Senators eschew briefing on domestic surveillance programs to travel home for the weekend

It’s good to know our U.S. Senators are taking warrantless domestic surveillance seriously… A recent briefing by senior intelligence officials on surveillance programs failed to attract even half of the Senate, showing the lack of enthusiasm in Congress for learning about classified security programs. Many senators elected to leave Washington…

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This doesn’t exactly inspire confidence…

This is disturbing on a number of levels. According to the Guardian, Snowden is a 29-year-old high school dropout who trained for the Army Special Forces before an injury forced him to leave the military. His IT credentials are apparently limited to a few “computer” classes he took at a…

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Obama administration engages in massive domestic spying program

This is absolutely unconscionable… In a top secret order obtained by the Guardian newspaper and published Wednesday evening, the FBI on the NSA’s behalf demanded that Verizon turn over all metadata for phone records originating in the United States for the three months beginning in late April and ending on the…

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