Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them

“Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal judge in California ruled in a decision released Friday.  U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered the government to stop issuing so-called NSLs across the board, in a stunning defeat for the Obama administration’s surveillance practices. She also ordered the government to cease enforcing the gag provision in any other cases. However, she stayed her order for 90 days to give the government a chance to appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/nsl-found-unconstitutional/

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Former Newark Airport TSA screener says the job does little to keep fliers safe

“It is perhaps America’s most unsafe airport. Despite being the launching point for one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 — Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania — Newark Airport has had numerous security violations since. The latest: a fake bomb that made it past Transportation Security Administration officers. Here, a Newark TSA screener who recently left the agency tells how silly policies and lazy workers do little to stop real threats.”

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/confessions_of_tsa_agent_we_re_bunch_OhxHeGd0RR9UVGzfypjnLO

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Is the U.S. at War with Al-Qaeda?

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“Imagine Ma Barker’s gang or a gang of John Dillingers who unilaterally declare ‘war’ against the U.S. Would the U.S. in turn declare war against them? Metaphorically it might, in order to show a steely determination to capture and stop them. But does their declaration by itself entitle the U.S. to kill them without an attempt to capture them and place them on trial? Certainly not. Lynching is summary execution. No government can be trusted with the power of summarily killing someone, even if that person has ‘declared war’ on that government. Such a power is too easy to extend and expand and inflict upon the innocent.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/133568.html

 

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Cheney Admits that He Lied about 9/11; What Else Did He Lie About?

“Cheney pretended that Bush had authorized a shoot-down order, but Cheney now admits that he never did. In fact, Cheney acted as if he was the president on 9/11. Cheney lied about numerous other facts related to 9/11 as well.”

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/03/cheney-admits-that-he-lied-about-911.html

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Google Says the FBI Is Secretly Spying on Some of Its Customers

“It is unlawful for any record-keeper to disclose it has received a so-called National Security Letter. But under a deal brokered with the President Barack Obama administration, Google on Tuesday published a ‘range’ of times it received National Security Letters demanding it divulge account information to the authorities without warrants.  It was the first time a company has ever released data chronicling the volume of National Security Letter requests.  National Security Letters allow the government to get detailed information on Americans’ finances and communications without oversight from a judge. The FBI has issued hundreds of thousands of NSLs.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/google-nsl-range/

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Americans – Like Nazi Germans – Don’t Notice that All of Our Rights Are Slipping Away

“More and more commonly, the government prosecutes cases based upon ‘secret evidence’ that they don’t show to the defendant … or sometimes even the judge hearing the case.  The government uses ‘secret evidence’ to spy on Americans, prosecute leaking or terrorism charges (even against U.S. soldiers) and even assassinate people. And see this and thisSecret witnesses are being used in some cases. And sometimes lawyers are not even allowed to read their own briefs.  Indeed, even the laws themselves are now starting to be kept secret. And it’s about to get a lot worse.”

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/03/17461.html

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Adam VS the TSA: Have they ever caught a terrorist?

Adam VS the TSA: Have they ever caught a terrorist?

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U.S. Government: The Truth Is Too Complicated and Dangerous to Disclose to the Public

“Secretive, unaccountable agencies are making life and death decisions which effect our most basic rights. They provide ‘secret evidence’ to courts which cannot be checked … and often withhold any such ‘evidence’ even from the judges. The government uses ‘secret evidence’ to spy on Americans, prosecute leaking or terrorism charges (even against U.S. soldiers) and even assassinate people.  All of this happened in Germany – as in America today – because the governments whipped up so much fear of attack by demonizing the enemy and declaring an open-ended war that people became complacent and stopped thinking for themselves.”

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/01/u-s-government-claims-that-the-situation-is-so-complicated-and-dangerous-that-it-must-act-on-secret-information-just-like-the-nazis.html

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Paul Craig Roberts: Obama’s Expanding Kill List

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“If the Obama regime is on the side of the government, as in Algeria, it will kill the rebels opposing the government. If the Obama regime is on the side of the rebels, as in Libya, it will kill the government’s leaders. Whether Washington sends a drone to murder Putin and the president of China remains to be seen. The elasticity of the Kill List and its easy expansion makes it certain that Washington will be involved in extra-judicial executions of those ‘associated with terrorism’ over much of the world. Americans themselves should be alarmed, because the term ‘association with terrorism’ is very elastic.”

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/02/11/obamas-expanding-kill-list-paul-craig-roberts/

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Drones, Assassinations, and the Drug War

“The Chinese military recently planned to assassinate by drone a suspected drug lord hiding out in Myanmar who was accused of having murdered 13 Chinese soldiers. While Chinese authorities ultimately decided not to carry out the assassination and ended up capturing the guy and having a court sentence him to death, the episode clearly points in the direction that both the Chinese communist regime and the U.S. government are taking their respective countries.  After all, China could justify the assassination of the suspected drug lord in the same way that the U.S. government justifies the assassination of suspected terrorists.”

http://fff.org/2013/02/21/drones-assassinations-and-the-drug-war/

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