Since last Terror Tuesday, the country has experienced a watershed moment.
Attorney General Holder’s announcement on August 30 that the door was being closed on the last chance to hold CIA officials responsible for torture might seem more of a foregone conclusion than a critical turning point for the nation.
Sascha Schneider, Der Anarchist, 1894
Tampa did not live up to the law enforcement playbook.
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Here's a study in contrast: The Obama administration's Department of Justice is prosecuting someone for telling the public about CIA torture, and has let the CIA off the hook entirely not only for its torture regime but also for the killing of detainees in its custody.
Disclosures about torture are unacceptable. The torture (leading to death) itself? No matter.
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The Republican party issued its official platform for the RNC 2012. A number of statements are relevant to the Privacy Matters we discuss here, so let's take a look.
Remember the posturing at the start of the 112th Congress when Republicans ostentatiously wrapped themselves in an (edited) version of the US Constitution?
The federal government flooded Tampa with $50 million for weapons, high-tech CCTV cameras and other police and surveillance costs associated with this week's Republican National Convention.
We don’t know much about what the NSA is doing. What we do know – and what we suspect - is featured in today’s New York Times.
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