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  • Just A Little Misdirection Play


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    (Political cartoon by Matt Bors and published at Daily Kos .  Click on image to enlarge.  If you need an even larger image click on link and get the embiggened version there.) Sometimes reading the newspaper is fun.  Rarely, but sometimes.  This article in the Los Angeles Times made me chuckle. The White ...
    23 hours ago
  • Yahoo had refused to join PRISM spying program but was forced by secret court


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    It was revealed that Yahoo’s top lawyers had a courtroom showdown with the National Security Agency after it had demanded information on certain foreign users without a warrant, but the tech giant lost and was forced to hand over the data. Court documents obtained by the New York Times show that Yahoo had initially ...
    4 days ago
  • Tech Giants Negotiate Snooping Transparency


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    Tech companies negotiate for transparency. [image: UCLA] IN A deal with “U.S. national security authorities,” tech giants Facebook and Microsoft have an agreement with the Obama administration that allows modest transparency. Google is still negotiating with the U.S. Government, with talks getting stuck ...
    4 days ago
  • Police Performing Warrantless Cellphone Searches After Car Crashes? Yep, There’s a Bill for That


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    Hey guys, meet my new favorite terrible state bill. Narrowly beating out the Internet Posting Removal Act, an Illinois bill that’ll make your head spin , comes a bill to modify New Jersey state law to permit police officers to confiscate and search a driver’s cellphone when they are involved in an accident – ...
    5 days ago
  • What does Lindsey Graham have to Hide?


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    There is a civil war brewing on the Right on the issue of civil liberties. With recent revelations that the National Security Agency is conducting broad surveillance of Americans’ phone records and Internet activity , even if they aren’t suspected of terrorist activity, many conservatives and libertarians are ...
    5 days ago
  • Group Demands Lindsey Graham’s Passwords


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    A limited government advocacy group is asking U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (RINO-S.C.) to cough up his private email passwords.“It’s time to ask Lindsey Graham to lead by example,” the release from FreedomWorks states. “Will he stand by his own admitted principles? Or will he tell the American people ‘privacy ...
    5 days ago
  • NSA talking points leaked


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    The NSA is making a full court press to defend its massive domestic spying operation. As part of that effort, the NSA has circulated detailed talking points for use by members of Congress, the press and the administration. Mike Masnick … Continue reading →
    5 days ago
  • Chris Hayes: our history is government abuse of private data


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    Here is a good compendium of situations where our government abused surveillance data for nefarious purposes. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy (requires Flash) (via Hullabaloo)
    5 days ago
  • It’s Supposed To Be Liberty First In The USA


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    Many national players have declared their allegiance to fascism this week. Some are surprising, given their positions in the past. Some are not so surprising, like Peter King, Republican Congressman of New York. King hates Muslims, almost as much as he hates the First Amendment (which protects Muslims from King). ...
    5 days ago
  • On DNA, Scalia was right


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    By Eugene Robinson The words “Antonin Scalia was right” do not flow easily for me. But the court’s most uncompromising conservative was correct when he issued a dire-sounding warning from the bench: “Make no mistake about it: Because of today’s decision, your DNA can be taken and entered into a ...
    6 days ago
  • Article: The Eyes Watching You…


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    …are we living Orwell, or Kafka? Either way, it’s freedom that is lost. The Eyes Watching You 1984 and the Surveillance State by SARAH SKWIRE George Orwell. 1984. New York: Plume, [1949] 2003. 323 pages.In the kind of horrifying coincidence that surely would have prompted one of his more acerbic essays, ...
    6 days ago
  • Legal or Not, Data-Mining Poses a Threat to Civil Liberties


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    Roger Pilon and Richard Epstein are out with an op-ed that argues that the data-mining and surveillance programs we’ve become aware of over the past week  aren’t really as big a deal as many libertarians and conservatives are making them out to be : President Barack Obama is under harsh attack for stating the ...
    6 days ago
  • Is the NSA also collecting email, web browsing histories?


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    Declan McCullagh writing in c|net: The head of the National Security Agency hinted Wednesday that logs of Americans’ e-mails and Web-site visits may be secretly vacuumed up by the world’s most powerful intelligence group. During a U.S. Senate hearing, NSA … Continue reading →
    6 days ago
  • Present-Day Panopticon: Understanding Secret NSA Surveillance In Context


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    Part of Willey Reveley’s 1791 blueprint of English philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s proposed (but never built) “panopticon.” While his proposal was for a physical prison allowing all inmates to be simultaneously observed by wardens, Bentham and subsequent social theorists like Michel Foucault have commented on how ...
    6 days ago
  • American Public Disagrees with Peter King


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    “I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American,” Snowden told the South China Post, an English-language newspaper in Hong Kong, in an interview published on Wednesday. [ Reuters ] Edward Snowden [screen shot from UK Guardian video] CHARACTERIZATIONS of Edward Snowden are running wild across the ...
    6 days ago
  • The Hidden Blessings of the NSA’s Spying


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    There’s a silver lining to the NSA spying cloud, as columnist Tamara Tabo explains. Continue reading » Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook . Tags: 4th Amendment , Constitutional Law , Federal Government , Federal Jurisdiction , Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ...
    6 days ago
  • For Sean Hannity, it all depends on when you ask


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    Absolute hypocrisy. Check out Hannity’s views when Bush was President and his current view. I have seen more stable weathervanes. (via MediaMatters)
    6 days ago
  • Talk About Hipocrisy … In 2006 Joe Biden Said, Don’t Trust a Spying President or Vice President, What Say You Now Joe? According to Gallup, Majority of Americans Don’t Either


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    Americans appear to be very troubled by the government spying on them. Hmm, so was Joe Biden when he was in the US Senate.  In 2006, then Senator Joe Biden said you can’t trust a spying president . “If I know every single phone call you made I’m able to determine every single person you talk to. I can get ...
    6 days ago
  • NSA Surveillance Coverage from Germany, France, Switzerland, Brazil and Colombia


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    Like the WikiLeaks story before it, given the fact that the NSA surveillance saga uniquely affects people of every other nation, there is a global reaction that we are working to capture and translate on behalf of the American people and English-speaking world. So far, from the non-English-language press, we have ...
    6 days ago
  • Not Exactly


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    David Horsey has been traveling abroad, most recently in England.  I fear he may have contracted a slight case of cranial-rectal inversion as a result.  In his latest column , he seems to imply that the NSAs intrusion in our privacy is no different than the intrusions of the private sector by quoting with approval ...
    6 days ago

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