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Rare Truth from NSA: Agency is a Habitual Privacy Violator

Whenever the NSA slips up and actually tells the truth, it becomes obvious why they are so deceptive: the truth reveals them to be frighteningly cold, callous and malicious. A rare occurrence of NSA...

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Senators Fall Short with Federal Plan to Stop NSA Spying

Three leading anti-NSA senators, Rand Paul (R-KY), Mark Udall (D-CO) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), recently penned an op/ed in the Los Angeles Times talking about the need for bipartisan reform to save the 4th...

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Don’t Trust the Federal Government on Privacy

Do you trust the federal government? Really. Stop and think about it. Be honest. When the federal government claims it wants to solve some problem, do you immediately take it for granted that it...

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Dire Warning: NSA a “Weapon for Oppression”

Recently, Wired Magazine published transcripts of emails Edward Snowden sent to Laura Poitras in the days leading up to the release of documents chronicling the extent of NSA spying. The emails serve...

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Video: Glenn Greenwald – We All Have Something to Hide

Journalist Glenn Greenwald recently did a TED Talk addressing the prevalent idea that only “bad people” who “have something to hide” need to worry about constant government spying. Greenwald...

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Feds are Funding Local Police “Beware” Program

What’s the latest police state outrage? Well, this time cops are peering into the social media accounts of “dissidents” and profiling them as potential terror threats. It seems like the government...

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Podcast: Why You Should Care About the Surveillance State

In episode #3 of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I talk about the intrusiveness of the NSA and why you should care. The NSA collects our e-mail, phone records, location information, Internet browsing...

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The Surveillance State Operates Behind Veil of Ignorance

The federal government spies on you. A lot. And it operates behind a veil of ignorance. Despite revelations by Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers, many Americans still apparently believe...

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New Mexico Legislature Maintains Status Quo: Enables Illegal Spying, Drug...

SANTA FE, N.M. (March 24, 2016) – New Mexico State House and Senate leadership helped maintain the status quo, failing to take action against unconstitutional spying and the failed drug war in 2016. It...

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Podcast: Big Brother and the Effects of the Surveillance State

In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I share a personal story that demonstrates the very real impact of the surveillance state on everyday behavior. Since the Edward Snowden revelations,...

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If the 4th Amendment was Written for Anything, It was This

Judge Andrew Napolitano on the 4th Amendment vs NSA Spying“What the president said and what the president has done is as distressing as anything I have observed the government doing in my entire...

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Personal Liberty Laws for Whistleblowers?

Over the past few months, a name that has become well-known among Americans following politics is Edward Snowden.  Mr. Snowden caused shockwaves throughout the country with his leaking of information...

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NSA Uses Loophole to Justify Collecting Domestic E-mail, Phone Calls

The National Security Agency (NSA) is using a “secret backdoor” to conduct warrantless searches of the e-mails and phone calls of American citizens, the Guardian (U.K.) reports. As with earlier...

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Secrecy Versus a Free Society

by Jacob Hornberger, Future of Freedom FoundationA Texas company named Lavabit exemplifies everything that the national-security state has done to our nation. Lavabit is an Internet company that...

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Why the 2,776 NSA Violations Are No Big Deal

by Ron Paul Thanks to more documents leaked by Edward Snowden, this time to the Washington Post, we learned last week that a secret May 2012 internal audit by the NSA revealed 2,776 incidents of...

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Judge Napolitano on the 4th Amendment vs the NSA

Judge Andrew Napolitano and John Stossel debate whether spying is permissible.

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Mike Maharrey Talks Patriot Act and NSA Spying with the Forgotten Men

Tenth Amendment Center national communications director Mike Maharrey spent an hour talking with the Forgotten Men about the Patriot Act, NSA spying, the specter of indefinite detention, government...

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Ruling Reveals NSA Lies to Courts, Congress About Scope of Surveillance

originally posted at The New AmericanThe National Security Agency was forced to de-classify a document, the contents of which make it easy to see why the snoops wanted it kept secret.In an 85-page...

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Obama Packs Surveillance Review Board With D.C. Insiders

After the uproar over his plan to appoint Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to head his intelligence review board, President Obama promised to pack the group with “outside experts.”News...

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Secrecy Is Delegation of Power

by Jim Harper, CATO InstituteWith allegations (and denials) of economic espionage and reports of broad access to cell phone data joining last week’s blockbuster revelation that the National Security...

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Obama Administration Removes Ban on Warrantless Surveillance of Americans

President Obama sought and obtained permission from a secret surveillance court to disregard previously enacted restrictions on the domestic, warrantless spying programs of the National Security Agency...

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Blueprint to Nullify the NSA: 4th Amendment Protection Act

For far too long, Americans blindly obeyed the “national security” experts at the cost of personal liberty.Fortunately a healthy trend of defiance has been eclipsing that mindset and the Fourth...

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Step One to #NullifyNSA

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/111451390″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]From the close of Tenther Radio, Episode 117They’re listening. They’re watching....

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Alternative to University Research Funding for NSA Projects

Many think university research is funded by tuition and student fees. This is false. In fact, research in colleges (both public and private) gets most of its funding through federal grants.In...

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Dianne Feinsten Defends NSA Spying, We Push Back

Last week, during a hearing in the Imperial Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Dianne Feinsten went to bat for the NSA – defending their wildly unconstitutional spying program as “lawful,...

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Radio Ad: No Water = No NSA Data Center

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/113284126″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]The state of Utah is supplying water to the new Data Center in Bluffdale, UT at a rate...

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NSA on Campus: Big Brother Is Recruiting Your Kids

The illegal spiers at the NSA are looking for impressionable youngsters to do their bidding, according to a recent press release.The Air Force Institute of Technology at Ohio, Auburn University in...

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The NSA is a Stalker

In a revelation that should be a surprise to nobody, The New York Times recently reported  that the NSA conducted a secret program that collected the cell phone data of Americans in order to track...

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NullifyNSA: Michael Boldin on the Scott Horton Show

Michael Boldin, founder and executive director of the Tenth Amendment Center, discusses the states’ rights approach to fighting NSA spying on Americans; the unlikely coalition that pushed through the...

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Companies Ask For NSA Transparency, DOJ Rejects Them

For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. – Jesus ChristThe U.S. Department of Justice denied a request by tech...

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It’s Time to Speak Out: Testimony Against Spying at Los Angeles City Hall

Testimony prepared for the City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission in support of the work of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition on 10-10-13My name is Michael Boldin, I am the executive director of...

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#NullifyNSA Campaign is Now Underway

Welcome to #NullifyNSA – the movement dedicated to restoring the 4th amendment and bringing an end to the destruction of your privacy rights!We are a grassroots organization working to turn off the...

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NSA Stores All Collectable Browsing Data For 365 Days

The Guardian recently released information indicating that the  NSA stores vast amounts of our personal data in a repository codenamed, “Marina” and has the ability to look back over all our data for a...

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Colleges Collude With NSA to Train Next Generation of Agents

For years, the National Security Agency (NSA), the major league of electronic monitoring and surveillance, has sponsored programs that try to turn high schools and colleges into their private farm...

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Fusion Centers: Big Brother’s Infiltration Into Your Communities

In the midst of the never-ending NSA spying revelations, it is easy to lose track of all of the unconstitutional acts committed by the so-called intelligence community – and the ways that NSA spying,...

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NSA Postponed Phony Oversight Measures Because of Phony Shutdown

So much for the idea of the federal government reforming itself.During the so-called government shutdown, Politico reported that the NSA’s surveillance panel, supposedly established to remedy the...

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Federal Grants Enable Increased Surveillance by Local Government

Not content to let the feds have all the fun, local governments are increasing their surveillance of citizens.An article published in the Sunday New York Times reports that federal money is being doled...

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How To Stop NSA Spying: Corporations, Universities, State Governments In Bed...

Now that the NSA has been exposed, its minions hope you will sit cowering in fear of their power. The agency hopes that widespread knowledge of its unbelievably expansive spying operation will cause...

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North Carolina Students Are Not Safe From Big Brother!

Big Brother is transforming North Carolina State University from an institute of higher learning into an institute of constitutional degradation.The National Security Agency recently partnered with NC...

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Foreign Cyber Security Expert Schools Americans On NSA and Fourth Amendment

[ted id=1861]TED TV occasionally encourages ideas that involve revolutionary thinking about the need for less government and this video focusing on the NSA is a great example.Mikko Hypponen promotes...

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The Emerging American Police State

Think “police state” rhetoric is overblown? Wait until you hear my chat with John Whitehead, author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State.The video below was made by a listener,...

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On NSA Spying, Pay Attention to Dianne Feinstein? Seriously. Here’s why

A few weeks ago, Dianne Feinstein claimed that mass spying by the NSA is “lawful, effective and constitutional.”She followed up with an op-ed in the WSJ, basically claiming that NSA must be allowed to...

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More Pathetic Excuses from ‘National Security’ Bozos

In a hearing conducted by Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), the NSA came up with perhaps its most ridiculous excuse for illegal, unconstitutional spying program thus far. The agency claims measures increasing...

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Michael Hayden: Enemy of Truth, Transparency and Constitutional Government

The NSA and its apologists can’t stop digging their own graves.The latest example comes from former National Security Agency director Michael Hayden.On Fox News Sunday Dec. 1, Mr. Hayden said, “This is...

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Presidential Oversight Board Declares NSA Metadata Collection Illegal

On Jan.3, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) renewed the government’s request for three additional months of bulk collection of telephony metadata.In a press release accompanying the...

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Tax Payer Funded NSA Surveillance?

The OffNow.org Campaign features one approach that many people may glance over.Let’s face it; the heavy hitter of the OffNow.org campaign is turning off the utilities at the data centers used for...

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Oregon State Senator Plans Ballot Initiative to Thwart the Surveillance State

An Oregon bill to protect citizens’ privacy rights from unlawful NSA intrusion got the ball rolling and the legislator who sponsored it vowed to use it as a stepping stone to get a ballot initiative...

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Is Facebook attacking the Tenth Amendment Center?

The answer to that question is “maybe.” I don’t really know.I do know that yesterday, our posts to nearly 130,000 people, which used to reach a minimum of 2000 in the first hour or so, dropped to about...

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Texas National Guard Using Airborne Stingrays for Domestic Surveillance

Big Brother is definitely watching you in the state of Texas, where the state National Guard last year installed stingray devices on two surveillance aircraft,The Observer reports:Dirt boxes mimic...

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Amazon Selling Real-Time Facial Recognition Technology to Government

It was revealed publicly last week that law enforcement agents are using facial recognition technology marketed by Amazon to profile people in real time. It is being used in the Orlando, Fla., area as...

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