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The Snowden documents showed that by 14 September – just three days after the attacks – the then director of the NSA, Michael Hayden, had taken a “tactical decision” to begin snooping on the digital communications of people based in the US.
theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
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I agree with this. @Apple must go further than merely "listening"—it must drop entirely its plans to put a backdoor into systems that provide vital protections to the public. Don't make us fight you for basic privacy rights.
eff.org/deeplinks/2021…
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“They essentially claimed wartime authority to engage in domestic surveillance that is criminal under statutory law,” said Ben Wizner.
theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
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“...The government had access to my private emails and were sharing them with Congress and leaking them to the media. I felt invaded by my own government, punished for leading a civil rights organization.”
theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
530
"Why Aren't Millennials Buying New Homes?"
truly a mystery 🤔
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Today Bitcoin was formally recognized as legal tender in its first country.
Beyond the headlines, there is now pressure on competing nations to acquire Bitcoin—even if only as a reserve asset—as its design massively incentivizes early adoption.
Latecomers may regret hesitating twitter.com/AaronvanW/stat…
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Nine months into parenthood, and I'm beginning to suspect "Why won't you eat your dinner?" is one of the great mysteries in life.
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The sharpest part of the humiliation comes from acknowledging how easy this transformation was, and how readily I welcomed it. edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/9-12
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The two decades since 9/11 have been a litany of American destruction by way of American self-destruction, with secret policies, secret laws, secret courts, and secret wars the US government has repeatedly denied, disclaimed, and distorted.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/9-12
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"Before 9/11, it was the war on drugs. Now it’s corona. It’s ongoing. The so-called security apparatus always produces new narratives of fear conducive to expanding its powers, and 9/11 was one more crisis it tried to exploit."
exberliner.com/features/peopl…
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To remember 9/11 means confronting the fact that the carnage and abuses that marked my young adulthood were born not only in the executive branch and the intelligence agencies, but also in the hearts and minds of all Americans, myself included.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/9-12
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A young officer rushed past them down the hall and said, “They just bombed the Pentagon.” Met with expressions of disbelief, the young officer repeated, “I’m serious—they just bombed the Pentagon.” edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/9-12
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The problem with social media is that this got three thousand retweets, but if you look at the replies you'll find about three of them actually bothered to read the article.
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🔥 🔥 this is fine 🐕 🔥 🔥
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September 12th was the first day of a new era, which America faced with a unified resolve, strengthened by the goodwill and sympathy of the world. In retrospect, my country could have done so much with this opportunity.
Instead, it went to war.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/9-12
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It took years — eight years and counting in exile — for me to realize that I was missing the point: we talk about conspiracy theories in order to avoid talking about conspiracy practices, which are often too daunting, too threatening, too total.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-p…
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If you're an ExpressVPN customer, you shouldn't be. twitter.com/josephmenn/sta…
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This year risks establishing the US judiciary as a failed institution, with any judges that retain a meaningful concept of justice consistently diluted into a powerless minority.
You know what I'm talking about. twitter.com/PatrickCToomey…
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Stop what you're doing and read this. The CIA developed plans to kill or kidnap an award-winning journalist whose work they did not like — before they charged him with a crime.
The case against Julian Assange must be dropped—and condemned.
news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-ass…
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If you're a journalist, American or otherwise, you need to understand that turning a blind eye to this story moves the entire world toward a paradigm where the criminalization of journalism is routine.
You have to speak up on this one.
Read the source: news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-ass…
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If you're reading the story today about the US's planned kidnapping or killing of Julian Assange, recall that Wikileaks began noticing teams of people appearing outside around the same time. (note the date in the upper right of video). twitter.com/wikileaks/stat…
547
Why is the CIA so obsessed with silencing Julian Assange? 🤔
twitter.com/wikileaks/stat…
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Maybe after today's story that the government literally plotted to murder Assange, this White House will finally stop stonewalling the press pool over the dubious charges against him—the single biggest press freedom case in the United States.
mediaite.com/tv/i-emailed-y…
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For people who don't actually click through to news stories, this is the best thread summarizing today's biggest story, on the government's secret plans to kill or kidnap a journalist whose reporting they dislike: twitter.com/kgosztola/stat…
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Did you imagine you'd see democracy dismantled in your lifetime?
Eventually, each of us confronts in ourselves the question of if and how we will fight for it. twitter.com/justinamash/st…
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