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Right-Wing Donor Adam Milstein Has Spent Millions of Dollars to Stifle the BDS Movement and Attack Critics of Israeli Policy
Alex Kane, The Intercept, le 25 mars 2019
▻https://theintercept.com/2019/03/25/adam-milstein-israel-bds

From 2004 to 2016 (the last year that records are available online), the Milstein Family Foundation, which Adam and his wife Gila run, gave at least $4.4 million to groups in the United States and Israel that work to solidify the U.S.-Israel alliance and harshly attack critics of Israeli policy, according to an Intercept review of foundation tax records.

What appeared to be charitable donations, however, turned out to be a vehicle to evade taxes. Milstein was indicted on and ultimately pleaded guilty to two counts of federal tax evasion. He admitted that he gave $53,550 to Spinka affiliates from 2005 to 2007, declared that money as donations on his tax returns, and received 90 percent of it back from the groups. He was sentenced to three months in minimum-security prison, 600 hours of community service, three years of supervised release, and a $30,000 fine, in addition to back taxes owed.

Milstein has also given to politicians, particularly to hawkish Democrats and Republicans who advocate for Israel in Congress. Since 2011, he has donated $8,700 to Brad Sherman, a California Democrat who earlier this year called on UCLA to bar SJP from hosting its national conference on campus, and since 2015, has given $7,400 to Juan Vargas, another California Democrat who recently said that questioning the U.S.-Israel relationship is “unacceptable.” He has also donated to Sens. Kamala Harris ($500), Kirsten Gillibrand ($1,000), Ted Cruz ($10,800), Chuck Schumer ($2,700), Ron Wyden ($3,000), Jeanne Shaheen ($2,000), Brian Schatz ($1,000) and Robert Menendez ($1,900).

#Palestine #BDS #USA #corruption

Jail time for tech companies who steal your data (▻https://trofire.c...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/8499539

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Jail time for tech companies who steal your data

Democratic Senator Ron Wyden has put together a new bill that would actually lead to some of the biggest tech leaders in the United States facing serious legal consequences, including jail time, if… Article word count: 1117

HN Discussion: ▻https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19124635 Posted by badrabbit (karma: 1173) Post stats: Points: 129 - Comments: 74 - 2019-02-09T21:07:26Z

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Democratic Senator [1]Ron Wyden has put together a new bill that would actually lead to some of the biggest tech leaders in the United States facing serious legal consequences, including jail time, if their companies steal and sell user data, or allow a massive data (...)

A proposed method for triangulation of rogue IMSI catchers (a.k.a. “Stingray” devices)
▻https://hackernoon.com/a-proposed-method-for-triangulation-of-rogue-imsi-catchers-a-k-a-stingra

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Stingrays are on the loose in Washington D.C.It has been widely reported this week (AP, NPR, Washington Post, BBC) that Washington D.C. and other undisclosed cities are exhibiting anomalies that appear to be due to unauthorized and unknown IMSI catchers (such as the notorious “stingray” devices). These #spying devices are often used by law enforcement to track individuals, intercept texts, and listen to calls. (The ACLU keeps an updated list of federal agencies known to employ IMSI catchers for domestic #surveillance.)The suspected existence of rogue IMSI catchers with unknown operators in American cities was disclosed in a letter (and its attachment) from the Department of Homeland Security to Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, dated 26-March 2018.The letter acknowledges that the “use of IMSI (...)

#imsi-catcher #cell-phones #stingray

US Border Agents Didn’t Verify Any e-Passports Since 2007 Because They Didn’t Have the Software
►https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/us-border-agents-didnt-verify-any-e-passports-since-2007-because-t

The United States of America, the country with one of the most draconian border crossing procedures in the world, hadn’t verified the validity of chip-implanted e-passports since 2007, the time when foreigners were first required to have one. Shockingly, the reason is that US border agents lacked the software to do so, according to revelations made this week by Senators Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) in a letter sent to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) (...)

#Identité #frontières #voyageurs #surveillance #puce

##Identité ##voyageurs

Le rapport sénatorial sur les tortures commises par la CIA préservé — et caché — dans les archives présidentielles d’Obama pour les 12 prochaines années.

▻https://theintercept.com/2016/12/12/obama-will-preserve-senate-torture-report-in-his-presidential-library

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s 6,700-page history of the CIA torture program will be kept among Barack Obama’s presidential papers — safe from the Republicans on the committee who have attempted to have it destroyed. [...] But Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Obama’s move falls well short of what’s necessary. “This history belongs to the American people,” Wyden said. “It’s also urgent. As we’ve already seen, burying the study achieves nothing but to create an information vacuum that gets filled with uninformed and highly dangerous propaganda.”

#histoire #archives #CIA #torture

La #NSA a eu accès à des données de citoyens américains
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2014/04/02/la-nsa-confirme-avoir-collecte-des-donnees-de-citoyens-americains_4393941_65

Dans une lettre adressée le 28 mars au sénateur démocrate Ron Wyden, James Clapper, le directeur du renseignement national admet que la NSA a espionné les communications de citoyens américains alors qu’elle cherchait à obtenir des informations sur des « cibles » à l’étranger, sans en donner le nombre exact, indique le Guardian.

Sans en avoir le mandat express de la justice, la NSA a donc bien espionné les courriers électroniques et les méta-données d’appels téléphoniques passés aux Etats-Unis (numéro appelé, durée et horaire de l’appel, mais pas les enregistrements des conversations). Le document n’indique pas la fréquence de ce type d’espionnage. M. Clapper souligne dans son courrier que ces activités avaient fait l’objet d’un contrôle, et que rien n’avait été trouvé à redire.

Plus quelques chiffres sur l’activité 2013

Après les révélations d’Edward Snowden, l’opérateur Verizon, Google, Facebook et Apple, désireux de regagner la confiance de leurs utilisateurs, ont rendu public le nombre de requêtes secrètes déposées par le renseignement américain. Toutes ces demandes étaient légales car elles ont été faites dans le cadre de mandats délivrés par le tribunal chargé de contrôler les opérations du renseignement (FISA).

• Google. Des informations ont été prises sur 9 000 à 10 000 comptes Google pendant les six premiers mois de 2013, et sur 12 000 à 13 000 comptes lors des six mois les précédant.
• Facebook. Des mandats ont été reçus concernant 5 000 à 6 000 comptes sur les six premiers mois de 2013, 4 000 à 6 000 sur les six mois les précédant.
• Microsoft. Le groupe a révélé sur son blog officiel avoir reçu des demandes de la FISA sur 15 000 à 16 000 comptes d’utilisateurs les six premiers mois de 2013.
• Yahoo !. Des informations ont été demandées sur 30 000 à 31 000 comptes.
• Apple. Des demandes ont été reçues pour moins de 249 utilisateurs lors de la première partie de l’année 2013. Les informations demandées par la NSA portaient sur les carnets d’adresses de ces personnes et non sur le contenu des appareils.

Quelques brèches dans le mur du secret…

In 2011, Senator Ron #Wyden commented about domestic mass #surveillance: “When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry”.

Wyden now describes how the fallout from #Snowden's revelation is changing the attitude of the US Senate: ▻http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/two-years-later-senators-criticism-of-nsa-spying-sinks-in

“The intel community has not been willing to show how bulk phone record collection provides unique value, that they can’t obtain through emergency authorities and the court order process”.

“Political change doesn’t start in Washington and trickle down; it’s bottoms-up. [..] I never conceived of the day when people would come up to me at the barber shop and ask me about the #FISA court”.

Misinformation on classified NSA programs includes statements by senior U.S. officials - The Washington Post
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/misinformation-on-classified-nsa-programs-includes-statements-by-senior-us-officials/2013/06/30/7b5103a2-e028-11e2-b2d4-ea6d8f477a01_print.html

Il en est des membres du régime étasunien comme des banksters : Jusqu’à un passe récent se faire attraper entraînait des conséquences judiciaires mais plus maintenant.

Clapper’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee in March has drawn comparisons to other cases in which U.S. intelligence officials faced, under oath, questions that to answer truthfully would require exposing a classified program.

In 1973, then-CIA Director Richard Helms denied agency involvement in CIA operations in Chile, a falsehood that led to him pleading no contest four years later to misdemeanor charges of misleading Congress.

There is no indication that lawmakers have contemplated pursuing such a course against Clapper, in part because he subsequently corrected his claim, although there is disagreement over how quickly he did so.