Similar to counterparts in Afghanistan, the craft will deploy from rural South Dakota and reach a maximum altitude of 65,000 feet.…
Surveillance
Precedent
At least with our homes we have some reasonable ways to know whether or not a government agent has entered…
The extent of their work
“How much phone metadata does the government (and soon the phone companies) actually collect?… What other kinds of data does…
Salesman of the Surveillance State
Via Scott “Big Government” Walker supports NSA domestic spying program @ Blogging Blue.
Lawyer Doubts Sensenbrenner Knew About Patriot Act Abuses
Via Snowden lawyer backs up Sensenbrenner comments on NSA @ JS All Politics Blog.
Peak Investigative Activism?
Via “For about a year, the global enterprise you might call Glenn Greenwald, Inc. has been taking off like a…
John Kerry talks tough
The Secretary of State did not hold back. Snowden is a traitor and a bum. He was probably a mean…
PR
….Frankly, it’s time for the president to face the music on this issue. Dancing around it is awkward, it is…
The NSA gets what it wants
….Justin Amash, who had originally co-sponsored the act, voted against it. Why? “This morning’s bill maintains and codifies a large-scale,…
Legislature sends drone-restriction bill to Gov. Walker
Via Drones bill passes state Senate @ JS Dogged Blog.
Sensenbrenner joins the ACLU…at least for a lawsuit
U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) has filed a friend of the court brief in support of an American Civil Liberties…
America used to have a Sixth Amendment
… to be confronted with the witnesses against him ; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor,……
Drudge runs ‘The top 12 “Big Sis” banners
Sec. Napolitano may be leaving Homeland Security, but she’ll not be forgotten. [It’s hard to argue with Althouse’s pick for…
NSA domestic surveillance draws Jagger’s ire at Verizon Center concert
“I don’t think President Obama is here tonight… But I’m sure he’s listening in.” Via Mick Jagger Disses Obama @…
Water’s as important as it is ubiquitous
What, though, worries the National Security Agency so much about ordinary environmentalists? Via The water-drinker’s bible: our arid outlook or…
Edward Snowden as an American hero
Praise for a top-three whistleblower. Via I think that Snowden is a hero, in spite of media derision @ Blogging…
Congressman Sensenbrenner may tout his authorship of the Patriot Act
Conservative National Review, however, deprecates his self-professed role. Via Conservative National Review hits conservative Jim Sensenbrenner on Patriot Act By…
Congressman Sensenbrenner senses… lawsuits
I don’t think that the (Obama) administration was concerned about” litigation over privacy violations, Sensenbrenner said. “They ought to be…
Americans can’t evaluate surreptitious surveillance programs…
…as long as they remain surreptitious. Via The show continues @ GarveyBlog.
Edward Snowden leaked some of the NSA’s most precious secrets
Meanwhile, defenders of the Obama Administration were hard to find. Via Daniel Ellsberg says “there has not been in American…