{"id":10109,"date":"2013-07-03T21:42:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T04:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10109"},"modified":"2018-02-09T19:47:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T03:47:58","slug":"kpfk-bradcast-illegal-nsa-surveillance-programs-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10109","title":{"rendered":"KPFK ‘BradCast’: Illegal NSA Surveillance Programs 101"},"content":{"rendered":"

“In my opinion, you don’t need to hedge,” Mark Rumold, attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a> told me.<\/p>\n

“There’s no question in my mind”, he said, that the surveillance programs revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden include both illegalities and unconstitutionalities<\/a>. They “violate the First and Fourth Amendment of the Constitution” and even “the plain terms of FISA [the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act], the law on which the authority is purportedly based, and…other federal statutes.”<\/p>\n

Rumold was my guest this week on the KPFK<\/a>\/Pacifica Radio BradCast<\/i> where my hope was to strip away all of the nonsense “controversy” about Snowden and Guardian<\/i> journalist Glenn Greenwald in order to focus on the actual disclosures, what we know about them, what we don’t, and what we know about the lies told by the Administration about them<\/a> (especially those by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.)<\/p>\n

Also, Rumold discussed the status of his EFF lawsuit<\/a> attempting to force the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to release their 2011 finding on the illegalities\/unconstitutionalities of one of the very few programs that they actually rejected.<\/p>\n

If you are confused about any or all of that, today’s show is a great primer on those key points and several more. The BRAD BLOG’s<\/a> legal analyst Ernie Canning described<\/a> today’s BradCast<\/i> as “fascinating stuff.” And though he may be somewhat biased, I — who am completely objective on these things — would tend to agree with him.<\/p>\n

We also covered the breaking news out of Egypt, as President Mohammed Morsi was forced out of office in a military coup and Al Jazeera English was pulled off the air…live. We quickly discussed the outrageous secrecy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)<\/a>, I had a few (more) very choice words for national embarrassment and professional hypocrite Justice Antonin Scalia, and Desi Doyen joined us, as usual, for the latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a> and details on the next billion dollar natural disaster on its way…<\/p>\n

Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below [appx 58 mins]…<\/i>
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