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‘Zero Days’ director says U.S. government secrecy trend ‘appalling’
counts of several NSA insiders, that Stuxnet was just the tip of the iceberg.\n\n\”I mean you\’ve been focusing on Stuxnet but that was just part of a much larger operation… Nitro Zeus, NZ,\” an actress says in the film, speaking for several NSA employees who were interviewed but whose identity was kept secret for source protection.\n\nAccording to these accounts, the NSA spent \”hundreds of millions, maybe billions\” on Nitro Zeus to be prepared for the eventuality that Israel decided to attack Iran and the United States would be drawn into the conflict.
Rubio slams Obama’s spying of Israel in new TV ad
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Tuesday slammed the Obama administration for the NSA’s spying of Israel in a new TV commercial released on Tuesday.
Carson: Hillary Knew of the U.S. Spying on Israel
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Wednesday blasted the Obama administration for spying on Israel and its allies in Congress.
Cruz: Obama treating Israel, Americans as enemies with NSA surveillance program
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Tuesday accused the Obama administration of treating Americans and Israel as enemies after a report revealed that the NSA intercepted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conversations with members of U.S. Congress the past two years.
US spied on Netanyahu during talks on Iran deal
The United States monitored phone conversations between top Israeli officials and U.S. lawmakers as well as U.S. Jewish groups in the U.S., current and former U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal.
Snowden draws big crowd with Twitter debut
Edward Snowden has come in from the cold – on Twitter.
Snowden denies he got help from Russia in leaking U.S. secrets
Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden said he acted alone in leaking U.S. government secrets and that suggestions by some U.S. lawmakers he might have had help from Russia were \”absurd,\” the New Yorker magazine reported on Tuesday.
Document: NSA gave Israel data with unfiltered U.S. personal info
The National Security Agency provides raw data to Israeli intelligence services, according to a secret document leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Ron Galperin backs Big Data to improve City Hall
Controller Ron Galperin is City Hall’s new numbers guy, hoping to bring the era of Big Data to the creaking bureaucracy. His plan is to use computers to analyze huge amounts of information as is now done by police departments, baseball teams, other businesses and, infamously, the National Security Agency.