Category: 7. Obsession with National Security

  • No More Bill Kristol at New York Times

    The shill’s been killed: This is William Kristol’s last column. [FWill Obama Save Liberalism?

  • US Gov't Detaining 26,000 in Secret Prisons Without Trial

    “By its own admission, the US government is currently detaining at least 26,000 people without trial in secret prisons, and information suggests up to 80,000 have been ‘through the system’ since 2001. The US government must show a commitment to rights and basic humanity by immediately revealing who these people are, where they are, and […]

  • Malls Track Shoppers by Cellphone Signal

    Slouching towards that mall in Minority Report: Customers in shopping centres are having their every move tracked by a new type of surveillance that listens in on the whisperings of their mobile phones. The technology can tell when people enter a shopping centre, what stores they visit, how long they remain there, and what route […]

  • Air Marhsalls on No-Fly List

    Stupider and stupider: According to the Washington Times, some federal air marshals have been denied boarding onto flights on which they were assigned to protect because their names matched those on the terrorist no-fly list! The Transportation Security Administration is not denying this and has said they are taking steps toward fixing this problem. The […]

  • New York Times Blackout on Bush Authorizing Torture

    From The Seminal: It has now been nine days since reporters at ABC News told us of ‘dozens of top-secret talks and meetings” held in the White House by senior Bush Administration officials to discuss in fine detail the interrogation techniques to be used on so-called ‘high value al Qaeda suspects,” and it has been […]

  • British Special Forces Soldier: "Government knew about extraordinary rendition"

    The UK’s role in assisting the US in kidnapping people gets worse: Last week, the Foreign Secretary David Miliband apologised to MPs in the Commons and admitted that two US rendition flights transporting terrorists suspects for questioning by the US had landed on UK soil. The former SAS soldier, Ben Griffins, claims this “pales into […]

  • Lockheed Awarded $1 Billion to Spy on You

    I feel safer already: The FBI has awarded a nearly $1 billion contract to Lockheed Martin to help create a massive computer database of people’s physical characteristics as part of an effort to better identify criminals and terrorists. The FBI wants to use eye scans, combined with other data, to help identify suspects. The overall […]

  • A Question About Telecom Wiretapping Immunity

    If they weren’t doing anything illegal than why do they need immunity?

  • Landmark Case Today: Center for Constitutional Right Argues Before SCOTUS Today

    Stream while you work. The Center for Constitutional Rights has eclipsed the ACLU in my eyes. CCR is always pushing the courts to limit the abuse of power of Mr. Bush (and don’t think Mr. Romney or Giuliani or Obama or Ms. Clinton won’t abuse this power as well). What may be one of the […]

  • Houston Police Department Trials Unmanned Drones

    Houston police test an unmanned aircraft at an event shrouded in secrecy, but Local 2 Investigates caught it all on tape.