“Dookhan was paroled after three years and released from prison before the sentences of those she helped convict were vacated. Despite the clear wrongdoing, the state still fought against dismissing the tainted cases.”
“Shortly before the Waco showdown, U.S. government officials signed an international Chemical Weapons Convention treaty. But the treaty contained a loophole permitting governments to gas their own people.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/383407-bitter-lessons-25-years-after-waco-texas-siege
“The same entities that are supposed to act as the ‘Fourth Estate’, holding the U.S. government accountable, blindly supported reports of a chemical attack that has yet to be verified.”
“Cell-phone tracking technology known as cell-site simulators (CSS) are being operated by potentially malicious actors in our nation’s capital. DHS doesn’t know who’s operating them or why, or whether these fake cell towers are installed elsewhere in the country.”
Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/dhs-confirms-presence-cell-site-simulators-us-capitol
“The origins of the present-day surveillance state can be traced back to the U.S. government’s military occupation of the Philippines in the late 1890s.”
Read more: http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/30/u-s-foreign-intervention-created-domestic-surveillance-state/
“The ability to combine this location data with information about who appears in those photos—and any social media contacts tied to them—would make it possible for government agencies to quickly track terrorist groups posting propaganda photos. (And, really, just about anyone else.)”
“The next time someone warns about the potential for domestic abuse of supposed national security measures, do not dismiss him or her as a neurotic libertarian.”
“Baltimore officials are either ignoring the data, which show traffic cameras cause more harm than good, or, more plausibly, they just want to extort money out of drivers.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/baltimores-failed-surveillance-regime/
“An elite police squad robbing its own citizens, stealing thousands of dollars and re-selling confiscated drugs — all seven cops were on the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force.”
“The public sexual assault of this innocent man turned up nothing. What’s more, the footage of the attack was hidden from public view and only discovered by accident.”