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By 2010, the Phoenix Police Department will accept only blood evidence. Phoenix joins Mesa, Scottsdale, Chandler and Peoria police departments in the switch, and Tempe police could follow; officials there are re-evaluating whether breath evidence is
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Attorneys are putting new scrutiny on a practice that has become common among law enforcement — having officers, not medical personnel, draw blood with syringes in suspected drunken driving cases.
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Is Congress so venal and inept as to not fully learn and explain what is going on with telcos helping the government snoop on their constituents's phone calls more than a year after this article came out?
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Mark Yannone provides a video of three women recently arrested in a public space for reading the Constitution while a pro war rally was taking place off at a distance.
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Here's a timeline of the cooperation between telecoms and the NSA and the use of fiber optics. Qwest is mentioned here as well.
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"We are the first in Calderdale to introduce the scheme but it doesn't scare us at all. We are very proud and excited to be in that position," said Patrick O'Conner, headmaster of Todmorden High School.
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The National Security Agency and other government agencies retaliated against Qwest because the Denver telco refused to go along with a phone spying program, documents released Wednesday suggest.
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President Bush said he will not sign a new eavesdropping measure that would restrict surveillance in foreign countries and would deny immunity to US telecommunications companies that helped the government conduct warrantless wiretapping after the Sep
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BAE Systems claims it is able to automatically follow a target even if they change their appearance by changing their clothes or hiding beneath a hat.
BAE Systems claims it is able to automatically follow a target even if they change their appearance by changing their clothes or hiding beneath a hat.
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The Rev. John H. Thomas, president of the United Church of Christ, was arrested Wednesday outside the White House while attempting to deliver a pastoral letter
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The Senate is preparing to introduce a foreign surveillance law update that would shield telecommunications companies from litigation or prosecution over their assistance in the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program institute
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We find another President that believes his office is immune from prosecution for violations of the law. The difference between Nixon, Clinton and Bush, is that the media put Congress under great pressure to act after their complicity were uncovered.
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Some 280 motorcyclists were stopped during a motorcycle safety checkpoint Sunday, Oct. 7 on Interstate 84 in Dutchess County by the New York State Police, in conjunction with local police and the NYS Department of Motor Vehicles Field Investigations
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"One of the most frightening realities of teaching college history is that most students rarely have a clue what fascism is."
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Washington has angered Canada's airlines with a proposal to order them to hand over personal information about passengers who take flights that go south over U.S. airspace en route to sunny destinations. [fingerprints and retinal patterns next, e
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The first robobug, the "insectothopter," was developed by the CIA back in the 1970s. It "looked just like a dragonfly and contained a tiny gasoline engine to make the four wings flap," but it couldn't handle the crosswinds.
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House Democrats pushed their government eavesdropping bill through two committees on Wednesday with only minor changes, setting the stage for a confrontation with the Bush adminstration. President Bush said he would not sign the bill if it
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...those same high-ranking government officials are upset at the level of publicity this story has been getting, and especially with the publication of videos documenting harassment and threats by U.S. Marshals and “Treasury agents.”
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The motion, filed Tuesday in federal court, comes after an immigration official testified in the Senate last month that 50 immigrants over a seven-month period were forced to take psychotropic drugs. Many of them had no psychiatric diagnosis.
"You will be attacked and reviled for engaging in honest politics, but you must persevere. Lay down an investment in dukkha [suffering] and you will gain sukha [bliss]."
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Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month. "I heard someone say, 'Oh my god, look at those,' " the NY college senior said. "I look up and I'm like, 'What the hell is that?
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Blackwater, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Gruman, and Arinc were awarded $15 billion to conduct global counter-narcotics operations, including inside the US.
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What is the State Secrets Privilege, and why should it concern us?
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Congressional leaders delayed announcing permanent changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act Friday, giving civil liberties advocates more time to push for explicit judicial oversight of surveillance aimed at Americans.
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Another shocking example of police brutality has been caught on camera showing a cop nearly breaking a girl's arm, punching her and then pepper spraying her in the face as she cries after being arrested for violating a city curfew.
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Hoping to deter crime by expanding the use of surveillance cameras, Aberdeen passed a measure empowering the city government and police to require developers to install cameras at "strategic locations" before a development permit is issued.
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It is a chilling, dystopian account of what Britain will look like 10 years from now; a world in which Fortress Britain uses fleets of tiny spy-planes to watch its citizens.
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Satire became reality Friday afternoon when half a dozen armed federal agents wearing body armor showed up at this author’s home and detained everyone in the house for nearly 90 minutes to determine who might pose a threat to the government.
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Sheriff's deputies have been competing in organized contests to see who could make the most arrests, who could impound the most cars and who could question the most gang members. The games were meant to boost morale and motivate deputies, but som
