- Theresa May plans new powers to make British terror suspects stateless—"Home secretary working on legislation allowing removal of UK passport from suspects even if they have no other citizenship."
- Councils to be given powers to ban peaceful protests that might disturb local residents—Squelching free speech.
- Torture inquiry 'finds UK intelligence officers knew of mistreatment'—"Gibson report, published next week, reportedly calls for further investigation of how far British ministers were responsible."
- Sleepwalking further into Police State Britain as law offers new powers of repression
- Conservative party deletes archive of speeches from internet—"Decade's worth of records is erased, including PM's speech praising internet for making more information available."
- MI6 spy found dead in bag probably locked himself inside, Met says—"Three-year investigation by Scotland Yard concludes Gareth Williams probably died as a result of a tragic accident." Wink, wink.
- Police tried to spy on Cambridge students, secret footage shows—"Officer is filmed attempting to persuade activist in his 20s to become informant targeting 'student-union type stuff.'"
- Questions about '60 Minutes' Benghazi story go beyond Dylan Davies interview; CBS conducting 'journalistic review'
- The 60 Minutes Benghazi Source Just Sort of Lies About Everything
- Frank Rich on the National Circus: CBS's Benghazi Report Was a Hoax, Not a Mistake
- Report: CBS' Benghazi Source Has "Disappeared" After Receiving "Threat"
- Why Lara Logan Won't Lose Her Job—"She's a rising star, and CBS doesn't fear liberals the way it fears conservatives."
- Palestinian Boy Stabs Israeli Solider On Bus—"The 16-year-old reportedly tells police he killed the soldier in northern Israel in revenge for the jailing of his uncles."
- Five Palestinian children injured after Israeli settlers set fire to their home
- Efforts for Israeli-Palestinian talks complicated by tensions
- USAID, Uribe and Venezuelan Opposition Plotting Violence, Sabotage and Scarcity; According to Leaked Document
- Venezuelan military seizes major retail chain
- Venezuela releases 'Miami Herald' reporter—"Andean bureau chief Jim Wyss released after being detained while reporting in San Cristobal, near Colombian border."
- The Big Question the National Security State isn't Asking: What's More Important: Security or Freedom?—"The ruling elite wants an all-seeing NSA to keep the public in check, and to enable it to spot, and then to crush, any outbreak of rebellion, as was done so effectively to the Occupy Movement in the autumn of 2011."
- Who's to Blame for Battlefield America? Is It Militarized Police or the Militarized Culture?
- When the Police Enter a Home—"Warrantless searches of 'the center of the private lives of our people' should be strictly limited by the Supreme Court." NYT
- Federal Case Could Make It Easier For Victims To Defend Themselves Against Civil Forfeiture
- Homeland Security must disclose 'Internet Kill Switch,' court rules
- US blocks publication of Chilcot's report on how Britain went to war with Iraq—"Washington is playing the lead role in delaying the publication of the long-awaited report into how Britain went to war with Iraq, The Independent has learnt."
- Reality Sets In—"As the American military's presence abroad shrinks, so too must the Pentagon's budget. The question is whether we can be smart about it." NYT
- Afghan Companies With Insurgent Ties Still Receive U.S. Contracts—"Despite the advent of blacklists and other rules during the Afghanistan war, American investigators have uncovered a case casting doubt on the military's ability to weed out suspicious contractors." NYT
- TSA's got 94 signs to ID terrorists, but they're unproven by science—"Government auditor slams $900M spent on unproven program."
- Al-Qaeda-linked rebels apologise after cutting off head of wrong person—"Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham militants say sorry for decapitating a fellow extremist rather than enemy."
- In fight over gag orders, US tech industry files complaint over FBI legal tactics
- Google: We're bombarded by gov't requests on user data—"Requests from governments worldwide for user information have more than doubled since three years ago. Worse still, says Google, is what the US won't let us tell you."
- Facebook Flooded With Data Requests From European Governments—"Social network says it got more than 8,000 inquiries in the first six months of this year."
- "We still don't encrypt server-to-server data," admits Microsoft—"This is why we are currently reviewing our security system."
- NSA chief says Snowden leaked up to 200,000 secret documents
- Keep Spying on Foreigners, NSA—"They have no right to privacy from U.S. surveillance—and they shouldn't." Guess he shouldn't complain when other countries spy on Americans then.
- Immune to Accountability: When Lawless Superpower USA Irks its European Allies
- C.I.A. Collecting Data on International Money Transfers, Officials Say—"The agency is secretly collecting bulk records of international money transfers, under the same law that the National Security Agency uses for its phone record database, according to government officials." NYT
- Obama announces health care fix
- Why California Is The Key To The Obamacare 'Fix'
- The backlash to the Obamacare fix has already started WaPo
- Darrell Issa's Obamacare kangaroo court—"No human makes leaps quite like Darrell Issa. He leaps to conclusions. He makes huge leaps of logic. He leaps before he looks." WaPo
- Issa's credibility collapses—"House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) keeps pushing bogus stories to reporters -- and he keeps getting caught engaging in the same scam."
- Companies Use Obamacare Confusion To Sell 'Junk Insurance'
- California shuts down 10 "fraudulent" health care websites—"Sacramento: these sites divert consumers from real 'Covered California' site."
- Florida Conservative Group Helping Muck Up Obamacare In Alaska
- Political dsyfunction in the Philippines is hurting Haiyan's victims—"Patronage and profiteering are par for the course." WaPo
- Shocking claims emerge that Philippines officials are prioritising areas that voted for them as they distribute aid to typhoon survivors, with other regions left to fend for themselves
- BIR won't impose tax on relief goods if coursed through gov't agencies—So they can get their dirty hands on them? Fuck that. Filipinos should bypass their corrupt government.
- Why typhoon response taking so long
- China's aid to Philippines dwarfed by Ikea
