After a year long battle the Executive Summary of the CIA Torture report is out. This week we document the reaction & bring you the most relevant information on this story we’ve been following for nearly a year.

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CIA Torture Report

16 Horrifying Excerpts From the Torture Report That the CIA Doesn’t Want You to See – Mic

One prisoner froze to death after being left to sleep, without pants, on a cold concrete floor. Another was forced to stand in a “stress position” on broken bones. CIA officers threatened to sexually assault the wife of one detainee, and cut the throat of another prisoner’s mother.

And it gets worse.

After months of negotiations with the White House and CIA, the Senate Intelligence Committee has released a redacted summary of its original 6,300-page report on the “enhanced interrogation techniques” carried out by George W. Bush-era intelligence agents on suspected terrorists.

Through a process known as “extraordinary rendition,” detainees were taken to prisons in allied nations — so-called CIA “black sites” — where American officers sought to extract information, often by using brutal and repugnant tactics banned by international law. The secret program began sometime in the weeks after 9/11; President Barack Obama’s executive order formally ended it Jan. 22, 2009.

Tuesday’s “executive summary” is approximately 500 pages, with certain key details — names and locations — blacked out by CIA censors. The report is a dense and at times confounding read. CIA officials did their best to obscure the names of the 54 countries that partnered with U.S. intelligence to host the prisons. In 2005, 92 videotapes showing hundreds of hours of extreme interrogations were destroyed. Names of individual agents have also been wiped from the record, either to protect their safety or preserve their careers.

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney must have known about the CIA’s torture of detainees: The Senate Intelligence report suggests they wanted plausible deniability.

The annals of history suggest the latter, and in a few passages, so does the report. A big lesson of the Church Committee—Sen. Frank Church’s mid-1970s probe into black-bag jobs, assassination plots, coup attempts, and other acts of CIA malfeasance since the agency’s origins—is that, in nearly every instance, there was no “rogue elephant” at Langley. Rather, the presidents in office at the time knew what was going on, at least in broad, strategic terms—and their CIA henchmen knew to give the leader of the free world a wide berth of “plausible deniability” in case they got caught.

As the Church reports and books such as Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes clearly show, President Dwight Eisenhower knew about and approved the CIA’s plot to overthrow Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq. President John F. Kennedy knew about, and approved, the plots to murder Cuba’s Fidel Castro; in fact, his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy formed a top secret “Special Group” in the White House to oversee the operation. President Lyndon B. Johnson (who, after he left office, told a reporter that Kennedy had been running “a damn Murder Inc. in the Caribbean”) carried on the enterprise elsewhere in Latin America.

Bush White House Was Worried Colin Powell Would ‘Blow His Stack’ If Briefed on Torture – Bloomberg Politics

The Bush White House didn’t brief then-Secretary of State Colin Powell about the specifics of the CIA’s interrogation program until September 2003 because it was worried Powell would “blow his stack” if he found out what was going on, according to the report released Tuesday by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

According to a July 2003 email, the official reason the National Security Council didn’t have a full briefing on the program at that time was to “avoid press disclosures.” But unofficially, the email said, “it is clear to us from some of the runup meetings we had with [White House] counsel that the [White House] is extremely concerned [Secretary of State] Powell would blow his stack if he were to be briefed on what’s been going on.”

The Most Gruesome Moments in the CIA ‘Torture Report’ – The Daily Beast

Interrogations that lasted for days on end. Detainees forced to stand on broken legs, or go 180 hours in a row without sleep. A prison so cold, one suspect essentially froze to death. The Senate Intelligence Committee is finally releasing its review of the CIA’s detention and interrogation programs. And it is brutal.

Off the Grid: Nine CIA ‘Black Sites’ Where Detainees Were Tortured – The Intercept

Margot Williams, The Intercept‘s research editor for investigations, compiled the locations and, with research editor Josh Begley, placed them on the map.

The report identifies the locations of the CIA black sites by color codes and redacts the country names, but previous reports by NGOs, European agencies, media reports and detainee statements can identify most of the locations. The sites are located in Afghanistan, Lithuania, Romania, Poland, Thailand, and a secret site on the Guantanamo Naval Base, known as Strawberry Fields, — “forever.”

WASHINGTON: CIA acknowledges problems but says tactics helped thwart attacks | National News | The State

“While we made mistakes, the record does not support the study’s inference that the agency systematically and intentionally misled each of these audiences on the effectiveness of the program,” the statement said.

CIA lied to the public and John Brennan must quit, says outgoing senator in fiery speech | US news | The Guardian

Mark Udall, who lost his seat in Colorado last month, said the still-classified portions of the Senate report on CIA torture, represented a ‘smoking gun’

Once Senate investigators noticed about 1000 documents mysteriously disappearing from the firewalled network it shared with the CIA, they took portions of a printed copy of the Panetta review back to the Senate, prompting allegations – later scotched by the CIA Inspector General – that the Senate inappropriately accessed classified CIA information.

But the discrepancy between the Panetta Review’s apparent criticism of torture and a response offered by the CIA in 2013, and released Tuesday, prompted the committee to fear the CIA, Udall said, “knowingly provided inaccurate information to the committee in the present day, which is a serious offense and a deeply troubling matter for the committee, the Congress, the White House and our country.”

“The Panetta review corroborates many of the significant findings of the committee’s study. Moreover, the Panetta review frankly acknowledges significant problems and errors made in the CIA’s detention and interrogation program,” Udall continued.

“The CIA continued not only to defend the program and deny any wrongdoing, but also to deny its own conclusions to the contrary in the Panetta review.” Sections of the review, Udall said, remain in the committee’s hands, but not the whole document, which he called on the CIA to turn over.

The CIA declined to respond to Udall directly and referred instead to the 2013-era response to the committee.

Expressing disappointment in Obama and current White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, Udall said that White House complicity in obscuring the CIA’s torture record jeopardized Obama’s anti-torture stance and refuted Obama’s pledge to run a transparent administration.

“Actions speak louder than words,” Udall said.

Ex-CIA Clandestine Service chief Jose Rodriguez defends interrogation techniques – CBS News

As for the interrogation tapes Rodriguez ordered to have destroyed, Rodriguez said he did it to protect the identity of the officers who worked for him and “whose faces were all over those tapes.”

“I knew the tapes would leak someday, and I feared retribution from al Qaeda for my people,” Rodriguez said.

​CIA paid 2 torture experts $81mn for their ‘unique expertise’ — RT USA

In all, the Senate report suggests that the two contractors who
created the torture program were paid more than $80 million in
taxpayer money for their work with the CIA. The government has
agreed to cover upwards of $5 million in additional indemnity
costs for the two men if they incur legal costs for their role as
interrogation program architects through 2021, and the executive
summary released on Tuesday after nearly four years of work
suggests the pair has already received $1.1 million due to legal
fees largely involving the creation of the Senate Committee’s
report.

For CIA, Truth about Torture Was an Existential Threat – The Intercept

The executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s grindingly exhaustive torture report released Tuesday indelibly captures CIA officials turning their back on human decency, and it all starts with a “novel” legal defense floated in November 2001 by CIA lawyers — and arguably prompted by their White House masters, lurking offstage — that the “CIA could argue that the torture was necessary to prevent imminent, significant, physical harm to persons, where there is no other available means to prevent the harm.”

Specifically, they pointed out: “states may be very unwilling to call the U.S. to task for torture when it resulted in saving thousands of lives.”

There are no indications the CIA is ready to turn things around, of course. CIA Director John Brennan went to extraordinary lengths to stymie and discredit the investigation. And now, he is rebuffing its conclusions.

Brennan’s statement Tuesday acknowledged “shortcomings” and “mistakes,” but reasserted “that interrogations of detainees on whom [enhanced interrogation techniques] EITs were used did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists, and save lives.” He angrily rejected the report’s “inference that the Agency systematically and intentionally misled” Congress, the Executive Branch, and the public.”

Other reports and works of journalism have clearly identified Vice President Dick Cheney as the prime mover in creating a torture regime that extended not just to the black sites, but to Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo and elsewhere. Cheney was no victim of misinformation; he was its architect.

George W. Bush might have remained unfamiliar with the details until as late as 2006 — “According to CIA records, when briefed in April 2006, the president expressed discomfort with the ‘image of a detainee, chained to the ceiling, clothed in a diaper, and forced to go to the bathroom on himself’.” But he must have had some idea what Cheney and others were up to in the basement.

A 2005 proposal from Senator Carl Levin to establish an independent commission to investigate detainee abuse, for instance, “resulted in concern at the CIA that such a commission would lead to the discovery of videotapes documenting CIA interrogations.” As a result, the CIA destroyed them.

The summary devotes a 37-page appendix on “Inaccurate CIA Testimony” by former CIA Director Michael Hayden in one Senate Intelligence Committee hearing alone.

At the April 12, 2007, hearing, Director Hayden verbally provided extensive inaccurate information on, among other topics: (1) the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, (2) the application of Department of Defense survival school practices to the program, (3) detainees’ counter interrogation training, (4) the backgrounds of CIA interrogators, (5) the role of other members of the interrogation teams, (6) the number of CIA detainees and their intelligence production, (7) the role of CIA detainee reporting in the captures of terrorist suspects, (8) the interrogation process, (9) the use of detainee reporting, (10) the purported relationship between Islam and the need to use the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques, (11) threats against detainees’ families, (12) the punching and kicking of detainees, (13) detainee hygiene, (14) denial of medical care, (15) dietary manipulation, (16) the use of waterboarding and its effectiveness, and (17) the injury and death of detainees.

Hayden told the Senate Intelligence committee: “Punches and kicks are not authorized and have never been employed.” But interviews conducted for two CIA internal reviews described the treatment of Gul Rahman, the detainee was died at the Salt Pit. One witness stated:

[T]here were approximately five CIA officers from the renditions team… they opened the door of Rahman’s cell and rushed in screaming and yelling for him to “getdown.” They dragged him outside, cut off his clothes and secured him with Mylar tape. They covered his head with a hood and ran him up and down a long corridor adjacent to his cell. They slapped him and punched him several times… a couple of times the punches were forceful. As they ran him along the corridor, a couple of times he fell and they dragged him through the dirt (the floor outside of the cells is dirt). Rahman did acquire a number of abrasions on his face, legs, and hands, but nothing that required medical attention. (This may account for the abrasions found on Rahman’s body after his death. Rahman had a number of surface abrasions on his shoulders, pelvis, arms, legs, and face.)

Hayden also lied to Congress about how many detainees were held. At first, the CIA’s lowball numbers were, amazingly enough, just a mistake

Internal CIA documents indicate that inadequate record keeping made it impossible for the CIA to determine how many individuals it had detained. In December 2003, a CIA Station overseeing CIA detention operations in Country [REDACTED] informed CIA Headquarters that it had made the “unsettling discovery” that the CIA was “holding a number of detainees about whom” it knew “very little.”

But five years later, when a CIA officer informed Hayden that the correct number was 112 or more, the officer sent himself an email to memorialize the conversation: “DCIA instructed me to keep the detainee number at 98 — pick whatever date i [sic] needed to make that happen but the number is 98.”

Dianne Feinstein leaving intelligence job amid clash on tactics report – LA Times

But as she prepares to turn over the committee’s gavel next month to Sen. Richard M. Burr (R-N.C.), Feinstein’s tenure as chairwoman is closing amid an acrimonious fight over a project that pits her against the CIA. Her staff has completed a 6,000-page report evaluating and criticizing the agency’s use during the George W. Bush years of harsh interrogation tactics, which President Obama and others have labeled as torture.

Since April, Feinstein has been fighting with the CIA and the White House to make public as much as possible of the report’s 480-page executive summary.

• McCain makes passionate defense for torture report’s release – CNN.com

Republican Sen. John McCain broke with members of his party Tuesday, lauding the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on torture and decrying the use of torture as having “stained our national honor” and doing “much harm and little practical good.”

2003 George W. Bush Statement on Torture

In 2003, _George W. Bush’s_included the following language:.

The United States is committed to the world-wide elimination of torture and we are leading this fight by example. I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture and in undertaking to prevent other cruel and unusual punishment. I call on all nations to speak out against torture in all its forms and to make ending torture an essential part of their diplomacy.

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Protests Continue

• 19 arrested in 4th night of California protests – Yahoo News

• Berkeley protesters march for fourth night, briefly block freeway

• U.S. chokehold protesters ‘die-in’, issue demands in NY | Reuters

• Protesters plan ‘Week of Outrage’ – CNN.com

‘Die-in’ for Eric Garner: Hundreds shut down mall, block streets in London protest

A crowd of people stormed a London mall, blockaded roads, and shouted slogans in an anti-police brutality demonstration against a Staten Island grand jury’s decision not to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo for Eric Garner’s death on December 4.

Sneak Attack? Congress Slips Controversial Measures into Spending Bil

Congress snuck in two measures to its must-pass spending bill — all without formal debate. The first was a rider that essentially overturns the District of Columbia’s ballot initiative legalizing marijuana, which passed by a more than 2-to-1 margin last month.

The second measure Congress snuck into the spending the bill will be more galling to some, because it amounts to a pay raise for the two unpopular political parties: It raises the $32,400 maximum that donors could give the Democratic National Committee or Republican National Committee to a whopping $324,000 per year, gutting what’s left of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law. The Washington Post says this was inserted on page 1,599 of a 1,603-page bill (!!!). These two measures — and probably more like them — will become law because they were jammed into a must-pass spending bill to keep the government open.

21st Century Cold War Has Began; US House Of Reps Passes Resolution 758 Even As US Tells Russia To Stop Self-isolation – International Business Times

The United States has effectively pushed the button of the 21st century Cold War era. On Thursday, its House of Representatives passed Resolution 758, a decree telling the U.S., Europe and its’ allies to “aggressively keep the pressure” on Russia and its President Vladimir Putin until such measures “change his behaviour.”

• House Chooses New Cold War With Russia
• House Resolution 758: Russia has been warned | Russia Direct
• Russian Media Warns Of World War 3 Over U.S. Resolution 758, Canada Offers Military Aid To Ukraine | The Inquisitr News

Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2014 (H.R. 3979) – GovTrack.us

On December 4, 2014, the House used the bill again as the vehicle for passage of a third bill, by replacing its text completely and turning it into the bill it is now, the Carl Levin and Howard P. “Buck” McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015.

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The Obama Administration has doubled their efforts to protect and defend the NSA’s massive surveillance programs, launching a four star campaign publicly and behind closed doors to derail initiatives to neuter the NSA’s spying apparatus. We’ll share the details.

The birthplace of America’s middle class files for bankruptcy this week, but things are never as simple as they seem. Syria’s getting complicated we got an update

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”Birthplace of the Middle Class” FIles for Bankruptcy

• Governor, emergency manager defend Detroit bankruptcy

Flanked by posters of the city’s skyline with the words “Reinventing Detroit,” the state-appointed emergency manager said Friday that he hopes the roughly $19 billion bankruptcy will provide the fiscal breathing room needed to repair the city’s infrastructure and restore basic services.

• Michigan leaders defend Detroit bankruptcy filing, put blame for woes on city | Fox News

The filing makes the city the largest in the United States to file for bankruptcy.

• Detroit Gets Kevyn Orr as Emergency Manager

The City Council, which had contested the governor’s decision to bring in an emergency manager, decided in a closed-door session on Thursday not to pursue its challenge further

Mayor Dave Bing had opposed an emergency manager for Detroit

Detroit is Michigan’s sixth city currently under the supervision of an outside manager who has the power to alter labor contracts, sell off city assets and slash spending without the normal checks and balances that elected officials face.

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NSA Defends Their Spying Program

• National Security Agency surveillance program’s backers fight vote to end data gathering

With a high-stakes showdown vote looming in the House, White House press secretary Jay Carney issued an unusual, nighttime statement on the eve of Wednesday’s vote. The measure by Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., would cancel statutory authority for the secret program, a move that Carney contended would “hastily dismantle one of our intelligence community’s counterterrorism tools.”

Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the NSA, made a last-minute trip to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to urge lawmakers to reject the measure in separate, closed-door sessions with Republicans and Democrats. Seven Republican committee chairmen issued a similar plea in a widely circulated letter to their colleagues.

• (Updated) White House decries House effort to “hastily dismantle” NSA’s unprecedented collection of Americans’ telephone records

Proposed by Michigan Republican Congressman Justin Amash with the support of liberal Democratic Congressman John Conyers — would end authority for NSA to collect telephone calling records that pertain to individuals who are not the target of a counter-terrorism investigation.

A Texas member of Congress told Hearst Newspapers and the Houston Chronicle that the House threats to circumscribe NSA surveillance had “spooked” the Obama administration.

The response? Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of NSA, has been dispatched to Capitol Hill for back-to-back, closed-door briefings for House Republicans and House Democrats on NSA’s need for the program.

A second member of the Texas congressional delegation said the Obama administration had offered members of Congress so-called “talking points” on behalf of continued NSA surveillance so that lawmakers would have NSA’s justifications at the ready when they return home to their congressional districts in August for the season of town-hall meetings with constituents.

• NSA says it can’t search its own e-mails | Ars Technica

“There’s no central method to search an e-mail at this time with the way our records are set up, unfortunately,” NSA Freedom of Information Act officer Cindy Blacker told me last week. The system is “a little antiquated and archaic,” she added.

I filed a request last week for e-mails between NSA employees and employees of the National Geographic Channel over a specific time period. The TV station had aired a friendly documentary on the NSA and I want to better understand the agency’s public-relations efforts.

A few days after filing the request, Blacker called, asking me to narrow my request since the FOIA office can search e-mails only “person by person,” rather than in bulk. The NSA has more than 30,000 employees.

Where in the World is Snowden

• Edward Snowden has paperwork to leave airport, Russian state news agency says – CBS News

A Russian state news agency says former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden was granted documents on Wednesday that will allow him to leave a Moscow airport where he has been holed up for more than a month.

• Snowden asylum still under review, stays in airport for now – lawyer — RT News

“They talked and Mr.
Kucherena handed Snowden a package with documents, among which
was the certificate that now allows him to leave the transit zone
and go through Russian customs.”

• N.S.A. Imposes Rules to Protect Secret Data Stored on Its Networks – NYTimes.com

First among the new procedures is a “two-man rule” — based on the model of how nuclear weapons are handled — that requires two computer systems administrators to work simultaneously when they are inside systems that contain highly classified material.

“This makes our job more difficult,” Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the head of the N.S.A. and the commander of the military’s Cyber Command, told the Aspen Security Forum, an annual meeting on security issues. He described future plans to keep the most sensitive data in a highly encrypted form, sharply limiting the number of system administrators — like Mr. Snowden — who can move data throughout the nation’s intelligence agencies and the Defense Department.

Syria Keeps Getting Worse

• Highest-Ranking General: Acting in Syria Would Be Risky and Expensive – Conor Friedersdorf – The Atlantic

In a letter to Congress, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said a no-fly zone could cost up to $1 billion per month for a year, and deeper involvement would be hard to avoid.

• Syrian opposition questions Taliban rebel role – CNN.com

The Pakistani Taliban is composed of extremists from around the world.

Abbasi, a close associate of Pakistani Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud, told CNN that 120 fighters are already in Syria and another batch of 150 fighters will arrive this week.

“We shall be sending more volunteers, but cannot give exact numbers at this moment. But we will provide whatever support is needed by our Syrian brothers,” Abbasi told CNN.

The fighters, Abbasi said, were sent after the Pakistani Taliban received a request from a top-ranking militant. They will be under the command-and-control structure of al Qaeda in Syria, as it is leading the operation, he said.

Fall preview: Shutdown thrown around, debt limit fight looming

• Why President Obama’s big economic speech will likely change very little

“I’m excited about the speech, not because I think the speech is going to change any minds,” he said.

• Obama Speech On Economy Is Like “Deja Pivot”

CHUCK TODD: This speech, this “pivot,” to the economy. It’s like deja pivot, when it comes to the economy. But it seems, really, they are signalling that they are going to have a campaign approach to this fight with Congress, when it comes to the debt ceiling, when it comes to the sequestration 2.0. All of the decisions that are coming to a head in the fall, they are basically saying, hey, we’re going to travel the country.

• D.C. fall preview: Shutdown, debt limit fight – Manu Raju and John Bresnahan – POLITICO.com

House Republicans and Senate Democrats remain more than $90 billion apart on 2014 discretionary spending, with prospects for a House-Senate conference on the budget dwindling daily. Obama has issued veto threats for two spending bills already approved by the House, and the Appropriations panels in both chambers know many of their bills might not ever reach the floor. The fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, but both sides are already preparing for a continuing resolution to fund the government into next year.

“Obama’s job-approval rating fell to 45% [in a new WSJ-NBC poll], its lowest level since late 2011, while overall disapproval of Congress was at 83%, the highest level ever for Journal polling. Just 29% of Americans now say the country is on the right track, a 19-month low and well below the 41% who felt that way at the end of last year … Obama’s 45% approval rating matches that of George W. Bush at this stage in his second term

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The mainstream media\’s lack of follow up borders on malpractice, tonight we follow up on some of the big stories in 2012, and where their threads are leading in 2013.

The Fiscal Cliff deal has been reached, but is this just the beginning of a series of \”cliffs\” this year? And Obama authorizes five more years of warrantless wiretapping, we\’ll share the history of this 1978 act of congress.

The great news for weapons of war manufactures, we\’ll tell you why 2013 will be a boom for their profits.

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• Obama authorizes five more years of warrantless wiretapping
• Obama Signs FISA Warrantless Wiretapping Program Extension Into Law

• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act – Wikipedia,

• Clinton\’s blood clot an uncommon complication

• Doctors Expect Clinton to Recover Fully From Blood Clot Near Brain

• 3 more fiscal cliffs loom

• Get used to more fiscal cliffs

• Back to Vacation: Obama Takes Midnight Flight to Hawaii $3.6 Million Tax Payer Cost

• \’China new US bogeyman after al-Qaeda, pretext to sell more arms\’

• How China became the US election bogeyman

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• FBI classified information about OWS assassination plot
• The FBI vs. Occupy: Secret Docs Reveal \”Counterterrorism\” Monitoring of OWS from Its Earliest Days

• US Banks And Law Enforcement Broke OWS

• UBS traders charged, bank fined $1.5 billion in Libor scanda

• Saying Sandy cost up to $50 billion, New York governor asks Congress for aid

• Saying Sandy cost up to $50 billion, New York governor asks Congress for aid
• 9 Politicians Pissed Off About Sandy Relief Delay

• Congressional Members Blast House for Ignoring Storm Aid Bill

• Two of the guns found at the scene of shootout between Mexican drug cartel and state officials were linked to Fast and Furious scandal

• ‘Fast and Furious’ Gun Found At Site Where Mexican Beauty Queen Killed

• Amber Lyon reveals CNN lies and war propaganda

• Ex-CNN employee Amber Lyon blows whistle on CNN on Joe Rogan Experience
• Former CNN reporter alleges CNN accepted money from Bahrain to ignore oppression

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The Pentagon has announced a $100 million dollar kickstart to an expansion of America\’s espionage programs. The details are stunning, and we’ll share them with you.

Up first: Is the the fear of a Zombie apocalypse really behind the exploding gun sales in the United States? Plus taking the next steps in Syria, a major Drone update and the headlines!

Then: A whistleblower from the NSA claims to have witnessed wide scale and illegal surveillance of all online traffic. We’ll play the clips, and ask you some hard questions.

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• Spike in gun sales attributed to \’Zombie Apocalypse\’

• Zombies cause rise in US gun sales, says gun rights campaigner

• Pot Is Legal In Washington State, Today

• Former Microsoft manager wants to create high-end marijuana business now that the drug is set to become legal in Washington state

• Cops to Congress: We need logs of Americans\’ text messages

• President Obama to Assad \’The World Is Watching\’

• No, Syria Doesn\’t Have Saddam\’s Chemical Weapons
• Thousands of US troops arrive near Syrian shore on USS Eisenhower
• Chemical scare is a cloak for intervention, says Syria

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• US Navy Aircraft Carrier Tests New Drone

• Robocod: Homeland Security adds underwater drones to their arsenal with robots based on fish

• Unmanned X-47B drone to be tested on US Navy aircraft carrier

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• Iranian TV shows off \’captured US ScanEagle drone\’

• ScanEagle U.S spy drone gets captured by IRGC.

• Iran says it captures drone; U.S. denies losing one

• US Navy says no drones missing in Middle East after Iran claims it has captured one

• Pentagon reportedly planning to double size of its worldwide spy network

• DIA to send hundreds more spies overseas

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• Defense Intelligence Agency – We\’re DIA – YouTube

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• Actually, The Newest Version Of NDAA Makes It EASIER To Detain Citizens Indefinitely

• \’Everyone in US under virtual surveillance\’ – NSA whistleblower

• More liberal talking points coming out of you that are completely false.

• About climate change

• I would like to hear about Native Americans are viewed by Americans.

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Starting next week a bitter struggle between world super powers for control of the Internet will begin, we bring you up to speed on it, and update you on the efforts underway domestically to combat cyber boogeyman from the future.

Bradley Manning\’s treatment in custody will be heard in court, and we have the details. Plus We’ll update you on a few important stories that have repercussions around the world.

Then in ACT3: You sent in some tough questions, and we do our best to respond.

All that and a heck of a lot more, in this week’s episode of… Unfilter!

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Show Notes:

ACT ONE:

• Controversy over Susan Rice\’s Benghazi comments continues

• Obama: \’Susan Rice is extraordinary\’

• Court hears of Bradley Manning\’s treatment in custody

• Bradley Manning case heads back to court – CNN Security Clearance – CNN.com Blogs

• Justice Department, Republicans in talks over ‘Fast and Furious’ lawsuit

• Confidential police info found in Macy\’s parade confetti sparks investigation

• GOP recommends Lamar Smith, SOPA author and global warming critic, as chairman of Science, Space, and Tech committee

Senators Make Bid To End Indefinite Detention In NDAA

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/indefinite-detention-ndaa-senate_n_2207794.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

ACT TWO: Locking Down the Net

• How the ITU could put the internet behind closed doors.

• Bitter struggle over Internet regulation to dominate global summit

• UN Agency\’s Leaked Playbook: Panic, Chaos over Anti-Internet Treaty

• Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants

• Cybersecurity bill is likely agenda item for Congress in 2013

• Bank Hackers Deny They\’re Agents of Iran

• FBI Financial Sector Cyber Security Presentation | Public Intelligence

• Congressman proposes 2-year ban on bills about Internet

• Cyberwar: hype or reality?

ACT THREE: FEEDBACK

• Chat Log of the Show?
• A story that missed during the elections
• Your thoughts on Climate Change?
  • 2012 United Nations Climate Change Conference
    

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The post Internet Toll Booth | Unfilter 27 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

The Internet Archive is amassing the worlds TV News Since 2009, we explore this amazing new tool, plus we cover the details of a new study linking the commonly used chemical BPA to childhood obesity, we’ll summarize the tensions developing between Japan and China, and so much more.

The media is trying to link the Military\’s reactionary pull back in Afghanistan to the innocence of muslims YouTube video, but the grim facts paint a much different picture.

Then It’s your feedback, and our important updates.

All that and a lot more on this week’s Unfilter.

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Show Notes:

ACT ONE:

• Internet Archive Amasses All TV News Since 2009

• Higher BPA Levels Are Linked to Obesity In Kids And Teens – Forbes

• 18-Year-Old Charged with Bomb Plot

• NDAA Case: Indefinite Detention Injunction Does Irreparable Harm, Obama Admin. Lawyers Argue

• Condom used as evidence in Assange sex case \’does not contain his DNA\’

• China’s Top Cop Goes Missing, as Officials Stay Mum and Bloggers Erupt

• Tech Giants Form Internet-Freedom Lobby to Counter MPAA, RIAA Clout “Another lobbying group hit Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. But think again before you start screaming that it’s just another lobby representing the 1%.” This is just another lobbying group representing the 1% only this time is the Internet 1%ers

• Iran claims nuclear sabotage

ACT TWO:

• U.S. Suspends Joint Missions With Afghan Security Forces

• US-Afghan military operations suspended after attacks

ACT THREE: Feedback

• By all means \”offend\” as much as you possiblly can
• Citizen Detention Needs more Attention
• What\’s in it for Google?
• Monsanto\’s GMed corn

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Nicholas is live streaming his marriage proposal, and hopes to have the JB audience tune in, and maybe help get his girl friend to the right location!

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• Visit his site an hour before the event (countdown on his website)
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Song pick of the week:

• Illusionist Lynx

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The post FBI Gone Wild | Unfilter 18 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

You\’re being told the embassy attacks in Egypt and Libya are in response to a movie, but in fact it’s the blowback from a over a decade of a policy of mistakes and a growing anti-west movement. You’ll get our analysis in this episode.

Bush’s former director of the CIA and the NSA has shared details on on the initial rollout of the NSA’s domestic spying program and the subsequent ratcheting up of the invasion of citizens privacy. We’ve got the exclusive clips from the source.

It’s our follow up, and your feedback.

All that and a lot more on this week’s Unfilter.

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Show Notes:

ACT ONE:

• Mother of 5 finds ex-boyfriend living in her attic

• FBI Launches $1 Billion Nationwide Face Recognition System

• Moody\’s warns of downgrade from AAA without budget deal

• Andrew Card – Wikipedia

• Former CIA Chief: Obama\’s War on Terror Same as Bush\’s, But With More Killing

• House Approves Sweeping, Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers

• Fed Announces QE3 With $40 Billion MBS Purchases Per Month

• Stockman: \’The Fed Is the Heart of the Problem\’

Drone Update:

• FULL INTERVIEW: Ben Swann interviews President Obama

ACT TWO:

• Libya ambassador Chris Stevens killed: Al-Qaeda terrorist in Libya
• US ambassador, consul among 4 killed in militia attack on Benghazi consulate

• Diplomat Killed in Libya Told Fellow Gamers: Hope I \’Don\’t Die Tonight\’

• Libyan Consulate: Aftermath Photos

• Egypt Protesters Attack U.S. Embassy In Cairo

• Turmoil Over Contentious Video Spreads to Yemen and Iran

• Deadly embassy attacks were days in the making

• Libya rescue squad ran into fierce, accurate ambush

• \’Sam Bacile, Israeli Jew,\’ May Actually Be Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, Coptic Christian

• Filmmaker Sam Bacile behind anti-Mohammed propaganda \’Innocence of Muslims\’ is not Israeli
• The Associated Press: California man confirms role in anti-Islam film
• Sam Bacile cell phone traced to address of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, who confirms link to \’Innocence of Muslims\’ Prophet Muhammad Islam movie | abc7chicago.com

• “Innocence of Muslims” filmmaker was also a meth cook

• Russians Say Attack in Libya Vindicates Their Position

• US drone strike kills al-Qa\’ida\’s No.2 in Yemen

• Film That Stoked Mideast Violence Has Murky Parentage

• U.S. to send Marines to Libya to bolster security

• U.S.-trained engineer picked as Libya\’s next premier

Clips of the movie:

• \’Innocence of Muslims\’ Trailer
• Innocence of Muslims Full Movie

ACT THREE: Feedback

• Redefing Terrorist

• White House draft cyber order promotes voluntary critical infrastructure protections

• NY judge rejects terror law that journalists and scholars say poses prolonged detention threat

• The Members Of Romney\’s Campaign Who Work For Fox

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The post The Blowback Decade | Unfilter 17 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

It’s been called the law enforcement tool of the new century, today we look into these massively interconnected surveillance systems, where they are being used, and the history behind them.

Successfully avoiding prosecution for their role in the 2008 meltdown, Goldman Sachs has had a great week. We’ll bring you up-to-date on their major victory, and why it reveals a dangerous cronyism in the Obama Administration.

Plus: You give us a reality check, and we respond. Plus some follow up on one of our favorite stories, that just keeps getting better.

All that and a lot more, in this week’s Unfilter.

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Show Notes:

ACT ONE:

• Israel Plans Iran Strike as Citizens Say Government Serious
• Israel Plans for Iran Strike, Citizens Fear Worst

• Oil Reaches $95 a Barrel on Housing Permits, Middle East Tension

• DOJ Will Not Pursue Criminal Case Against Goldman Sachs

  • Goldman Sachs Summary: $100k to Obama $600k+ to Romney THIS YEAR ALONE.
  • Goldman Sachs: Recipients
• Report: Cronyism behind Holder\’s failure to charge bankers

• Federal Government & Goldman Sachs Chart

• 7 Banks Hit With Libor Subpoenas

• FBI raids homes of Occupy protesters in Oregon and Washington

• Obama Admin. Files Appeal of NDAA Injunction

ACT TWO: TrapWire

• Trapwire: It\’s Not the Surveillance, It\’s the Sleaze
• TrapWire Antiterrorist Software Leaks Set Off Web Furor
• NYPD unveils new $40 million super computer system that uses data from network of cameras, license plate readers and crime reports

• Trapwire surveillance linked to Anonymizer and transport smart cards

• There are 2,000,000 surveillance cameras in Great Britain

• Camouflage from Computer Vision

ACT THREE: Feedback

• Multiple Shooters in Sikh shooting?

Follow up:

• Kim Dotcom: MPAA / RIAA Corrupted the U.S. Government
  • New Zealand Judge Orders U.S. to Disclose Megaupload Evidence
• Ron Paul only GOP candidate to publicly denounce SOPA
• Romney (2007): “Every new computer sold in this country after I’m president has installed on it a filter to block all the pornogrophy” and he waits to enforce the obscenity laws

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The post Privatized Domestic Spying | Unfilter 14 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

We look at the tricks and distractions the campaigns and media use to keep the public focused on their pet topics.

In ACT 1: We unfilter the media\’s talking points around the tragic shooting that took place this last week in the south of Milwaukee. Plus the story behind the bad week medical marijuana had, and some news updates from around the world.

In ACT2: Is the media robbing the American people of their opportunity for a rational, and effective public discussion? This week using the lens of the reignited gun-control debate we\’ll ask some hard questions.

In ACT 3: Some follow up on a few stories from the recent weeks.

All that and much more, in this week\’s Unfilter.

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Show Notes:

ACT ONE:

• U.S. Freezes All Nuclear Power Plant Licensing Decisions

• Sikh temple shootings leave 7 dead in Wisconsin

• Sikh temple shooter Wade Michael Page Sikh temple shooter played bass in white supremacist bands

• Kim Dotcom raid video revealed

• Europe\’s economic woes deepen amidst uncertainty

• Greece Considers Labor Pool

• Crazy Details About The Bank That’s Been Accused Of Transferring $250 Billion To Iran

• \’New Approach Washington\’ Launches Pro-Marijuana Legalization Ad In Evergreen State

• Tacoma pot doc fighting state charges, says ad ban restricts doctors\’ right to free speech
• Medical Marijuana Crackdown: Rep. Barbara Lee Tells Feds to Back Off
• New Hemp Bill Introduced in US Senate

Tech Related News:

• Googlers to Begin Commuting in Self-Driving Cars

• Google Creates Interactive Visual About Small Arms Trade

• NASA\’s Mars Rover Crashed Into a DMCA Takedown top story on the Unfilter Reddit this week

ACT TWO: Election Year Distractions

• Ohio Man arrested for weapons in theater; attorney says he was just protecting himself
• Oak Creek tragedy should prompt new gun debate
• Movie Theater Shooting Prompts Gun Control Debate
• Historic NDAA Battle Underway: TV Networks Silent
• Earl Ofari Hutchinson: How the Economy Can Help or Hurt President Obama

ACT THREE: Feedback

• Obama That I Used To Know – Gotye \’Somebody That I Used To Know\’ Parody – YouTube
• Blackwater to pay fine to settle arms charges
• White House considers executive action to address cybersecurity
• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Admits He Hid LIBOR Fraud From The DOJ

Song pick(s) of the week:

• Save Me Now by Blood Angel released under a creative commons license
• Only A Pawn In Their Game by Bob Dylan

• Only A Pawn In Their Game by Bob Dylan on Amazon UK

• Correction from last week I (Dan) said that my intro to podcasting presentation at the Syracuse Innovators Guild was going to be on the 14th. However, it going to be this Saturday August 11th from 6:00PM to 8:00PM at the Syracuse Innovators Guild Makerspace located at 3650 James st Suite 111, Syracuse, NY the class is open to everyone so if you in the area and interested in learn how on earth I end up on Unfilter along with other stuff I’ve learned about podcasting please stop by.

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The post Keeping You Distracted | Unfilter 13 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

Adobe tells customers to upgrade to get the latest security fixes, Kickstarter has an embarrassing security lapse.

PLUS: Self-destructing SSDs, and Mirroring vs a CDN, what’s the difference and when are they used. We answer that, and so much more in this week’s TechSNAP!

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