The Chilling Effect of Privacy Invasion
Honestly, I thought I had personally put the NSA and Snowden topic to bed a couple of years ago. Thankfully the topic didn’t die. In fact, it keeps popping up in the news, directly and indirectly. Why do I say More...
Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ challenges audiences on NSA spying, but fails to deliver much entertainment
Who is Edward Snowden? Is Ed Snowden a whistleblower or a traitor? Those two of the driving questions for director Oliver Stone with his latest biopic, Snowden, centering on the NSA contractor who went public with More...
‘Jason Bourne’ fizzles with a contrived formula and weak ending
Matt Damon returns as Jason Bourne with director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Supremacy) with a new film, simply titled Jason Bourne. Perhaps the pair will now realize that capturing lighting More...
Justin Amash praises Rand Paul, endorses Ted Cruz
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) has consistently been in Sen. Rand Paul’s corner both in Congress and during the senator’s run for president. Now that Paul’s out of the running, Amash urges libertarian More...
GOP rejects Obama’s $4.1 trillion budget, secret ‘Black Budget’ requests as debt rises
As the New Hampshire primaries steal the headlines, President Obama submitted his final budget Tuesday, a $4.1 trillion annual budget plan — deemed “dead on arrival” to the Republican-controlled More...
Marco Rubio attacks Ted Cruz, Rand Paul on surveillance with ISIS lobbyist remark
Critics are saying the Florida Senator Marco Rubio is sounding desperate with his latest jabs at fellow GOP candidates for president. This time he takes aim at fellow senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz over foreign More...
Obama administration using NSA to monitor Netanyahu, Congress, doesn’t report communications
photo Donkeyhotey [email protected] The Wall Street Journal ran an article Tuesday titled “U.S. Spy Net on Israel Snares Congress,” detailing how the Obama administration’s National Security More...
Ted Cruz: Peeling back the layers of a politician
Texas Senator and Republican Presidential candidate Ted Cruz is known generally as a small government conservative and has garnered great support, including from the cast of the Glenn Beck Radio Show, who sing the More...
Paul Ryan, Congress moves ahead with new ‘omnibus’ bill, cutting privacy protections
The late-night session of Congress culminated with House Speaker Paul Ryan announcing a new version of the “omnibus” federal government funding bill that includes a version of the Cybersecurity Information More...
Chris Christie: Ted Cruz, Rand Paul made America less safe with vote against NSA monitoring
photo/donkeyhotey Chris Christie took shots at his fellow GOP presidential candidates, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, and Democrats Tuesday morning, telling the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe that they had made America More...
Max Boot Quotes
In Iraq, Sunnis need to be offered a Sunni regional government, akin to the Kurdish regional government, with its autonomy protected by its own militia and ultimately guaranteed by the United States. If Baghdad More...
Marco Rubio attacks Ted Cruz, Rand Paul on NSA votes
Sen. Marco Rubio on Monday night attacked fellow Republicans, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz by name, whom Rubio said voted to “weaken our intelligence programs,” as opponents of the NSA surveillance program. “At More...
Retail Operations Can Use Video Analytics For Increased Business Security
Many retail outlets nowadays started using video analytics software, which is basically intelligent software that brings in great solutions for various possible retail operations. This does include increased safety, More...
Details of US pressure on Norway to detain, deport Edward Snowden released
The US repeatedly asked Norway to detain and deport whistleblower Edward Snowden if he tried to enter the country in the aftermath of his leaks on mass US global surveillance, Norwegian media revealed citing formal More...
Republican debate déjà vu: NYC-area pol vs. a Paul
While I was watching the testy exchange last night at the first Republican Presidential debate between New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul over government surveillance, I couldn’t More...
NSA documents detail monitoring of Americans’ calls, passwords, photos
New documents show the details of the NSA surveilance program and just what sort of data XKeyscore catalogs, confirming the monitoring of Americans’ phone calls, photos, passwords, documents and much more. According More...
Congress congratulates itself for passing ‘less illegal’ NSA spying ‘reform’
The National Security Agency lost some of its authority to collect the phone records from millions of Americans as a new reform measure Congress passed on Tuesday. President Obama signed the bill into law on Tuesday More...
Jeb Bush on NSA monitoring Americans: no proof of civil liberty violations
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a likely 2016 presidential candidate, says Congress should reauthorize the Patriot Act “as is” and that the Obama administration should pursue a tougher strategy against ISIS. Bush More...
Chris Christie attacks Rand Paul on NSA, says Edward Snowden is a ‘criminal’
New Jersey Governor and likely 2016 GOP Presidential candidate Chris Christie took aim at Republican Senators over the National Security Agency’s data collection program, the Patriot Act and Edward Snowden. Christie More...
Rand Paul and Jeb Bush disagree on Patriot Act
Rand Paul may have angered Senate colleagues by seizing the floor for a 10-and-a-half-hour filibuster style speech on Wednesday as he forced attention to the fact that civil liberties remain at stake as Congress More...
