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No CIA, Captain America is the good guy

Last week, I blogged about The Intercept's exposé of the extent of the surveillance state. One of the surveillance programs exposed in the story is a CIA program to “…secretly access databases maintained by foreign countries and extract [...]

Snowden: NSA sharing your nude photos

In a wide-ranging interview in The Guardian, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says that the NSA routinely passes around nude photographs that they intercept from innocent Americans: Snowden: During the course of their work, (NSA employees) [...]

Meet the Americans the NSA and FBI are spying on

Glenn Greenwald published his much anticipated article naming Americans the NSA and FBI are spying on last night. The list includes Muslim Americans involved in politics, government, law, and education. From The Intercept: The National Security [...]

GOP leadership’s hysterical attacks on Massie Amendment

Not only did every member of the GOP leadership vote against the Massie amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill forbidding warrantless wiretapping of American citizens, they also distorted the amendment in their official summary and vote [...]

Have you called your rep. yet?

A vote on the Massie-Lofgren amendment to the FY 2015 Department of Defense Appropriations Act is expected tonight, so if your representative hasn't yet heard from you, please call and/or email them right away! The Massie-Lofgren amendment [...]

Stretch before jogging? You might be a terrorist

As part of its National Security Initiative (NIS) the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, the Department of Justice, and other federal agencies are working with state and local governments as well as private security firms to collect [...]

Germany using typewriters, classical music to thwart NSA

German officials, incensed at the NSA's ability to spy on German officials and citizens, are considering using typewriters to combat NSA spying. According to The Telegraph, government officials are also taking measure to ensure the NSA cannot [...]

Snowden Leak: NSA collects more communications from Innocent Americans than foreign targets

In the latest leak from NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden, The Washington Post reports that the communications of innocent Americans, including emails, photos, and documents, vastly outnumber the communications of foreigners suspected of [...]

C4L Applauds Passage of Massie-Lofgren NSA Amendment

SPRINGFIELD, Virginia- Campaign for Liberty President John Tate released the following statement regarding Thursday night’s overwhelming vote to pass the Massie-Lofgren amendment to H.R. 4870, the 2015 Department of Defense Appropriations Act. [...]

Action Alert: Support the Massie-Lofgren NSA Amendment!

This morning, Campaign for Liberty President John Tate sent a letter to the House of Representatives urging passage of the Massie-Lofgren Amendment to rein in the NSA by denying funds for so-called "backdoor surveillance" and warrantless searches [...]