NDAA debate: US programming the war machine
Not only does the National Defense Authorization Act establish funding levels for the various agencies in charge of our national defense, but it also sets the guidelines under which that money will be...
View Article‘Common Core’ Nationalizes and Dumbs Down Public School Curriculum
Like Obamacare, Common Core (now dubbed “ObamaCore” by some) has sparked a backlash in the states, leading some to propose legislation forbidding state participation in the scheme. … Read More
View ArticleAnonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty to Stratfor breach
Hammond, 28, was arrested last March and charged with hacking into the computers of Strategic Forecasting Inc., or Stratfor — a global intelligence company based out of Austin, Texas. He has been held...
View ArticleMississippi sued over for-profit prison where inmates sell leashed rats
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced Thursday they have filed a class-action lawsuit against the state of Mississippi because of how inmates...
View ArticleRacist War On Weed – New ACLU Report
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View ArticleIt’s time to do away with Homeland Security
And, as a result, it's time that we broke up the failed national security experiment known as the Department of Homeland Security. Returning to dozens of independent agencies will return internal...
View ArticlePRISM fallout: Hague says UK citizens have ‘nothing to fear’ from GCHQ...
British Foreign Secretary William Hague affirmed that a “lot of information was shared with the United States,” adding that the two countries shared "an exceptional intelligence sharing relationship."...
View ArticleManning 2.0? Former NSA consultant behind massive US surveillance leak
The former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, had asked the Guardian to reveal his identity and had never planned on hiding. “I have no...
View ArticleMozilla and 85 others send an anti-PRISM letter to Congress
Web firms and civil liberties groups are up in arms … Read More
View ArticleACLU sues government over NSA surveillance
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View ArticleSupreme Court rules human genes may not be patented
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that human genes cannot be patented, a decision that is likely to shape the future of medical and biotech research. … Read More
View ArticleEdward Snowden: War on Whistleblowers "Only Builds Better Whistleblowers"
Larry Wilkerson: Snowden's expertise allowed him to understand the threat of the NSA's surveillance programs on civil liberties - government power exercised in secret will be abused … Read More
View ArticleBrazil –“Brazil Spring” criticism of media OK, but not violence against...
Around 20 journalists have reportedly been physically attacked or injured in the past two weeks of protests in Brazilian cities against bus and subway fare hikes and the poor state of public services....
View ArticleLiving in Orwell’s Surveillance State
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View ArticleSt. Louis police chief wants drones to monitor city
“To help keep officers safe, to help keep the community safe. For monitoring public spaces – things like the upcoming Fair St. Louis [and] baseball games – for terrorists, suspicious activity,” St....
View ArticleBush: Snowden ‘damaged the security of the country’
Bush, the two-term president who authorized the National Security Agency spy programs as a counterterrorism tool shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, told CNN that the recent leaks attributed...
View ArticleCIA whistleblower to Snowden: ‘Do not cooperate with the FBI’
In a letter dated June 13 and published Tuesday by Firedoglake, the imprisoned CIA vet salutes Snowden for his recent disclosures of classified documents detailing some of the vast surveillance...
View ArticleMillions in US tax dollars go to Big Data for wiretap capabilities
AT&T charges the government a $325 “activation fee” for each individual wiretap and a daily fee of $10 to maintain it. Verizon, on the other hand, charges government eavesdroppers $775 for the...
View ArticleFormer NSA Exec: Government Spying Violates Constitution
Pt. 2 Thomas Drake: Surrendering Civil Liberties Does Not Make America Safe … Read More
View ArticleWashington DC considers decriminalization of marijuana
Councilman Tommy Wellson Wednesday unveiled legislation that would eliminate criminal penalties for anyone caught possessing less than an ounce of marijuana. If the bill is passed, those in possession...
View ArticlePolicies on License Plate Readers Vary Widely, Says A.C.L.U.
Police agencies abide by a variety of policies on how long to retain license plate reader data and with whom to share it, posing privacy dangers, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. … Read...
View ArticleGoogle experimenting with anti-NSA encryption – report
The privacy protection initiative remains in the experimental phase, but could comfort customers shaken by the revelation that the National Security Agency has a policy of indiscriminately pulling...
View Article‘Snowden won’t disclose more docs, I have thousands’ – Greenwald
“I think there’s a real misconception over whether he’ll continue to leak,” Greenwald, who helped publish the leaks made by Snowden, told NBC News. “He turned over to us many thousands of documents...
View ArticleMentally ill inmates ‘warehoused’ in Colorado solitary confinement
On any day, chosen at random in 2012, the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) housed between 537 and 686 mentally ill inmates in solitary confinement - with an average stay of 16 months,...
View Article9 Ways the Federal Government has Hijacked your Rights & Taken over the Country
To be honest, we probably could have listed hundreds of different examples of government abuse. But we wanted to specifically focus on topics that we’ve covered over the last couple of years in...
View ArticleAmericans more concerned about privacy than terrorism – Pew study
US citizens have traditionally responded to similar polls by saying the government has not yet gone far enough to protect the country from threats. But new results from Pew Research Center reveal that...
View ArticleUS system of information control is beginning to crack because of the Manning...
The US government has fish to fry bigger than Manning, the one they want to catch is Julian Assange, Mason added. RT: What's your reaction to the ruling? Mark Mason: This is a landmark court decision....
View ArticleHackers from around the world gather in Las Vegas to kick off DefCon
The twenty-first annual DefCon gets underway Thursday at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Vegas, just one day after the head of the National Security Agency gave the keynote address up the road at Black...
View Article‘1984 Day’: Restore the Fourth movement kickstarts nationwide...
The protests “1984 Day,” named for George Orwell’s classic novel about an ultramodern surveillance state, have taken place across the nations, most notably in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and...
View ArticleKilled Chechen’s father arrives in US to sue the FBI
Abdulbaki Todashev is the father of 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev, a mixed martial arts fighter who was fatally shot seven times by the FBI during an extensive interview about his connection to alleged...
View ArticleTSA expands role beyond airports amid growing cases of misconduct
The report, which was released last week by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), found 9,622 cases of misconduct among TSA workers from 2010 through the 2012 fiscal year. It concluded that...
View ArticleNSA head: Replace would-be Snowdens with computers to stop future leaks
The National Security Agency plans to drastically cut back on the number of people employed as systems administrators, Gen. Keith Alexander said during a cyber security conference in New York City on...
View ArticleObama had secret meeting with tech executives to discuss govt surveillance
"This is one of a number of discussions the administration is having with experts and stakeholders in response to the president's directive to have a national dialogue about how to best protect...
View ArticleSnowden letter decries media for ‘false claims’ about his ‘situation’
Snowden is known to have been in contact with his father, Lon Snowden, whose own legal team consists of attorney Bruce Fein and Fein’s wife and spokeswoman, Mattie Fein. The public’s thirst for the...
View ArticleBloomberg, NYPD commissioner using ‘complicated’ evidence to justify...
Judge Schira Scheindlin ruled on August 12 that the “stop, question and frisk” program instituted in 2002 by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) is unconstitutional, agreeing with the American...
View ArticleObama’s NSA review board, proving the cynics right
Case in point, the White House’s recent problems with the NSA. At a press conference earlier this month, President Obama promised to form “a high-level group of outside experts to review our entire...
View ArticleFederal court will hear constitutional challenge to ‘No Fly List’
The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of 13 plaintiffs (four of which are military veterans), challenges the means by which one can get off the list, calling the...
View ArticleTainted evidence from Massachusetts crime lab may impact 40,000 defendants –...
Chemist Annie Dookhan, formerly of the now-closed Department of Public Health lab in Jamaica Plain, stands accused of faking some test results and neglecting department standards. Dookhan has pleaded...
View ArticleLow-level arrests surged under Bloomberg’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent much of his final year in office defending the city’s stop-and-frisk policy, which a federal judge ruled was unconstitutional in August. But while he and...
View ArticleLegal loophole: US offers no apologies for hacking internet encryptions
Intelligence agencies in the US and United Kingdom have spent millions to bribe technicians - perhaps even planting agents inside telecommunication companies - in a bid to penetrate the encryption...
View ArticleThe big three: Sweden reacts to report of intel cooperation with NSA, GCHQ
"It's a very serious matter if Sweden is indeed involved in American surveillance programs," Green Party IT policy spokeswoman Maria Ferm told Sweden’s The Local. "I'm very concerned about the...
View ArticleE-searches and seizures at US borders ‘more invasive’ than traditional...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has released documents showing how US authorities, exceeding their powers in the name of protecting the country from terrorism and other threats, are involved...
View Article‘Unleashed and unaccountable’– ACLU condemns FBI in new report
In thousands of words spanning a 60-plus page report titled "Unleashed and Unaccountable: The FBI’s Unchecked Abuse of Authority," the ACLU this week condemns the agency, particularly in the years...
View ArticleNSA’s phone data collection is legal, does not violate privacy – FISA court
The court’s opinion, dated August 29 and made public Tuesday, stated that the court was aware of the disclosures made by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden but reaffirmed that the controversial data...
View ArticleFacebook ‘likes’ protected under First Amendment, US federal court rules
The Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday in favor of a former deputy sheriff in Hampton, Virginia who said that he was fired for “liking” the Facebook page of the candidate running for...
View ArticleSenate bill would eliminate mass collection of phone records, reform FISA court
The bill, dubbed the Intelligence Oversight and Surveillance Reform Act, bundles a number of ideas proposed in roughly 12 other bills drafted in the wake of the leaks by NSA contractor-turned...
View ArticleMass shootings prompt millions for additional police officers at schools...
Grants intended to fund more police officers in schools will go to law enforcement agencies across the country, the Justice Department (DOJ) said Friday as it unveiled the entire list of recipients....
View ArticleIndependent watchdog says NSA program is illegal and should end
Less than a week after President Barack Obama announced plans to overhaul controversial NSA phone data collection program, an independent review board has questioned the program's legality. According...
View ArticleSnowden used off-the-shelf software to haul in PRISM files
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Heavily Armed SWAT Team Swarms Cal State… Because of an Umbrella
These days you never know what could be used as a deadly weapon of mass destruction requiring a militarized SWAT response. Link to article – Heavily Armed SWAT Team Swarms Cal State… Because of an...
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