NSA Spying Archives

$100 Million NSA Surveillance Program a Bust

February 26, 2020 Buck Banks

$100 million

“A National Security Agency system that analyzed logs of Americans’ domestic phone calls and text messages cost $100 million from 2015 to 2019, but yielded only a single significant investigation,” the New York Times reports. “Moreover, only twice during that four-year period did the program generate unique information that the F.B.I. did not already possess.”

U.S. Spies Paid Bogus Russian $100k

February 12, 2018 Buck Banks

$100,000

“After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyber-weapons in a deal that he insisted would also include compromising material on President Trump,” the New York Times reports.

Who’s a Patriot?

June 1, 2015 Buck Banks

Rand Paul held the pin when Mitch McConnell’s Patriot Act bubble popped,
Which is about the time Rand Paul’s popularity in the Senate dropped.
But with the NSA,
Is there really any way,
To tell when or if the government’s spying on us all has stopped?

PensitoWire

May 5, 2015May 16, 2015 Pensito Editors

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Daily Kos: Politico Admits Media Is ‘Primed to Take Down Hillary Clinton’
Washington Post: One of Jeb Bush’s Top Advisers on Israel: George W. Bush
Wonkwire: Stop Calling the Estate Tax a ‘Death Tax’
Politico: Liberals, Conservatives Unite vs. NSA spying
Huffington Post: Why Carly Fiorina Won’t Survive The GOP Presidential Primary
Matthew Yglesias: The “Decline” of Marriage Isn’t a Problem

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$100 Million NSA Surveillance Program a Bust

$100 million

U.S. Spies Paid Bogus Russian $100k

$100,000

“After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyber-weapons in a deal that he insisted would also include compromising material on President Trump,” the New York Times reports.

Who’s a Patriot?

PensitoWire

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“Why are prices so high under Joe Biden?”

— House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), talking to reporters in January 2026.

“If I were you, Mr. President, I would kill the leadership that are killing the people.”

— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), on Fox News, urging President Trump to kill Iran’s supreme leader.

“A tyrannical theocracy has shut down the internet for an entire country so the world can’t see the brutal tactics it plans to use to crush a free Iran. In my view, this is the biggest free-speech story in the world right now.”

— Greg Lukianoff, head of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, on X.

Numerati

15 million

335,000

New data reveals that a staggering 335,000 federal workers left government work last year, with the vast majority quitting or retiring — only 11,000 were a result of layoffs from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the Washington Post reports.

10%

$1.5 trillion

33%

One in three Americans approve of the U.S. military strike on Venezuela that toppled the country’s president and 72% worry the U.S. will become too involved in the South American country, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.