“Thanks to a combination of sloppy drafting and clear reluctance to take the executive branch head-on, Corker and Kaine’s proposed AUMF could do the opposite, handing genuinely tyrannical powers over to the president.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/01/ndaa-2018-aumf-detention/
“It was a banality of evil that characterized the mindsets of bureaucrats who worked in the Nazi governmental machinery. They were just enforcing the rules. It is that banality of evil that pervades the bureaucracy that enforces the U.S. federal war on drugs.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/03/09/banality-evil-war-drugs/
“The Defense Department is funding a project that officials say could revolutionize the way companies, federal agencies and the military itself verify that people are who they say they are and it could be available in most commercial smartphones within two years.”
“The woman shot was between the ages of 16 and 24 and was shot ‘in the head with a single gunshot.'”
“70 years ago, one out of every 20 U.S. jobs required a state license; today, almost 1 in 3 American occupations requires a license.”
“They didn’t find a crime, but they did find a picture of Charles with marijuana from over a year prior. Based on that picture, his visa was revoked.”
“The CIA had granted Provisional Security Approval to Bohning on Aug. 21, 1967, and Covert Security Approval on Nov. 14 of the same year. Bohning was given the cryptonym AMCARBON-3.”
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/article210234214.html
“The Corker-Kaine AUMF is beyond dangerous. It is unconstitutional. And it is set up to never end.”
“Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm has decided that the two cops responsible for this horrifying incident will not be charged.”
Read more: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/innocent-man-killed-police-shower-taser/
“What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater.”