Following the Money Trail: Telecoms and ISPs Feed the Secret State’s Surveillance Machine By Tom Burghardt

Dandelion Salad

By Tom Burghardt
ICH
Antifascist Calling
December 11, 2009
“Follow the money.”
And why not. As the interface between state and private criminality, following the money trail is oxygen and combustible fuel for rooting out corruption in high places: indelible signs left behind like toxic tracks by our sociopathic masters.
After all, there’s nothing quite like exposing an exchange of [...]

Sprint fed customer GPS data to cops over 8 million times

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By Jon Stokes
http://arstechnica.com
Dec. 1, 2009
A blogger has released audio of Sprint’s Electronic Surveillance Manager describing the carrier’s cooperation with law enforcement. Among the revelations are that Sprint has so far filled over 8 million requests from LEOs for customer GPS data.
Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student at Indiana University’s School of Informatics and Computing, has [...]

Let’s Talk about VUI: Voting Under the Influence by Sibel Edmonds

by Sibel Edmonds
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
7 December 2009
Revisiting ‘The Lesser of Two Evils’ Mentality
The real face of our two-party but one-establishment system of politics seems to have made a rare appearance again with Obama’s speech last Tuesday. That is, to those among the wannabe gullible majority, since a small fraction have [...]

The Black Panthers and the Assassination of Fred Hampton

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by HansBennett
www.phillyimc.org
11.02.2009
On the morning of December 4, 1969, lawyer Jeffrey Haas received a call from his partner at the People’s Law Office, informing him that early that morning Chicago police had raided the apartment of Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton at 2337 West Monroe Street in Chicago. Tragically, Hampton and fellow [...]

State Secrets Privilege: The Puppets & Puppet Masters by Sibel Edmonds

by Sibel Edmonds
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
23 November 2009
It’s Time to Get the Facts Straight
I want to revisit a topic which happens to be extremely important to me, both personally and politically, and even more important to our civil liberties.
Some of you have already read my brief piece on Richard Horn & [...]

An Analysis of Warrantless Wiretapping – Part II by Richard Scott

by Richard Scott
Dandelion Salad
originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
19 November 2009
Parental Controls on Everyone
In Part one of my piece, I attempted to explain the nature and scope of the US Warrantless Wiretap Program and the growing Surveillance Regime being built in this country. In Part 2, I will compare and contrast the growth and structure [...]

Richard Scott discusses Warrantless Wiretapping on the Jeff Farias Show

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Posted with permission from Jeff Farias
The Jeff Farias Show
Nov. 10, 2009
Richard Scott interview:
Broadcasting live here and simulcast on • Roots Up Radio and Jerva Westerort Local Community Radio – 91.1 Stockholm, Sweden
Richard “Ishmael” Scott, a writer at Sibel Edmonds website Boiling Frogs Post. Ishmael acquired his moniker hunting submarines for six years as [...]

An Analysis of Warrantless Wiretapping – Part I by Richard Scott

[Note: my apologies to the author, Richard Scott as I previously posted this as Sibel Edmonds being the author.]
by Richard Scott
Dandelion Salad
originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
8 November 2009
Definition of Terms & Analysis of Klein’s Affidavit
This piece will attempt to analyze the US Government’s Warrantless Wiretap Program utilizing open source information including A.T.&T. Whistleblower Mark [...]