Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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Privacy Activists Take UK Government to Court As Europe's Leaders Stumble
The attitude of Europe’s leaders toward data privacy marks a victory for U.S. companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple – and a stunning defeat for the many civil rights groups demanding E.U. sanctions for violations of its citizens' privacy.
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Oil Espionage: How the NSA and Britain's GCHQ Spied on OPEC
Documents disclosed by Edward Snowden reveal that both America's NSA and Britain's GCHQ have infiltrated the computer network of OPEC to spy on global energy supplies.
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Ben Franklin Was Right About the NSA
No other nation we know of so thoroughly sifts through the world’s communications, bugs 35 key leaders, targets individuals for assassination by CIA drones or U.S. special forces and stores every word its citizens ever sent.
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Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Calls Spy Agencies' Encryption Cracking "Appalling and Foolish"
The computer scientist who created the world wide web has called for a "full and frank public debate" over Internet surveillance by the National Security Agency and its British counterpart, GCHQ, says the system of checks and balances has failed.
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Big Brother’s Loyal Sister: How Dianne Feinstein Is Betraying Civil Liberties
As chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the California senator generates an abundance of fog, weasel words, anti-whistleblower slander and bogus notions of reform — while methodically stabbing civil liberties in the back.
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NSA Pushed 9/11 As Key "Sound Bite" to Justify Surveillance
The National Security Agency advised its officials to cite the 9/11 attacks as justification for its mass surveillance activities.
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Citizens of the World, Unite! You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Data
NSA reform by the U.S. Congress overlooks the fact that the internet transcends national control. We the people must make the rules.
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Google and Yahoo Furious Over Reports that NSA Secretly Intercepts Data Links
Leaked files suggest the NSA, in partnership with its British counterpart GCHQ, is collecting information "at will" by intercepting cables that connect Google and Yahoo's data hubs.
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Spain Reports NSA Tracked 60 Million Phone Calls In a Month
The Spanish newspaper El Mundo reproduced a graphic illustrating that the NSA spied on tens of millions of phone calls in the country late last year, widening the net of European nations and leaders under heavy U.S. surveillance.
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Thousands March on Washington Demanding End to Surveillance
Masses of protesters aligned with the coalition Stop Watching Us assembled on the 12th anniversary of the Patriot Act to urge Congress to reform the legal framework that supports the government's secretive online data gathering network.
