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Revealed: CISPA -- Internet Spying Law -- Pushed by For-Profit Spy Lobby

Lee Fang, Republic Report. April 13, 2012.

Defense industry contractors are lobbying for the cyber security bill in Congress that would expand the government's ability to access information about online activity.

Workers, Be Careful: Facebook Snoops Looking Over Your Shoulder

G.W. Schulz, Center for Investigative Reporting. November 14, 2010.

Corporations and government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, are increasingly using new communications tools for surveillance purposes.

Disney, Chevron and Monsanto Contracted with Blackwater for Intelligence, Training and Security Services

Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. September 16, 2010.

One of the most incendiary details in the documents is that Blackwater sought to become the "intel arm" of Monsanto, offering to provide operatives to infiltrate activist groups.

I Was a Landlord to a Russian Spy, and He Was a Total Slob

Nelson Thacker, AlterNet. August 23, 2010.

I can't get over the fact that two clandestine entities recently had unfettered access to my tighty whities and amateur poems.

Ernest Hemingway Revealed as Failed KGB Spy

John Dugdale, The Guardian. July 13, 2009.

A new book says the Nobel prize-winning novelist was on the KGB's list of U.S. agents, describing him as a "dilettante spy" code-named "Argo."

Gun Control Activist Actually Paid NRA Spy

David Neiwert, Firedoglake. August 7, 2008.

Heaven help us if we become as paranoid as they are. And the funny thing is, they keep proving that we ought to be.

Private Spooks: Mercenary Intelligence Agencies are Recruiting Journalists

Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise. August 4, 2008.

A private intelligence outfit is attempting to recruit journalists around the world.

Pentagon Watching Scotch Distillery Webcam

Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet. June 23, 2008.

Making single malt a lot like making chemical weapons, spooks explain.

A Story of International Intrigue

Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. December 27, 2007.

How easily important information can fall into the wrong hands.

The Problem with (Spy) 'Chatter'

Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. September 17, 2007.

Amid all the chatter over the New England Patriots' "spy gate" scandal, the question is: what do Bill Belichick's video man, Bush patriots and the USA Patriot Act have in common?