Privacy Matters

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The militarization of the police continues apace. A self-guided bullet that can stalk its prey for over a mile before striking.

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How low must the number of Muslim-American 'terror plots' go before Congress thinks again about giving the FBI an annual $3 billion of our tax dollars –nearly half the FBI’s budget - just for its counterterrorism work?

And to what lengths is the FBI prepared to go to manufacture plots and suspects in order to keep those dollars flowing?

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Here's a warning to law enforcement officers: ubiquitous surveillance can cut both ways. 

The FBI wants police officers to use social media to spy on us, but cautions that they take care not to reveal too much about their own lives on Twitter or Facebook.

The ACLU's Jameel Jaffer joined Democracy Now's Amy Goodman to discuss the targeted killing White Paper that was leaked to NBC news in February 2013. 

As Jaffer observes, the paper is a "briefing document; it is not a legal memo....The actual memos are still secret," despite the ACLU's litigation to try to free them, he says.