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NSA spying illegal, even under the unconstitutional Patriot Act

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“Last week, Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., introduced an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill that would have limited the NSA’s blanket collection of metadata to those ‘relevant to a national security investigation.’ The Patriot Act is unconstitutional, according to any reasonable interpretation of the Fourth Amendment. The NSA’s activities do not even meet the lower standards set by the Patriot Act; they are illegal even under an unconstitutional law.”

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/reawakening-liberty/2013/aug/5/nsa-spying-illegal-even-under-unconstitutional-pat/

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Obama’s abuse of the Espionage Act is modern-day McCarthyism

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“President Obama has been unprecedented in his use of the Espionage Act to prosecute those whose whistleblowing he wants to curtail. The purpose of an Espionage Act prosecution, however, is not to punish a person for spying for the enemy, selling secrets for personal gain, or trying to undermine our way of life. It is to ruin the whistleblower personally, professionally and financially. It is meant to send a message to anybody else considering speaking truth to power: challenge us and we will destroy you. Only ten people in American history have been charged with espionage for leaking classified information, seven of them under Barack Obama.”

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/06/obama-abuse-espionage-act-mccarthyism

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NEW Spying Scandal — Is This One the Last Straw?

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“The DEA unit responsible for this program is a secret organization. It cannot be investigated by defense attorneys or called into court. Even the location of the Special Operations Division is classified. Now Your so-called ‘representatives’ promised you that the NSA only spies on those associated with foreign terrorists. They’ve insisted that there is no domestic aspect to this spying. You now know this to be untrue. It’s just one more lie. So let me ask you … When will enough be enough ? At what point does our so-called government cease to be legitimate? At what point do we declare it to be a criminal entity?”

http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/new-spying-scandal-is-this-one-the-last-straw

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CIA Should Probably Stop Having Drones Fire Again On Whoever Shows Up After a Strike

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“Double tapping is sure to make even those who support the use of drones at least a little queasy. To many, it is uncomfortably similar to the tactics used by some of the terrorists we are supposed to be morally superior to: Hamas, for example. Some argue that it is a violation of international law, including at least one UN official. At the very least, it is a risky tactic for a country that holds itself up as an example of rectitude in the world and it weakens our moral authority. Worse yet, it creates a justification that could be used against us by future enemies who don’t even pretend to have our level of regard for human life.”

http://www.policymic.com/articles/57747/cia-should-probably-stop-having-drones-fire-again-on-whoever-shows-up-after-a-strike

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After the Manning verdict, four big issues remain untouched

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“Mr. Manning’s lawyer, David Coombs, was ambiguous: ‘We won the battle, now we need to go win the war… Today is a good day, but Bradley is by no means out of the fire.’ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, himself a fugitive and holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, described the verdict on Twitter as ‘dangerous national security extremism.’ If reflecting on what to make of the verdict seems difficult, consider this. The most critical issues of public policy raised by the Manning case have yet to be broached.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/after-the-manning-verdict-four-big-issues-remain-untouched/article13523220/

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Guilty of Aiding the American People

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“The ‘aiding the enemy’ accusation presumed that Manning’s distribution of classified material assisted al Qaeda. Actually, the information helps Americans by exposing U.S. war criminality. War criminality ranks among the most important types of government wrongdoing warranting transparency. We cannot debate foreign policy without knowing about its indecencies. What U.S. forces do abroad can endanger Americans at home. Some see the leaks, not the crimes, as the true scandal, but the Muslim and Arab world already know of these atrocities. The American people need to understand what U.S. occupations are like.”

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=4678

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Jacob Hornberger: The Real Criminals Under Our National-Security State System

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“People Who Are Considered Heroes by the National-Security State: 1. The officials who devised the scheme that plunged America into the illegal world of torture.  2. The officials who actually committed the crime of torture. 3. The officials who induced private telecommunication firms to engage in illegal monitoring of their customer’s telephone calls. 4. The officials who devised the scheme that plunged America into the illegal world of assassination. 5. The officials who have actually committed the assassinations. 6. The officials who devised the scheme to establish a Constitution-free torture and indefinite-incarceration zone at Guantanamo Bay. […]”

http://fff.org/2013/07/31/the-real-criminals-under-our-national-security-state-system/

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U.S. allowed Italian kidnap prosecution to shield higher-ups, ex-CIA officer says

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“A former CIA officer has broken the U.S. silence around the 2003 abduction of a radical Islamist cleric in Italy, charging that the agency inflated the threat the preacher posed and that the United States then allowed Italy to prosecute her and other Americans to shield President George W. Bush and other U.S. officials from responsibility for approving the operation.  De Sousa is one of only a handful of former CIA officers who’ve spoken openly about the secret renditions in which suspected terrorists overseas were abducted without legal proceedings and then interrogated by other nations’ security services. More than 130 people were ‘rendered’ in this way.”

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/07/27/197823/us-allowed-italian-kidnap-prosecution.html

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J’ACCUSE … !

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“I address you as ‘president’ only as a concession to popular convention. In truth, your claimed authority is a fraud, and your actual status is that of defendant in the matter of the persecution of Bradley Manning. It was clear to all who cared to notice that Manning is no criminal but rather the worthy nemesis of a crime syndicate formally headed by yourself. He was wrongfully arrested, illegally detained without charge for a period far in excess of the legally prescribed maximums, and finally and illegally put on trial not for his alleged criminal acts but for exposing your crimes and the crimes of your gang, ‘the government of the United States.'”

http://c4ss.org/content/20576

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What we know thanks to Bradley Mannning’s leaks to WikiLeaks

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“Bradley Manning, a 25-year-old US private, downloaded more than 700,000 classified documents from US military servers and passed them to WikiLeaks. The Guardian was one of several news organisations to publish a series of stories based on the contents of the files. Below are 10 of the most revelatory.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/30/what-we-know-thanks-to-bradley-mannnings-leaks-to-wikileaks/

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