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Sealed court files obscure rise in electronic surveillance

Every year, the federal government makes thousands of requests for court-ordered electronic surveillance, often without a warrant. And long after the investigations that spawned them have ended, the vast majority […]
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US secretly built 'Cuban Twitter' to stir unrest

The Associated Press reports that the U.S. Agency for International Development was behind the creation of a “Cuban Twitter,” a social network designed to undermine the communist government and push […]
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Extra Extra Monday: Overdoses, background checks, housing markets, midwifery and fraudulent accounting

Use only as directed | ProPublica and This American Life “About 150 Americans a year die by accidentally taking too much acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol. The toll does […]
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NSA Officers Spy on Love Interests

The Wall Street Journal reports: "National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests, U.S. officials said. The practice isn’t […]
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U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans

A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them […]
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U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement

“As the world focuses on the high-tech spying of the National Security Agency, (Leslie James Pickering's) misplaced card offers a rare glimpse inside the seemingly low-tech but prevalent snooping of […]
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NSA in Utah: Mining a mountain of data

In many ways, the new Utah Data Center is the quintessential black box. But a sharper picture of what is likely to go on within its walls has come into […]
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Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

In this article published by The Guardian, the 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended […]
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