According to newly exposed documents, the New York City Police Department designated all mosques in the city as terrorist organizations, allowing the department to spy on them without oversight and to plant operatives inside the Muslim houses of worship. (more…)
August 2013
Monthly Archive
Wed 28 Aug 2013
New York City Muslims appalled that NYPD designated all mosques ‘terrorist organizations’
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Sat 24 Aug 2013
The Right to Remain Silent in an Age of Mass Surveillance
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by CHRISTOPHER H. PYLE Counterpunch
Last weekend, British police detained David Miranda, husband ofGuardian reporter Glenn Greenwald at Heathrow Airport, seized his computer and thumb drives, and forced him to disclose the passwords.(more…)
Sat 24 Aug 2013
NSA analysts deliberately broke rules to spy on Americans, agency reveals
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US intelligence analysts have deliberately broken rules designed to prevent them from spying on Americans, according to an admission by the National Security Agency that undermines fresh insistences fromBarack Obama on Friday that all breaches were inadvertent. (more…)
Sat 24 Aug 2013
Thirteen Things the Government is Trying to Keep Secret from You
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“We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted…the Patriot Act. As we see it, there is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows. (more…)
Fri 23 Aug 2013
Bradley Manning and the Gangster State
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Chris Hedges Truthdig
Wednesday’s sentencing marks one of the most important watersheds in U.S. history. It marks the day when the state formally declared that all who name and expose its crimes will become political prisoners or be forced, like Edward Snowden, and perhapsGlenn Greenwald, to spend the rest of their lives in exile. (more…)
Fri 23 Aug 2013
TEN REASONS THE U.S. IS NO LONGER THE LAND OF THE FREE
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While each new national-security power Washington has embraced was controversial when enacted, they are often discussed in isolation. But they don’t operate in isolation. They form a mosaic of powers under which our country could be considered, at least in part, authoritarian. (more…)
Sun 18 Aug 2013
Feds Threaten To Arrest Lavabit Founder For Shutting Down His Service
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The saga of Lavabit founder Ladar Levison is getting even more ridiculous, as he explains that the government has threatened him with criminal charges for his decision to shut down the business (more…)
Sun 18 Aug 2013
Elizabeth Loftus has spent decades exposing flaws in eyewitness testimony. Her ideas are gaining fresh traction in the US legal system. (more…)