- U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans—"A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans." War on Terror meets War on Drugs.
- Rep. Mike Rogers Blocking Other Congressional Reps From Access To Info On NSA Surveillance
- 'They Lied To Us': Judge Napolitano & Shep Smith Rail Against Gov't Agencies Clamoring For NSA Data
- NSA files show privacy does not exist—"Total surveillance is the enemy of innovation, of anything that threatens public or private incumbents."
- Someone Using A US Senate IP Address Edits Wiki Entry To Change Ed Snowden From 'Dissident' To 'Traitor'
- Unknown Republican blocks bill requiring email search warrants
- German Minister Floats US Company Ban—"German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger on Monday called for new EU rules on data protection and a ban on American companies that violate them."
- It's time Google came to grips with how it enables the surveillance state
- You May Need A New Sexting Device: Video Proof That Snapchat Doesn't Delete Your Photos
- Anonymouth Hides Identity
- Founder of Tor Freedom Hosting arrested in Ireland, awaiting extradition to USA
- Feds Are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity
- TOR Project: Stop using Windows, disable JavaScript
- Senator's Attempt to Define 'Real Journalism' Blasted By Journalists—"Feinstein seeks to exclude Wikileaks, unpaid reporters from 'shield law' protecting journalists and their sources."
- Nate Silver: 'Most Political Pundits Are Completely Useless'
- NSA-loving, Internet-hating Rep Mike Rogers' staffers say criticism is "defamation"
- Chattanooga Free Press Editor Terminated Over 'Shove It, Mr. President' Headline—"It was not the original headline approved for publication, and Johnson violated the normal editing process when he changed the headline."
- Latest Right-Wing Watergate Scandal Implodes Mid-Segment On Fox
- The more nefarious US foreign policy, the more it relies on media complicity—"Americans are shielded from the ugly consequences of US military power by our journalists' self-censorship."
- Florida Officials Will NOT Investigate FBI Execution Of Unarmed Man Being Questioned About Boston
- Guards are sexually assaulting me, says the last Briton in Guantanamo Bay—"Shaker Aamer, who is on hunger strike after being detained by US for 11 years, tells of brutal daily cell searches."
- Liberty's lost decade—"The war on terror haunts America still; it should recover some of its most cherished values."
- "[T]he over-arching reason for the clamp-down on dissent, migration, and freedom of expression, and the concurrent emphasis on security in the developed world, constitutes the visible expression of a pre-emptive counter-revolution."
- TSA expands duties beyond airport security NYT
- Opinion: We're living '1984' today
- Groundswell: A Secret Tape Reveals How It Lobbied Boehner and Issa on Benghazi
- Fox Fabricates Quote To Accuse Carney Of Calling Benghazi A "Phony Attack"
- Want Evidence Benghazi Is A Phony Scandal?
- Whopper of the Year: 'The Mainstream Media' Ignored Benghazi—"Love or hate their coverage, the notion that a scandal went uncovered is a conservative delusion."
- Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack—"Sources now tell CNN dozens of people working for the CIA were on the ground that night, and that the agency is going to great lengths to make sure whatever it was doing, remains a secret."
- US Diplomat Kills Man in Car Crash, Leaves Kenya—"U.S. Embassy officials in Nairobi rushed the American and his family out of Kenya the next day, leaving the crash victims with no financial assistance to pay for a funeral and for hospital bills for the eight or so others who were seriously injured.:
- Power remarks cause Venezuela to end efforts to improve US ties—"Foreign ministry releases statement in response to UN envoy nominee's promise to stand up to 'repressive regimes.'"
- Surprise. Stephen Harper's U.S. border deal does imperil Canadian sovereignty: Walkom—"The U.S. wants its border police operating in Canada exempt from Canadian law. Don't assume Ottawa will refuse, writes Toronto Star columnist Thomas Walkom."
- Budget Cuts Set To Hit Pentagon With Deeper Punch
- 80 Years Ago A Marine Major General Explained The Ugliest Truth About War
- The Privatisation of War: "Private Security Companies" on Contract with UN "Humanitarian" and "Peace Keeping" Operations"
- Will a Botched Coast Guard Contract Come Back to Bite James Comey?—"As general counsel of Lockheed Martin, Comey rejected a whistleblower's claim that a $24 billion Coast Guard project was riddled with problems. The whistleblower was right—and Comey was wrong."
- Military Industry Employee 'Throws Down Rifle' for 'Good of the World'—"Taking inspiration from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Brandon Toy publicly resigns from private 'defense' contractor and says 'you can do it too.'"
- The Use and Abuse of Civil Forfeiture—"[S]tate laws designed to go after high-flying crime lords are routinely targeting the workaday homes, cars, cash savings, and other belongings of innocent people who are never charged with a crime."
- The Untouchables: America's Misbehaving Prosecutors, And The System That Protects Them
- Bill Montgomery Opposes Ethics Rule Requiring Prosecutors to Reveal Evidence of Wrongful Convictions
- Why is a SWAT team assaulting me? I'm just dancing at a rave—"Local cops use anti-terrorism grants for heavy artillery, descend on dances, homeowners, marijuana dispensaries." Salon
- 7 Ways The Obama Administration Has Accelerated Police Militarization
- Former Cops Speak Out About Police Militarization
