India’s first nuclear submarine and ICBM will be ready for induction next year: DRDO. Palantir has nothing to do with the NSA’s PRISM program. Former NSA employees turned whistleblowers Thomas Drake and William Binney on Democracy Now! Alexander Reed Kelly: NSA Whistle-Blower: Obama’s ‘Disposition Matrix’ is an ‘Undisciplined Slaughter’ NSA Whistle-Blower: Obama’s ‘Disposition Matrix’ is an ‘Undisciplined Slaughter’ Posted on Oct 27, 2012 Former National Security Agency official and whistle-blower William Binney is appalled but unsurprised by last week’s revelation that President Obama has institutionalized a mechanism for generating targets for his secretive assassination list.
As Greg Miller reported in The Washington Post, the “disposition matrix” is a database that links the profiles of suspected “terrorists” to “locations, known associates and affiliated organizations” as well as “strategies for taking targets down, including extradition requests, capture operations and drone patrols.” The process is operated by the National Counterterrorism Center, which has access to all intelligence and other information collected on American citizens and people abroad, and the process is not open to scrutiny by a judge or independent oversight committee.
“What is the criteria for being on the kill list?” Binney asked. NSA Whistleblowers: "All U.S. Citizens" Targeted by Surveillance Program, Not Just Verizon Customers. Guests William Binney served in the National Security Agency almost 40 years, including a time as director of the NSA’s World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group. Shayana Kadidal senior managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Thomas Drake National Security Agency whistleblower who was charged with violating the Espionage Act by the Obama administration.
This is viewer supported news Donate A leaked court order has revealed the Obama administration is conducting a massive domestic surveillance program by collecting telephone records of millions of Verizon customers. We discuss the news with three guests: Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, and two former National Security Agency employees turned whistleblowers: Thomas Drake and William Binney. This is a rush transcript. We’re now joined by two former employees of the National Security Agency, Thomas Drake and William Binney. SHAYANA KADIDAL: Sure. SEN. Obama the Warmonger, Why Obama’s Constitutional Eligibility Matters. Renditions continue under Obama, despite due-process concerns. The secret arrests and detentions came to light Dec. 21 when the suspects made a brief appearance in a Brooklyn courtroom. The men are the latest example of how the Obama administration has embraced rendition — the practice of holding and interrogating terrorism suspects in other countries without due process — despite widespread condemnation of the tactic in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Renditions are taking on renewed significance because the administration and Congress have not reached agreement on a consistent legal pathway for apprehending terrorism suspects overseas and bringing them to justice. Congress has thwarted President Obama’s pledge to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and has created barriers against trying al-Qaeda suspects in civilian courts, including new restrictions in a defense authorization bill passed last month. Because of the secrecy involved, it is not known how many renditions have taken place during Obama’s first term. The "Myth" of America. The "myth" of America, the belief in our American exceptionalism, the notion of our being the "indispensible" nation propagated after W.W.II, but much earlier with "Manifest destiny" and our seeming natural right to expand westward across the continent to "settle the west" (of course not to conquer) and now our need to "protect" us (not exercise universal hegemony over others) with our "war on terror" is the latest "myth" being perpetrated upon us.
There's also the "myth" everyone in the world "wants to be an American". Only our enemies "hate our freedom" as "W" once said. Too many Americans seem in denial of the terrible consequences such policies have inflicted on other peoples unable or unwilling to face the truth of our perpetrating these crime against humanity.
Regrettably, as we heard from the two main party candidates in the last presidential debate, both men essentially agree the policies aforementioned above will remain unchanged. FRA Working on Capitol Hill During Recess. Staff members from FRA and other organizations in The Military Coalition (TMC) this week visited the offices of lawmakers who are likely to be Senate conferees for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA, S. 3254) that currently awaits Senate action. The meetings included discussion of potential floor amendments and strategy for advancing critical provisions that relate to FRA’s legislative agenda. FRA urged the Senate to drop its provision that would dramatically increase TRICARE pharmacy co-pays by an estimated 6.5 percent annually (health care inflation) and accept the House provision to cap pharmacy co-pay increases at the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) applied to military retired pay (estimated to be 3 percent) and require home delivery of prescription medications for TRICARE-for-Life (TFL) beneficiaries.
Another issue discussed was the Senate plan to create a one-year BRAC-like commission to “reform” military retirement benefits and military pay. National Defense Authorization Act’s Detention Provision Exceeds Constitutional Bounds. It says a lot about the state of American politics today when Democrats and Republicans refuse to put partisan bickering aside for the good of the country, yet both parties are more than willing to unite to deny Americans their civil liberties, and flagrantly disregard the Constitution. The indefinite military detention provision in the National Defense Authorization Act, passed by Congress with bipartisan support and signed into law by President Barack Obama last year, really should not surprise anyone.
Since the PATRIOT Act snuck through Congress, it seems politicians have been scheming new and more creative ways to deny American citizens pesky things like “due process” and “equal protection under law.” The NDAA should be a fairly routine budget bill, passed yearly to allocate defense spending. But the most recent iteration of the law includes a provision allowing the military to arrest and detain anybody, anywhere, for any reason, for any length of time.
Let that soak in for a moment. NDAA to expand if Obama re-elected? Could Obama use NDAA To Arrest you? .S. | Police State and Prisons Could Obama use NDAA To Arrest Militias? By Rwolf Thursday Oct 25th, 2012 10:10 AM Pres. Obama could use NDAA provisions to order U.S. Military Forces to round up without evidence, millions of Americans including militias by alleging they are belligerents or a threat to National Security. Recently the Obama administration stated to Federal Judge Katherine Forest that under (NDAA) The National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 the President had authorization to lock up belligerents indefinitely. Hitler included similar provisions in his fascist (Discriminatory Decrees signed February 28, 1933). During the Obama Administration’s recent request for a (stay) to stop U.S.
NDAA 2012, like Hitler’s 1933 Discriminatory Decrees enforces censorship; refers to the Patriot Act e.g. warrant-less searches of private property and forfeiture of property from persons not charged with crime. TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. The Oath of the President of the United States declares that he will faithfully execute the laws of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. By signing NDAA for 2012, President Obama has authorized the arrest and the indefinite detention without trial of citizens and residents of the United States, which is both immoral and cruel and violates multiple provisions of the Constitution, including • Article 1, Section 9, the privilege to petition for habeas corpus; • Article 3, Section 3, stronger due process for claims of treason; • Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizures; • Fifth Amendment prohibition of loss of liberty without due process; • Sixth Amendment right to a speedy and public trial with representation.
NDAA also violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which the U.S. has signed. Hooray for Texas: bill up would NULLIFY NDAA and TSA screening - NNN Reporters Newsroom Forum. NDAA 2013: Will Congress kill indefinite detention without trial for Americans? Cutting through the controversy on indefinite detention and the NDAA. WEB EXCLUSIVE: Senate Version of NDAA Relaxes Detention Threat, But ‘Studies’ War on Syria. By Mark Anderson WASHINGTON, D.C. —The Senate on December 4 passed S. 3254, the Fiscal Year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with a 98-0 vote, which is the routine annual funding of the massive U.S. military establishment. The bill contained a controversial and perhaps unanticipated amendment introduced by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) that Sen. “Our citizens and our soldiers are weary of war,” Paul pleaded, just before the 92-6 approval of amendment No. 3262, as this AFP writer attended the proceedings.
And those same citizens, at least according to language in this latest defense authorization bill, have less cause for concern about being detained indefinitely without trial or legal counsel if they are deemed by United States authorities to be in league with terrorists during the “war on terror.” Paul was among the six senators who voted against McCain’s amendment. The amendment calls on the Department of Defense to “submit a report” on contemplated U.S.