ProPublica: Here’s One Way to Land on the NSA’s Watch List

By by Julia Angwin and Mike Tigas ProPublica Last week, German journalists revealed that the National Security Agency has a program to collect information about people who use privacy-protecting services, including popular anonymizing software called Tor. But it’s not clear how many users have been affected. So we did a little sleuthing, and found that the NSA’s targeting list corresponds with the list…

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Memo Suggests ABC News Journalist Gave Up Source to FBI During OKlahoma Bombing Story; Gawker Website Identifies Journalist as Current CBS New Wash. Bureau Chief

By John Solomon and Aaron Mehta Center for Public Integrity WASHINGTON — A once-classified FBI memo reveals that the bureau treated a senior ABC News journalist as a potential confidential informant in the 1990s, pumping the reporter to ascertain the source of a sensational but uncorroborated tip that the network had obtained during its early…

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