Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has silenced America’s war drums, at least for now. While special interests continue to push for war, American’s have awoken from their industrial media induced commas and taken to the streets. We’ll cover the mounting pressure against a new war.
Then the NSA is caught again, this time subverting industry standards and covertly influencing major tech companies. We’ll bring you up to date.
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NSA is CRAZY
The files show that the National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have broadly compromised the guarantees that internet companies have given consumers to reassure them that their communications, online banking and medical records would be indecipherable to criminals or governments.
The agencies, the documents reveal, have adopted a battery of methods in their systematic and ongoing assault on what they see as one of the biggest threats to their ability to access huge swathes of internet traffic – “the use of ubiquitous encryption across the internet”.
Those methods include covert measures to ensure NSA control over setting of international encryption standards, the use of supercomputers to break encryption with “brute force”, and – the most closely guarded secret of all – collaboration with technology companies and internet service providers themselves.
Through these covert partnerships, the agencies have inserted secret vulnerabilities – known as backdoors or trapdoors – into commercial encryption software.
The National Security Agency made a select amount of information on American citizens available to the Central Intelligence Agency and two other agencies even though prohibited by court order, according to documents released Tuesday by National Intelligence Director James Clapper.
The unauthorized dissemination of Americans’ data, including telephone numbers and email addresses and culled from the full phone records database on all domestic and one-end-foreign calls, is one of a number of ways in which the NSA misused the database between 2006 and 2009. Though there are authorized reasons the NSA can share information with outside agencies, the dissemination activity revealed in the documents did not fit those criteria.
However, it remains a mystery why the NSA granted the CIA, Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) access to the data, because that information was blacked out when the intelligence community released documentation of this violation on Tuesday.
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Syria
“I want to make sure that norm against use of chemical weapons is maintained,” Mr Obama told ABC News.
“That’s in our national security interest. If we can do that without a military strike, that is overwhelmingly my preference.”
The Syrian government has accepted a Russian proposal to put its chemical weapons under international control to avoid a possible U.S. military strike, Interfax news agency quoted Syria’s foreign minister as saying on Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin appears especially delighted by the tentative acceptance of the plan. It allows him to show that Moscow remains a major player in the Middle East and a world power broker.
“He’s been eager to show that he can fill the partial diplomatic vacuum the U.S. has left in the Middle East, and this lets him make that point,” said Andrew Weiss, a White House advisor on Russia during the Clinton administration and now vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Wednesday that he is working on a new congressional resolution for Syria that would link the use of force with the failure to achieve a political solution eliminating Bashar Assad’s chemical weapons stockpiles.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., made the remarks a day after President Obama said he would postpone seeking authorization for a military strike to give a diplomatic solution a chance to work.
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