Pvt. Manning and Imperative of Truth by Ray McGovern. Your Government: Committed to Keeping the Drug Market As Dangerous As Possible. How the US uses sexual humiliation as a political tool to control the masses. The discussion continues today at 12pm ET (5pm UK time) when Naomi Wolf takes your questions about her column.
Join us for an hour long live chat about the supreme court, strip searches and sexual humiliation. In a five-four ruling this week, the supreme court decided that anyone can be strip-searched upon arrest for any offense, however minor, at any time. Feds ready whistleblower trial - Glenn Greenwald. [Glenn Greenwald is on vacation this week and three writers will be filling in for him] By Jesselyn Radack Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer John Kiriakou — the sixth whistleblower the Obama administration has indicted under the Espionage Act for alleged mishandling of classified information — was arraigned this morning in the U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. As expected, Kiriakou pleaded “not guilty” to all the charges. The real criminals in the Tarek Mehanna case. The liberal betrayal of Bradley Manning. The Hollow Point Men. I’ve often wondered why so many innocent people who are shot by police end up dead. Granted that police officers spend a fair amount of time training with their service revolvers, and are thus likely to be better shots with a pistol than your average gun-owner.
But even so, in so many cases where some unarmed person is shot by police, the result is death, and it makes you wonder how cops, often in the dark and on the run, manage with their notoriously hard-to-aim pistols to hit a vital organ with such depressing regularity. The answer, I’ve learned, is that police in most jurisdictions these days routinely use hollow-point bullets, which are designed to do maximum damage to soft tissue targets.
Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us. Privacy is eroding fast as technology offers government increasing ways to track and spy on citizens. The Washington Post reported there are 3,984 federal, state and local organizations working on domestic counterterrorism. Most collect information on people in the US. Here are thirteen examples of how some of the biggest government agencies and programs track people. One. The National Security Agency (NSA) collects hundreds of millions of emails, texts and phone calls every day and has the ability to collect and sift through billions more. Someone You Love: Coming to a Gulag Near You. The security and surveillance state does not deal in nuance or ambiguity. Its millions of agents, intelligence gatherers, spies, clandestine operatives, analysts and armed paramilitary units live in a binary world of opposites, of good and evil, black and white, opponent and ally.
There is nothing between. You are for us or against us. US Attack on Transparency Continues: CIA Whistleblower Indicted. Washington continues its attack on whistle-blowers today as CIA whistle-blower, John Kiriakou, has been indicted in court for charges of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act and three counts of violating the Espionage Act.
John Kiriakou, former C.I.A. officer, is accused of giving classified information to the news media. (Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press) Former CIA officer, Kiriakou, allegedly leaked information to journalists about classified CIA operations and included classified information in his 2010 book, "The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror.
" Operation Midnight Climax: How the CIA Dosed S.F. Citizens with LSD - - News. Illustration by Rick Sealock.
It's been over 50 years, but Wayne Ritchie says he can still remember how it felt to be dosed with acid. He was drinking bourbon and soda with other federal officers at a holiday party in 1957 at the U.S. Post Office Building on Seventh and Mission streets. They were cracking jokes and swapping stories when, suddenly, the room began to spin. The red and green lights on the Christmas tree in the corner spiraled wildly. How The CIA Doped San Franciscans With LSD. Fighting to Repeal California Execution Law They Championed. Jim Wilson/The New York Times.
These Are The Prices AT&T, Verizon and Sprint Charge For Cellphone Wiretaps. Defense Department seeks new authorities for counterterrorism fight - The Hill's DEFCON Hill. As the Pentagon begins to wind down the war in Afghanistan, the smaller conflicts elite U.S. forces are fighting around the world are heating up.
But DOD needs more than just men and materiel to meet these challenges — it needs additional authority from Congress to do so. "Most of the authorities that we have right now are narrowly construed to counterterrorism ... [but] I think for some countries we may need a little bit more flexibility to go in there," Michael Sheehan, assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, told lawmakers on Tuesday.
The majority of counterterrorism missions by U.S. special forces have been focused on al Qaeda and Taliban cells in Afghanistan and the Middle East region. But growing numbers and types of threats, particularly in Africa and South America, require a new approach to U.S. counterterrorism operations, Sheehan told members of the Senate Armed Services’ subcommittee on emerging threats and capabilities. NYPD Too Busy Beating Man on the Ground to Notice Being Recorded. The Most Transparent Administration Ever™ (updated below) New York Times, Editorial, November 1, 2004: [O]ne of the more worrisome domestic policy developments of the past four years [is] the Bush administration’s drastic expansion of needless government secrecy.
John Dean, Worse than Watergate, 2007: In fact, the Bush-Cheney presidency is strikingly Nixonian, only with regard to secrecy far worse. New York Times Editorial, June 24, 2007: Separate Justice System for Muslims. Since the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, genuine concerns about national security as well as politicking and fear have led to a shift in the balance between civil liberties and law enforcement.
That much is indisputable, and widely discussed. Yet it’s rarely acknowledged that the attacks have also led to what’s essentially a separate justice system for Muslims. A Legacy of Solitary - Slide Show. Snapshot of Systemic Police Abuse. By LINN WASHINGTON, JR.
I don’t know Temple University photojournalism major Ian Van Kuyk, despite his enrollment in Temple’s Journalism Department, where I teach. I do know that dynamics embedded in the recent arrest of Van Kuyk by Philadelphia police–an arrest now generating news coverage nationwide–provide yet another snapshot of the systemic abuses I’ve reported and researched during three decades spent examining and documenting the lawlessness of supposed law enforcers. I also know that police attacking civilians for lawfully photographing public spaces, police routinely employing unlawful excessive force and prosecutors too frequently turning a blind eye to such police misconduct are all nationwide problems. These systemic abuses by police and prosecutors corrode public confidence in the justice system and cost taxpayers millions of dollars spent on settling lawsuits alleging illegalities by police.
Historically, these problems receive short-shrift from most elected officials. U.S. Homeland Security Buys 450 Million Hollow-Point Bullets. Incarcerated Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher Moved to Restricted Cell. How the New American Empire Really Works. Capital Punishment: U.S. Ranks 5th On Global Execution Scale, Amnesty International Reports. NEW YORK -- The United States was the only Western democracy that executed prisoners last year, even as an increasing number of U.S. states are moving to abolish the death penalty, Amnesty International announced Monday.
America's 43 executions in 2011 ranked it fifth in the world in capital punishment, the rights group said in its annual review of worldwide death penalty trends. Part 2: Former NSA Employee Thomas Drake and Jesselyn Radack on Obama Admin. Whistleblower Crackdown. Glenn Greenwald. The Polite Conference Rooms Where Liberties Are Saved and Lost. I spent four hours in a third-floor conference room at 86 Chambers St. in Manhattan on Friday as I underwent a government deposition. Benjamin H. Torrance, an assistant U.S. attorney, carried out the questioning as part of the government’s effort to decide whether it will challenge my standing as a plaintiff in the lawsuit I have brought with others against President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta over the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), also known as the Homeland Battlefield Bill.
Twitter Won't Hand Over Data on Occupy Wall Street Protester. NYPD targets activists around the U.S. The Drone War on Journalists. 40 Years Ago, A Congressional Commission Told The Truth About Marijuana. Amazing People Arrested By Terrible People for Doing Something Good. Police State Blues. Ironies in American justice and political cheerleading. Radio: Chuck Todd - Department of Justice. Debating assassinations on “Real Time” Docs show NYPD infiltrated liberal groups. Internet providers to start policing the web July 12. Evidence Homeland Security Coordinated Occupy Crackdown. FOIA Request Shows Feds Were Gathering Intelligence On Occupy Wall Street Before The First Tent Went Up. NYPD must spy on all Muslims to protect us from Iranian photographers - NYPD.
Fighting Stop-and-Frisk Tactic, but Hitting Racial Divide. U.S. Relaxes Some Restrictions for Counterterrorism Analysis. NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake Prevails Against Charges in Unprecedented Obama Admin Crackdown. Exposed: Inside the NSA’s Largest and Most Expansive Secret Domestic Spy Center in Bluffdale, Utah. The Supreme Court hears arguments on whether children guilty of murder should be given life without parole. The United States Under Permanent State Of Emergency. The anti-protest bill signed by Barack Obama is a quiet attack on free speech. TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old In Leg Cast And Wheelchair.
Sunshine Week Wrap-up: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. With Return of Wall Street Protesters, Mayor No Longer Seems Ambivalent. NYPD Scanning The Irises Of Arrested Occupy Protesters. NYPD Brutally Beat Occupy Protesters, Media at Zucotti Park. Jack Goldsmith: The Great Legal Paradox Of Our Time: How Civil Libertarians Strengthened The National Security State. UN announcement on Manning a year late. 5 Freedom-Killing Tactics Police Will Use to Crack Down on Protests in 2012. Loss of US Civil Liberties. - StumbleUpon. CIA Chief: We'll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher. The TSA According To South Park. UN Torture Chief Slams Bradley Manning's Treatment as Cruel, Inhuman. "You're Gonna Feel It:" U.S. Military Unveils New Crowd Control "Heat Ray"
Whistleblower Who Predicted Retaliation Gets Axe from State Dept. Manning Day Two: Closed Door Meetings Delay Hearing After Prosecution Cries 'Terrorist' Police Pepper-Spray, Beat Occupy the Midwest Protesters Bloody. Senators say Americans would be ‘stunned’ by Obama administration’s secret application of Patriot Act. Former Bush officials under investigation for supporting terrorism. Let's have some more wars, TNR book critic says - The New Republic. SWAT Team Raids Occupy Miami Safehouse: This is What Democracy Looks Like? Virginia's NDAA Nullifying Bill Passed by State Senate. Filtered Transparency: The Freedom of Information Act in the Age of Obama. Admin May Appeal Order to Release Classified Document.
8 Creepy Spy Technologies That Can Be Hitched to Your Neighborhood Drones. FBI says paying cash for coffee is a sign of terrorist intent. BP's Influence Peddling In Congress Bears Fruit Two Years After Gulf Spill. Sealing Loose Lips: Charting Obama’s Crackdown on Leaks. U.S. Faces Challenge to "Drug War" as Latin American Countries Mull Decriminalization, Legalization. 3/8 Glenn Greenwald, Assassination of Citizens. Why No Financial Crisis Prosecutions? Ex-Justice Official Says It’s Just too Hard. Telecoms immunized from suits. Schneiderman Is Said to Face Pressure to Back Bank Deal. Government Sachs: Goldman's Close Ties To Washington Arouse Envy, Raise Questions. Geithner Calendar: Met Goldman's Blankfein More Often Than Pelosi, Reid, McConnell, Boehner (EXCLUSIVE) Kucinich: Targeted Killings ‘An Assault On The Constitution’ FBI wouldn’t exclude extrajudicial killings in the US. THE DRUG WAR INSIDE. Pat Robertson: "It's time we stop locking up people for possession of marijuana. We just can't do it anymore."
New Suit in the TSA’s Favorite: US District Court :) « TSA Out of Our Pants! Tsaoutofourpants.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/corbett-v-us-complaint.pdf. $1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog — How Anyone Can Get Anything Past The Scanners « TSA Out of Our Pants! President Obama's muddy transparency record - Josh Gerstein. Imprecise Language and the Risks of H.R. 347. Illinois Judge Declares State Eavesdropping Law Unconstitutional. Holder Promises To Kill Citizens With Care. H.R 347 could be making the First Amendment illegal. - Philadelphia Progressive. Holder Spells Out Why Drones Target U.S. Citizens. The cost of America's police state - War on Terror. The History Of The FBI's Secret 'Enemies' List. ‘We the People’ Loses Appeal With People Around the World. Holder Explains Threat That Would Call for Killing Without Trial.