- FBI Never Revealed It Had Al Qaeda Mole Who Met Bin Laden—CIA was involved too.
- FBI credibility questioned in fishy shooting—"Rachel Maddow reports on details of the FBI shooting of Ibragim Todashev that strain credulity, keeping questions about the Boston Marathon bombing unresolved."
- Fox News host calls out Darrell Issa for 'highest level of falsehood' on Benghazi
- Interview: Karzai says 12-year Afghanistan war has left him angry at U.S. government—"After 12 years in office, Afghan president says war was not waged with his country’s interests in mind." WaPo
- Obama Preps for Complete US Withdrawal From Afghanistan
- Leftovers from Afghanistan and Iraq Wars: 1,558 Amputations; 7,224 Severe Brain Injuries; 118,829 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
- Due to activist lawsuits, US gov't wants to keep our metadata longer—"A more limited retention of the [business records] metadata is not possible."
- NSA head floats idea: What if we only gathered terrorist communications?—"Gen. Keith Alexander raises possibility of reining in NSA's metadata program."
- US State Dept: "Surveillance should not be arbitrary," except when it is—"State Dept. official reiterates president's January policy on digital snooping."
- Feds Refuse to Release Public Comments on NSA Reform — Citing Privacy
- DOJ Still Ducking Scrutiny After Misleading Supreme Court on Surveillance
- Obama knew CIA secretly monitored intelligence committee, senator claims—"White House declines to comment after Mark Udall says agency spied on staffers preparing scathing report into CIA torture [NYT] after 9/11."
- Forget the NSA, the LAPD Spies on Millions of Innocent Folks
- George Brandis refuses to back up claim that Snowden put lives at risk—"Attorney general says he is aware of particular cases on the basis of intelligence briefings but will not reveal the information."
- FBI and Secret Service Phone Calls Intercepted by Google Maps Exploit
- Sprint Accused of Overcharging Feds Millions for Wiretapping
- At the RSA Security Conference, Things Get Testy and Then They Get Awkward NYT
- Stephen Colbert gives controversial security conference talk—Sometimes people forget that he was in character.
- NSA chief criticises media and suggests UK was right to detain David Miranda—"Keith Alexander says revelations have caused 'grave damage' and claims officials are making 'headway' on 'media leaks.'"
- Attorneys for Barrett Brown want case on linking to hacked material dismissed—"The US activist-journalist faces 100 years in prison for posting hyperlink to site containing hacked material in chat room." Update: Feds drop all but one of the 12 charges.
- UK shells out over $8mn to monitor Julian Assange
- Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ—"1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone."
- Government spying tools will worsen Internet security: experts
- Mexican Protest Site Censored by GoDaddy — with the U.S. Embassy's Help
- Why It's Vital For the Public to Fund Open-Source Encryption Tools
- Tor is building an anonymous instant messenger
- WeChat: The Chinese chat app stealing Weibo's thunder—"WeChat's greater privacy and wider range of applications make it more attractive to use."
- Apple Explains Exactly How Secure iMessage Really Is—"Too long, didnt read? Basically: Unless Apple is omitting something or there's some backdoor tucked into their many-layers-deep encryption (which, while unlikely, isn't inconceivable) they really can't read your iMessages without a fairly insane amount of effort. Sure, they could theoretically brute force their way past your private key. Or they could scrap the entire system and replace it with something with glaring security holes, and hope no one notices."
- Congress Must Update Email Privacy Law
- Texas appeals court says police can't search your phone after you're jailed—"Looking at your texts is not like searching your pockets, judges say."
- Police Hide Use of Cell Phone Tracker From Courts Because Manufacturer Asked—How did corporate-mandated nondisclosure agreements trump the 4th amendment?
- Second federal 'kill-switch' bill introduced targeting smartphone theft—"The bill in the House of Representatives follows similar proposals in the Senate and the California State Assembly." This will never, ever be abused.
- 'Between Us': Tony Blair Offered To Advise Rupert Murdoch On Hacking Scandal
- Rebekah Brooks 'did not know hacking was illegal'
- Brooks testifies about paying public official at phone hacking trial
- Former Murdoch CEO Brooks denies knowledge of murdered girl phone-hack
- Murdoch told me not to quit amid phone-hacking row
- Obama's Critics Should Put Up or Shut Up
- Canada: Election act changes could muzzle report on probe into robocalls, lawyer warns—"A clause muzzling investigators in the Conservatives' new election act could prevent Elections Canada from ever reporting on the outcome of its investigation into fraudulent and deceptive calls in the 2011 campaign, says a former lawyer for Elections Canada."
- 'Concentrate' Roma in 'camps': far-right runner—"A National Front party candidate running in Paris’s municipal elections has caused outrage by suggesting the best way to deal with the country's Roma population was to 'concentrate' them in 'camps.'"
- Scott Ludlam blasts Tony Abbott in final speech before WA byelection—"Greens senator attacks ‘blundering and technically illiterate’ government in seven-minute speech to almost empty Senate."
- Rupert Murdoch's empire receives $882m tax rebate from Australia
