Author: Freedom Watch

Obama irked and exasperated in response to Trump’s wiretapping claims, sources say By Jeff Zeleny and Kevin Liptak CNN March 8, 2017 President Barack Obama was irked and exasperated in response to his successor’s uncorroborated wiretapping accusation, sources close to the former president tell CNN, though these sources say Obama’s reaction stopped short of outright fury. Obama and his aides responded with disbelief when they learned of President Donald Trump’s Saturday morning tweets laying out the charges. Later in the day, an Obama spokesman said “neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any…

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Comey: ‘There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America’ By Mary Kay Mallonee and Eugene Scott CNN March 8, 2017 FBI Director James Comey warned Wednesday that Americans should not have expectations of “absolute privacy,” adding that he planned to finish his term leading the FBI. “There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America; there is no place outside of judicial reach,” Comey said at a Boston College conference on cybersecurity. He made the remark as he discussed the rise of encryption since 2013 disclosures by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed…

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By D. C. Mcallister PJ Media March 7, 2017 President Obama’s former press secretary ducked and dodged ABC’s Martha Raddatz’s questions about whether the Obama administration spied on Trump Tower during the presidential election last year. She asked Josh Earnest point-blank, “Can you categorically deny that the Obama Justice Department did not seek and obtain a FISA court order?” His response was full of weasel words: “What I can categorically deny, Martha, is that the White House was at all involved in directing, or interfering, or influencing an FBI investigation.” Continue Reading…..

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WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents By Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti and Matthew Rosenberg New York Times March 7, 2017 WASHINGTON – WikiLeaks on Tuesday released thousands of documents that it said described sophisticated software tools used by the Central Intelligence Agency to break into smartphones, computers and even Internet-connected televisions. If the documents are authentic, as appeared likely at first review, the release would be the latest coup for the anti-secrecy organization and a serious blow to the C.I.A., which maintains its own hacking capabilities to be used for espionage. Continue Reading…..

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