Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] speaker at the meeting) and Innocent.(1) Such organisations, said McMahon, were often vilified by the authorities, and their members subjected to harassment, including telephone interference, e-mail interception, surveillance and even wrongful arrest and malicious prosecution, all of which, McMahon said, he has experienced. In addition the police refused to respond or investigate when he […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] as being motivated by the highest of ideals: above all his belief that our online privacy needs to preserved, not secretly mined by seemingly unaccountable US Government surveillance agencies. He tells us his act was driven by a deeply moral decision to quite simply ‘tell the truth’ because the ‘abuses I witnessed demanded action’. […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: Facilitating Tyranny? Glenn Greenwald and the creation of the NSA’s ‘Panopticon’ Citizenseven No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State Glenn Greenwald London: Hamish Hamilton, 2014 Since becoming the conduit for the trove of classified documents from former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, Greenwald’s public profile has increased […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] reported on German-Americans, labor organizers, antiwar activists and other dissidents. This public/private partnership achieved what one historian has called ‘arguably the world’s most intensive feat of domestic surveillance ever’.17 Many of their targets were arrested or deported during the Red scare of 1919-20 at the direction of Attorney 15 CF ‘A Brief History of […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] first regular client: the CIA’s Office of Security. That branch handled many of the Agency’s most sensitive and illegal operations, including drug testing and mind-control experiments; domestic surveillance of antiwar activists; and even covert investigations of national columnist Jack Anderson. Most controversially, as we will soon see, it also oversaw plots to kill foreign […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] for longrange power projection but for sustained power projection.’ 2 3 (emphases added) BAE’s High-Endurance Rapid Technology Integration drone includes the following capabilities: ‘Reconnaissance • Wide area surveillance • Border patrol • Maritime surveillance and protection • Infantry/front line support • Battle Damage assessment • Pipeline surveillance • High value asset protection • Law […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
[PDF file]: […] finance. 28 Thanks to Pincher, we have most of this from the horse’s mouth. Pincher describes, without quoting directly from, a report, probably originating with MI5, on surveillance of Wilson during January and February 1974: “. . . concern about his pro-Israeli stance . . . anxieties that a new Wilson government might increase […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] a politically neutral Irish passport would seem obvious. Multiple passports – even if they are in the same name – would also aid in the avoidance of surveillance of flight data and passenger manifests. For instance, if one were to fly from the United States to Paris on a U.S. passport you could then […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] to learn. The arrogant British often didn’t. Nor, more recently, have the Americans. Since the 1970s the US has built a huge lead in the field of surveillance technology (so that it no longer needed British ex-imperial listening stations, for example), and has become impatient of advice from anywhere. Ideology has also played a […]
