Neither Freedom nor Safety
• https://www.lewrockwell.comlIn their continuous efforts to create the impression that the government is doing something to keep Americans safe, politicians in Washington have misled and lied to the public.
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In their continuous efforts to create the impression that the government is doing something to keep Americans safe, politicians in Washington have misled and lied to the public.
THE GOOD NEWS: Americans have a right to freely express themselves on the Internet, including making threatening--even violent--statements on Facebook, provided that they don't intend to actually inflict harm.
THE BAD NEWS: Congress' legislative "fix," intended to mollify critics of the NSA, will ensure that the agency is not in any way hindered in its ability to keep spying on Americans' communications.
In their continuous efforts to create the impression that the government is doing something to keep Americans safe, politicians in Washington have misled and lied to the public. They have created a false sense of security
For my next amazing illusion, I will rename the Patriot Act, the Freedom Act.
The planes, which are equipped with video and cellphone technology at times, are being managed behind fake companies to mask government involvement
Update: ALL THE BOMB THREATS TO U.S. PLANES FOUND NOT CREDIBLE: CNBC - You don't say. Now let's find the NSA agent who dialed them in.
Two days after Congress let the phone-records collection and several other anti-terror programs expire, the Senate's 67-32 vote sent the legislation to President Barack Obama, who signed it Tuesday night.
Forget the White House's doomsday talk about American intelligence going blind. Thanks to backdoor provisions and alternate collection schemes, U.S. spies will keep on snooping. In other words, there's a zombie Patriot Act--one that lives on, t
The White House refused to reconsider its legal pursuit of Edward Snowden on Monday, while it sought to take credit for outlawing the bulk telephone surveillance programme he revealed.
Paul Rosenberg (Freeman's Perspective) talks about the NSA - Derrick Broze (The Houston Freethinkers) on his activism in Houston - Tarrin Lupo (Author; Chiropractor; Pastoral Medicine) gives us an update on what he has been up to
and the hammer comes down.
I have been following the political circus surrounding the expiration of certain sections of the PATRIOT Act, and I can't seem to get worked up about it.
Is the Patriot Act gone forever? What exactly is the USA Freedom Act? Can the government still monitor terrorist groups? Here's what you need to know
Provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act are set to expire at midnight on May 31st. Will Congress act to save the surveillance...and will the NSA stop spying on us if they don't?
New technology is designed to crack down on financial fraudsters by using big data
Sweeping intelligence capabilities exposed by Edward Snowden shut down as hawks concede defeat on first major surveillance reform in a generation
"This is a debate over the Bill of Rights," exclaimed Rand Paul before this evening's rare Sunday Senate vote which secured NSA Reform (but leaves a brief window of NSA shutdown before Obama signs the bill), ........
Sweeping US surveillance powers, enjoyed by the National Security Agency since the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks, shut down at midnight after a dramatic Senate showdown in which even the NSA's biggest supporters conceded that substantial
The Senate resumed consideration of the motion to proceed to H.R. 2048, the USA FREEDOM Act, a House-passed bill to extend expiring PATRIOT Act provisions related to the National Security Agency's (NSA) bulk phone data collection.
Surveillance hawks concede defeat as Rand Paul forces shutdown of sweeping intelligence capabilities exposed by Edward Snowden
I have fought for several years now to end the invasive and illegal spying of the NSA on ordinary Americans. I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
Filmmaker Alex Winter has written, directed, and produced a film outlining the story of the rise and fall of Silk Road called Deep Web. It premieres on May 31st at 8PM on Epix.
Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul (R-KY) will be spending Sunday forcing the expiration the Patriot Act's surveillance provisions.
In October 2013, the FBI arrested a young entrepreneur named Ross Ulbricht at the Glen Park branch of the San Francisco Public Library.
A lobbyist who worked for the company that built TSA's naked body scanners is now working in the government department responsible for TSA spending, it has been revealed.
'Project Jacquard' brings simple, powerful tech to textiles
So many hacks, so few days in the week to write alarming stories about every one.
President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to reach a deal to reform and extend Patriot Act provisions that are set to expire on Monday.
Our sources say that the NSA is not too concerned, that it has secret interpretations of other authorities that give it much the same power that it would have had under the secret interpretation of 215 and other areas of the USA PATRIOT Act.