DHS makes covert CCTV available to local police

The Department of Homeland Security hosts a website called "Responder Knowledge Base" where it advertises a wide variety of military, law enforcement and first responder tools. Local and state law enforcement are authorized to buy any of these technologies with DHS funds. You can see a whole host of these tools here.

The following pieces of equipment enable covert video surveillance; James Bond-like, they are made to look like everyday objects.

Have you seen any of these in real life? 

Cageprisoners on GITMO and indefinite detention

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Court: NSA can keep secret its relationship with Google

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Their big government contracts, our privacy nightmare

The first in a series on the Wikileaks Spyfiles.

University of California San Diego students and faculty might be surprised to learn that their school has an "advanced technology research" relationship with a corporation engaged in extensive Internet snooping. 

Who needs laws when you can just make an administrative rule?

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Advocacy groups to the Senate: SECURE IT not viable, threatens privacy, civil liberties

“Pray for peace; train for war.”

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"The notion that the United States, with a tiny minority of the world's population, has the right to dominate other countries is profoundly authoritarian and profoundly anti-democratic." -- Andy Thayer, Chicago anti-war activist.

Immigration advocate to be charged with human trafficking

From the Joe Callahan defense committee:

DHS’ license plate tracker program quietly expands nationwide

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Return of the ‘underwear bomb’: why are they telling us this?

How did you react to the news that the “CIA reportedly thwarted new al-Qaida underwear bomb plot”?