Posts tagged “government surveillance”
A quick tour through decades of US government surveillance programs, from COINTELPRO's mail-opening in the 50s through Carnivore, ECHELON, Room 641A, DCSNet, and now PRISM. The names change, the methods evolve, but the core activity stays the same. PRISM shouldn't surprise anyone paying attention.
As the US moves ever closer to the fundamentalist police state it supposedly dislikes, on top of...Dec 29, 2002
The US government is now censoring scientific information to placate anti-abortion and pro-abstinence lobbies, on top of spying on citizens and trampling their rights. It's too horrifying to embellish. Land of the freaking free, indeed.
