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.
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.
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.
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?