A judge has ordered (pdf) the FBI to release agency records about its abuse of National Security Letters (NSLs) to collect Americans’ personal information. The ruling came just a day after the EFF urged (pdf) the judge to immediately respond in its lawsuit over agency delays. This is the same case in which an internal [...]
[ April 17, 2007; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Tues. April 17, 7-9 pm. “Casualties of the USA Patriot Act and the ‘War on Terror,’” a Panel Discussion with Brandon Mayfield.
Location: Washington State University - Vancouver, Administration Building Rm 110
Brandon Mayfield, who recently won a $2 million wrongful arrest lawsuit against the federal government and is continuing to challenge the constitutionality of the USA [...]
March 29, 2007 – 11:59 am
From the Columbian letters to editor today. People’s attitudes and prejudices change slowly, but thank goodness they can and do change.
Love is good, not immoral
Regarding his recent comment that homosexual acts are “immoral,” Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and recent Marshall Lecturer, is correct on one point. There is [...]
January 28, 2007 – 9:53 am
Campaigners for freedom of speech on the internet have hailed a major breakthrough after Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! agreed to join a working group to draw up a code of conduct for protecting human rights
online.
Leading IT companies have been criticised for colluding with governments, such as China, Iran and Vietnam, that censor websites and persecute [...]
January 25, 2007 – 8:18 am
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 24 (OneWorld) - At least 186 antiwar protests in the United States have been monitored by the Pentagon’s domestic surveillance program, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which also found that the Defense Department collected more than 2,800 reports involving Americans in a single anti-terrorism database.
The documents [...]
January 13, 2007 – 3:43 pm
Military Expands Intelligence Role in U.S.
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and MARK MAZZETTI
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 — The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage inside the United States, part of an aggressive expansion by the military into domestic intelligence gathering.
The [...]
December 31, 2006 – 11:49 am
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From The Raw Story
Your Mail Is Officially Not Safe
By Justin Gardner
The executive branch shall construe subsection 404(c) of title 39, as enacted by subsection 1010(e) of the Act, which provides for opening of an item of a class of mail otherwise sealed against inspection, in a manner consistent, to the maximum extent permissible, with the [...]
December 29, 2006 – 12:39 am
I normally tire of generic, year-end wrap-ups of the year, but Ken Friedman at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog has a post that is right up my alley. He’s got my picks right up top:
1) Fox News airs an infomercial for torture. On the November 3rd Greta Van Susteren show, reporter Steve Harrigan submitted himself [...]
December 27, 2006 – 11:47 am
Frightening, Orwellian technological breakthrough puts an all-seeing eye on the road, scanning every license plate and immediately relays the info to an all-encompassing database.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD4pYpD_JPI
Didn’t pay your insurance this month - or like to try to squeak by ’till the end of the month to pay your vehicle tags? This thing will get you. Not to [...]
November 10, 2006 – 11:46 pm
Robert Shetterly asks us, When is a Crime so Great it Shouldn’t be Acknowledged? It’s like everyone is still in denial regarding the verbal and physical abuse of the last six years… Please, stop enabling the criminals!
Massive crimes have been committed. Our administration has ridden roughshod on our Constitution as though it were [...]
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October 28, 2006 – 1:38 pm
Bloggers are being asked to show their support for freedom of expression by Amnesty International.
The human rights group also wants web log writers to
highlight the plight of fellow bloggers jailed for what they wrote in
their online journals.
The organisation said fundamental rights such as free speech faced graver threats than ever before.
The campaign coincides with the [...]
October 26, 2006 – 10:10 am
Genny gets it (from The Columbian). Do you? Throw the fascists out.
I have had it with the unscrupulous Bush regime and complicit Congress. I believe it used 9/11 and our troops in an illegal occupation and war to depose Saddam Hussein as clearance to assure American oil rights in Iraq.
The 9/11 [...]
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