Andymatic

Category: 7. Obsession with National Security

  • Obama's ‘Black Jail’ in Afghanistan

    How’s that Nobel Peace Prize working out? An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates, sometimes for weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site on the Bagram Air Base. The site, known to […]

  • Chicago Police Storm School in Food Fight Arrests

    Razzle, dazzle ’em: By the end of the day, 25 of the students, ages 11 to 15, had been rounded up, arrested, taken from school and put in jail. A spokesman for the Chicago police said the charges were reckless conduct, a misdemeanor. via NYTimes.com.

  • Italian Court Convicts 23 Americans in CIA Kidnapping Case

    Watch carefully to see if this makes it to your evening news and how it is positioned: An Italian court on Wednesday convicted 22 CIA operatives and a U.S. Air Force colonel of orchestrating the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric here in 2003 and flying him to Egypt, where he said he was tortured. In […]

  • Montana's "American Police Force"

    A group spokesperson who called himself “Captain Michael” told local news channel KULR 8 that they’re more interested in setting up a $17 million training camp than in operating the prison. This man would not specify how they plan to use the camp. Gawker

  • DoJ Official Blows Cover Off PATRIOT Act

    In the debate over the PATRIOT Act, the Bush White House insisted it needed the authority to search people’s homes without their permission or knowledge so that terrorists wouldn’t be tipped off that they’re under investigation. Now that the authority is law, how has the Department of Justice used the new power? To go after […]

  • Indefinite Detention to Continue Under Obama

    The Obama administration has decided not to seek legislation to establish a new system of preventive detention to hold terrorism suspects and will instead rely on a 2001 congressional resolution authorizing military force against al-Qaeda and the Taliban to continue to detain people indefinitely and without charge, according to administration officials. via washingtonpost.com

  • Burying CIA Crimes Hurts Cooperation with Foreign Intel Agencies

    The former directors argue, for example, that any reopened investigation would damage the intelligence community’s ability to obtain cooperation of foreign intelligence agencies.In fact, the opposite is the case. Foreign intelligence agencies have been holding back their liaison activities and their cooperation with the CIA because of the crimes associated with secret prisons, torture and […]

  • Ex-CIA Chiefs Nervous About Investigations

    Seven former heads of the CIA on Friday urged President Barack Obama to end the probe into allegations of abuse of prisoners held by the agency, arguing that it would hamper intelligence operations. via Ex-CIA chiefs urge Obama to drop abuse investigation | Reuters.

  • Right-Wing Dog Whistles

    #5. Sovereign: In the right wing, this term has two meanings. The most troubling refers to a notion called “sovereign citizen,” a term popularized by the violent Posse Comitatus militia formation in the 1970s to argue that white people have a superior form of citizenship to that of black people. More commonly, the term “sovereign” […]

  • 1k CCTV Cameras, One Crime Solved

    Only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year, a report into the city’s surveillance network has claimed. via BBC NEWS