Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform | Threat Level | Wired.comCivil rights advocates are worrying that immigration reform the Senate began debating yesterday is the first step toward a national identification system that would grow into a dossier on Americans and chronicle our most every move. That’s because buried in the more than 800-plus-page piece of bipartisan legislation is language calling for the creation of a national, biometric identification system for workers.

Freedom of the Press Foundation Crowd-Funding A Court Reporter To Transcribe Bradley Manning’s TrialCampaign will support a professional stenographer to produce transcripts and provide them to the public and press For immediate release San Francisco, CA – May 9, 2013 – Freedom of the Press Foundation is proud to announce a new fundraising campaign to hire a professional court stenographer to produce transcripts of the trial of whistleblower Bradley Manning, scheduled to begin June 3rd, 2013.

Top economist Jeffrey Sachs says Wall Street is full of ‘crooks’ and hasn’t changed since the financial crashIn a cutting attack on America’s financial hub, one of the world’s most respected economists has said Wall St is full of “crooks” and hasn’t reformed its “pathological” culture since the financial crash.

Are All Telephone Calls Recorded And Accessible To The US Government?The real capabilities and behavior of the U.S. surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things of significance done by the U.S. government, it operates behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy.

New film looks at ‘War on Whistleblowers’“There’s a schizophrenia within the administration,” said Tom Devine, legal director of the nonprofit Government Accountability Project. “It’s been Obama versus Obama on whistleblower policy. Until recently, there was a virtual free-speech advocacy for whistleblower job rights that’s unprecedented, more than any other president in history.

Combat school must disclose traineesA federal judge in Oakland says the government must release the names of Latin American military leaders it has trained at the installation formerly known as the School of the Americas, where protesters say the United States has nurtured some of the hemisphere’s worst human rights abusers.

Ron Paul slams Boston police. Has he gone too far?Former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul has slammed US law enforcement for responding to the Boston Marathon bombing with “police state tactics.” In a post on the website of libertarian activist Lew Rockwell, Mr. Paul said Monday that the governmental reaction to the tragic explosions was worse than the attack itself.

FBI Report Implicates Saudi Government in 9/11But “We Can’t Afford to Irritate the Saudis” By Actually Looking Into Who Backed 9/11 … “Especially with Oil Prices Going Up Now” Contrary to the official narrative, 9/11 was state-sponsored terror. The only question is which state sponsored it.

O’Connor questions court’s decision to take Bush v. GoreRetired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor hasn’t given much thought to which was the most important case she helped decide during her 25 years on the bench. But she has no doubt which was the most controversial. It was Bush v. Gore, which ended the Florida recount and decided the 2000 presidential election.

The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever | Politics News | Rolling StoneIllustration by Victor Juhasz Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

U.S. gives big, secret push to Internet surveillanceJustice Department agreed to issue “2511 letters” immunizing AT&T and other companies participating in a cybersecurity program from criminal prosecution under the Wiretap Act, according to new documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

“Looking Forward, Not Backward” Is Not Only Stupid … It’s Also IllegalObama’s Failure to Prosecute Wall Street Fraud Or Torture Harms Our Country … And Violates the Law Failing to prosecute the fraud of the big banks is dooming our economy. But it’s also illegal. Specifically, one of the top experts on bank fraud – William K.

WikiLeaks wins case against Visa contractor ordered to pay ‘$204k per month if blockade not lifted’ – RT NewsIceland’s Supreme Court has ruled that Valitor (formerly Visa Iceland) must pay WikiLeaks $204,900 per month or $2,494,604 per year in fines if it continues to blockade the whistle-blowing site. The court upheld the decision that Valitor had unlawfully terminated its contract with WikiLeaks’ donation processor, DataCell.

Court denies bank in case against Boca mansion squatterWorking with Boca Raton police, Bank of America Thursday seized the $2.5 million home where Andre “Loki Boy” Barbosa had been living since December Find Loki Boy. That’s the order from a Palm Beach County judge.

Mirabile Dictu! Someone (Bankruptcy Trustee Freeh) Finally Sues Jon Corzine Over MF Global ” naked capitalismThe great unwashed public might get to enjoy a bit of theater. MF Global bankruptcy trustee Louis Freeh filed suit against Jon Corzine and two other MF Global executives, Brad Abelow and Henri Steenkamp, for running the firm into the ground for breach of fiduciary duty of care, breach of fiduciary duty of loyalty, and breach of fiduciary duty of oversight.

Law professor makes a case for legally recognizing the Dangers of SurveillanceThe Dangers of Surveillance, written by Neil M. Richards, Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, was recently published on the Social Science Research Network. In it, Richards proposed “four principles that should guide the future development of surveillance law.”

Hunger Striking at Guantánamo BayGUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago. I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my dignity.

What rights should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get and why does it matter?Shortly before Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an American citizen, was apprehended last night, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham advocated on Twitter that the Boston Marathon bombing suspect be denied what most Americans think of as basic rights. “If captured,” Graham wrote, I hope [the] Administration will at least consider holding the Boston suspect as [an] enemy combatant for intelligence gathering purposes.”

Let’s Sue Wall Street: SEC’s Aguilar – ForbesIn searching for a better way of policing Wall Street, SEC commissioner Luis Aguilar is onto something: Let investors sue their advisers the way they could sue their doctors for malpractice.

‘No justification’ for US torturing terror suspects – ‘Truth Commission’ report – RT NewsA leading bipartisan think-tank says it is “indisputable” that the US tortured captives in the aftermath of 9/11. The report condemned the country’s detention practices as “a grave error” using the testimonies of dozens of inmates and officials.