Privacy Matters

Adam Serwer over at Mother Jones has a piece up making fun of the GOP for proposing legislation the sponsors say would limit the president’s authority to conduct drone strikes on US soil. He writes:

Ron who?

Does anyone remember My Lai?

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So we have entered the Age of Sequestration, thanks to the spectacular meltdown of Congressional bipartisanship.

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You've probably heard by now that the Department of Homeland Security has claimed the authority to interrogate and search people anywhere within 100 miles of a US border, even without suspicion of wrongdoing or warrants. Take a look at the map below to see whether you live in that constitution-free-zone. (Click to enlarge.)

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Freaked out? See here, here and here.

This guest blog was written by ACLUm intern Max Bauer