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BLACKWATER FOUNDER REMAINS FREE AND RICH WHILE HIS FORMER EMPLOYEES GO DOWN ON MURDER CHARGES
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/22/blackwater-guilty-verdicts

New Zealand Cops Raided Home of Reporter Working on #Snowden Documents - The Intercept
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/16/nicky-hager-raid

Agents from New Zealand’s national police force ransacked the home of a prominent independent journalist earlier this month who was collaborating with The Intercept on stories from the #NSA archive furnished by Edward Snowden. The stated purpose of the 10-hour police raid was to identify the source for allegations that the reporter, Nicky Hager , recently published in a book that caused a major political firestorm and led to the resignation of a top government minister.

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#police #surveillance #nouvelle-zélande

liste du matériel saisi ou cloné :
▻http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1314317/police-property-record-sheet-items-siezed-from.pdf

disques durs, clés USB… (y a des mails à moi là-dedans !)

Son site perso, pour en savoir plus sur les histoires qu’il a soulevées (notamment… hum… Echelon)
►http://www.nickyhager.info

Bombing of Kurds Shows Everything That’s Wrong with U.S. Foreign Policy
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/14/pkk-one-administrations-terrorist-anothers-freedom-fighter

Though hugely counterproductive to containing ISIS, the Turkish strikes neatly illustrate how contradictory and incomprehensible American policy in the Middle East is right now. The United States would surely prefer that Turkey not bomb the PKK right now, but how can it object to attacking a group that the U.S. itself designates as a terrorist organization?

It would likewise be hard for the U.S. to publicly protect other key entities willing and able to fight ISIS, including Al-Qaeda-connected militants like Jabhat al-Nusra, paramilitary groups such as Hezbollah, or countries such as Iran, which is both the the only state to show a commitment to fighting ISIS on the ground and an official state sponsor of terrorism in the eyes of the U.S. State Department.

The American Government Tried to Kill James Risen’s Last Book - The Intercept
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/13/american-government-tried-kill-james-risens-last-book

It has been previously reported that the government considered asking the publisher or one of its parent companies to kill Risen’s book because it disclosed information on one or more secret and purportedly sensitive intelligence operations, including a botched attempt to feed secretly flawed blueprints for a nuclear bomb trigger to the Iranians. But in those accounts the request is never made because Risen’s book was already in stores or on delivery trucks by the time the White House became aware of its contents. The 60 Minutes report appears to mark the first disclosure such a request did, in fact, occur.

#james_Risen

Edward Snowden’s Girlfriend, Lindsay Mills, Moved to Moscow to Live with Him
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/10/narrative-destroyed-edward-snowdens-girlfriend-lindsay-mills-moved-moscow

Vital to the U.S. government and its assorted loyalists in the commentariat is to depict whistleblowers as destined to live miserable lives. That’s the key to their attempt to deter unwanted disclosure: the message that doing so will result in the full-scale destruction of one’s life. That’s what explains the grotesquely severe mistreatment and 35-year prison term for Chelsea Manning, as well as the repeated, gleeful predictions that Snowden will “end up like Kim Philby,” the British defector to the Soviet Union who, it is claimed, died a premature death from alcoholism, solitude and all-around deprivation.

The reality is that none of that has ever applied to Edward Snowden. Particularly when compared to what he expected his life to be upon deciding to embark on the whistleblowing path — decades of imprisonment in the harsh American penal state, if not worse — his post-Hong Kong life has been fulfilling and rewarding. He speaks, and writes, and is interviewed, and has become an important voice in the global debate he triggered.

American law-enforcement agencies appear to be unduly suspicious of Muslims, regardless of their politics.

“Meet the Muslim-American leaders the FBI and NSA have been spying on”
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept, July 9, 2014
►https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/07/09/under-surveillance

The Ghost of Ronald Reagan Authorizes Most NSA Spying
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/29/new-documents-confirm-expansive-spying-powers-reagan-era-order

The trove, which includes documents from the NSA, Department of Justice, and Defense Intelligence Agency, confirms long-standing suspicions that the bulk of U.S. foreign surveillance operations are governed not by acts of Congress, but by a 33-year-old executive order issued unilaterally by President Ronald Reagan.
▻https://www.aclu.org/national-security-technology-and-liberty/executive-order-12333-foia-lawsuit

#surveillance

Reagan sous l’administration duquel était déjà passé le Computer fraud and abuse Act (CFAA).

The Fake Terror Threat Used To Justify Bombing Syria - The Intercept
BY GLENN GREENWALD AND MURTAZA HUSSAIN
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/28/u-s-officials-invented-terror-group-justify-bombing-syria

As the Obama Administration prepared to bomb Syria without congressional or U.N. authorization, it faced two problems. The first was the difficulty of sustaining public support for a new years-long war against ISIS, a group that clearly posed no imminent threat to the “homeland.” A second was the lack of legal justification for launching a new bombing campaign with no viable claim of self-defense or U.N. approval.

The solution to both problems was found in the wholesale concoction of a brand new terror threat that was branded “The Khorasan Group.” After spending weeks depicting ISIS as an unprecedented threat — too radical even for Al Qaeda! — administration officials suddenly began spoon-feeding their favorite media organizations and national security journalists tales of a secret group that was even scarier and more threatening than ISIS, one that posed a direct and immediate threat to the American Homeland. Seemingly out of nowhere, a new terror group was created in media lore.

ANATOMY OF A NON-DENIAL DENIAL
BY DAN FROOMKIN
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/26/deception-heart-john-brennans-non-denial-denial

Mais ne l’aurait-on pas envoyer paître dès la première seconde s’il ne s’agissait pas d’un membre de l’"élite" ?

Israeli Government Eventually Admits that Mohammed Is the Top Baby Name - The Intercept
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/24/mohammed-most-common-baby-name-in-israel

Are Palestinian babies actually babies? That’s been a surprisingly thorny question for the Israeli government this week, when the Population, Immigration and Border Authority at first declared the Hebrew name “Yosef” the most popular baby name for the past year, and then was forced to admit that the nation’s most popular name was actually “Mohammed” — assuming one includes Arab babies.
(…)
It was against that political backdrop that the government released a list of popular baby names this week that included only Hebrew names. After publishing the initial rankings, the Haaretz newspaper asked government officials why there weren’t any Arab names on the list. It turns out they had been excluded, and a new list was given to Haaretz. The Israeli government told the publication that its original decision to effectively exclude Palestinian babies from its list, released just ahead of the Jewish new year, was not done with any ideological intention in mind and that, “contrary to the assumptions of the Haaretz newspaper, there is no plot to deliberately hide information.”

Managing a Nightmare: How the #CIA Watched Over the Destruction of #Gary_Webb - The Intercept
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/25/managing-nightmare-cia-media-destruction-gary-webb

Webb said, “I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests.”

“And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I’d enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn’t been, as I’d assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job,” Webb wrote. “The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn’t written anything #important enough to suppress.”

#journalisme

Les «Jihadwatchers», observateurs du djihad en ligne
►http://www.slate.fr/story/92259/jihadwatching-observateurs-djihad-internet

Ces relations au sein des organisations djihadistes deviennent de plus en plus précieuses car, sur les #réseaux_sociaux, les faux comptes font florès. « Certains États créent des faux comptes pour diffuser de la contre-propagande », indique Dominique Thomas, chercheur sur l’islam politique et le #djihadisme. Les infiltrations des services sont de plus en plus fréquentes, comme jadis sur les forums, qui pourraient faire leur retour : « Ils n’ont jamais été complètement abandonnés et permettent d’authentifier plus fidèlement les messages », poursuit le chercheur. Le suivi des sources ouvertes, ce « jihadwatching », serait alors plus ardu. Twitter et Facebook commencent de leur côté à faire la chasse aux comptes terroristes. Un matin, la semaine dernière, Pieter Van Ostaeyen a découvert qu’au moins trente comptes qu’il suivait avaient disparu.

#infoguerre

ISIS Displaying a Deft Command of Varied Media
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/world/middleeast/isis-displaying-a-deft-command-of-varied-media.html

In the evolution of modern jihadist propaganda, Bin Laden, addressing a single static camera with long-winded rhetoric in highly formal Arabic, represented the first generation. (His videos had to be smuggled to Al Jazeera or another television network to be aired.) The most prominent figure of the second generation was the YouTube star Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born cleric killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011, who addressed Westerners in colloquial English, had a blog and Facebook page and helped produce a full-color, English-language magazine called Inspire.

#ISIS (#OEI) is online jihad 3.0. Dozens of Twitter accounts spread its message, and it has posted some major speeches in seven languages. Its videos borrow from Madison Avenue and Hollywood, from combat video games and cable television dramas, and its sensational dispatches are echoed and amplified on social media. When its accounts are blocked, new ones appear immediately. It also uses services like JustPaste to publish battle summaries, SoundCloud to release audio reports, Instagram to share images and WhatsApp to spread graphics and videos.

#médias

Grand Theft Auto: ISIS?
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/17/grand-theft-auto-isis #GTA #gamification

Dit comme ça…

Syria Becomes the 7th Predominantly Muslim Country Bombed by 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/23/nobel-peace-prize-fact-day-syria-7th-country-bombed-obama

A Night in Ferguson: Rubber Bullets, Tear Gas, and a Jail Cell

Late Monday evening, after many of the major media outlets covering the protests in #Ferguson, Mo., had left the streets to broadcast from their set-ups near the police command center, heavily armed officers raced through suburban streets in armored vehicles, chasing demonstrators, launching tear gas on otherwise quiet residential lanes, and shooting at journalists.

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The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged Into the Light by the Horrors of #Ferguson
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/14/militarization-u-s-police-dragged-light-horrors-ferguson

The best and most comprehensive account of the dangers of police militarization is the 2013 book by the libertarian Washington Post journalist Radley Balko, entitled “Rise of the Warrior Cops: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces.” Balko, who has devoted his career to documenting and battling the worst abuses of the U.S. criminal justice system, traces the history and underlying mentality that has given rise to all of this: the “law-and-order” obsessions that grew out of the social instability of the 1960s, the War on Drugs that has made law enforcement agencies view Americans as an enemy population, the Reagan-era “War on Poverty” (which was more aptly described as a war on America’s poor), the aggressive Clinton-era expansions of domestic policing, all topped off by the massively funded, rights-destroying, post-9/11 security state of the Bush and Obama years. All of this, he documents, has infused America’s police forces with “a creeping battlefield mentality.”

I read Balko’s book prior to publication in order to blurb it, and after I was done, immediately wrote what struck me most about it: “There is no vital trend in American society more overlooked than the militarization of our domestic police forces.” The Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim, in the outlet’s official statement about Reilly’s arrest, made the same point: “Police militarization has been among the most consequential and unnoticed developments of our time.”

In June, the ACLU published a crucial 96-page report on this problem, entitled “War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing.” Its central point: “the United States today has become excessively militarized, mainly through federal programs that create incentives for state and local police to use unnecessarily aggressive weapons and tactics designed for the battlefield.”

#NPR Is Laundering #CIA Talking Points to Make You Scared of #NSA Reporting - The Intercept
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/12/nprs-dina-temple-raston-passed-cia-funded-nsa-contractor-independent-fear

Ce ne sont pas les révélations de #Snowden qui sont responsables des échecs de la NSA comme cette dernière veut le faire croire, avec l’aide, entre autres, du NPR,

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Quiz cruel sur The Intercept : 16 déclarations plus ignobles les unes que les autres qu’il faut attribuer à Hillary Clinton ou à Benjamin Netanyahu : Quiz : who said this ? Hillary Clinton or Benjamin Netanyahu ?
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/11/quiz-said-hillary-clinton-benjaim-netanyahu

#wag_the_dog

Leaked Files: German Spy Company Helped Bahrain Hack Arab Spring Protesters - The Intercept
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/07/leaked-files-german-spy-company-helped-bahrain-track-arab-spring-proteste

Voices - The Intercept
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/voices

The Intercept
►https://firstlook.org/theintercept

par le fondateur d’ebay pierre Omidyar