSA and affiliates within the past few months, through private intermediary entities. Alcuni privacy / piena sessione SSL email servizi di hosting sono stati acquistati / cambiato controllo operativo da NSA e affiliati all'interno degli ultimi mesi, tramite intermediario enti privati.

Hushmail: now fully owned by private entity NSA affiliate; has had informal relationship with NSA for a number of years that effectively provided NSA with real time access to Hushmail’s hosting servers. Hushmail: ora completamente di proprietà di privati entità NSA affiliato; ha avuto rapporto informale con NSA per un numero di anni che effettivamente fornito NSA tempo reale con accesso a Hushmail del server di hosting.

Safe-mail.net: Israeli-based, ironically privately lauded by NSA and US military several years ago for its sound implementation of SendMail with SSL webmail GUI frontend. Safe-mail.net: israelo-based, per ironia della sorte privatamente lodato da NSA e militare degli Stati Uniti, alcuni anni fa, per la sua corretta attuazione di SendMail con SSL webmail frontend GUI. Now provides mail server info to NSA in real time. Ora fornisce informazioni al server di posta di NSA in tempo reale.

Guardster.com (SSH/SSL proxy): NSA contractors have “bought” full access rights to Guardster servers a few days ago. Guardster.com (SSH / SSL proxy): NSA contraenti hanno "comprato" il pieno accesso ai diritti Guardster server di pochi giorni fa. Separate but related: faciliated port sniffing of hosting servers at Everyones Internet, on NSA affiliates’ behalf, has been ongoing for a number of months now. Distinto ma correlato: facilitato porta sniffing di hosting presso server di Everyones Internet, sulla NSA affiliati 'nome, è stato costante per un certo numero di mesi.

More info on industry Windows security software: Maggiori informazioni sul settore del software per la sicurezza di Windows:

Zone Alarm, Symantec, MacAfee: All facilitate Microsoft’s NSA-controlled remote admin access via IP/TCP ports 1024 through 1030; ie will allow access without security flag. Zone Alarm, Symantec, MacAfee: Tutti facilitare Microsoft NSA-admin accesso remoto controllato tramite IP / porte TCP da 1024 a 1030; cioè consentirà l'accesso senza sicurezza bandiera. Unknown whether or not software port forward routing by these same programs will defeat NSA access. Sconosciuto o non porta avanti il software di routing da questi stessi programmi sconfitta NSA accesso.

I will continue to provide more info on the above and related topics upon discovery. I continuerà a fornire maggiori informazioni su quanto sopra e su argomenti relativi alla scoperta.

http://cryptome.org/nsa-ssl-email.htm Http://cryptome.org/nsa-ssl-email.htm

By Da Ralph Lopez Ralph Lopez

Missing from the debate over expanding NSA authority in the War on Terror is the simple question, beyond our reflexive desire for privacy: why is expanding this authority such a bad idea? Mancante da ampliare il dibattito sul futuro della NSA autorità nella guerra al terrore è la semplice domanda, al di là della nostra volontà riflessivo per la privacy: questo il motivo per cui si sta espandendo tali autorità una cattiva idea? We know the Feds have done nasty, un-American things like spy on activists like Martin Luther King, but it comes out in the wash, doesn’t it? Noi sappiamo che il Feds hanno fatto perversa, un americano su cose come spia attivisti come Martin Luther King, ma esce nel lavare, non? Did the Founders, who took pains to enshrine freedom from “unreasonable search and seizure,” without “probable cause,” understand what the Stasi, Hitler, and the KGB all understood? Ti Fondatori, che ha preso cura di sancire la libertà da "irragionevole perquisizione e sequestro," senza "probabile causa", a capire che cosa la Stasi, Hitler, e il KGB tutti capito? That knowledge is power, and absolute knowledge of peoples’ lives becomes absolute power? Che la conoscenza è potere, e di assoluta conoscenza dei popoli 'vita diventa potere assoluto?

The origin of the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights, which Congress has been merrily gutting since the Patriot Act, was the hated “general warrant” which allowed British soldiers to enter a colonial’s home, barn, and property in search of anything suspicious. L'origine del Quarto Emendamento del Bill of Rights, che è stato Congresso merrily eviscerazione poiché il Patriot Act, è stato l'odiato "mandato generale", che consentiva di soldati britannici di una casa coloniale, fienile, e di proprietà, alla ricerca di qualcosa Sospette. It was a principle cause of the Revolution. E 'stato un principio causa della Rivoluzione. Could the Founding Fathers, a bunch of old white guys versed in the Greek and Latin classics, philosophy, mathematics, and history, have grasped the significance of a monopoly of information in the hands of the government, which already possesses a monopoly of force? Potrebbe Padri Fondatori, un gruppo di ragazzi di età bianco versati in greco e il latino classico, la filosofia, la matematica, e la storia, hanno colto il significato di un monopolio di informazione nelle mani del governo, che già possiede un monopolio della forza?

The Stasi Patriot Act was written long before 9/11. La Stasi Patriot Act è stato scritto molto prima del 9 / 11. As Congressman Jim McDermott said, “they had all this on the shelf somewhere, ideas of things they would like to do and they got 9/11 and they said “its our chance, go for it!”" Come del Congresso Jim McDermott ha detto, "tutto ciò che aveva sullo scaffale da qualche parte, le idee delle cose che si vorrebbero fare e che ha ottenuto 9 / 11 e hanno detto" la sua nostro caso, per andare! ""

For those of us not used to thinking like a Machiavelli, use a little imagination. Per quelli di noi, non abituati a pensare come un Machiavelli, usa un po 'di immaginazione. Come up up with a list of fun things to do if you were in charge, had no respect for anyone, and had a search and eavesdropping power free of judicial oversight, meaning, no one looking over your shoulder to see what you were looking at, which is what a warrant means. Venite up up con un elenco di cose divertenti da fare se si era in carica, non ha avuto alcun rispetto per nessuno, e aveva una ricerca libera e ascolti indiscreti potere di supervisione giudiziaria, il che significa, nessuno cerca di sopra della spalla per vedere che cosa stavate guardando , Che è ciò che significa un mandato. The controversy over the NSA is not just pie-in-the-sky liberals squawking over their precious rights in the “new world” in which terrorist are trying to kill us. La controversia sulla NSA non è solo pie-in-the-liberali squawking cielo sopra le loro preziosi diritti nel "nuovo mondo", in cui terroristi stanno cercando di uccidere noi. Let’s get this out of the realm of ideas and push it down to action on the ground. Let's get out of questo regno delle idee e spingerlo verso il basso per azione sul terreno.

1. Spy on all protesters and activists, from pro-life to anti-war, so you know when they are going to unfurl banners in the gallery of the House of Representatives, then change the schedule to mess them up. Spy su tutti i manifestanti e attivisti, da pro-vita di anti-guerra, in modo di sapere quando vanno a unfurl banner nella galleria della Camera dei Rappresentanti, quindi modificare il loro calendario a mess.

2. Get the psychiatric records of anyone who leaks a “classified” document which is only classified because it shows the government continuing to fight a war which it believes cannot be won, oops, been there done that. Ottenere il record psichiatrico di tutti coloro che si verifica una "classificato" documento, che è classificato solo perché dimostra il governo continua a combattere una guerra che a suo avviso non può essere vinta, oops, c'è stato fatto. Not imaginative. Non fantasiose. His name was Daniel Ellsberg, he leaked the Pentagon Papers, and Nixon wanted his deepest darkest confessions to fish through for a smear campaign. Il suo nome era Daniel Ellsberg, il Pentagono ha trapelato Papers, e Nixon voleva che i suoi più profondi più oscura confessioni di pesce attraverso una campagna denigratoria. Fourth Amendment ideas are already the direct cause one American president being slapped down. Quarto Emendamento idee sono già la causa diretta uno presidente americano di essere schiaffeggiato.

3. Find out who that pesky congressman is sleeping with, who wants you impeached. Scopri chi è che pesky congressman dormire con, che vuole lei accusa. My personal feeling is that this is exactly what Bush has on half these guys, hence their reluctance to impeach. La mia personale impressione è che questo è esattamente ciò che Bush ha in mezzo questi ragazzi, e quindi la loro riluttanza a impeach. When you get a blank check to spy, you don’t turn it against pipsqueaks like you or me first; you turn it against the guys who can really hurt you. Quando si riceve un vuoto di controllo spia, non accendere contro pipsqueaks come te o me prima; si gira contro i ragazzi che si può veramente male. In the process you undermine the entire basis of government. Durante la procedura di minare la base di tutto il governo. Could this account for Bush’s perpetual smirk? Impossibile questo account per Bush's smirk perpetua?

4. Give an old frat buddy and staunch supporter, who already has all the money he ever wants, something more important to him now: the chance to settle an old score. Frat dare un vecchio amico e convinto sostenitore, che ha già tutti i soldi che vuole sempre qualcosa di più importante per lui adesso: la possibilità di risolvere un vecchio cliente. If there is a motivator more powerful than money, it’s hatred. Se c'è una motivazione più potente di denaro, è l'odio. We’ll see what we can find on him, old buddy, everyone has some kind of dirt on him somewhere. Vedremo cosa si può trovare su di lui, vecchio amico, tutti hanno un qualche tipo di sporco su di lui da qualche parte.

5. Keep looking. Continua a cercare. The Patriot Act says we can go through any records pertaining to you, bank account, car dealer, dentist, lawyer, real estate, telephone company, anything , understand? Il Patriot Act dice che possiamo passare attraverso qualsiasi record appartiene a te, conto in banca, rivenditore di auto, dentista, avvocato, immobili, società telefonica, nulla, capisci? The NSA just makes it easier. La NSA solo rende più facile. Rather than feds walk in and going through paper records, business transacted through the Internet is swept up and kept in a “dump.” When we need it, pop in your first-middle-last-social-and-birthday, and BINGO! Feds a piedi piuttosto che in e passare attraverso la carta record, business scambiati attraverso Internet è travolti e conservato in un "dump". Quando abbiamo bisogno, e il suo primo pop-centro-last-sociale-e-compleanno, e BINGO!

6. If we find nothing, why not just frame him? Se vogliamo trovare nulla, perché non solo fotogramma lui? We don’t have anything on him , but we do on the AG in that state. Noi non abbiamo nulla su di lui, ma lo facciamo sul AG in quello stato. He’ll know the truth but he won’t say anything. Che sarà lui a conoscere la verità, ma egli non dice nulla.

7. Tell that pitbull reporter we’re going to fax his girlfriend’s abortion records to his wife. Dillo pitbull reporter che stiamo per fax della sua ragazza aborto record a sua moglie. The Patriot Act allows government agencies to look into anyone’s medical records, remember? Il Patriot Act consente di guardare le agenzie governative in tutti i record del medico, ricordate?

8. Allow a black market of tips, payback and blackmail to flourish among the rich and well-connected, the way the Stasi East German Secret Police did, just so long as it doesn’t hurt anyone important . Consentire un mercato nero di consigli, di recupero e di ricatto a fiorire tra ricchi e ben collegato, il modo in cui la Stasi tedesco-orientale Secret polizia ha fatto, basta che non ferire nessuno importante.

9. If you are the beneficiary of such a black market, and you, as someone connected, knows someone else connected who owes you a favor, get the full text of your competitor’s marketing strategy for the next product cycle. Se sei il beneficiario di un simile mercato nero, e lei, come qualcuno collegato, sanno che qualcun altro collegato vi deve un favore, ottenere il testo completo del tuo concorrente della strategia di marketing per il prossimo ciclo di prodotto.

10. Always, always, make sure you are spying on your own people. Sempre, sempre, assicurati di spionaggio sul proprio popolo. Patriotic whistleblowers are among the most credible sources when they go to reporters. Patriottica chi segnala gli abusi sono tra le fonti più credibili quando va a reporter. Everyone knows they have nothing to gain and everything to lose. Tutti sanno che non hanno nulla da guadagnare e tutto da perdere. Declare him enemy combatant before he talks and have him waterboarded, the punk. Dichiarare lui combattente nemico prima che i colloqui e sono waterboarded lui, il punk.

Add your own to the list! Aggiungi il tuo alla lista! Then Poi send this Invia questa to your congressmen, and to your friends! Al vostro Congresso, e per i tuoi amici! Dirty tricks are a game to these guys! Sporchi trucchi sono un gioco a questi ragazzi! Why shouldn’t we have fun too? Perché non dovremmo avere anche il divertimento?

Remember, what we are talking about is not the power to spy on terrorists. Ricorda, ciò di cui stiamo parlando non è il potere di spiare i terroristi. The government already has that. Il governo, che ha già. They can flip the switch immediately if they think anything is going down. Essi possono capovolgere il passare immediatamente se pensano che qualcosa sta andando verso il basso. They just have to get a warrant within 48 hours. Essi hanno solo per ottenere un mandato entro 48 ore. That’s after the fact. That's dopo il fatto. Bush lies when he implies the Constitution is outdated because sometimes there’s no time to get a warrant. Bush si trova quando implica la Costituzione è superata, perché talvolta non c'è tempo per ottenere un mandato. It shows what he really wants: no one looking over his shoulder whatsoever. Esso mostra ciò che egli realmente vuole: nessuno guarda oltre la sua spalla di sorta.

Before the Stasi Patriot Act of 2001, in recognition that intelligence agents shifted through massive amounts of data, a wall was erected that forbade evidence obtained by intelligence agents without a warrant from being used in normal criminal prosecutions, since that came perilously close to what judges call “fishing expeditions.” With the Patriot Act, Prima della Stasi Patriot Act del 2001, in riconoscimento del fatto che le agenzie di intelligence spostata attraverso grandi quantità di dati, è stato eretto un muro che vietava di prove ottenute da agenti di intelligence, senza un mandato da essere utilizzato in condizioni normali di procedimenti penali, dal momento che è venuto pericolosamente vicina a ciò che i giudici Chiamata "spedizioni di pesca." Con il Patriot Act, this wall was dismantled. Questo muro è stato smantellato. Anything found on you in any way can be used against you. Trovato nulla su di lei in nessun modo può essere utilizzata contro di te.

In 2003 federal agents in Las Vegas used the no-warrant provisions of the Patriot Act to bring charges in run-of-the-mill money laundering and political corruption cases not related to terrorism. Nel 2003, gli agenti federali a Las Vegas utilizzato il no-garantisce disposizioni del Patriot Act per portare le tariffe a run-of-the-dal riciclaggio di denaro sporco e la corruzione politica casi non legate al terrorismo. Justice Department spokesman Mark Corrallo said Portavoce del Dipartimento di Giustizia ha affermato Mark Corrallo : “The Patriot Act was not meant to be just for terrorism. : "Il Patriot Act è stato concepito per essere non solo per il terrorismo. A lot of the uninformed criticism was obviously misplaced.” Molte delle critiche è stata, ovviamente, disinformato fuori luogo. "

What the Founders understood is, if you make one branch of the government Big Brother, able to prosecute every wrongdoing, it will not sometimes be abused and applied unequally; it will always be abused and applied unequally. Fondatori capito che cosa è, se fate un ramo del governo Grande Fratello, in grado di perseguire ogni irregolarità, ma a volte non essere oggetto di abusi e applicata modo disuguale, ma saranno sempre vittime di abusi e applicata modo disuguale. The requirement for searches to be approved by a judge upon the showing of “probable cause” was an outgrowth of inherent distrust of centralized authority. L'obbligo per le ricerche di essere approvata da un giudice dopo la proiezione di "probabile" è stato uno dei outgrowth inerenti la diffidenza di autorità centralizzata. George Bush’s mantra that “this is not a law enforcement problem” is not accidental. George Bush's mantra che "questo non è un problema di applicazione della legge" non è accidentale. It is carefully crafted and deliberate. È forgiati e deliberata. It is meant to foster a contempt for the law, and to extend the rules of the battlefield, where the word of the Commander-in-Chief is law, to Americans and American soil. Essa è destinata a promuovere un disprezzo per la legge, e di estendere le regole del campo di battaglia, dove la parola del Comandante in capo è legge, per gli Americani e suolo americano.

All political persuasions should fear this. Tutti i politici dovrebbero persuasioni questa paura. We’re not talking about the power of the Bush administration. Non stiamo parlando del potere dell'amministrazione Bush. We’re talking about a permanent change to a Stasi culture benefiting whomever holds the reins of power. Stiamo parlando di un cambiamento permanente a una cultura che beneficiano Stasi chi detiene le redini del potere. The Founders, whose incredibly bleak view of human nature led them to place checks and balances into the very core of the Constitution, put a brake on human nature with the Fourth Amendment. Fondatori, la cui incredibilmente triste vista della natura umana li condusse al luogo di checks and balances nel nucleo stesso della Costituzione, mettere un freno alla natura umana con il Quarto Emendamento. Boy, those sure were some smart old white guys. Boy, quelli accertati sono stati alcuni vecchi bianco smart guys.

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Hey, kids! Ehi, ragazzi! Have you ever wanted to listen in on the conversations of other people without them knowing it? Hai mai voluto ascoltare e sulle conversazioni di altre persone senza saperlo? Create codes that allow spies in the field to get information about enhanced interrogation techniques without those killjoys at Amnesty International finding out? Creare codici che consentono spie nel settore per ottenere informazioni su tecniche di interrogatorio rafforzate senza killjoys quelli di Amnesty International a scoprire?

Dress up as a totally extreme rapping turtle and get a blow job from a sexy lady squirrel? Vestito come un estremo totalmente rapping tartaruga e ottieni un colpo di posti di lavoro da una sexy lady scoiattolo? Well now you can, thanks to the Ora è possibile, grazie alla Cryptokids Cryptokids — the NSA’ s new program for young people and furfans. -- La NSA 's nuovo programma per i giovani e furfans.

The Web site, with detailed biographies of its cadre of rad furry spies, has had so much more effort put into it than we’re comfortable thinking about. Il sito Web, con dettagliate biografie dei suoi quadri di rad pelliccia spie, ha avuto molto di più dello sforzo messo in quello che stiamo pensando di comodo.

But it’s important to recruit children into the spy apparatus, as it’s the best way to get info on the parents. Ma è importante per reclutare bambini nella spy apparecchio, come è il miglior modo per ottenere informazioni sui genitori. We call them “nature’s hidden listening devices”! Noi li chiamiamo "natura nascoste dispositivi di ascolto"! As for the furries, well: do you want that fat sweaty guy in the raccoon suit working for us … or for the terrorists? Per quanto riguarda il furries, bene: volete che il tizio grasso e sudato raccoon il seme di lavoro per noi… o per i terroristi?

Do you have an FBI file? Avete un FBI file?

You might! Many people do. Potreste! Molte persone fanno. So let’s talk about your past. Quindi parlare del tuo passato. Did you … Ti è…

… ever participate in a civil rights march? How about a Vietnam war protest? … Mai partecipare a una diritti civili marzo? Come su una guerra in Vietnam protesta?

… ever sign an edgy political petition? … Mai firmare una petizione edgy politico?

… ever know a guy named “Joey the Horse?” (Ever help him take out any heavy garbage bags?) … Mai conoscere un ragazzo di nome "Joey il cavallo?" (Ever aiutare lui prendere qualsiasi pesanti sacchetti di spazzatura?)

… ever hang out with a third-world dictator, retired or present? … Mai flirta con un dittatore del terzo mondo, pensionati o presenti?

Phil says: “The Freedom-of-Information-loving folks who brought you Get Grandpa’s FBI File have just launched a sister site: Get My FBI File Dice: "La libertà d'informazione-amare persone che ti ha fatto Grandpa's Get File FBI ha appena lanciato una sorella sito: Get My FBI File . This site helps you automatically generate the letters you need to send in to get your own FBI file … and while you’re at it, you can also get your NSA, CIA, DIA, DSS, Secret Service, etc. files too, just by checking a few boxes. Questo sito vi aiuta a generare automaticamente le lettere si ha bisogno di inviare e di ricevere i vostri file FBI… e, già che ci sei, puoi anche avere il tuo NSA, CIA, DIA, DSS, Secret Service, ecc file di troppo, basta Mediante il controllo di una qualche caselle. If you throw in UnSecureFlight.Com, we’re getting perilously close to one-stop shopping for all your government security file needs.” Se passi in UnSecureFlight.Com, stiamo ottenendo pericolosamente vicina a one-stop shopping per tutte le vostre esigenze di sicurezza governative file ".

See: Sede: http://www.getmyfbifile.com/ Http://www.getmyfbifile.com/ and E http://www.getmyfbifile.com/form.php Http://www.getmyfbifile.com/form.php

The US National Security Agency now has the legal right to monitor some 38% of the world’s telephone, data and internet traffic without requiring a judicial warrant. By La National Security Agency degli Stati Uniti ha ora il diritto di controllare il 38% circa di tutto il mondo di telefono, dati e traffico internet senza la necessità di un'autorità giudiziaria mandato. Con Ian Grant Ian Grant

George W Bush signed the George W. Bush ha firmato la relevant legislation Pertinente legislazione last Sunday. Domenica scorsa.

According to Secondo Telegeography Telegeography , a research firm that monitors telecommunications , Una società di ricerca che monitora le telecomunicazioni traffic Traffico flows, some 38% of the world’s total telecommunications traffic starts or finishes in the US. Flussi, il 38% circa del totale del mondo delle telecomunicazioni traffico inizia o finisce negli Stati Uniti. This is down slightly from 43% in 2003. Questo è un po 'giù dal 43% nel 2003.

“In 2005 (the latest year for which we currently have voice traffic data), approximately 29% of non-US voice traffic transited through a US hub. "Nel 2005 (l'ultimo anno per il quale attualmente disponiamo di dati di traffico voce), circa il 29% dei non-US traffico voce transitato attraverso un hub US. This is up noticeably from the 20% share in 2002,” said Tim Stronge, a Telegeography spokesman. Questo è notevolmente dal 20% nel 2002 ", ha detto Tim Stronge, un portavoce Telegeography.

“This only includes traditional, circuit-switched international voice traffic. "Questo comprende solo tradizionale, acceso circuito internazionale traffico voce. If one includes voice traffic carried as Voice-over-IP (VoIP), the number would likely be around 33%,” he added. Se si include il traffico voce trasportati come Voice-over-IP (VoIP), il numero sarebbe probabilmente intorno al 33% ", ha aggiunto.

Stronge said his firm does not collect data on Stronge ha detto la sua ditta non raccogliere dati su satellite Satellite traffic, but said no more than 1% or 2% of telecoms traffic went over satellite links. Traffico, ma ha detto di non più di 1% o il 2% del traffico è andato oltre le telecomunicazioni via satellite.

“Fibre-optic network infrastructure is, bit-for-bit, far cheaper than "Fibra ottica è l'infrastruttura di rete, il bit-per-bit, molto meno costosa di satellites Satelliti , and is the dominant medium for international telecommunications,” he said. , Ed è la dominante medie internazionale per le telecomunicazioni ", ha detto.

“Taking into account that not all satellite constellations are US-owned, my guess is that less than 1% of the world’s international traffic transits over US-owned satellites.” "Tenendo conto del fatto che non tutte le costellazioni di satelliti USA sono di proprietà, il mio è quello di indovinare in meno di 1% di tutto il mondo il traffico internazionale in transito negli USA dei propri satelliti".

MYTH: This is merely a “terrorist surveillance program.” LUOGO: Si tratta semplicemente di un "programma di sorveglianza del terrorismo".
REALITY: When there is evidence a person may be a terrorist, both the criminal code and intelligence laws already authorize eavesdropping. REALITY: Quando vi è la prova di una persona potrebbe essere un terrorista, sia il codice penale e di intelligence leggi già autorizzano tipo eavesdropping. This illegal program, however, allows electronic monitoring without any showing to a court that the person being spied upon in this country is a suspected terrorist. Questo programma illegale, tuttavia, consente il monitoraggio elettronico senza mostrando a un tribunale che la persona che viene spiato su in questo paese è un sospetto terrorista.

MYTH: The program is legal. LUOGO: Il programma è legale.
REALITY: The program violates the Fourth Amendment and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and will chill free speech. REALITY: Il programma viola il Quarto Emendamento degli Esteri e Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), e chill libertà di espressione.

MYTH: The Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) allows this. MITO: L'autorizzazione per l'utilizzo della forza militare (AUMF) permette questo.
REALITY: The resolution about using force in Afghanistan doesn’t mention wiretaps and doesn’t apply domestically, but FISA does–it requires a court order. REALITY: La risoluzione circa l'uso della forza in Afghanistan non menziona wiretaps e non si applica a livello interno, ma non FISA-che richiede un tribunale.

MYTH: The president has authority as commander in chief of the military to spy on Americans without any court oversight. LUOGO: Il presidente ha l'autorità come comandante in capo delle forze armate di spiare gli americani senza tribunale di sorveglianza.
REALITY: The Supreme Court recently found the administration’s claim of unlimited commander in chief powers during war to be an unacceptable effort to “condense power into a single branch of government,” contrary to the Constitution’s checks and balances. REALITY: La Corte Suprema ha recentemente rilevato l'amministrazione della ricorrente di un numero illimitato di poteri di comandante in capo durante la guerra per essere un inaccettabile tentativo di "potere di condensare in un unico ramo del governo", contrario alla Costituzione's checks and balances.

MYTH: The president has the power to say what the law is. LUOGO: Il presidente ha il potere di dire ciò che è la legge.
REALITY: The courts have this power under our system of government, and no person is above the law, not even the president, or the rule of law means nothing. REALITY: I giudici hanno questo potere sotto il nostro sistema di governo, e nessuna persona è al di sopra della legge, neppure il presidente, o lo stato di diritto non significa nulla.

MYTH: These warrantless wiretaps could never happen to you. LUOGO: Questi warrantless wiretaps non potrebbe mai capitare a voi.
REALITY: Without court oversight, there is no way to ensure innocent people’s everyday communications are not monitored or catalogued by the NSA or other agencies. REALITY: Senza tribunale di sorveglianza, non vi è alcun modo per garantire innocenti quotidiana della gente di comunicazione non sono controllati o catalogato dalla NSA o altre agenzie.

MYTH: This illegal program could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. LUOGO: Questo programma illegale potrebbe aver impedito il 9 / 11 attacchi.
REALITY: This is utter manipulation. REALITY: Si tratta di pronunciare la manipolazione. Before 9/11, the federal government had gathered intelligence, without illegal NSA spying, about the looming attacks and at least two of the terrorists who perpetrated them, but failed to act. Prima del 9 / 11, il governo federale aveva raccolto intelligenza, senza spionaggio illegale NSA, circa l'incombente attacchi e in almeno due dei terroristi che hanno perpetrato loro, ma non è riuscita ad agire.

MYTH: This illegal program has saved thousands of lives. LUOGO: Questo programma illegale ha salvato migliaia di vite umane.
REALITY: Because the program is secret the administration can assert anything it wants and then claim the need for secrecy excuses its failure to document these claims, let alone reveal all the times the program distracted intelligence agents with dead ends that wasted resources and trampled individual rights. REALITY: poiché il programma è segreta l'amministrazione può affermare nulla che vuole e quindi rivendicare la necessità di un segreto scuse per la mancata documento di queste rivendicazioni, per non parlare di rivelare tutti i tempi il programma distratti agenti di intelligence, che si conclude con morti e spreco di risorse calpestati i diritti individuali .

MYTH: FISA takes too long. LUOGO: FISA dura troppo a lungo.
REALITY: FISA allows wiretaps to begin immediately in emergencies, with three days afterward to go to court. REALITY: FISA wiretaps consente di iniziare immediatamente in caso di emergenza, con tre giorni dopo per andare in tribunale. Even without an emergency, FISA orders can be approved very quickly and FISA judges are available at all hours. Anche senza una situazione di emergenza, FISA ordini possono essere approvato rapidamente e FISA giudici sono disponibili a tutte le ore.

MYTH: Only liberals disagree with the president about the program. LUOGO: Solo i liberali in disaccordo con il presidente circa il programma.
REALITY: The serious concerns that have been raised transcend party labels and reflect genuine and widespread worries about the lack of checks on the president’s claim of unlimited power to illegally spy on Americans without any independent oversight. REALITY: Le gravi preoccupazioni che sono state sollevate trascendono da parte di etichette e riflettere vera e diffusa preoccupazione per la mancanza di controlli sul presidente della rivendicazione di un potere illimitato per illegalmente spiare americani senza alcuna supervisione indipendente.

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By Da Ryan Singel Ryan Singel

The Bush Administration’s hard press for emergency wiretapping powers from Congress before the August break now has an explanation: a secret court decided several months ago that at least one portion of the NSA wiretapping program is illegal, according to L'amministrazione Bush preme per la difficile emergenza wiretapping poteri dal Congresso prima della pausa di agosto ha ora una spiegazione: un segreto giudice ha deciso alcuni mesi fa, che almeno una parte della NSA wiretapping programma è illegale, in base al MSNBC Newsweek.  That program operated for four years without court supervision, until the Administration bowed to public pressure in January 2007 and allowed the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to review it. Newsweek. Tale programma gestito, per quattro anni senza il controllo giurisdizionale, fino alla Amministrazione ceduto alle pressioni del pubblico nel gennaio del 2007 e ha permesso il segreto degli Esteri Intelligence Surveillance Court di esaminarlo.

In short, prior to the Patriot Act passage, the Administration launched a series of secret, warrantless wiretapping operations, which included snooping on Americans and wholesale data mining of innocent Americans’ communications records (the latter only according to press reports).  The Administration believes it can do this surveillance since it is a King in wartime and thus never asked Congress to make any of this legal in the Patriot Act for fear it would be turned down. In breve, prima di passare il Patriot Act, l'Amministrazione ha avviato una serie di segreto, warrantless wiretapping operazioni, che comprendevano snooping sul americani e all'ingrosso di data mining di americani innocenti 'record di comunicazione (quest'ultimo solo in base alle notizie di stampa). L'Amministrazione ritiene È possibile effettuare questa sorveglianza poiché si tratta di un re in tempo di guerra e, quindi, non ha chiesto al Congresso di apportare questa giuridico e il Patriot Act, per paura che sarebbe abbassato.

Years later, a part of this secret surveillance is revealed by the New York Times .  After a year of criticism and revelations, the Administration agrees to let a super-secret and very compliant court oversee the program using some very super secret, and legally dubious program warrants.  A few months later, a judge from this court finds portions of the program illegal. Anni più tardi, una parte di questo segreto di sorveglianza è rivelato dal New York Times. Dopo un anno di critiche e rivelazioni, l'Amministrazione si impegna a lasciare un super-segreto e molto compatibile giudice supervisionare il programma utilizzando alcuni molto super segreto, e legalmente dubbie Programma warrant. Pochi mesi più tardi, un giudice di questo giudice ritiene porzioni del programma illegale. The administration refuses to make this decision public. L'amministrazione si rifiuta di rendere pubblica questa decisione. Instead, it goes on offense and says it needs the power to wiretap anyone overseas including Americans. Invece, va su offesa e dice che ha bisogno il potere di wiretap chiunque oltremare compresi americani. A Republican Congressman accidentally leaks the a hint of the decision on Fox News, while saying that Democrats are putting the country at risk.  Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball (published on MSNBC.com) followed up with Un congressista repubblicano accidentalmente le perdite un pizzico di decisione sulla Fox News, mentre dicendo che sono democratici mettendo il paese a rischio. Newsweek's Michael Isikoff e Mark Hosenball (pubblicato su MSNBC.com) seguita con good reporting Buoni rapporti .

The order by a judge on the top-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court has never been publicly acknowledged by administration officials—and the details of it (including the identity of the judge who wrote it) remain highly classified. L'ordine di un giudice nel top-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act giudice non è mai stato pubblicamente riconosciuto da funzionari-l'amministrazione e le modalità di essa (tra cui l'identità del giudice che lo ha scritto) restano altamente classificato. But the judge, in an order several months ago, apparently concluded that the administration had overstepped its legal authorities in conducting warrantless eavesdropping even under the scaled-back surveillance program that the White House first agreed to permit the FISA court to review earlier this year, said one lawyer who has been briefed on the order but who asked not to be publicly identified because of its sensitivity. Ma il giudice, in un ordine diversi mesi fa, apparentemente concluso che l'amministrazione aveva oltrepassato la sua autorità giuridica nella conduzione warrantless tipo eavesdropping, anche sotto il ridimensionato sorveglianza del programma che la Casa Bianca prima ha accettato di ammettere la FISA tribunale di rivedere, all'inizio di quest'anno, Ha detto un avvocato che è stato informato sulla fine, ma che ha chiesto di non essere identificato pubblicamente per la sua sensibilità.

Now, we know why there’s an Ora, noi sappiamo perché c'è un intelligence gap Intelligenza divario . Democrats afraid of looking soft on terrorism are now at work to give more spying power to the government to fill the Democratici paura di guardare morbido sul terrorismo sono ora al lavoro per dare più potere di spiare il governo a colmare il mineshaft gap Mineshaft divario .

Once again: a secret court judge found that the Bush Administration’s formerly warrantless wiretapping program was illegal. Ancora una volta: un segreto giudice ha rilevato che l'amministrazione Bush's warrantless ex wiretapping programma era illegale.

And that was the program AFTER it was scaled down in March 2004 after Justice Department officials revolted.  I wonder what judges would have made of the earlier program — the one so bad that then-Attorney General John Ashcroft was ready to resign. E che è stato il programma DOPO è stato ridimensionato, nel marzo 2004, dopo Dipartimento di Giustizia funzionari ribellati. Giudici mi chiedo che cosa avrebbe fatto delle precedenti programma - quella che poi tanto male-procuratore generale John Ashcroft era pronto a rassegnare le dimissioni.

If there’s an intelligence gap, and I’m not sure there is, it’s only due to the Administration’s hubris. Se c'è un divario di intelligence, e non sono sicuro c'è, è solo a causa di Amministrazione di orgoglio.

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The Bush administration’s top intelligence official has acknowledged that a controversial domestic surveillance program was only one part of a much broader spying effort, The Washington Post reported in its Wednesday edition. L'amministrazione Bush's top intelligence ufficiale ha riconosciuto che un controverso programma nazionale di sorveglianza è stata solo una parte di un più ampio sforzo di spionaggio, The Washington Post riportava nella sua edizione mer.

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell wrote in a letter that other aspects of the National Security Agency’s domestic spying program remain classified, the Post said. Direttore della National Intelligence Mike McConnell ha scritto in una lettera che gli altri aspetti della National Security Agency's programma di spionaggio interno restano classificati, il Post ha detto.

“That is the only aspect of the NSA activities that can be discussed publicly because it is the only aspect of those various activities whose existence has been officially acknowledged,” McConnell wrote, according to the Post. "Questo è l'unico aspetto della NSA attività che possono essere discusse pubblicamente, perché è l'unico aspetto di quelle varie attività la cui esistenza è stata ufficialmente riconosciuta", ha scritto McConnell, secondo il Post.

Bush acknowledged the existence of a program that monitored domestic phone calls and e-mails without court oversight in December 2005. Bush ha riconosciuto l'esistenza di un programma di monitoraggio interno telefonate ed e-mail senza tribunale di sorveglianza nel dicembre 2005. The administration has not confirmed other secret spying efforts reported by news outlets, such as one that searched millions of telephone records. L'amministrazione non ha confermato altri segreti di spiare gli sforzi notizie riportate da punti vendita, come ad esempio quello che milioni di ricerche telefono record.

Bush signed an executive order that authorized “a number of … intelligence activities” following the hijacking attacks of September 11, 2001, McConnell wrote. Bush ha firmato un ordine esecutivo che autorizzati "… una serie di attività di intelligence", a seguito del dirottamento attentati dell'11 settembre 2001, ha scritto McConnell.

The warrantless wiretapping program was put under court supervision in January but the administration now wants Congress to allow it to do many of the same activities without a court order. Warrantless wiretapping Il programma è stato messo sotto controllo nel gennaio del tribunale, ma l'amministrazione ora vuole Congresso per consentirgli di fare molte delle stesse attività senza un tribunale.

The letter was sent on Tuesday to Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. La lettera è stata inviata il martedì al Sen Pennsylvania Arlen Specter, repubblicano della pagina sul Comitato Giudiziario del Senato.

The letter was written to defend Attorney General Alberto La lettera è stata scritta per difendere il Procuratore Generale Alberto

Gonzales, who has been under attack over his testimony to Congress about the warrantless spying program, the Post said. Gonzales, che è stato sotto attacco oltre la sua testimonianza al Congresso warrantless circa il programma di spionaggio, ha detto il Post.

A House committee is requesting Justice Department documents on a data-mining project that identified the senders and recipients of calls and e-mails intercepted via the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping program. A Casa commissione Dipartimento di Giustizia è la richiesta di documenti su un progetto di data-mining, che ha individuato i mittenti ei destinatari delle chiamate e dei messaggi di posta elettronica intercettati attraverso la National Security Agency's programma tipo eavesdropping.

In a Monday letter, Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to hand over “all opinions, memoranda and background materials, as well as any dissenting views, materials, and opinions” about the data-mining program. In una lettera lun, Rep John Conyers, presidente della commissione Casa magistratura, ha chiesto Procuratore Generale Alberto Gonzales a mano su "tutti i pareri, protocolli di sfondo e materiali, come pure qualsiasi opinioni, materiali, e le opinioni" riguardo ai dati - Mineraria programma.

While the Bush administration has acknowledged OK’ing the controversial program in which the government wiretapped phone calls without obtaining a warrant, it has remained mum on whether it authorized the NSA to use computers to sift through databases to identify who participated in intercepted communications. Mentre l'amministrazione Bush ha riconosciuto OK'ing il controverso programma in cui il governo wiretapped telefonate senza ottenere un mandato, che è rimasto con mamma sul fatto che la NSA autorizzato ad utilizzare i computer per vagliare attraverso banche dati per identificare coloro che hanno partecipato e delle comunicazioni intercettate. (The computers reportedly do not identify the contents of the communications.) (Il computer non avrebbe individuare i contenuti delle comunicazioni.)

Critics have said the surveillance program violates a 1978 act requiring a special court’s approval before eavesdropping on communications in intelligence cases. I critici hanno detto la sorveglianza del programma 1978 viola un atto che richiede una speciale autorizzazione del tribunale prima di tipo eavesdropping, relativo alle comunicazioni in casi di intelligence.

In his letter, Conyers wrote that his committee is considering changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and therefore must be “fully apprised of these controversial, and possibly unlawful, programs.” Nella sua lettera, Conyers ha scritto che il suo comitato sta esaminando le modifiche al Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, e quindi deve essere "pienamente al corrente di questi controversa, e probabilmente illegale, programmi".

The Michigan Democrat continued, “It is difficult to craft appropriate legislative responses unless we have all of the relevant facts concerning these programs.” Il Michigan democratici continuato, "È difficile mestiere legislative adeguate risposte a meno che non abbiamo tutti i fatti rilevanti relativi a tali programmi."

The embattled Gonzales is at the center of the controversy and is presently defending himself against allegations that he lied to Congress about a dispute between the White House and La merlata Gonzales è al centro della controversia ed è attualmente difendersi contro le accuse di aver mentito al Congresso di una controversia tra la Casa Bianca e Justice Department Dipartimento di Giustizia over the eavesdropping program’s legality. Il tipo eavesdropping programma di legalità.

Gonzales has denied there was any significant dissent over the program in the Justice Department, but former Deputy Attorney General James Comey and FBI Director Robert Mueller have indicated otherwise. Gonzales ha negato vi è stato alcun dissenso significativo il programma e il Dipartimento di Giustizia, ma l'ex Vice Procuratore Generale James Comey e direttore FBI Robert Mueller hanno indicato diversamente.

At issue is a 2004 late-night hospital visit to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, which Gonzales claims did not involve discussion of “the terrorist surveillance program that the president announced to the American people.” Mueller testified last week that Ashcroft told him it did involve the program. In questione è un 2004 tarda notte visita in ospedale, poi-procuratore generale John Ashcroft, Gonzales, che non ha pretese di coinvolgere discussione "il programma di sorveglianza del terrorismo che il presidente ha annunciato al popolo americano". Mueller ha testimoniato la scorsa settimana che Ashcroft ha detto che lui Ha fatto coinvolgere il programma.

A former government official familiar with the program said over the weekend that the dispute was so contentious some officials, including Comey, threatened to resign from the administration in protest. Un ex funzionario di governo familiarità con il programma durante il fine settimana ha detto che la controversia è stata così controversa alcuni funzionari, tra cui Comey, minacciato di dimettersi dalla somministrazione di protesta.

Last week, Gonzales told a Senate committee that the dispute involved “other intelligence activities,” which he declined to discuss. La scorsa settimana, Gonzales ha detto a un comitato del Senato che la controversia in questione "altre attività di intelligence", che si è rifiutato di discutere. The former government official said that the dispute centered on data mining, not eavesdropping. L'ex funzionario del governo ha detto che la controversia centrata sul data mining, non ascolti indiscreti.

Gonzales will lean heavily on this distinction as he defends himself against perjury charges. Gonzales sarà magra fortemente su questa distinzione, come egli difende contro spergiuro oneri.

Democrats, however, say it doesn’t matter because the data-mining project was a facet of the NSA eavesdropping program. Democratici, però, dire che non importa, perché il data-mining progetto è stato un aspetto del programma di NSA tipo eavesdropping. Also, the former government official who confirmed the existence of the data-mining program has said Gonzales “may have been splitting hairs.” Inoltre, l'ex funzionario di governo che hanno confermato l'esistenza del programma di data-mining ha detto Gonzales "potrebbe essere stato spaccare il capello".

In his letter to Gonzales, Conyers questioned whether the White House leaked classified information about the data-mining program “to rehabilitate previous controversial testimony by you.” Conyers further said that the Judiciary Committee wants to know if the Justice Department knew about the leaks or authorized them. Nella sua lettera a Gonzales, Conyers in dubbio il fatto che la Casa Bianca trapelare informazioni classificate circa il programma di data-mining "per riabilitare precedente controversa testimonianza da te". Conyers inoltre detto che la magistratura commissione vuole sapere se il Dipartimento di Giustizia conosceva il perdite o Autorizzato.

National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell and other top administration officials briefed a group of lawmakers on the issue Monday. National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell e altri funzionari di alto informato l'amministrazione di un gruppo di legislatori sul tema lunedì. Gonzales’ testimony was discussed during that session, said Sen. Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Gonzales' una testimonianza che è stata discussa nel corso della sessione, ha detto Sen Arlen Specter, il repubblicano posizionamento sul Comitato Giudiziario del Senato.

Specter added that the Bush administration has agreed to address the matter in writing by noon Tuesday, but the senator would not disclose what else was discussed during the 80-minute briefing, nor would he divulge which lawmakers were in attendance. Specter ha aggiunto che l'amministrazione Bush ha deciso di affrontare la questione per iscritto da martedi a mezzogiorno, ma il senatore non divulgare cos'altro è stata discussa durante il briefing di 80 minuti, né egli avrebbe divulgare i legislatori che erano presenti.

The White House is “preparing” the letter requested by Specter, spokesman Tony Snow said Tuesday. La Casa Bianca è "preparare" la lettera di richiesta da Specter, portavoce Tony Snow ha detto martedì. He would not comment on the noon deadline or the letter’s contents but said it would be delivered Tuesday. Egli non commentare il mezzogiorno scadenza o la lettera di contenuti, ma ha detto che sarebbe consegnato martedì.

President Bush acknowledged the Il Presidente Bush ha riconosciuto la NSA NSA eavesdropping program in December 2005 and defended it as a vital counterterrorism tool. Tipo eavesdropping programma nel mese di dicembre 2005 e difeso come un indispensabile strumento di controterrorismo. The program was authorized to intercept communications coming into or out of the United States involving people suspected of having links to al Qaeda, Bush said. Il programma è stato autorizzato ad intercettare le comunicazioni in entrata o in uscita provenienti degli Stati Uniti che coinvolgono le persone sospettate di avere collegamenti ad al-Qaeda, Bush ha detto.

But the administration has not acknowledged using computers to identify who sent or received millions of Americans’ phone calls and e-mails. Ma l'amministrazione non ha riconosciuto utilizzando i computer per identificare chi ha inviato o ricevuto milioni di americani 'telefonate ed e-mail.

Gonzales’ disputed statements — coupled with an ongoing controversy over the allegedly political dismissals of eight US attorneys last year — have sparked bipartisan calls for the attorney general’s resignation or ouster. Gonzales' contestato le dichiarazioni - accoppiato con una polemica in corso su presunti licenziamenti politici di otto avvocati degli Stati Uniti lo scorso anno - hanno suscitato bipartisan chiede il procuratore generale di dimissioni o cacciata.

One Republican, Rep. Christopher Shays of Connecticut, said Gonzales doesn’t have much credibility “and he would do us all a favor if he stepped down and allowed the president to select someone else.” Uno repubblicano, Rep Christopher Shays del Connecticut, ha detto Gonzales non ha molta credibilità ", e tutti noi farebbe un favore, se le dimissioni e il presidente ha permesso di selezionare un altro utente."

Last week, four Democratic senators called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to determine if La scorsa settimana, quattro senatori democratici chiamati per la nomina di un procuratore speciale per determinare se Gonzales Gonzales has committed perjury. Ha commesso spergiuro.

But the president has stood by his longtime ally, who has been alongside him since 1995, during Bush’s days as Texas governor. Ma il presidente ha superato da tempo il suo alleato, che è stato accanto a lui fin dal 1995, in occasione del giorno di Bush come governatore del Texas. Vice President Dick Cheney also has run to Gonzales’ defense. Vice Presidente Dick Cheney ha anche eseguito a Gonzales' difesa.

“I think Al has done a good job under difficult circumstances,” Cheney told CBS Radio on Monday. "Credo che Al ha svolto un buon lavoro in circostanze difficili", ha detto Cheney CBS Radio lunedì. “The debate between he and the Senate is something they’re going to have to resolve, but I think he has testified truthfully.” "Il dibattito tra lui e il Senato è qualcosa che sta andando a dover risolvere, ma credo che egli ha testimoniato la verità".

Cheney said he disagreed with Specter, who called Sunday for Gonzales to step down. Cheney ha detto in disaccordo con Specter, che ha chiamato domenica per Gonzales a dimettersi.

“I think the key is whether or not [Gonzales] has the confidence of the president, and he clearly does,” Cheney said. "Credo che la chiave è o meno [Gonzales] ha la fiducia del presidente, e lui è chiaramente", ha detto Cheney.

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by Da Adam Thomas Adam Thomas

US President George W. Bush today Presidente degli Stati Uniti George W. Bush oggi asked Chiesto for more powers to wiretap without warrants, in effect retroactively legalizing the unlawful National Security Agency wiretapping , which the President ordered in 2002.

The NSA wiretapping order is illegal under the terms of the The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but Bush administration, led by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, has proposed a Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 that would make President’s actions retroactively legal.

In his weekly radio, address Bush told Americans that he needs these powers to stop terrorist network that struck America on September the 11th wants to strike US again.

“To stop them, our military, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals need the best possible information about who the terrorists are, where they are, and what they are planning,” the President said. “One of the most important ways we can gather that information is by monitoring terrorist communications.”

Bush claimed that the current statute is two old to be relevant and called for a “modernization” of the Act.

“Our intelligence community warns that under the current statute, we are missing a significant amount of foreign intelligence that we should be collecting to protect our country,” he said. “Congress needs to act immediately to pass this bill, so that our national security professionals can close intelligence gaps and provide critical warning time for our country.”

Civil rights groups including American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Frontier Foundation have criticized President Bush’s statements claiming that he is using the word “modernize” to describe the removal of safeguards found in the FISA.

“It takes an enormous amount of hubris to ask for more power on the heels of revelations that the President tried to go around his own attorney general on his NSA domestic electronic eavesdropping program,” Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the Washington Legislative Office of the American Civil Liberties Union said. “It takes an enormous amount of hubris to ask for more power on the heels of revelations that the President tried to go around his own attorney general on his NSA domestic electronic eavesdropping program,” Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the Washington Legislative Office of the American Civil Liberties Union said. “The already-shaky legal ground on which this domestic spying program stood is crumbling beneath those who defend it.”

The group pointed out the hidden provision in the bill that grants total immunity against criminal and civil liability for the telecom companies’ participation in the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program.

“It is unprecedented and undemocratic to give retroactive and sweeping immunity to an entire industry,” Fredrickson added. “Not to mention, giving blanket immunity before a full and public airing of the facts.”

ACLU called on the Congress to stand firm against the Executive Branch’s unconstitutional actions.

“This is not the time to hand even more power to an administration that has permitted the wholesale abuse of civil liberties; has denied the legislative branch’s constitutionally mandated oversight role and refused to hold the attorney general accountable for a series of conflicting claims that defy logic, the law and common sense,” Fredrickson said. “This is not the time to hand even more power to an administration that has permitted the wholesale abuse of civil liberties; has denied the legislative branch’s constitutionally mandated oversight role and refused to hold the attorney general accountable for a series of conflicting claims that defy logic, the law and common sense,” Fredrickson said. “The only thing more outrageous than the administration’s call for even more unfettered power is a Congress that would consider giving it to them.”

By SCOTT SHANE and E DAVID JOHNSTON

A 2004 dispute over the National Security Agency ’s secret surveillance program that led top Justice Department officials to threaten resignation involved computer searches through massive electronic databases, according to current and former officials briefed on the program.

It is not known precisely why searching the databases, or data mining, raised such a furious legal debate. But such databases contain records of the phone calls and e-mail messages of millions of Americans, and their examination by the government would raise privacy issues.

The NSA’s data mining has previously been reported. But the disclosure that concerns about it figured in the March 2004 debate helps to clarify the clash this week between Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and senators who accused him of misleading Congress and called for a perjury investigation.

The confrontation in 2004 led to a showdown in the hospital room of then Attorney General John Ashcroft , where Mr. Gonzales, the White House counsel at the time, and Andrew H. Card Jr. , then the White House chief of staff, tried to get the ailing Mr. Ashcroft to reauthorize the NSA program.

Mr. Gonzales insisted before the Senate this week that the 2004 dispute did not involve the Terrorist Surveillance Program “confirmed” by President Bush, who has acknowledged eavesdropping without warrants but has never acknowledged the data mining.

If the dispute chiefly involved data mining, rather than eavesdropping, Mr. Gonzales’ defenders may maintain that his narrowly crafted answers, while legalistic, were technically correct.

But members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who have been briefed on the program, called the testimony deceptive.

“I’ve had the opportunity to review the classified matters at issue here, and I believe that his testimony was misleading at best,” said Senator Russ Feingold , Democrat of Wisconsin, joining three other Democrats in calling Thursday for a perjury investigation of Mr. Gonzales.

“This has gone on long enough,” Mr. Feingold said. “It is time for a special counsel to investigate whether criminal charges should be brought.”

The senators’ comments, along with those of other members of Congress briefed on the program, suggested that they considered the eavesdropping and data mining so closely tied that they were part of a single program. Both activities, which ordinarily require warrants, were started without court approval as the Bush administration intensified counterterrorism efforts soon after the Sept. 11 attacks.

A half-dozen officials and former officials interviewed for this article would speak only on the condition of anonymity, in part because unauthorized disclosures about the classified program are already the subject of a criminal investigation. Some of the officials said the 2004 dispute involved other issues in addition to the data mining, but would not provide details. They would not say whether the differences were over how the databases were searched or how the resulting information was used.

Nor would they explain what modifications to the surveillance program President Bush authorized to head off the threatened resignations by Justice Department officials.

An agency spokesman declined to comment on the data mining issue but referred a reporter to a statement issued earlier that Mr. Gonzales had testified truthfully.

The Justice Department announced in January that eavesdropping without warrants under the Terrorist Surveillance Program had been halted, and that a special intelligence court was again overseeing the wiretapping. The NSA, the nation’s largest intelligence agency, generally eavesdrops on communications in foreign countries. Since the 1978 passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA, any eavesdropping to gather intelligence on American soil has required a warrant from the special court.

In addition, court approval is required for the NSA to search the databases of telephone calls or e-mail records, usually compiled by American phone and Internet companies and including phone numbers or e-mail addresses, as well as dates, times and duration of calls and messages. In addition, court approval is required for the NSA to search the databases of telephone calls or e-mail records, usually compiled by American phone and Internet companies and including phone numbers or e-mail addresses, as well as dates, times and duration of calls and messages. Sometimes called metadata, such databases do not include the content of the calls and e-mail messages — the actual words spoken or written.

Government examination of the records, which allows intelligence analysts to trace relationships between callers and identify possible terrorist cells, is considered less intrusive than actual eavesdropping. But the NSA’s eavesdropping targeted international calls and e-mail messages of people inside the United States, while the databases contain primarily domestic records. The conflict in 2004 appears to have turned on differing interpretations of the president’s power to bypass the FISA law and obtain access to the records.

President Bush has asserted that both his constitutional powers as commander in chief and the authorization for the use of military force passed by Congress after the Sept. 11 attacks gave him legal justification for skirting the warrant requirement. Critics have called the surveillance illegal because it does not comply with the FISA law.

The first known assertion by administration officials that there had been no serious disagreement within the government about the legality of the NSA program came in talks with New York Times editors in 2004. In an effort to persuade the editors not to disclose the eavesdropping program, senior officials repeatedly cited the lack of dissent as evidence of the program’s lawfulness.

In December 2005, The Times published articles describing the program, the data mining and the internal legal debate. The newspaper reported that the NSA had combed large volumes of telephone and Internet traffic in search of patterns that might point to terrorism suspects.

Civil liberties groups, Congressional Democrats and some Republicans reacted to the disclosures with outrage, accusing the administration of operating an illegal surveillance program inside the United States. The uproar grew when USA Today reported in May 2006 more details of the NSA’s acquisition from telephone companies of the phone call databases. In response to the articles, Mr. Bush confirmed the eavesdropping, saying it was limited to communications in and out of the United States involving people suspected of ties to Al Qaeda . He did not, however, confirm the data mining, nor has any other official done so publicly.

Mr. Gonzales defended the surveillance in an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2006, saying there had been no internal dispute about its legality. He told the senators: “There has not been any serious disagreement about the program that the president has confirmed. There have been disagreements about other matters regarding operations, which I cannot get into.”

By limiting his remarks to “the program the president has confirmed,” Mr. Gonzales skirted any acknowledgment of the heated arguments over the data mining. He said the Justice Department had issued a legal analysis justifying the eavesdropping program.

Mr. Bush and other officials also have repeatedly cited Justice Department reviews as evidence of their care in overseeing the program, never mentioning the bitter conflict that unfolded behind the scenes.

Mr. Gonzales’s 2006 testimony went unchallenged publicly until May of this year, when James B. Comey , the former deputy attorney general, described the March 2004 confrontation to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Mr. Comey had refused to sign a reauthorization for the NSA program when he was standing in for Mr. Ashcroft, who was hospitalized for gall bladder surgery.

Mr. Comey described an intense fight that prompted the top leaders of the Justice Department to consider resigning in protest. Mr. Gonzales and Mr. Card visited the bedside of Mr. Ashcroft, who was in pain and under sedation, to seek his signature on the reauthorization.

Mr. Ashcroft refused to do so. Mr. Comey testified that he thought the White House officials were trying to take advantage of a sick man.

On Tuesday, to respond to Mr. Comey’s account, Mr. Gonzales testified in a Senate appearance that he went to the hospital only after meeting with Congressional leaders about the impending deadline for the reauthorization. He said the consensus was that the program should go on, so he felt he had no choice but to seek Mr. Ashcroft’s approval.

At the hearing, Mr. Gonzales faced harsh questioning about why he had not previously acknowledged the 2004 standoff. In response, he asserted once again that there had not been disagreements about the surveillance program, insisting that the dispute involved “other intelligence activities.”

After the hearing, Senator Patrick J. Leahy , Democrat of Vermont and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, sent Mr. Gonzales a transcript of his testimony with pointed instructions — to “correct, clarify or supplement your answers so that, consistent with your oath, they are the whole truth.”

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A US bipartisan group Wednesday said the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program is illegal.

The Liberty and Security Committee of the Constitution Project said in a statement that the US Congress should finish its probe into the warrantless surveillance program before it heeds the urging of the Bush administration to beef up laws on electronic surveillance.

Those signing the statement included: David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union; Walter Cronkite, former managing editor of CBS Evening News; former Rep. Mickey Edwards, R-Okla., the chairman of the Republican Party Policy Committee; Harold Koh, dean of Yale Law School; and William S. Sessions, former FBI director under Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton. Those signing the statement included: David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union; Walter Cronkite, former managing editor of CBS Evening News; former Rep. Mickey Edwards, R-Okla., the chairman of the Republican Party Policy Committee; Harold Koh, dean of Yale Law School; and William S. Sessions, former FBI director under Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton.

“The NSA’s warrantless surveillance program has stood for too long as an affront to America’s rule of law,” said Keene, a co-chair of the Constitution Project’s Liberty and Security Committee. “The American people deserve to know why and to what extent the NSA has been tapping Americans’ phones without a warrant.”

The committee said the administration’s surveillance program “upends separate, balanced powers by thwarting the will of Congress and preventing any opportunity for judicial review.

“Congress should be applauded for taking steps to uncover the truth about the spying program,” said Sharon Bradford Franklin, senior counsel at the Constitution Project. “Congress must complete its investigation before considering any changes to the law governing electronic surveillance.”

The statement was published one week after a deadline for the White House and the Department of Justice to comply with Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenas to provide documents about the NSA’s domestic surveillance program. The White House has asked for and been given an extension on the deadline.

By Ryan Singel

Dems want to know more about the NSA’s secret warrantless eavesdropping on Americans. They drop a subpoena on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and President Bush. Both claim the documents are protected by executive privilege or too classified. This is a very likely future scenario and presumably its one the Administration is attempting to head off with its call yesterday for Congress to explicitly legalize the program.

But what happens next? That’s what Jeffrey Rosen (author of The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America ) asks over the New Republic today (reg. req.) The surprising and not so-surprising conclusion: well, someone could end up in the little known jail inside Congress and the government mired in a Constitutional battle.

Restraint, however, may not be enough to prevent a constitutional confrontation that could make Monicagate look tame. That’s because any conflict could escalate quickly when the White House, invoking its radical theory of unilateral executive authority, refuses to cooperate with Democratic investigations. Congress may then hold the White House officials in contempt, setting up legal battles that could make their way to the Supreme Court while paralyzing the government in the process. […]

The Judiciary Committee, followed by the full House, votes to hold Gonzales in contempt of Congress–a federal crime with a punishment of up to a year in prison. After Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, certifies the contempt citation, she then forwards it along to the US attorney for the District of Columbia, demanding that he haul Gonzales before a grand jury. […]

Regardless of how the Supreme Court ruled in Conyers v. Gonzales (ed. note: the hypothetical case where Rep. John Conyers issued the subpoena), there would be subsidiary legal battles raging for months as the contempt case made its way up to the Supreme Court. Regardless of how the Supreme Court ruled in Conyers v. Gonzales (ed. note: the hypothetical case where Rep. John Conyers issued the subpoena), there would be subsidiary legal battles raging for months as the contempt case made its way up to the Supreme Court. Democrats and Republicans would fight about whether to force Gonzales to testify by granting him the necessary immunity–immunity grants require a two-thirds vote by the relevant committee–and the scope of his immunity might provoke lawsuits of its own. All these fires would be raging from a single investigation into the NSA scandal. At the same time, a series of related battles and lawsuits might be erupting from parallel investigations into Iraq war intelligence, Halliburton cronyism, and the misuse of presidential signing statements.

The more I think about it the more I think Rosen might be right. The question then becomes how far will the new Democratic leadership go to hold back investigations, because despite the election results, I don’t believe the administration is going to change its stance on secrecy and executive power.

All I know is that I need to get my typing fingers in shape real soon to keep up.

By Ryan Singel

The government’s surveillance of two attorneys challenging the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping of Americans took place partly during a period in which the top secret program operated without the approval of the Bush administration’s own Justice Department, according to a newly filed court document. The government’s surveillance of two attorneys challenging the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping of Americans took place partly during a period in which the top secret program operated without the approval of the Bush administration’s own Justice Department, according to a newly filed court document .

The lawsuit, known as al-Haramain vs. United States , is the only one of more than 50 challenges to the program where the plaintiffs claim to have proof that they were the targets of the warrantless spying, based on a top secret document that had been briefly provided to them in a government paperwork snafu.

For that reason, the lawsuit was already seen as the most resistant to government efforts to protect the program. The allegation that some of the surveillance took place when the program wasn’t authorized by the Justice Department may further complicate the government’s defense.

“Part of our surveillance occurred when the Attorney General advised the president that the program was illegal,” says plaintiff attorney Jon Eisenberg. “That deprives them of the defense they didn’t know it was illegal.”

According to Congressional testimony taken earlier this year, on March 10th, 2004, top Justice Department lawyers and White House officials held a tense showdown over the NSA spying program at the bedside of then-attorney general John Ashcroft in an intensive care unit. Ashcroft’s resolve left the president’s program without the Justice Department’s stamp of approval for about two weeks, as the White House scrambled to tweak the program to meet Ashcroft’s demands.

Attorneys in the al-Haramain case say the plaintiffs were spied on in March and April of 2004, during a period that encompassed that two week interregnum.

Already closely watched, the al-Haramain case became even more important to civil libertarians on Friday, when the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a separate challenge by the ACLU, finding that the journalists and lawyers suing had no “standing” to sue the government, because they had no evidence they were specifically eavesdropped upon by the NSA.

While non-binding on other federal appeals courts, the 2-1 decision casts doubt on the prospects of the more than 50 suits against the government and telecoms now consolidated in federal courts in California, and gives the issue of standing new prominence. According to the decision, Americans can’t sue to stop the secret government program unless they can prove they were secretly spied on. And since the program is classified, potential litigants have no recourse to get that proof from the government through legal process.

Plaintiffs Wendell Belew and Asim Ghafoor may be the only Americans capable of clearing that substantial legal hurdle.

The two American attorneys worked with the al-Haramain Islamic Foundation in 2004 when the Ashland, Oregon-based charity was under federal investigation for ties to terrorism. Belew was one of several lawyers trying to keep al-Haramain off a US Treasury Department watch list — an effort that sent much paperwork flying back and forth between the attorneys and the Treasury Department’s Washington DC headquarters across the street from the White House.

In August 2004, a Treasury Department official accidentally included a classified log of Belew and Ghafoor’s conversations with Soliman al-Buthi, a Saudi-based director for the charity. The FBI later retrieved copies of the documents from the charity’s lawyers and a Washington Post reporter, but copies sent overseas to charity directors were never recovered.

Lawyers for Belew and Ghafoor re-obtained a copy of the document shortly after The New York Times revealed the existence of the spying program, and then filed suit in 2006. The document is now being held in a secure facility in San Francisco.

For its part the government admits that it accidentally turned over the very secret file to the charity’s lawyers, but argues that the case should be dismissed because the very nature of lawsuit involves “state secrets.” The Justice Department also argues that the phone log could have been created by wiretap approved by a secret court or by a foreign government. For its part the government admits that it accidentally turned over the very secret file to the charity’s lawyers, but argues that the case should be dismissed because the very nature of lawsuit involves “state secrets.” The Justice Department also argues that the phone log could have been created by wiretap approved by a secret court or by a foreign government.

An Oregon district court judge disagreed with the government and allowed the case to proceed. The government’s appeal of that decision will be heard on Aug. 15 in the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

The government will also be arguing that day for the dismissal of a high-profile lawsuit against AT&T by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for the telecom’s alleged illegal cooperation in the spying.

In the wake of the 6th Circuit decision, the fate of civil libertarians’ challenge to the spy program may rest on the a-Haramain case, according to Eisenberg. “We’re the last case  standing,” Eisenberg says. “If we aren’t permitted to show standing, no one will be.”