Ok this one was a little rough, Chase was out… And I think I got about an hour of sleep last night. But even under those circumstances, the Unfilter show won’t shutdown!

Big show this week, lots to chew on and we had the opportunity to loop in a few perspectives from outside the US. A nice look at some of our shenanigans from the outside.

I never really got around to the media’s take on this entire shutdown. Boy oh boy have they rolled out the fancy graphics, new themes, and on locations “discussions” where they sit around in lawn chairs outside a DC building. What a joke. CNN wins the ridiculous badge for the week however. Their countdown really puts it over the top, they are determined to milk every drop out of this current drama.

One big topic this week we did not get to was the the shutdown of Silk Road, and the arrest of it’s main operator DPR. There is a great thread on r/bitcoin that covers the highlights from the report (which I’ve read):

• supernovasky comments on SilkRoad domain states “This Hidden Site Has Been Seized” by numerous US Gov’t Agencies
• Nightly News: FBI shuts down largest illegal drug website

And there was another wrinkle in the NSA testimonies I did not have a chance to touch on:

• NSA chief’s admission of misleading numbers adds to Obama administration blunders - Washington Times

“There is no evidence that [bulk] phone records collection helped to thwart dozens or even several terrorist plots,” Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat and committee chairman, told Gen. Alexander of the 54 cases that administration officials — including the general himself — have cited as the fruit of the NSA’s domestic snooping.

• NSA chief admits figures on terror plots foiled by snooping are misleading - BlackListedNews.com

The Obama administration issued misleading figures about terrorist plots foiled by the National Security Agency’s warrantless mass-collection of records of Americans’ every phone call, NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander admitted to lawmakers Wednesday.

And lastly, which also happens to be the top voted story in the subreddit (maybe I can talk Allan into covering this one on TechSNAP):

• Edward Snowden’s E-Mail Provider Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show | Threat Level | Wired.com

The U.S. government in July obtained a search warrant demanding that Edward Snowden’s e-mail provider, Lavabit, turn over the private SSL keys that protected all web traffic to the site, according to to newly unsealed documents.

I almost feel like I say this every week - But this week felt historic. When I put “historic times” in the intro video, I really meant it. I hope these shows live on as a document of WTF was going on during these times. And that thought makes me even more appreciative of our supporters. Thank you for funding our show, for keeping on on the air, and for giving us a chance to create a living peoples history of what really matters every week.