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Austin PD was using electricity bills to get search warrants for marijuana grow operations.
Austin PD was using electricity bills to get search warrants for marijuana grow operations.
The federal government's efforts to create a standardized, secure driver's license that would also serve as a national ID card have hit significant stumbling blocks. 8 states will not participate in the program. 9 others oppose it. Legislatio
The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Act of 2007 now makes us all enemies of the state. Under the terms of this legislation the Founders of the United States of America have become criminals. Ya just shuffle off into bondage and be ha
Is this a 'Trial Run for the USA'?
The danger is that a bleeding of Blackwater into US airport security in general would affect a coup in essence -- quite quickly and serenely -- even as a coup in fact need not be declared.
At issue is whether the procedure whereby the government can subpoena stored copies of your email - similar to the way they could simply subpoena any physical mail sitting on your desk - is unconstitutionally broad.
A report by police chiefs lists more than 5,000 offenses that qualify for lifelong inclusion on the database. Anyone arrested for any of the crimes will have his or her DNA taken and stored.
After passing, the agent pulled in front of me and slammed on his brakes before he finished working his way back into the East-bound travel lane. This extremely unsafe maneuver placed me in imminent danger of a collision and forced me to apply my bra
Pakistan's President Pervez Muasharraf has declared emergency rule and suspended the country's constitution.
Ten Shell gas stations in the Windy City are testing biometric systems that let consumers walk up to the pump, scan their fingertips on a device and fill up their vehicles.
European countries have been busy enacting controversial mandatory data retention laws. Now draft legislation by the German government would make it easier to monitor virtually all communications by journalists.
State and local cops harassed over 6,242 drivers at the largest suspicionless dragnet checkpoint operation ever conducted in the Pittsburgh area. Cops searched for everything from seatbelt violations to drugs on those unlucky enough to be caught up i
The truth of what happened to him, and why, lies shrouded in the fog of endless war, and in the fog of work as well — that odd space where strangers are forced to co-exist for years on end. In that double blindness, even if the parties involved could
The FBI asked several phone companies to analyze phone-call patterns of Americans using a technology called “communities of interest”. Verizon refused, saying that it didn’t have any such technology. AT&T, famously, did not refuse.
The first Tucson Police checkpoint in 12 years was set up in midtown during this Halloween weekend. 22 cops harassed 868 sober drivers in order to collect on overtime pay being handed out like candy by federal funding agencies.
Paul Jacob, political reformer, libertarian and prominent term-limit activist, is in major legal trouble again. As some readers may know, in the early 1980s Jacob spent five and a half months in prison for resisting draft registration and thus violat
What happens when you challenge Photo Radar?... Police Helicopers follow your children with spot lights shining through the windshield. This story is just starting to mature. (Oh,... it's a City of Mesa Thing :)
...But the FBI still insists that its agent did nothing wrong. And the feds swayed the court to suppress that portion of a recent decision detailing how the FBI agent used the threat of torture to break an innocent man.
The House is expected to pass a bill Tuesday that would establish a commission to study the roots of homegrown terrorism. Homeland Security will survey the methodologies implemented by foreign nations to prevent domestic terrorism and
A Wal-Mart employee was arrested Monday after he took cell phone pictures of a shopper’s bottom, Round Rock police said. Reactions from around the Web.
In 2002 David DeGroote sold a louver device on TV that prevented photo ticketing. He has been in Gov't. crosshairs ever since. The back story is important to understand how we are building to a confrontation between the people, and the gang with
Another story out of Mesa that is evolving into an example of how the relationship between government and the people got so strained. This family's frustration is joined by millions of others across the country. More signs of r3VOLution.
"It undermines the authority of the list," says Lisa Graves of the Center for National Security Studies. "There's just no rational, reasonable estimate that there's anywhere close to that many suspected terrorists
The women say they shouldn’t be on the database - which is supposed to inform border officials about serious crimes - and that the FBI hasn’t explained why they’re on it.
The women say they shouldn’t be on the database - which is supposed to inform border officials about serious crimes - and that the FBI hasn’t explained why they’re on it.
This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the Constitution and defines thought crimes as homegrown terrorism. If passed into law, it will also establish a commission to study and defeat so called thought criminals. Unlike previous anti-te
Police may inflict permanent physical damage while forcibly taking blood from a motorist accused of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI), according to a decision by the appellate division of the New Jersey Superior Court.
"University of Florida police were justified in using a Taser against a student who refused to stop questioning Sen. John Kerry on campus last month," according to a state investigation. "Our officers acted well within state guidelines
Peace activists who were denied entry into Canada because their arrests for protesting the Iraq war landed them on an FBI-run database say they will try again to enter the country. Demanding Canada reverse a policy that keeps war foes from visiting