Cryptome new public key <http://cryptome.org/#Cryptome%20PK>.
*2013-0957.pdf* <http://cryptome.org/nara/dea/dea-03-1016.pdf>* DEA Spying Analyst - 2003 Repost August 5, 2013**2013-0956.htm <http://cryptome.org/eyeball/dea/dea-eyeball.htm> DEA Spying Special Operations Div - 2003 Repost August 5, 2013**2013-0955.pdf <http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/verizon-spy.pdf> Verizon Spying Guide - 2011 Repost August 5, 2013**2013-0954.htm <http://cryptome.org/eyeball/verizon-spy2/verizon-spy2.htm> Verizon Secret Spying Facility 2 - 2008 Repost August 5, 2013* *2013-0953.htm <http://cryptome.org/eyeball/verizon-spy/verizon-spy.htm> Verizon Secret Spying Facility 1 - 2008 Repost August 5, 2013**2013-0952.pdf <http://cryptome.org/2013/08/gsm-id.pdf> Forensic Identification of GSM Mobile Phones August 5, 2013**2013-0951.htm <http://cryptome.org/2013/08/netvibes-hog.htm> Netvibes Bandwidth Hog August 5, 2013**2013-0950.htm <http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/german-intelligence-sends-massive-amounts-of-data-to-the-nsa-a-914821.html> offsite German Spies Send Massive Data to NSA (EN) August 5, 2013**2013-0949.pdf <http://cryptome.org/2013/08/der-spiegel-13-0804.pdf> German Spies Send Massive Data to NSA (DE) August 5, 2013* (3.0MB) *2013-0947.htm <http://cryptome.org/2013/08/nsa-codenames.htm> NSA Codenamed Programs August 4, 2013**2013-0946.htm <http://cryptome.org/2013/08/nsa-x-keyscore-family.htm> NSA X-Keyscore Member of Cyberespionage Family August 3, 2013* * * CIA’s Cloud Storage Just Bought the WaPo <http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/05/cias-cloud-storage-just-bought-the-wapo/> By: emptywheel <http://www.emptywheel.net/author/emptywheel/> Monday August 5, 2013 5:31 pm You’ve no doubt heard that Jeff Bezos just bought WaPo. Which means the same guy who owns WaPo also provides the CIA with its new cloud storage (unless IBM succeeds in their bid <http://www.zdnet.com/amazon-fires-back-at-ibm-over-600m-cia-cloud-contract-with-court-complaint-7000018891/> to challenge it). I’m sure this will have an utterly salutary effect on the news business. 2 39 49 share0share0 Posted in Press and Media <http://www.emptywheel.net/category/press-and-media/> | Tagged CIA <http://www.emptywheel.net/tag/cia/>, IBM <http://www.emptywheel.net/tag/ibm/>, Jeff Bezos <http://www.emptywheel.net/tag/jeff-bezos/>, Washington Post <http://www.emptywheel.net/tag/washington-post/> | *19* Replies <http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/05/cias-cloud-storage-just-bought-the-wapo/#comments>More Lies to the FISA Court <http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/05/more-lies-to-the-fisa-court/> By: emptywheel <http://www.emptywheel.net/author/emptywheel/> Monday August 5, 2013 11:36 am I was pulling up something else from Ron Wyden’s site, and noticed a sentence in this release <http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-declassified-documents-show-how-inaccurate-statements-have-misled-congress> pointing out how last week’s so-called transparency dump from James Clapper actually shows the lies the Intelligence Community told to Congress. I didn’t see the first time I looked at it <http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/07/27/wyden-and-udall-theyre-blowing-smoke-about-phone-and-other-bulk-record-safety/>. Similarly misleading statements about the bulk email records program were also made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, though these statements unfortunately remain classified. As I’ve noted before <http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/07/10/the-torture-that-underlies-fisa-courts-special-needs-decisions/>, John Brennan testified <http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/02/10/garbage-in-garbage-out-the-problem-with-a-fisa-drone-court/> that he submitted CIA interrogation derived evidence to the FISA Court, almost certainly in the “scary memos” he submitted to justify the continuation of Cheney’s illegal wiretap program. Burr: I’m still not clear on whether you think the information from CIA interrogations saved lives. *Have you ever made a representation to a court, including the FISA court, about the type and importance of information learned from detainees including detainees in the CIA detention and interrogation program?* Brennan: Ahm, first of all, in the first part of your question, as to you’re not sure whether I believe that there has been information … I don’t know myself. Burr: I said I wasn’t clear whether I understood, whether whether I was clear. Brennan: And I’m not clear at this time either because I read a report that calls into question a lot of the information that I was provided earlier on, my impressions. Um. There, when I was in the government as the head of the national counterterrorism center I know that *I had signed out a number of um affirmations related to the uh continuation of certain programs uh based on the analysis and intelligence that was available to analysts*. I don’t know exactly what it was at the time, but we can take a look at that. Burr: But the committee can assume that you had faith if you made that claim to a court or including the FISA court, you had faith in the documents in the information that was supplied to you to make that declaration. Brennan: Absolutely. At the time if I had made any such affirmation, i would have had faith that the information I was provided was an accurate representation. [my emphasis] While Wyden’s hinted misrepresentations are probably more modest — probably relating to how important the information derived from the Internet metadata collection really was — it nevertheless adds to the evidence that the non-adversarial nature of the FISA Court has allowed the Executive Branch to lie to the judges who preside there. Posted in FISA <http://www.emptywheel.net/category/fisa/>, PATRIOT <http://www.emptywheel.net/category/patriot/>, Torture <http://www.emptywheel.net/category/torture/> | Tagged James Clapper <http://www.emptywheel.net/tag/james-clapper/>, John Brennan <http://www.emptywheel.net/tag/john-brennan/>, Ron Wyden <http://www.emptywheel.net/tag/ron-wyden/> | *5* Replies <http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/05/more-lies-to-the-fisa-court/#comments>About the Reuters DEA Special Operations Division Story <http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/05/about-the-reuters-dea-special-operations-division-story/> By: bmaz <http://www.emptywheel.net/author/bmaz/> Monday August 5, 2013 8:28 am Reuters is out this morning <http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805> with what is being hailed as somewhat of an eye opening expose on the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Special Operations Division. The article is very good and should be read in full, but I would like to make a couple of quick points. First, the headline is misleading. The caption is: Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans Well, not really (and, in fairness, the actual body of the article is about a practice that is a result of the SOD). DEA’s Special Ops Division is neither new nor secret in the least, and there is no way to “cover it up”. Google it; I got “About 289,000 results (0.29 seconds)” as a return. You will get something similar. The revelation that SOD was used in the Viktor Bout case is also not new, here is a Time story detailing it from 2011 <http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2087220,00.html>. In fact, any criminal defense attorney who did cocaine hub conspiracy cases in the 90′s could have told you most of the Reuter’s article in their sleep. That was exactly the scene that DEA-SOD was born from. As the war on drugs went nuclear, the DEA devised what they termed the “Kingpin Strategy” <http://www.justice.gov/dea/about/history/1990-1994.pdf>: In 1992, the DEA instituted the Kingpin Strategy that focused investigative and enforcement efforts on specific drug trafficking organizations. The DEA planned to dis- able major organizations by attacking their most vulnerable areas—the chemicals needed to process the drugs, their finances, communications, transportation, and leadership structure. The Kingpin Strategy held that the greatest impact on the drug trade took place when major drug organizations were dis- rupted, weakened, and destroyed. This strategy focused enforcement efforts and resources against the highest-level traffickers and their organizations, and provided a systematic way of attacking the various vulnerabilities of the organiza- tions. By systematically attacking each of these vulnerabilities, the strategy aimed to destroy the entire organization, and with it, the organization’s capacity to finance, produce, and distrib- ute massive amounts of illegal drugs. Each blow weakened the organization and improved the prospects for arresting and prosecuting the leaders and managers of the organizations. The Kingpin Strategy evolved from the DEA’s domestic and overseas intelligence gathering and investigations. And from Kingpin sprung the Special Operations Division: Under the original Kingpin Strategy, DEA headquarters often dictated the selection of Kingpin targets. In response to the SACs’ concerns, Administrator Constantine agreed to allow them more latitude in target selection. In conjuction with this decision, he established the Special Operations Division at Newington, Virginia, in 1994 to coordinate multi-jurisdictional investigations against major drug trafficking organizations responsible for the flow of drugs into the United States. The above is from a history of the DEA right there on the Justice Department’s website, so “covering up” SOD is kind of a non-starter. However, what IS being covered up, and what really is the substance of the body of the Reuter’s article, is the practice of “parallel construction” of cases: The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to “recreate” the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant’s Constitutional right to a fair trial. If defendants don’t know how an investigation began, they cannot know to ask to review potential sources of exculpatory evidence – information that could reveal entrapment, mistakes or biased witnesses. ….. After an arrest was made, agents then pretended that their investigation began with the traffic stop, not with the SOD tip, the former agent said. The training document reviewed by Reuters refers to this process as “parallel construction.” The two senior DEA officials, who spoke on behalf of the agency but only on condition of anonymity, said the process is kept secret to protect sources and investigative methods. “Parallel construction is a law enforcement technique we use every day,” one official said. “It’s decades old, a bedrock concept.” Yes. Exactly. And, as the “senior DEA officials” admitted, this, too, is not new in the least. Again, the Reuter’s quote of the incredulous former Judge Nancy Gertner aside, any number of longtime members of NACDL could have told you all of this at any point in time since the mid 90′s. The takeaway that is important from the Reuters piece is that all the frothing about “golly, what if those NSA capabilities bleed out of terrorism and into traditional criminal cases” is nuts. It already is, and has been for a long time. It is the “clean teaming” of criminal prosecutions. And it is a direct and tangible fraud upon defendants, the courts, Due Process and several other important Constitutional concepts. 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