Feds Fight To Prevent NSA Disclosures In Criminal CasesSolicitor General Donald Verrilli and Sen. Dianne Feinstein have put federal prosecutors in quite a bind after they made public comments about the use of secret NSA surveillance in terrorism investigations.
The Border Is a Back Door for U.S. Device SearchesNewly released documents reveal how the government uses border crossings to seize and examine travelers’ electronic devices instead of obtaining a search warrant to gain access to the data.
Households On Foodstamps Rise To New Record High: More Americans Live In Poverty Than The Population Of SpainThere was much discussion of Friday’s “disappointing” non-farm payrolls goal-seeked, seasonally adjusted, X-13-ARIMA conceived jobs “number.”The conclusion was that it showed an economy which one year after the start of QEternity was growing nowhere near where the Fed has projected and hoped it would be at this time.
‘Flooding the Zone’ with Bullshit on SyriaIn philosophy circles, is a technical term denoting a claim presented as “fact” although its veracity has not been established. The truth value of bullshit is largely irrelevant to its propagators. Bullshit is disseminated in the service of particular ends, typically opaque to the audience.
LAPD vs. PhotographersWhen photographer Shawn Nee began taking photos around Los Angeles, he never thought that his camera would get him in trouble with police. Nee has been shooting the sights of Los Angeles for years, but he has also been repeatedly detained for doing his job. He has never been charged with a crime.
Civil liberties coalition wants Congress to probe DEA spy programReuters / Andy Sullivan Concerns over the United States government’s vast surveillance apparatus aren’t subsiding, even three months after former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden first started leaking national security documents.
UN: press should not be ‘intimidated into silence’ over state secretsTwo senior UN representatives have warned the British government that the protection of state secrets must not be used as an excuse to “intimidate the press into silence” following the detention of David Miranda under the Terrorism Act.
Gagged: Federal court says accused hacktivist Barrett Brown can’t speak to the pressBarrett Brown A federal court approved a media gag-order on Wednesday preventing imprisoned writer-turned-hacktivist Barrett Brown and his attorneys from speaking to the media about their case.
Your Labor Day Syria Reader, Part 2: William PolkMany times I’ve mentioned the foreign-policy assessments of William R. Polk, at right, who first wrote for the Atlantic (about Iraq) during Dwight Eisenhower’s administration, back in 1958, and served on the State Department’s Policy Planning staff during the Kennedy years. He now has sent in a detailed analysis about Syria.
Supreme Court to rule on fate of indefinite detention for Americans under NDAAReuters / Larry Downing The United States Supreme Court is being asked to hear a federal lawsuit challenging the military’s legal ability to indefinitely detain persons under the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, or NDAA.
How Intelligence Was Twisted to Support an Attack on Syriautilizes misleading language evocative of the infamous Iraq estimate’s deceptive phrasing. The summary cites signals, geospatial and human source intelligence that purportedly show that the Syrian government prepared, carried out and “confirmed” a chemical weapons attack on August 21. And it claims visual evidence “consistent with” a nerve gas attack.
Tennessee to roll out “No Refusal” blood-draw DUI checkpoints for Labor DayTENNESSEE — Labor Day: another holiday, another excuse to push the limits of the police power over citizens. All across the state, Tennessee police will be performing another round of highly-publicized “no refusal” blood-draw DUI checkpoints this weekend.
Syria intervention plan fueled by oil interests, not chemical weapon concernOn 21 August, hundreds – perhaps over a thousand – people were killed in a chemical weapon attack in Ghouta, Damascus, prompting the US, UK, Israel and France to raise the spectre of military strikes against Bashir al Assad’s forces. The latest episode is merely one more horrific event in a conflict that has increasingly taken on genocidal characteristics.
CNN Caught Staging News Segments on Syria With ActorsAnderson Cooper and CNN have been caught staging fake news about Syria to justify military intervention. The primary “witness” that the mainstream media is using as a source in Syria has been caught staging fake news segments.
Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’sFor at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that contains the records of decades of Americans’ phone calls – parallel to but covering a far longer time than the National Security Agency ‘s hotly disputed collection of phone call logs.
Hungary Sheds Bankers’ Shackles | American Free PressAccording to a report on the German-language website “National Journal,” Orbán has now moved to unseat the usurers from their throne. The popular, nationalistic that Hungary neither wants nor needs further “assistance” from that proxy of the Rothschild-owned prime minister told the IMF Federal Reserve Bank.
Rebels Admit Responsibility for Chemical Weapons AttackMilitants tell AP reporter they mishandled Saudi-supplied chemical weapons, causing accident Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com August 30, 2013 Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have admitted to Associated Press correspondent Dale Gavlak that they were responsible for last week’s chemical weapons incident which western powers have blamed on Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, revealing that the casualties were the result of an accident caused by rebels mishandling chemical weapons provided to them by Saudi Arabia.