Totally true On Sunday, August 18, 2013, Arhata Osho wrote:
> ** > > > Snowdon has done more for America than Pres. Obama - kind of sad and it > may be true? > > *Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government** > *18 Aug 2013 > *http://www.legitgov.org/* <http://www.legitgov.org/> > All links are here: > *http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news*<http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news> > > > *American forces used eight-year-old boy to plant a chip on his > stepfather so they could kill him in a drone > strike*<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2395202/US-used-8-yr-old-boy-plant-chip-surrogate-father-kill-drone-strike.html>16 > Aug 2013 A shocking new story reveals that the U.S. army inadvertently > had an 8-year-old boy turn into a spy and place electronic tracking devices > on his surrogate father so that they could spot him and kill him in a > scheduled drone attack. The 8-year-old boy and his biological father have > confessed to helping spy on the al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] officer, and now the > biological father is believed to have been executed while the fate of the > young boy remains unknown. The thorough story was > reported<http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/09/did-an-8-year-old-spy-for-america/309429/>by > The Atlantic, who claim that the boy, named Barq al-Kulyabi, helped lead > American drones to an al Qaeda operative named Adnan al-Qadhi who had been > placed on the U.S. 'kill list' due to his [alleged] role in the Yemeni > branch of the terrorist organization. [*This 'government,' day by day, is > starting to resemble the 'Visitors' in the 1980s and 2009 miniseries, > 'V<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_%281983_miniseries%29>.' > We need to start thinking in terms of how **those** resistance fighters > handled the problem. --LRP*] > > *Audit: NSA broke law, > repeatedly*<http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130815/news/708169925/>15 > Aug 2013 The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or > overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress > granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal > audit<http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/nsa-report-on-privacy-violations-in-the-first-quarter-of-2012/395/>and > other top-secret documents. Most of the infractions involve > unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in > the United States, both of which are restricted by law and executive order. > They range from significant violations of law to typographical errors that > resulted in unintended interception of U.S. emails and telephone calls. The > documents, provided earlier this summer to The Washington Post by former > NSA contractor Edward Snowden, include a level of detail and analysis that > is not routinely shared with Congress or the special court that oversees > surveillance. > *NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit > finds*<http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-broke-privacy-rules-thousands-of-times-per-year-audit-finds/2013/08/15/3310e554-05ca-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html>15 > Aug 2013 The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or > overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress > granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal > audit<http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/nsa-report-on-privacy-violations-in-the-first-quarter-of-2012/395/>and > other top-secret documents. Most of the infractions involve > unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in > the United States, both of which are restricted by statute and executive > order. They range from significant violations of law to typographical > errors that resulted in unintended interception of U.S. e-mails and > telephone calls. > *Feds Threaten to Arrest Lavabit Founder for Shutting Down His > Service*<http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130816/14533924213/feds-threaten-to-arrest-lavabit-founder-shutting-down-his-service.shtml>16 > Aug 2103 The saga of Lavabit founder Ladar Levison is getting even more > ridiculous, as he explains that the government has threatened him with > criminal > charges<http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/13/20008036-lavabitcom-owner-i-could-be-arrested-for-resisting-surveillance-order>for > his decision to shut down the business, rather than agree to some > mysterious court order. The feds are apparently arguing that the act of > shutting down the business, itself, was a violation of the order: ...A > source familiar with the matter told NBC News that James Trump, a senior > litigation counsel in the U.S. attorney's office in Alexandria, Va., sent > an email to Levison's lawyer last Thursday -- the day Lavabit was shuttered > -- stating that Levison may have "violated the court order," a statement > that was interpreted as a possible threat to charge Levison with contempt > of court. > > *Lavabit founder, under gag order, speaks out about shutdown > decision*<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/lavabit-founder-under-gag-order-speaks-out-about-shut-down-decision/>13 > Aug 2013 Ladar Levison took 10 years to build his company—and he's 32, > making that most of his adult life. So when he shut > down<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/ed-snowdens-encrypted-e-mail-service-shuts-down-leaving-cryptic-message/>his > encrypted e-mail service, Lavabit, without warning last week, it was > like "putting a beloved pet to sleep." "I was faced with the choice of > watching it suffer or putting it to sleep quietly... it was very > difficult," he > told<http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/13/exclusive_owner_of_snowdens_email_service>Democracy > Now. "I had to pick between the lesser of two evils." What was > that other choice? "Unfortunately, I can't talk about that," Levison said > during today's interview. > > *WikiLeaks Releases Massive Encrypted 'Insurance' > Files*<http://www.seattlepi.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Wikileaks-Just-Released-A-Massive-Insurance-4740948.php>17 > Aug 2013 Anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks just released a treasure > trove of files, that at least for now, you can't read. The group, which has > been assisting ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden after he leaked > top-secret > documents<http://www.businessinsider.com/edward-snowden-copied-a-lot-of-nsa-files-2013-6>to > the media, posted > links <https://www.facebook.com/wikileaks/posts/561927090509074> for > about 400 gigabytes of files on their Facebook page Saturday, and asked > their fans to download and mirror them elsewhere. You can download the > files via torrent but since they are encrypted -- and WikiLeaks has not yet > provided the key -- you won't be able to open them. They probably have a > very high level of encryption. The end of the files, "aes256," likely > stands for Advanced Encryption Standard-256 bits. [*Hopefully, 9/11 truth > is in there.*] > > *Time Magazine reporter who called for a drone strike on Julian Assange > faces Twitter > backlash*<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396504/Time-Magazine-reporter-called-drone-strike-Julian-Assange-faces-Twitter-backlash.html>18 > Aug 2013 A TIME magazine reporter set off a Twitter spat on Saturday > when he controversially suggested that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be > killed in a drone strike. Michael Grunwald was pressured into deleting the > offending tweet after it was greeted with hostility online. Grunwald has > written extensively about his support for the United States strategy of > killing terrorists using unmanned military drones. Writing on Twitter on > Friday, Grunwald said he 'can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike > that takes out' Assange, who is an Australian citizen. > > *Ecuador restates support for Julian Assange on asylum > anniversary*<http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/16/ecuador-julian-assange-asylum-anniversary>16 > Aug 2013 The Ecuadorean government has stressed its commitment to > finding a solution to the standoff over Julian Assange, on the anniversary > of the WikiLeaks founder being granted political asylum. The Australian has > been living inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London for more than a year as > part of his campaign to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces > allegations of sex crimes against two women - claims he denies. Assange > fears that if he travels to Sweden he will be forcibly taken to the US to > face questioning over documents published by WikiLeaks. > > *Snowden downloaded NSA secrets while working for Dell, sources > say*<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/15/usa-security-snowden-dell-idUSL2N0GF11220130815> > * --Dell declined to comment on any aspect of Snowden's employment with > the company, saying Dell's 'customer' - presumably the NSA - had asked > Dell not to talk publicly about him*. 15 Aug 2013 Former intelligence > contractor Edward Snowden began downloading documents describing the U.S. > government's electronic spying programs while he was working for Dell Inc > in April 2012, almost a year earlier than previously reported, according to > U.S. officials and other sources familiar with the matter. Snowden, who was > granted a year's asylum by Russia on Aug. 1, worked for Dell from 2009 > until earlier this year, assigned as a contractor to U.S. National Security > Agency facilities in the United States and Japan. Snowden downloaded > information while employed by Dell about eavesdropping programs run by the > NSA and Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, and left an > electronic footprint indicating when he accessed the documents, said the > sources, speaking on condition of anonymity. > > *Seeing threats, feds target instructors of polygraph-beating > methods*<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/08/16/199590/seeing-threats-feds-target-instructors.html>16 > Aug 2013 Federal agents have launched a criminal investigation of > instructors who claim they can teach job applicants how to pass lie > detector tests as part of the Obama administration's unprecedented > crackdown on security violators and leakers. The criminal inquiry, which > hasn't been acknowledged publicly, is aimed at discouraging criminals and > spies from infiltrating the U.S. government by using the polygraph-beating > techniques, which are said to include controlled breathing, muscle tensing, > tongue biting and mental arithmetic. So far, authorities have targeted at > least two instructors, one of whom has pleaded guilty to federal charges, > several people familiar with the investigation told McClatchy. > Investigators confiscated business records from the two men, which included > the names of as many as 5,000 people who'd sought polygraph-beating advice. > > *Military judge finds Manning's WikiLeaks acts 'wanton and > reckless'*<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/16/us-usa-wikileaks-manning-idUSBRE97F0XR20130816>16 > Aug 2013 The military judge who will determine how long U.S. soldier > Bradley Manning will spend in prison for the biggest breach of classified > data in the nation's history on Friday said she found that his acts were > "wanton and reckless." Judge Colonel Denise Lind last month found Manning, > 25, guilty of 20 criminal counts, including espionage and theft, for > handing over some 700,000 secret U.S. documents to the WikiLeaks > pro-transparency website. On Monday, she will begin deliberations on > Manning's sentence. He could face up to 90 years in prison for his role in > a case that catapulted WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, into the > world spotlight. > > *Police passed new information: Princess Diana killed by member of > British > military*<http://news.sky.com/story/1129902/dianas-death-police-passed-new-information>17 > Aug 2013 New information that alleges Princess Diana was murdered has > been passed to Scotland Yard through military sources, according to the > Metropolitan Police. The information, thought to include the allegation > that the Princess of Wales, Dodi al Fayed and their driver were killed by a > member of the British military, will be assessed by officers from the > Specialist Crime and Operations Command. It was passed to the police by the > former parents-in-law of a former soldier, according to Sky sources. > > *Area 51 'declassified' in U-2 spy plane > history*<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23731759>16 Aug 2013 The > CIA has officially acknowledged the secret US test site > known as Area 51, in a newly unclassified internal history of the U-2 spy > plane programme. The document obtained by a US university describes the > 1955 acquisition of the Nevada site for testing of the secret spy plane. > The remote patch of desert surrounding Groom Lake was chosen because it was > adjacent to a nuclear testing facility. "The U-2 was absolutely top > secret," Chris Pocock, a British defence journalist and author of histories > of the programme, told the BBC. > > *Bloomberg's idea to fingerprint 620,000 people in public housing stuns, > infuriates > residents*<http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/08/16/bloombergs-public-housing-fingerprinting-idea-stuns-infuriates-residents/> > * --Spokesman: Mayor to propose biometric security - an electronic sensor*16 > Aug 2013 Mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest 'crime-fighting' idea had a > lot of people riled up on Friday. The mayor wants to fingerprint more than > 600,000 people who live in public housing. Needless to say, there was a lot > of > finger-pointing<http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/08/16/nyc-to-file-notice-of-appeal-against-stop-and-frisk-ruling/>at > Mayor Bloomberg on Friday. The notion of fingerprinting 620,000 people > in public housing -- even with the best of intentions of making buildings > safer -- caught a lot of New York City residents off guard. > > *Afghanistan: 20 killed in militant bomb, gun > attacks*<http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/17/world/asia/afghanistan-violence/>17 > Aug 2013 A series of attacks in Afghanistan claimed the lives of 20 > people -- all but one of them civilians -- in the space of less than 24 > hours, officials said Saturday. Ten people died when a group of insurgents > attacked a police checkpoint in the country's western Herat province Friday > evening, police spokesman Abdul Rauf Ahmadi said. After exchanging fire > with police at the checkpoint in Karokh district, killing one officer, the > militants opened fire on a nearby tent housing construction workers for a > road-building project. Nine of them died, Ahmadi said. > > *Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline bombed: > officials*<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/16/us-iraq-oil-pipeline-idUSBRE97F0YD20130816>16 > Aug 2013 A bomb attack halted the flow of crude oil through a pipeline > running from Iraq's Kirkuk oil fields to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan > in Turkey, two Iraqi oil officials said on Friday. The attack took place at > around 0100 GMT on Friday near the al-Shura area 60 km (40 miles) to the > south of the city of Mosul. "Attackers planted a roadside bomb near a > section of the pipeline," one official said. > > *Egypt's 'Day of Rage' turns violent, dozens of protesters > killed*<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/16/us-egypt-protests-idUSBRE97C09A20130816>16 > Aug 2013 Muslim Brotherhood protests plunged into violence across Egypt > on Friday, with around 50 killed in Cairo alone on a "Day of Rage" called > by Islamist followers of ousted President Mohamed Mursi to denounce a > police crackdown. Automatic gunfire echoed across Cairo and black smoke > billowed from the capital's huge Ramses Square, a military helicopter > hovering low overhead looking down on the chaos. A Reuters witness saw the > bodies of 27 people, apparently hit by gunfire and birdshot, wrapped in > white sheets in a mosque. A Reuters photographer said security forces > opened fire from numerous directions when a police station was attacked. At > least 20 people died in clashes elsewhere in Egypt. > > *Rand Paul, Dems call for halt aid to > Egypt*<http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/rand-paul-dems-call-for-halt-aid-to-egypt-95577.html>15 > Aug 2013 President Barack Obama's decision to scrap a joint training > exercise with the Egyptian military didn't go far enough for Rand Paul. > Because Obama has yet to suspend the [insane] *$1.3 billion* in annual > military aid to Egypt, the Kentucky senator said the administration is > continuing to support violent Egyptian armed forces despite Obama's > denunciation Thursday of the hundreds killed in Egypt amid ongoing unrest. " > *While President Obama 'condemns the violence in Egypt,' his > administration continues to send billions of taxpayer dol* > > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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