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Drone Club
The first rule of Fight Club? You don’t talk about Fight Club. Obama isn’t a member of Fight Club; he’s a member of Drone Club — which targets individuals in foreign lands, including American citizens...
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Glenn Greenwald on Indefinite Detention
I expected to spend quite some time writing about the Obama administration’s successful appeal against Katherine Forrest’s historic gutting of the indefinite detention provision of the NDAA. Yet I can...
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Standing Up to Extradition
It took ten years, but finally Theresa May, the British Home Secretary, has denied the United States’ extradition request for Gary McKinnon, the British hacker who broke into the Pentagon and NASA....
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Thoughtcrime in Britain
A 19-year old man was arrested yesterday for the supposed crime of burning a Remembrance Poppy and posting a picture of the incident on Facebook. A teenager arrested on Remembrance Sunday on suspicion...
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Betray Us
A beautiful cartoon that exposes the absurdity of the Petraeus saga: A radical idea: instead of carrying out assassinations based on secret kill lists, perhaps the Federal government could start...
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Jamie
Warren Buffett wants to give Jamie Dimon a job: On the Charlie Rose show [last month], Buffett was asked what kind of message it would send if President Obama picked Jamie Dimon or another Wall Street...
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America Loves Drone Strikes
This graph shows everything we need to know about the geopolitical reality of Predator Drones (coming soon to the skies of America to hunt down fugitives?). The American public loves drone strikes: The...
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On PRISM
First, I want to congratulate the NSA-leaker Edward Snowden for his courage and the great service he has done to Americans and to the world in exposing the NSA’s PRISM surveillance programs. The man...
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How the NSA is hurting America’s tech industry — and helping China’s
The recent revelations about internet surveillance by the National Security Agency have created a “level of uncertainty or concern” among Cisco System’s customers internationally, says CFO Frank...
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Do Americans really prioritize security over freedom?
Jake Tapper of CNN raised eyebrows recently by claiming that “the American people, honestly, want security over freedom.” That would seem to be a big departure from the ideals of, say, Benjamin...
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