- Lavabit, email service Snowden reportedly used, abruptly shuts down—"I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what's going on--the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests." He was "forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away...."
- Silent Circle Preemptively Shuts Down Encrypted Email Service To Prevent NSA Spying
- Email service used by Snowden shuts itself down, warns against using US-based companies—Edward Snowden: 'Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, and the rest of our internet titans must ask themselves why they aren't fighting for our interests the same way.'
- Obama, tech executives met to discuss surveillance: report—"President Barack Obama quietly met with the CEOs of Apple Inc, AT&T Inc as well as other technology and privacy representatives on Thursday to discuss government surveillance, according to a media report."
- What It Means to Be An NSA "Target": New Information Shows Why We Need Immediate FISA Amendments Act Reform
- NSA to cut system administrators by 90 percent to limit data access
- MAD's "War on Privacy" Cover—Yes, me worry.
- Ted Koppel: America's Chronic Overreaction to Terrorism—"The country's capacity for self-inflicted damage must have astounded even Osama bin Laden." WSJ
- Caustic Light on White House's Reaction to a Terrorist Threat—"The decision to shut some American diplomatic posts in the Middle East has prompted gloating among jihadists and criticism by some officials who say the Obama administration overreacted." NYT
- Unhappy With U.S. Foreign Policy? Pentagon Says You Might Be A 'High Threat'
- DHS Eliminates 197 Million People’s 4th Amendment Rights In "Constitution Free Zones"
- Justice Department Files First Criminal Charges In Benghazi Attack
- Manning sentencing: judge rejects claim leaks had 'chilling effect'—"Judge rules that State Department testimony is admissible only if the effect came directly after leaks were published."
- Department Of Justice Confirms Wikileaks Investigation
- We need crack investigative journalists in the Senate: Julian Assange—"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has vowed to continue his work on the whistleblowing website if he is elected to the Senate."
- N.H. City Wants a "Tank" to Use Against Occupiers and Libertarians—"Concord police listed the nonviolent groups as domestic terror threats in a federal grant application."
- SWAT-Team Nation: The Militarization of the U.S. Police—"It's remarkable that using military weapons and tactics on domestic soil has become a routine means of pursuing nonviolent suspects and low-level investigations, particularly in the war on drugs."
- T.S.A. Now Has Power to Patrol Music Festivals?—More mission creep.
- FBI Found Scientific Errors in 27 Death Penalty Convictions
- Mo. judge fires 34-year court employee for providing document that helped free innocent man
- Finally, Thousands of Old Rape-Evidence Kits Are to Be Tested in Texas
- Texas state troopers caught on camera probing women's privates aren't isolated incidents: lawyers—"Multiple highway patrol officers in Texas have been captured by dash cams doing 'unconstitutional' cavity searches on women's genitals during traffic stops. Lawyers and civil rights advocates say the 'mind-boggling' searches are all too common."
- Indianapolis "Officer of the Year" Caught on Camera Lying About Arrest
- Police restrain and hit woman—"Surveillance video has surfaced showing police hitting a woman in Davenport, Iowa. CNN affiliate WQAD reports."
- Tourists Beware: Walker's Cops May Come After You—"[P]eople videotaping and photographing the arrests – some of them credentialed journalists - were told that the very act of recording those events made them participants and therefore subject to arrest themselves."
- Witnesses say driver appeared to aim for beachgoers—"Witnesses described a scene of terror and mayhem and said the driver appeared to be aiming for people when a car plowed into a weekend crowd of pedestrians on the boardwalk at Venice Beach in Los Angeles."
- Prosecutors drop felony assault charge against Bison linebacker—Witnesses' stories debunked by video.
- Sex video clears men accused of rape—It showed "her laughing and carrying on with the two alleged rapists – hence, the lack of charges against them and the lodging of the misdemeanor false-report accusation."
- Meet The Horrible Florida Woman Who Filmed Herself Berating Dunkin' Donuts Workers—Follow up: Taylor Chapman is Not Employed Here Anymore
- 'Do you know who my dad is? He's rich': What drunk BMW crash girl said after wrecking three homes in her convertible
- Unruly woman kicked, scratched deputies on CLT-bound plane
- Bystanders cheer as women attack, beat DC drag performer
- Sheriff's investigators believe Julia Merfeld wanted to kill her husband—Hitman to be hired turned out to be an undercover cop.
- Street performer assaulted outside Summerfest—"'I was playing Minnie the Moocher, classic Blues Brothers song. A lady with a child in her hand came up to me, smacked me in my face and said 'don’t play that.' Struve says three African American women confronted her and shouted that a white girl could not play the song."
- South Korean 'Honeypot Gang' Targets Married Men—"Police in Chungcheong Province have discovered a criminal gang running a 'honeypot' operation, enticing married men to have sex with a member of the gang and then blackmailing them."
- Twenty-five years after accusing an innocent man of rape, Tawana Brawley is finally paying for her lies.—Guess, the party's over.
- Soldier tells how false rape claims ruined his life
- Mentally Ill Woman Gets Jail Time, Probation For Filing A False Rape Report At UC Santa Cruz
- Michigan Woman Faked Rape And Cancer
- Woman behind bars for false rape claim
- Woman allegedly lies about kidnapping, rape
- Maine: Jury convicts Rockland woman of making false rape repor
- Woman is finally jailed after FIVE false rape allegations against her ex-boyfriends in eight years
- Celebrated Cardinals cheerleader arrested after alleged assault caught on video
- Va woman pleads guilty to false sex assault report
- Kayla Brooke Earl Faked Own Attack To Get Ex-Boyfriend's Attention: Cops
- Woman in UK jailed for lying to police that taxi driver had sexually assaulted her in his cab
- Leeds woman jailed for false sex attack claim which cost £57,900
- Protesters out undercover officer, accuses her of infiltrating group
- What Katie didn't do—"Over a period of two and a half years, she was the subject of intense 'interest' which she alleges was harassment by a group of rogue officers based in the High Wycombe area – where her police officer ex-boyfriend, Alex Ash, who was disciplined for making inappropriate contact with her, just happened to be based."
- Cops Plead Guilty to Helping Plant Drugs on Woman Sexually Harassed by Judge
- DUI case dropped against lawyer who claimed he was set up, mid-trial, by opposing counsel
- Maine man tried to stage kidnapping and rescue of teenage girl, according to affidavit
- How 12 Men Morphed Identities and Still Voted, Bought Guns, and Got Married
- Fake cop arrested after pulling over real cops in unmarked car for speeding
- Woman denies marathon fund larceny—"A New York woman accused of scamming almost half a million dollars from the Boston Marathon bombing victims fund has pleaded not guilty to larceny."
- Mommy Blogger Lied About Pink Headband Bullying, 'Baker Acted'
- Lee Tyers put pubic hair in Middlesbrough restaurant curry
