As many journalists and media watchdogs have observed, the political class has a funny relationship to leaks to the media. On the one hand, high profile people routinely leak information to the press to further their own interests. Rahm Emanuel practically made a career of it while working as Obama's Chief of Staff in the White House.
Anonymous, was that you?
UPDATE: The website is now available at www.dhs.gov, but still returns an error message if you don't type "www" before the address.
Thanks to the Associated Press, we now have a glimpse of how the New York Police Department marshals its massive intelligence gathering capacity to place a religious community under siege.
The target: New York’s Shi’a population, estimated to be 35,000 strong (8,500 of whom are believed to be Iranian).
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The police are attaching red light beams to surveillance cameras. They intend to shine them onto people they suspect are about to commit a crime. Yeah you read that right. (In case you wondered: the government is actually serious about 'precrime.')
Do you remember the FBI raids on anti-war and international solidarity activists that took place in September and December 2010, and resulted in 23 people being issued with subpoenas to testify before a Chicago grand jury?
From über cheap internet sniffing spyware to surveillance drones capable of capturing 80 years worth of video in a day, this week's been another doozy in the technologies of control department. Oh, and if you are reading this, the FBI probably thinks you are suspicious.
House Republicans directed Capitol police to remove Academy Award winning director Josh Fox from a hearing on fracking today. He was arrested and released after the hearing.
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President Obama had to directly answer an ordinary person's question about the deadly drone war his administration is pursuing. Watch:
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