- "Extremely Troubling" Documents Show How Obama Administration Embraced Foreign Detention of Terror Suspects—"Changes made to a key FBI interrogation manual highlight the bureau's increasing focus on questioning suspects—including Americans—in overseas prisons."
- UK: Fully secret terror trial blocked by Court of Appeal
- Cover-Up in Guantanamo: Torturing to Death, Hiding and Fabricating Evidence, and Calling it Suicide
- American exceptionalism and American innocence: The misleading history and messages of the 9/11 Memorial Museum—"The 9/11 Memorial gets grief profoundly. But the museum cynically exploits tragedy, confuses history with ideology." Salon
- TSA 'Abusively and Arbitrarily' Using Security Designation to Hide Information
- 7 years later, Blackwater guards go on trial—For killing 14 Iraqi civilians.
- Arms Windfall for Insurgents as Iraq City Falls—"Weapons provided by the United States to help Iraqi forces battle militants are now in the hands of the militants." NYT
- ISIS just stole $425 million, Iraqi governor says, and became the 'world's richest terrorist group' WaPo
- Extremists in Iraq now control the country's rivers
- Iraq, Sunnis, and Shiites: The U.S. should never have withdrawn its troops in 2011
- The Fall of Mosul and the False Promises of Modern History—"Ironically, by invading, occupying, weakening and looting Iraq, Bush and Cheney brought al-Qaeda into the country and so weakened it as to allow it actually to take and hold territory in our own time."
- Iran Deploys Quds Forces To Support Iraqi Troops, Helps Retake Most Of Tikrit
- Iraq conflict: Sistani issues Shia call to arms
- Russia on Iraq: 'We told you so' WaPo
- On Iraq, let's ignore those who got it all wrong WaPo
- Jihadist Gains in Iraq Blindside American Spies—"First Crimea, now Iraq. Why does America's $50 billion intelligence community keep getting taken by surprise?" FP
- Nato forces kill five US troops in Afghanistan—"Five American soldiers have been killed accidentally by their own side in southern Afghanistan, US military sources have confirmed."
- U.S. arms could create Syria 'warlords', rebel commander says
- Taliban gunmen attack Karachi airport academy in second assault
- FBI: Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's parents have received threats
- Bergdahl describes harsh treatment, solitary confinement: U.S. officials
- U.S. deaths in Afghanistan may have only tenuous link to Bergdahl
- Juan Williams Slams GOP Who 'Flip-Flopped' On Bergdahl In 'Most Craven Way'
- Maddow Calls Out Republicans Who Left Bergdahl Briefing Early
- The Right Didn't Mind When Bush Paid a Ransom to Terrorists
- Benghazi, Bowe Bergdahl, and manufactured brouhaha Boston Globe
- Stephen Colbert skewers 'Bergdghazi,' elbows Fox News WaPo
- Police Ambushed in Las Vegas; 5 Dead
- Report: Vegas Shooters Planned To Take Over Courthouse, Execute Officials
- How much does right-wing rhetoric contribute to right-wing terrorism? WaPo
- Why not call the Las Vegas attack an act of domestic terrorism?—"'Terrorism' is an overused word that tends to obscure more than it reveals. But the reluctance to use it to describe the Las Vegas attackers is troubling."
- Home-Grown, Right-Wing Terrorism: The Hate the GOP Refuses to See—"As the Las Vegas shootings show, right-wing extremism is real and on the rise. But for Republicans, better to focus on the Muslims."
- If the Las Vegas Killers Were Muslims, We'd Call Them Terrorists—"But should we?"
- Facebook Posts Reveal Vegas Shooter Thought Bundy Ranch Was 'Start Of Revolution'
- Hatriot Politics Created the Las Vegas Killers—"Jerad and Amanda Miller, the Wingnuts whose killing spree left two policemen, a civilian, and themselves dead, were inspired by fright-wing radio hosts and militia movement groups."
- Inside the Unraveling of Las Vegas Shooting Spree Suspect Jerad Miller—"In comments on the conspiracy-peddling website Infowars, he revealed the deeply personal roots of his hatred of government."
- Did the Las Vegas Shooting Suspects Obtain Their Guns on Facebook?
- Guns after Elliot Rodger: Businesses like Chipotle and Sonic are our best hope for gun control
- Sun News Network will not use New Brunswick killer's name—"We will not help give this killer his blaze of glory."
- Jim Rubens says armed civilians drastically reduce casualties during mass shootings—Politifact says: False.
- Obama: 'We Should Be Ashamed' Of Failure To Address Gun Violence
- When did mass shootings become so frighteningly mundane in America?
- Jon Stewart Rips The Public's Apathy Over Gun Violence
- Fearing Rising Backlash, NRA Urges Gun Activists to Stand Down—"Carrying assault rifles into restaurants backfired—and now the gun lobby is firing at its own for acting 'downright weird.'" Update: That didn't last long, but the group stopped bringing guns to Target.
- More Guns Equal More Deaths, Study Finds
- Neighbor, 61, pulls gun on father teaching girl to ride bike
- Alabama Gun Rights Supporter Brings Loaded Pistol To Polls
- Suicide Is Leading Cause Of Gun Deaths, But Largely Absent In Debate On Gun Violence
- Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown—"Social science is being militarised to develop 'operational tools' to target peaceful activists and protest movements."
- How the FBI Tried to Block Martin Luther King's Commencement Speech—"The untold story of a government plot, a maverick college president, and the most important figure of the civil rights era."
- "Guantánamo North" – NDAA Indefinite Detention Coming Soon to a Town Near You?
- In major privacy ruling, court says police need warrant to track phone users' location
- Is Chicago using cell tracking devices? One man tries to find out—"Lawyer: Chicago police 'has a history of doing some questionable surveillance.'"
- Local cops in 15 US states confirmed to use cell tracking devices—"Stingray use is widespread: Baltimore, Chicago, and even Anchorage have them."
- U.S. pushing local cops to stay mum on cellular surveillance
- Police officer safety or surplus zeal: Military equipment spurs debate
- War Gear Flows to Police Departments—"Former tools of combat — M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more — are ending up in the armories of local police departments, often with little public notice." NYT
- Indiana Sheriff Justifies Military Surplus Purchases By Saying America 'Has Become A War Zone'
- 500 American Communities Are Now Armed With Military Tanks and Military Vehicles, and Have Reportedly Lied on Their Applications to Get Them for Free
- The Battlefield War Games Series Embraces Police Militarization
- London mayor offers to be blasted by water cannon—"London Mayor Boris Johnson offered on Wednesday to be sprayed by water cannon to demonstrate that they are safe, after buying the riot control equipment for the capital despite having no permission to use it."
- 25 Year Old Fraudulent Pentagon Contracting Program Exposed—"Some of the biggest names in the defense and aerospace industry were allowed to circumvent federal law that required small business contracting goals be achieved."
- Buying single-engine F-35s for Canada a 'serious mistake': report—"Michael Byers's One Dead Pilot report urges government to look at 2-engine options to replace CF-18s."
- Why are countries still using the fake bomb detectors sold by a convicted British conman?—"Pakistani security personnel still guard Karachi's Jinnah airport using versions of Jim McCormick's phoney bomb detector. They are not alone in having a seemingly unshakeable belief in the ADE 651."
- Canada: Cyberbullying law would let police 'remotely hack into computers, mobile devices, or cars'
- Facebook Under Fire for Temporarily Blocking Pages in Pakistan—"Citing pressure from the Pakistani government, Facebook said it blocked left-wing political pages and a popular rock band, Laal, whose members spoke out against Taliban." NYT =
- Man arrested for parodying mayor on Twitter files civil rights lawsuit—"Police raid follows mayor being upset over the portrayal of him as drug abuser."
- Canada: Top court rules search warrant needed to access Internet information
- Google will flag search results erased due to "right to be forgotten"—"Wikipedia founder: 'Suppression of knowledge' is a 'terrible danger.'"
- Why It Shouldn't Be Criminal to Report Government Secrets—"Prosecuting journalists imposes huge costs, yields scant benefits, and is mostly pointless in an era when anyone can reach a mass audience."
- Sheriff calls Homeland Security on man requesting public records
- ACLU: Secrecy is a Cancer on Our Democracy
- Why we're suing the CIA—"After 10,000 requests, MuckRock launches its first lawsuit."
- Clever piece of code exposes hidden changes to Supreme Court opinions
- Al Gore: Snowden Revealed Crimes 'Way More Serious' Than Any He Committed—"Former vice president says NSA overreach poses 'a threat to democracy.'"
- Former NSA chief calls Snowden 'he who will not be named'
- Inside Edward Snowden's Life as a Robot
- Darrell Issa: James Clapper lied to Congress about NSA and should be fired WaPo
- Former NSA director backs House bill to rein in spy agency
- NSA: Our systems are so complex we can't stop them from deleting data wanted for lawsuit WaPo
- ACLU: Too Big To Comply? NSA Says It's Too Large, Complex to Comply With Court Order
- If The NSA's System Is Too Big To Comply With Court Orders, Court Should Require It To Change Its System
- Eric Cantor's loss is bad news for the NSA—"The Tea Party candidate who just toppled the House Majority Leader is a skeptic of NSA spying."
- FBI embracing facial recognition to "find bad guys"—"Director wavered when asked if database would store drivers' license photos."
- Microsoft fights U.S. search warrant for customer e-mails held in overseas server
- Web giants encrypt their services—but leaks remain—"Ars surveys SSL use at major cloud providers and finds some holes."
- To defeat encryption, feds deploy the subpoena—"Drop boxes, secured or not, are all the post-Snowden rage and ripe for subpoenas."
- Post-Snowden China looks to 'hack-proof' quantum communications—"The holy grail of data encryption should, in theory, be safe from prying eyes." SCMP
