Tag Archives: FOIA
ACLU Asks Spy Court to Release Secret Opinions on Patriot Act Surveillance Powers
Motion Filed Cites Public’s First Amendment Right to Know the Law, Need for Public Debate June 10, 2013 ACLU.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: 212-549-2666, media@aclu.org WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of the Nation’s Capital, and Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Clinic filed a motion today with the secret court that […]
Glenn Greenwald> Secrecy creep
Secrecy creep Executive branch agencies have learned well from the Obama administration’s fixation on punishing whistleblowers BY GLENN GREENWALD August 14, 2012 Salon.com That the Obama administration has waged an unprecedented war on whistleblowers is by now well-known and well-documented, as is its general fixation on not just maintaining but increasing even the most extreme and absurd levels of secrecy. Unsurprisingly, this ethos — that the […]
Glenn Greenwald> Extremism normalized> How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce
Extremism normalized How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce to ideas once deemed so radical as to be unthinkable BY GLENN GREENWALD JUL 31, 2012 salon.com Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, shakes hands with Vice President Dick Cheney after McCain introduced Cheney during a campaign stop, Friday, July 16, 2004, at the Lansing Center in […]
Dave Lindorff> Did the White House Direct the Police Crackdown on Occupy?
Documents Show How White House and Democrats Worked to Protect the Banks Against Protests Did the White House Direct the Police Crackdown on Occupy? by DAVE LINDORFF May 14, 2012 Counterpunch A new trove of heavily redacted documents provided by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in response to a Freedom of […]
Homeland “Security”> Why is DHS secretly watching your tweets?
Website for more information: EPIC.org Uploaded by TheBigPictureRT on Jan 17, 2012 Ginger McCall, EPIC’s Open Government Program, joins Thom Hartmann. While Progressives may enjoy reading the Huffington Post – and Conservatives may enjoy reading the Drudge Report – the Department of Homeland Security apparently enjoys reading BOTH websites..as well as social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. […]
FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists
FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists WILL POTTER on DECEMBER 20, 2011 Green is the New Red in TERRORISM LEGISLATION This recent investigation of a McDonald’s egg supplier is an example of the type of activism the FBI calls terrorism. The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has […]
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