Diebold Charged With Bribery, Falsifying Docs, “Worldwide Pattern of Criminal Conduct”Truthout depends on you to continue producing grassroots journalism and disseminating conscientious visions for a brighter future. Contribute now by clicking here! One of the world’s largest ATM manufacturers and, formerly, one of the largest manufacturers of electronic voting systems, has been indicted by federal prosecutors for bribery and falsification of documents.

Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit ‘Radicalizers’WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches, according to a top-secret NSA document.

Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on OccupyIt was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police.

NSA collection of US phone records violates constitutional rights, ACLU says in courtReuters / Pawel Kopczynski The legality of the US government’s mass collection of domestic phone data was challenged Friday in a federal courtroom as being an overly broad interpretation of the Patriot Act that violates Americans’ constitutional rights, the ACLU argued.

Texas drivers pulled over at random, told to turn over blood, saliva samplesAFP Photo / Frederic J. Brown Dozens of Texas drivers have been stopped at a police road block, where they were then directed into a parking lot and forced into surrendering blood, saliva and breath samples in a study that has upset civil liberties advocates.

Senators lend support to lawsuit against NSA collection of US phone recordsA group of Democratic senators filed a brief in federal court Tuesday in support of a lawsuit aiming to end the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records. A friend-of-the-court brief was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Sens.

NSA broke its own rules in ‘virtually every’ record, declassified documents showA woman wearing oversized sunglasses lettered with the words “stop spying” listens to speakers during the Stop Watching Us Rally protesting surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency, on October 26, 2013.(AFP Photo / Allison Shelley)

Hammond supporters publish alleged list of foreign targets that FBI had him hackDuring the sentencing hearing of convicted hacker Jeremy Hammond on Friday, the young Chicagoan began to read from his prepared statement, saying that he had been directed to hack various foreign government websites by Anonymous leader turned FBI informant Sabu. Further Reading Judge cites “unrepentant recidivism” as the reason for a maximum sentence.

Meet the punk rocker who can liberate your FBI fileRyan Shapiro has just wrapped up a talk at Boston’s Suffolk University Law School, and as usual he’s surrounded by a gaggle of admirers. The crowd­, consisting of law students, academics, and activist types, is here for a panel discussion on the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a 2006 law targeting activists whose protest actions lead to a “loss of profits” for industry.

Confirmed: CIA, NSA, IRS collected and shared Americans’ personal informationReuters / Handout On a mission to detect untrustworthy employees, nearly 30 government agencies collected and shared the personal information of thousands of Americans, many of whom had no ties to the federal government. A list of 4,904 people was created by US officials investigating two men for allegedly teaching people how to pass polygraph tests.

Over 3,200 US prisoners serving life sentences for non-violent offenses including shoplifting – reportReuters / Robert Galbraith Over 3,200 people in the United States are serving life sentences without parole for non-violent and often petty offenses – and taxpayers are paying billions to keep them locked up, according to a new report.

Spying Breaks Telemarketing Rules | Public KnowledgeIt’s like getting Al Capone for tax evasion. The CIA and AT&T figured out how to get around legal restrictions on giving the CIA access to domestic phone call information, but in doing so they violated a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule that protects you against telemarketing.

Hospital bills man for rectal search he was forced to undergo by policeReuters / John Gress / Files A minor traffic stop went nightmarishly wrong for a New Mexico man who was detained by police and forced to undergo a series of anal probes and other medical examinations against his will.

Billboard advocating jury nullification concerns local prosecutorsSince the billboard went up this month, District prosecutors have been worried that the message could sway their cases. In the past week alone, they have asked judges in three ­cases to ensure that jurors had neither seen nor been influenced by the billboard.

Judge defeats challenge to ‘medical gag order’ on health risks from frackingPennsylvania authorities have denied a doctor the right to challenge a so-called “medical gag rule” that prevents him and other physicians from warning the public about the health dangers associated with fracking.

Morales to file crimes against humanity charges at ICC against USIt may be finally getting to the point where the world has had enough of a certain country dictating to it, bombing it and attempting to shape it in its own morally bankrupt and ignorant image.

‘Homeland Stupidity’ creator sues NSA, DHSImage from cafepress.com A designer from Minnesota is suing the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security for attempting to take down his parody products. Earlier this year, 38-year-old Dan McCall, owner of the website LibertyManiacs.com, was selling T-shirts and other items featuring parodied logos of both the NSA and DHS on the online merchandising platform Zazzle.

Federal Prosecutors, in a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps as EvidenceWASHINGTON – The Justice Department for the first time has notified a criminal defendant that evidence being used against him came from a warrantless wiretap, a move that is expected to set up a Supreme Court test of whether such eavesdropping is constitutional.

Avast, me hearties! Antigua to legally pirate US copyrighted worksA long, long time ago in a blog far, far away, I discussed the interesting story of how Antigua was economically damaged by the United States’ clamp down on Internet gambling in the early ’00s (see the original posting below). Yep … Antigua and Barbuda is that little dot.

Crackdown on Lavabit violated Constitution, ACLU and EFF claimOpponents of the United States government’s use of subpoenas to compromise an encrypted email service call the court’s actions unreasonable and unnecessary, and say the result of the catastrophic security event is a chilling effect felt around the world.